Mass Readings

Saturday, September 5, 2026

Saturday of the twenty-second week of Ordinary Time

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

Reading I

1 Cor 4:6b-15

But these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollo, for your sakes: that in us you may learn that one be not puffed up against the other for another, above that which is written.

For who distinguisheth thee? Or what hast thou that thou hast not received, and if thou hast received, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?

You are now full: you are now become rich: you reign without us; and I would to God you did reign, that we also might reign with you.

For I think that God hath set forth us apostles, the last, as it were men appointed to death. We are made a spectacle to the world and to angels and to men.

We are fools for Christs sake, but you are wise in Christ: we are weak, but you are strong: you are honourable, but we without honour.

Even unto this hour we both hunger and thirst and are naked and are buffeted and have no fixed abode.

And we labour, working with our own hands. We are reviled: and we bless. We are persecuted: and we suffer it.

We are blasphemed: and we entreat. We are made as the refuse of this world, the offscouring of all, even until now.

I write not these things to confound you: but I admonish you as my dearest children.

For if you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, by the gospel, I have begotten you.

Responsorial Psalm

Ps 145:17-18, 19-22, 21

The Lord is just in all his ways: and holy in all his works.

The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him: to all that call upon him in truth.

He will do the will of them that fear him: and he will hear their prayer, and save them.

The Lord keepeth all them that love him; but all the wicked he will destroy.

My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord: and let all flesh bless his holy name forever; yea, for ever and ever.

Gospel Acclamation

John 14:6

Jesus saith to him: I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father, but by me.

Gospel

Luke 6:1-5

And it came to pass on the second first sabbath that, as he went through the corn fields, his disciples plucked the ears and did eat, rubbing them in their hands.

And some of the Pharisees said to them: Why do you that which is not lawful on the sabbath days?

And Jesus answering them, said: Have you not read so much as this, what David did, when himself was hungry and they that were with him:

How he went into the house of God and took and ate the bread of proposition and gave to them that were with him, which is not lawful to eat but only for the priests?

And he said to them: The Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.

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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