Daily Reading for Sunday, June 16th, 2024

Daily Reading for Sunday June 16, 2024

Reading 1, Ezekiel 17:22-24
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 92:2-3, 13-14, 15-16
Gospel, Mark 4:26-34
Reading 2, Second Corinthians 5:6-10
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Gospel, Mark 4:26-34

²⁶ He also said, 'This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the land.

²⁷ Night and day, while he sleeps, when he is awake, the seed is sprouting and growing; how, he does not know.

²⁸ Of its own accord the land produces first the shoot, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.

²⁹ And when the crop is ready, at once he starts to reap because the harvest has come.'

³⁰ He also said, 'What can we say that the kingdom is like? What parable can we find for it?

³¹ It is like a mustard seed which, at the time of its sowing, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth.

³² Yet once it is sown it grows into the biggest shrub of them all and puts out big branches so that the birds of the air can shelter in its shade.'

³³ Using many parables like these, he spoke the word to them, so far as they were capable of understanding it.

³⁴ He would not speak to them except in parables, but he explained everything to his disciples when they were by themselves.

Reading 2, Second Corinthians 5:6-10

⁶ in purity, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness; in the Holy Spirit, in a love free of affectation;

⁷ in the word of truth and in the power of God; by using the weapons of uprightness for attack and for defence:

⁸ in times of honour or disgrace, blame or praise; taken for impostors and yet we are genuine;

⁹ unknown and yet we are acknowledged; dying, and yet here we are, alive; scourged but not executed;

¹⁰ in pain yet always full of joy; poor and yet making many people rich; having nothing, and yet owning everything.

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