Daily Gospel Reading and Reflection

Wednesday of the Second Week of EasterJohn 3:16-21God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son,so that everyone who believes in him might not perishbut might have eternal life.For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world,but that the world might be saved through him.

Memorial of Saint Catherine of Siena, Virgin and Doctor of the ChurchMatthew 11:25-30"Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened,and I will give you rest.Take my yoke upon you and learn from me,for I am meek and humble of heart;and you will find rest for yourselves.For my yoke is easy, and my burden light."

Monday of the Second Week of EasterJohn 3:1-8There was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.He came to Jesus at night and said to him,"Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God,for no one can do these signs that you are doingunless God is with him."

Friday in the Octave of EasterJohn 21:1-14Jesus said to them, "Come, have breakfast."And none of the disciples dared to ask him, "Who are you?"because they realized it was the Lord.Jesus came over and took the bread and gave it to them,and in like manner the fish.This was now the third time Jesus was revealed to his disciplesafter being raised from the dead.

Thursday in the Octave of EasterLuke 24:35-48While they were still speaking about this,he stood in their midst and said to them,"Peace be with you."But they were startled and terrifiedand thought that they were seeing a ghost.Then he said to them, "Why are you troubled?And why do questions arise in your hearts?Look at my hands and my feet, that it is I myself.Touch me and see, because a ghost does not have flesh and bonesas you can see I have."

Wednesday in the Octave of EasterLuke 24:13-35Then they said to each other,“Were not our hearts burning within uswhile he spoke to us on the way and opened the Scriptures to us?”So they set out at once and returned to Jerusalemwhere they found gathered togetherthe Eleven and those with them who were saying,“The Lord has truly been raised and has appeared to Simon!”Then the two recounted what had taken place on the wayand how he was made known to them in the breaking of the bread.

Tuesday in the Octave of EasterJohn 20:11-18Jesus said to her, “Stop holding on to me,for I have not yet ascended to the Father.But go to my brothers and tell them,‘I am going to my Father and your Father,to my God and your God.'”Mary went and announced to the disciples,“I have seen the Lord,”and then reported what he had told her.

Monday in the Octave of EasterMatthew 28:8-15Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid.Go tell my brothers to go to Galilee,and there they will see me.”

Holy Thursday, Evening Mass of the Lord's SupperJohn 13:1-15So when he had washed their feetand put his garments back on and reclined at table again,he said to them, “Do you realize what I have done for you?You call me ‘teacher' and ‘master,'  and rightly so, for indeed I am.If I, therefore, the master and teacher, have washed your feet,you ought to wash one another's feet.I have given you a model to follow,so that as I have done for you, you should also do.”

Wednesday of Holy WeekMatthew 26:14-25The Son of Man indeed goes, as it is written of him,but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed.It would be better for that man if he had never been born."Then Judas, his betrayer, said in reply,"Surely it is not I, Rabbi?"He answered, "You have said so."

Tuesday of Holy WeekJohn 13:21-33, 36-38Simon Peter said to him, "Master, where are you going?"Jesus answered him,"Where I am going, you cannot follow me now,though you will follow later."Peter said to him,"Master, why can I not follow you now?I will lay down my life for you."Jesus answered, "Will you lay down your life for me?Amen, amen, I say to you, the cock will not crowbefore you deny me three times."

Monday of Holy WeekJohn 12:1-11Mary took a liter of costly perfumed oilmade from genuine aromatic nardand anointed the feet of Jesus and dried them with her hair;the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil.Then Judas the Iscariot, one of his disciples,and the one who would betray him, said,"Why was this oil not sold for three hundred days' wagesand given to the poor?"

Friday of the Fifth Week of LentJohn 10:31-42He went back across the Jordanto the place where John first baptized, and there he remained.Many came to him and said,"John performed no sign,but everything John said about this man was true."And many there began to believe in him.

Thursday of the Fifth Week of LentJohn 8:51-59So the Jews said to him,"You are not yet fifty years old and you have seen Abraham?"Jesus said to them, "Amen, amen, I say to you,before Abraham came to be, I AM."So they picked up stones to throw at him;but Jesus hid and went out of the temple area.

Wednesday of the Fifth Week of LentJohn 8:31-42"We have one Father, God."Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me,for I came from God and am here;I did not come on my own, but he sent me."

Tuesday of the Fifth Week of LentJohn 8:21-30Jesus said to the Pharisees:"I am going away and you will look for me,but you will die in your sin.Where I am going you cannot come."

Monday of the Fifth Week of LentJohn 8:12-20Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world.Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will havethe light of life." So the Pharisees said to him, "You testifyon your own behalf, so your testimony cannot be verified."

Friday of the Fourth Week of LentJohn 7:1-2, 10, 25-30Some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem said,"Is he not the one they are trying to kill?And look, he is speaking openly and they say nothing to him.Could the authorities have realized that he is the Christ?But we know where he is from.When the Christ comes, no one will know where he is from."

Thursday of the Fourth Week of LentJohn 5:31-47"I do not accept human praise;moreover, I know that you do not have the love of God in you.I came in the name of my Father,but you do not accept me;yet if another comes in his own name,you will accept him.How can you believe, when you accept praise from one anotherand do not seek the praise that comes from the only God?"

Wednesday of the Fourth Week of LentJohn 5:17-30"I cannot do anything on my own;I judge as I hear, and my judgment is just,because I do not seek my own willbut the will of the one who sent me."

Tuesday of the Fourth Week of LentJohn 5:1-16After this Jesus found him in the temple area and said to him,"Look, you are well; do not sin any more,so that nothing worse may happen to you."The man went and told the Jewsthat Jesus was the one who had made him well.Therefore, the Jews began to persecute Jesusbecause he did this on a sabbath.

Monday of the Fourth Week of LentJohn 4:43-54The father realized that just at that time Jesus had said to him,“Your son will live,”and he and his whole household came to believe.Now this was the second sign Jesus didwhen he came to Galilee from Judea."

Friday of the Third Week of LentMark 12:28-34One of the scribes came to Jesus and asked him,"Which is the first of all the commandments?"Jesus replied, "The first is this:Hear, O Israel!The Lord our God is Lord alone!You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart,with all your soul,with all your mind,and with all your strength."

Thursday of the Third Week of LentLuke 11:14-23Others, to test him, asked him for a sign from heaven.But he knew their thoughts and said to them,"Every kingdom divided against itself will be laid wasteand house will fall against house."

Wednesday of the Third Week of LentMatthew 5:17-19Jesus said to his disciples:"Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets.I have come not to abolish but to fulfill.Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away,not the smallest letter or the smallest part of a letterwill pass from the law,until all things have taken place."

Solemnity of the Annunciation of the LordLuke 1:26-38“Hail, full of grace! The Lord is with you.”But she was greatly troubled at what was saidand pondered what sort of greeting this might be.Then the angel said to her,“Do not be afraid, Mary,for you have found favor with God.Behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son,and you shall name him Jesus.He will be great and will be called Son of the Most High,and the Lord God will give him the throne of David his father,and he will rule over the house of Jacob forever,and of his Kingdom there will be no end.”

Monday of the Third Week of LentLuke 4:24-30Jesus said to the people in the synagogue at Nazareth:“Amen, I say to you,no prophet is accepted in his own native place."

Friday of the Second Week of LentMatthew 21:33-43, 45-46The stone that the builders rejectedhas become the cornerstone;by the Lord has this been done,and it is wonderful in our eyes?

Thursday of the Second Week of LentLuke 16:19-31Then Abraham said,'If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets,neither will they be persuadedif someone should rise from the dead."

Solemnity of Saint Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin MaryMatthew 1:16, 18-21, 24aJoseph her husband, since he was a righteous man,yet unwilling to expose her to shame,decided to divorce her quietly.Such was his intention when, behold,the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said,“Joseph, son of David,do not be afraid to take Mary your wife into your home.For it is through the Holy Spiritthat this child has been conceived in her.She will bear a son and you are to name him Jesus,because he will save his people from their sins.”When Joseph awoke,he did as the angel of the Lord had commanded himand took his wife into his home.

Tuesday of the Second Week of LentMatthew 23:1-12"The greatest among you must be your servant.Whoever exalts himself will be humbled;but whoever humbles himself will be exalted."

Monday of the Second Week in LentLuke 6:36-38"Stop judging and you will not be judged.Stop condemning and you will not be condemned.Forgive and you will be forgiven."

Friday of the First Week of LentMatthew 5:20-26Jesus said to his disciples: “I tell you, unless your righteousness surpasses thatof the scribes and Pharisees,you will not enter into the Kingdom of heaven."

Thursday of the First Week in LentMatthew 7:7-12Jesus said to his disciples:"Ask and it will be given to you;seek and you will find;knock and the door will be opened to you.For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds;and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened."

Wednesday of the First Week in LentLuke 11:29-32"At the judgmentthe queen of the south will rise with the men of this generationand she will condemn them,because she came from the ends of the earthto hear the wisdom of Solomon,and there is something greater than Solomon here."

Tuesday of the First Week of LentMatthew 6:7-15Jesus said to his disciples:"In praying, do not babble like the pagans,who think that they will be heard because of their many words.Do not be like them.Your Father knows what you need before you ask him."

Monday of the First Week of LentMatthew 25:31-46Jesus said to his disciples:"When the Son of Man comes in his glory,and all the angels with him,he will sit upon his glorious throne,and all the nations will be assembled before him.And he will separate them one from another,as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.He will place the sheep on his right and the goats on his left."

Friday after Ash WednesdayMatthew 9:14-15Jesus answered them, "Can the wedding guests mournas long as the bridegroom is with them?The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them,and then they will fast."

Thursday after Ash WednesdayLuke 9:22-25Jesus said to his disciples:"The Son of Man must suffer greatly and be rejectedby the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes,and be killed and on the third day be raised."

Ash WednesdayMatthew 6:1-6, 16-18Jesus said to his disciples:"Take care not to perform righteous deedsin order that people may see them;otherwise, you will have no recompense from your heavenly Father."

Tuesday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary TimeMark 10:28-31Peter began to say to Jesus,'We have given up everything and followed you."

Monday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary TimeMark 10:17-27So Jesus again said to them in reply,"Children, how hard it is to enter the Kingdom of God!It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle.than for one who is rich to enter the Kingdom of God.”

Friday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary TimeMark 10:1-12But Jesus told them,""Because of the hardness of your heartshe wrote you this commandment.But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female.For this reason a man shall leave his father and motherand be joined to his wife,and the two shall become one flesh.So they are no longer two but one flesh."

Thursday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary TimeMark 9:41-50Jesus said to his disciples:""Anyone who gives you a cup of water to drinkbecause you belong to Christ,amen, I say to you, will surely not lose his reward."

Wednesday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary TimeMark 9:38-40Jesus replied, "Do not prevent him.There is no one who performs a mighty deed in my namewho can at the same time speak ill of me."

Tuesday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary TimeMark 9:30-37Then he sat down, called the Twelve, and said to them,"If anyone wishes to be first,   he shall be the last of all and the servant of all."Taking a child, he placed it in their midst,   and putting his arms around it, he said to them,"Whoever receives one child such as this in my name, receives me;and whoever receives me,receives not me but the One who sent me."

Monday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary TimeMark 9:14-29Someone from the crowd answered him,“Teacher, I have brought to you my son possessed by a mute spirit.Wherever it seizes him, it throws him down;he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth, and becomes rigid.I asked your disciples to drive it out, but they were unable to do so.”

Friday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary TimeMk 8:34-9:1Jesus summoned the crowd with his disciples and said to them,"Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself,take up his cross, and follow me.For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it,but whoever loses his life for my sakeand that of the Gospel will save it."

Thursday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary TimeMk 8:27-33He began to teach themthat the Son of Man must suffer greatlyand be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes,and be killed, and rise after three days.

Wednesday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary TimeMk 8:22-26When Jesus and his disciples arrived at Bethsaida,people brought to him a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him.He took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village.Putting spittle on his eyes he laid his hands on the man and asked,“Do you see anything?”

Tuesday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary TimeMk 8:14-21The disciples had forgotten to bring bread,and they had only one loaf with them in the boat.Jesus enjoined them, “Watch out,guard against the leaven of the Phariseesand the leaven of Herod.”