Daily Mass and Readings

Can’t make it to Holy Mass? EWTN offers the daily readings to enable viewers to accompany the Mass of the day as it is televised. They are also the perfect way to find time in your day for spiritual reflection. Listen, watch, or read from the comfort of your home. Our Catholic Daily Reading includes the readings of the day, along with online videos, and is a resource for all who desire to live a life of faith that is pleasing to our Lord.

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Weekday

First Reading

2 Thessalonians 3:6-10, 16-18

6Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is living in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us.

7For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us; we were not idle when we were with you,

8we did not eat any one’s bread without paying, but with toil and labor we worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you.

9It was not because we have not that right, but to give you in our conduct an example to imitate.

10For even when we were with you, we gave you this command: If any one will not work, let him not eat.

16Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all.

17I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand. This is the mark in every letter of mine; it is the way I write.

18The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.

Responsorial Psalm

Psalms 128:1-2, 4-5

1Blessed is every one who fears the LORD, who walks in his ways!

2You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be happy, and it shall be well with you.

4Lo, thus shall the man be blessed who fears the LORD.

5The LORD bless you from Zion! May you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life!

Gospel

Matthew 23:27-32

27“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within they are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness.

28So you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but within you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

29“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous,

30saying, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’

31Thus you witness against yourselves, that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.

32Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.