We ask you, humbly: don't scroll away.

Hi readers, it seems you use Catholic Online a lot; that's great! It's a little awkward to ask, but we need your help. If you have already donated, we sincerely thank you. We're not salespeople, but we depend on donations averaging $14.76 and fewer than 1% of readers give. If you donate just $5.00, the price of your coffee, Catholic Online School could keep thriving. Thank you.

Help Now >

Daily Reading for Monday, November 13th, 2017

Daily Reading for Monday November 13, 2017

Reading 1, Wisdom 1:1-7
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 139:1-3, 4-6, 7-8, 9-10
Gospel, Luke 17:1-6
Printable PDF of Today's Reading
Past / Future Daily Readings

We ask you, humbly: don't scroll away.

Reading 1, Wisdom 1:1-7

¹ Love uprightness you who are rulers on earth, be properly disposed towards the Lord and seek him in simplicity of heart;

² for he will be found by those who do not put him to the test, revealing himself to those who do not mistrust him.

³ Perverse thoughts, however, separate people from God, and power, when put to the test, confounds the stupid.

⁴ Wisdom will never enter the soul of a wrong-doer, nor dwell in a body enslaved to sin;

⁵ for the holy spirit of instruction flees deceitfulness, recoils from unintelligent thoughts, is thwarted by the onset of vice.

⁶ Wisdom is a spirit friendly to humanity, though she will not let a blasphemer's words go unpunished; since God observes the very soul and accurately surveys the heart, listening to every word.

⁷ For the spirit of the Lord fills the world, and that which holds everything together knows every word said.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 139:1-3, 4-6, 7-8, 9-10

¹ [For the choirmaster Of David Psalm] Yahweh, you examine me and know me,

² you know when I sit, when I rise, you understand my thoughts from afar.

³ You watch when I walk or lie down, you know every detail of my conduct.

⁴ A word is not yet on my tongue before you, Yahweh, know all about it.

⁵ You fence me in, behind and in front, you have laid your hand upon me.

⁶ Such amazing knowledge is beyond me, a height to which I cannot attain.

⁷ Where shall I go to escape your spirit? Where shall I flee from your presence?

⁸ If I scale the heavens you are there, if I lie flat in Sheol, there you are.

⁹ If I speed away on the wings of the dawn, if I dwell beyond the ocean,

¹⁰ even there your hand will be guiding me, your right hand holding me fast.

We Will Pray with You: Light Your Virtual Prayer Candle

Gospel, Luke 17:1-6

¹ He said to his disciples, 'Causes of falling are sure to come, but alas for the one through whom they occur!

² It would be better for such a person to be thrown into the sea with a millstone round the neck than to be the downfall of a single one of these little ones.

³ Keep watch on yourselves! 'If your brother does something wrong, rebuke him and, if he is sorry, forgive him.

⁴ And if he wrongs you seven times a day and seven times comes back to you and says, "I am sorry," you must forgive him.'

⁵ The apostles said to the Lord, 'Increase our faith.'

⁶ The Lord replied, 'If you had faith like a mustard seed you could say to this mulberry tree, "Be uprooted and planted in the sea," and it would obey you.

Printable PDF of Today's Reading