Saints
Daily Readings:
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First Reading
Deuteronomy 4:32-40
32"For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether such a great thing as this has ever happened or was ever heard of. 33Did any people ever hear the voice of a god speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and still live? 34Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, and by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? 35To you it was shown, that you might know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides him. 36Out of heaven he let you hear his voice, that he might discipline you; and on earth he let you see his great fire, and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire. 37And because he loved your fathers and chose their descendants after them, and brought you out of Egypt with his own presence, by his great power, 38driving out before you nations greater and mightier than yourselves, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as at this day; 39know therefore this day, and lay it to your heart, that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other. 40Therefore you shall keep his statutes and his commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which the LORD your God gives you for ever." -
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 77:12-16, 21
11I will call to mind the deeds of the LORD; yea, I will remember thy wonders of old. 12I will meditate on all thy work, and muse on thy mighty deeds. 13Thy way, O God, is holy. What god is great like our God? 14Thou art the God who workest wonders, who hast manifested thy might among the peoples. 15Thou didst with thy arm redeem thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. [Selah] 20Thou didst lead thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron. -
Gospel
Matthew 16:24-28
24Then Jesus told his disciples, "If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 25For whoever would save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. 26For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what shall a man give in return for his life? 27For the Son of man is to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay every man for what he has done. 28Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom."
