Daily Reading for Sunday, June 18th, 2023

Daily Reading for Sunday June 18, 2023

Reading 1, Exodus 19:2-6
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 100:1-2, 3, 5
Gospel, Matthew 9:36-10:8
Reading 2, Romans 5:6-11
Printable PDF of Today's Reading
Past / Future Daily Readings

Gospel, Matthew 9:36-10:8

³⁶ And when he saw the crowds he felt sorry for them because they were harassed and dejected, like sheep without a shepherd.

³⁷ Then he said to his disciples, 'The harvest is rich but the labourers are few, so ask the Lord of the harvest to send out labourers to his harvest.'

¹ He summoned his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits with power to drive them out and to cure all kinds of disease and all kinds of illness.

² These are the names of the twelve apostles: first, Simon who is known as Peter, and his brother Andrew; James the son of Zebedee, and his brother John;

³ Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus;

⁴ Simon the Zealot and Judas Iscariot, who was also his betrayer.

⁵ These twelve Jesus sent out, instructing them as follows: 'Do not make your way to gentile territory, and do not enter any Samaritan town;

⁶ go instead to the lost sheep of the House of Israel.

⁷ And as you go, proclaim that the kingdom of Heaven is close at hand.

⁸ Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those suffering from virulent skin-diseases, drive out devils. You received without charge, give without charge.

Reading 2, Romans 5:6-11

⁶ When we were still helpless, at the appointed time, Christ died for the godless.

⁷ You could hardly find anyone ready to die even for someone upright; though it is just possible that, for a really good person, someone might undertake to die.

⁸ So it is proof of God's own love for us, that Christ died for us while we were still sinners.

⁹ How much more can we be sure, therefore, that, now that we have been justified by his death, we shall be saved through him from the retribution of God.

¹⁰ For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much more can we be sure that, being now reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

¹¹ What is more, we are filled with exultant trust in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have already gained our reconciliation.

They are waiting for you. Will you answer?