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 Wednesday 9 Th August 2023.
Ordinary Weekday/ Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, Virgin, Martyr
First Reading: Numbers
13: 1-2, 25 – 14: 1, 26a-29a, 34-35
1 And there the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2 Send
men to view the land of Chanaan, which I will give to the children of Israel,
one of every tribe, of the rulers.
25 And
they that went to spy out the land returned after forty days, having gone round
all the country,
26
And came to Moses and Aaron and to all the assembly of the children of Israel
to the desert of Pharan, which is in Cades. And speaking to them and to all the
multitude, they shewed them the fruits of the land:
27 And
they related and said: We came into the land to which thou sentest us, which in
very deed floweth with milk and honey as may be known by these fruits:
28 But
it hath very strong inhabitants, and the cities are great and walled. We saw
there the race of Enac.
29 Amalec
dwelleth in the south, the Hethite and the Jebusite and the Amorrhite in the
mountains: but the Chanaanite abideth by the sea and near the streams of the
Jordan.
30 In
the mean time Caleb, to still the murmuring of the people that rose against
Moses, said: Let us go up and possess the land, for we shall be able to conquer
it.
31 But
the others, that had been with him, said: No, we are not able to go up to this
people, because they are stronger than we.
32 And
they spoke ill of the land, which they had viewed, before the children of
Israel, saying: The land which we have viewed, devoureth its inhabitants: the
people, that we beheld, are of a tall stature.
33 There
we saw certain monsters of the sons of Enac, of the giant kind: in comparison
of whom, we seemed like locusts.
14:1 Wherefore
the whole multitude crying wept that night.
26 And
the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:
27 How
long doth this wicked multitude murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings
of the children of Israel.
28 Say
therefore to them: As I live, saith the Lord: According as you have spoken in
my hearing, so will I do to you.
29 In
the wilderness shall your carcasses lie. All you that were numbered from twenty
years old and upward, and have murmured against me,
34 According
to the number of the forty days, wherein you viewed the land: year shall be
counted for a day. And forty years you shall receive your iniquities, and shall
know my revenge:
35 For
as I have spoken, so will I do to all this wicked multitude, that hath risen up
together against me: in this wilderness shall it faint away and die.
Responsorial Psalm: Psalms
106: 6-7ab, 13-14, 21-22, 23
R. (4a) Remember us, O Lord, as you favor your people.
6 We
have sinned with our fathers: we have acted unjustly, we have wrought iniquity.
7ab Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt: they
remembered not the multitude of thy mercies.
R.
Remember us, O Lord, as you favor your people.
13 They
had quickly done, they forgot his works: and they waited not for his counsels.
14 And
they coveted their desire in the desert: and they tempted God in the place
without water.
R. Remember
us, O Lord, as you favor your people.
21 They
forgot God, who saved them, who had done great things in Egypt,
22 Wondrous
works in the land of Cham: terrible things in the Red Sea.
R. Remember
us, O Lord, as you favor your people.
23 And
he said that he would destroy them: had not Moses his chosen stood before him
in the breach: To turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.
R. Remember
us, O Lord, as you favor your people.
Alleluia: Luke 7: 16
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
16 A
great prophet has arisen in our midst and God has visited his people.
R.
Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel: Matthew
15: 21-28
21 And Jesus went from thence, and retired into the coasts of Tyre and
Sidon.
22 And
behold a woman of Canaan who came out of those coasts, crying out, said to him:
Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David: my daughter is grieviously
troubled by the devil.
23
Who answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying:
Send her away, for she crieth after us:
24 And
he answering, said: I was not sent but to the sheep that are lost of the house
of Israel.
25 But
she came and adored him, saying: Lord, help me.
26 Who
answering, said: It is not good to take the bread of the children, and to cast
it to the dogs.
27 But
she said: Yea, Lord; for the whelps also eat of the crumbs that fall from the
table of their masters.
28 Then
Jesus answering, said to her: O woman, great is thy faith: be it done to thee
as thou wilt: and her daughter was cured from that hour.
