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 7 Th August 2023.
Ordinary Weekday/ Sixtus II, Pope, Martyr,
& Companions, Martyrs/ Cajetan, Priest
First Reading: Numbers 11: 4b-15
4b The children of Israel also being joined with them, and said: Who shall
give us flesh to eat?
5 We
remember the Ash that we ate in Egypt free cost: the cucumbers come into our
mind, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic.
6
Our soul is dry, our eyes behold nothing else but manna.
7 A
Now the manna was like coriander seed, of the colour of bdellium.
8 And
the people went about, and gathering it, ground it in a mill, or beat it in a
mortar, and boiled it in a pot, and made cakes thereof of the taste of bread
tempered with oil.
9 And
when the dew fell in the night upon the camp, the manna also fell with it.
10 Now
Moses heard the people weeping by their families, every one at the door of his
tent. And the wrath of the Lord was exceedingly enkindled: to Moses also the
thing seemed insupportable.
11 And
he said to the Lord: Why hast thou afflicted thy servant? wherefore do I not
find favour before thee? and why hast thou laid the weight of all this people
upon me?
12 Have
I conceived all this multitude, or begotten them, that thou shouldst say to me:
Carry them in thy bosom as the nurse is wont to carry the little infant, and
bear them into the land, for which thou hast sworn to their fathers?
13 Whence
should I have flesh to give to so great a multitude? they weep against me,
saying: Give us flesh that we may eat.
14 I
am not able alone to bear all this people, because it is too heavy for me.
15 But
if it seem unto thee otherwise, I beseech thee to kill me, and let me find
grace in thy eyes, that I be not afflicted with so great evils.
Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 81: 12-13, 14-15, 16-17
R. (2a) Sing with joy to God our help.
12 But
my people heard not my voice: and Israel hearkened not to me.
13 So
I let them go according to the desires of their heart: they shall walk in their
own inventions.
R. Sing
with joy to God our help.
14 If my people had heard me: if Israel had walked in my
ways:
15
I should soon have humbled their enemies, and laid my hand on them that
troubled them.
R. Sing
with joy to God our help.
16 The
enemies of the Lord have lied to him: and their time shall be for ever.
17 And
he fed them with the fat of wheat, and filled them with honey out of the rock.
R. Sing
with joy to God our help.
Alleluia: Matthew 4: 4
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
4 One
does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes forth from the mouth
of God.
R.
Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel: Matthew
14: 13-21
13 Which when Jesus had heard, he retired from thence by boat, into a
desert place apart, and the multitudes having heard of it, followed him on foot
out of the cities.
14 And
he coming forth saw a great multitude, and had compassion on them, and healed
their sick.
15 And
when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying: This is a desert place,
and the hour is now past: send away the multitudes, that going into the towns,
they may buy themselves victuals.
16 But
Jesus said to them, They have no need to go: give you them to eat.
17 They
answered him: We have not here, but five loaves, and two fishes.
18 He
said to them: Bring them hither to me.
19 And
when he had commanded the multitudes to sit down upon the grass, he took the
five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and
brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the
multitudes.
20 And
they did all eat, and were filled. And they took up what remained, twelve full
baskets of fragments.
21 And
the number of them that did eat, was five thousand men, besides women and
children.
