Mass Readings

Friday, September 4, 2026

Friday of the twenty-second week of Ordinary Time

Weekday · Ordinary Time · Cycle A · Year II · Green

Reading I

1 Cor 4:1-5

Let a man so account of us as of the ministers of Christ and the dispensers of the mysteries of God.

Here now it is required among the dispensers that a man be found faithful.

But to me it is a very small thing to be judged by you or by man's day. But neither do I judge my own self.

For I am not conscious to myself of anything. Yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

Therefore, judge not before the time: until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts. And then shall every man have praise from God.

Responsorial Psalm

Ps 37:3-4, 5-6, 27-28, 39-40

Trust in the Lord, and do good, and dwell in the land, and thou shalt be fed with its riches.

Delight in the Lord, and he will give thee the requests of thy heart.

Commit thy way to the Lord, and trust in him, and he will do it.

And he will bring forth thy justice as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.

Decline from evil and do good, and dwell for ever and ever.

For the Lord loveth judgment, and will not forsake his saints: they shall be preserved for ever. The unjust shall be punished, and the seed of the wicked shall perish.

But the salvation of the just is from the Lord, and he is their protector in the time of trouble.

And the Lord will help them and deliver them: and he will rescue them from the wicked, and save them because they have hoped in him.

Gospel Acclamation

John 8:12

Again therefore, Jesus spoke to: them, saying: I am the light of the world. He that followeth me walketh not in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

Gospel

Luke 5:33-39

And they said to him: Why do the disciples of John fast often and make prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees in like manner; but thine eat and drink?

To whom he said: Can you make the children of the bridegroom fast whilst the bridegroom is with them?

But the days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them: then shall they fast in those days.

And he spoke also a similitude to them: That no man putteth a piece from a new garment upon an old garment: otherwise he both rendeth the new, and the piece taken from the new agreeth not with the old.

And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: otherwise the new wine will break the bottles; and it will be spilled and the bottles will be lost.

But new wine must be put into new bottles: and both are preserved.

And no man drinking old hath presently a mind to new: for he saith: The old is better.

About These Readings

Scripture text from the Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision, 1899), which is in the public domain. The Mass readings appointed for today follow the Lectionary for Mass approved for the dioceses of the United States.

Psalm verses follow the Vulgate numbering in the Douay-Rheims, which may differ by one chapter and a few verses from the Hebrew numbering used by the modern Lectionary. The substance of each Psalm is the same.

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