CATHOLIC DAILY READING
Catholic Daily Reading Includes the complete readings – 1st Reading, Responsorial Psalm and the Gospel. This daily reading is published to help you live a life full of faith.
Daily Mass Reading for Today Monday 14Th August 2023
Maximilian Mary Kolbe, Priest, Martyr Obligatory Memorial
First Reading: Deuteronomy
10: 12-22
12 And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but that
thou fear the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways, and love him, and serve the
Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul:
13
And keep the commandments of the Lord, and his ceremonies, which I command thee
this day, that it may be well with thee?
14 Behold
heaven is the Lord’s thy God, and the heaven of heaven, the earth and all
things that are therein.
15 And
yet the Lord hath been closely joined to thy fathers, and loved them and chose
their seed after them, that is to say, you, out of all nations, as this day it
is proved.
16 Circumcise
therefore the foreskin of your heart, and stiffen your neck no more.
17 Because
the Lord your God he is the God of gods, and the Lord of lords, a great God and
mighty and terrible, who accepteth no person nor taketh bribes.
18 He
doth judgment to the fatherless and the widow, loveth the stranger, and giveth
him food and raiment.
19 And
do you therefore love strangers, because you also were strangers in the land of
Egypt.
20 Thou
shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him only: to him thou shalt adhere, and
shalt swear by his name.
21 He
is thy praise, and thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible
things, which thy eyes have seen.
22 In
seventy souls thy fathers went down into Egypt: and behold now the Lord thy God
hath multiplied thee as the stars of heaven.
Responsorial Psalm: Psalms
147: 12-13, 14-15, 19-20
R. (12a) Praise the Lord, Jerusalem.
12 Praise
the Lord, O Jerusalem: praise thy God, O Sion.
13 Because
he hath strengthened the bolts of thy gates, he hath blessed thy children
within thee.
R. Praise
the Lord, Jerusalem.
14 Who hath placed peace in thy borders: and filleth thee with
the fat of corn.
15 Who
sendeth forth his speech to the earth: his word runneth swiftly.
R. Praise
the Lord, Jerusalem.
19 Who
declareth his word to Jacob: his justices and his judgments to Israel.
20 He
hath not done in like manner to every nation: and his judgments he hath not
made manifest to them. Alleluia.
R. Praise
the Lord, Jerusalem.
Alleluia: Second
Thessalonians 2: 14
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
14 God
has called you through the Gospel to possess the glory of our Lord Jesus
Christ.
R.
Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel: Matthew
17: 22-27
22 And when they abode together in Galilee, Jesus said to them: The Son of
man shall be betrayed into the hands of men:
23 And
they shall kill him, and the third day he shall rise again. And they were
troubled exceedingly.
24 And
when they were come to Capharnaum, they that received the didrachmas, came to
Peter and said to him: Doth not your master pay the didrachmas?
25 He
said: Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying:
What is thy opinion, Simon? The kings of the earth, of whom do they receive
tribute or custom? of their own children, or of strangers?
26 And
he said: Of strangers. Jesus said to him: Then the children are free.
27 But that we may not scandalize them, go to the sea, and cast in a hook: and that fish which shall first come up, take: and when thou hast opened its mouth, thou shalt find a stater: take that, and give it to them for me and thee.
