Catholic Reading of the Day
I started this podcast during the pandemic when I was recovering from treatment for cancer. I found that it was hard to find an audio version of today’s Mass Reading. At the time it was also hard for some people to get to Mass so I thought what can I do to help? This podcast brings you the readings from the Catholic lectionary for today. I hope that you find this podcast inspirational.
16 September 26 - Saints Cornelius and Cyprian
1 Corinthians 12:31-13:13 (Faith, hope, and love abide; but the greatest is love.) 2 Corinthians 4:7-15 ·(He who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence.)
15 September 26 - Our Lady of Sorrows
Corinthians 12:12-14, 27-31 (You are the body of Christ and individually members of it.) Hebrews 5:7-9 · (He learned obedience and became the source of eternal salvation.)
14 September 26 - The Exaltation of the Holy Cross
Numbers 21:4-9 (If anyone were bitten by a serpent, he would look at the bronze serpent and live) Philippians 2:6-11 (He humbled himself, therefore God has highly exalted him)
13 Sep 26 - 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Sirach 27:30-28:7 (Forgive your neighbour the wrong he has done, and then your sins will be pardoned when you pray) Romans 14:7-9 (Whether we live or whether we die we are the Lord's)
12 Sept 26 - The Most Holy Name of Mary
1 Corinthians 10:14-22 (We who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread) Ephesians 1:3-6 (Before the world was made, God chose us in Christ)
11 Sept 26 - Friday of week 23 in Ordinary Time
1 Corinthians 9:16-19, 22-27 (I have become all things to all people that by all means I might save some)
10 Sept 26 - Thursday of week 23 in Ordinary Time
1 Corinthians 8:1-7, 11-13 (Wounding your brothers' conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ)
9 Sept 26 - St Peter Claver
1 Corinthians 7:25-31 (Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife) Isaiah 58:6-11 (Share your bread with the hungry)
8 Sept 26 - The Birthday of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Micah 5:2-5 (From you shall come forth one who is to be ruler in Israel) Romans 8:28-30 (He predestined to be confirmed to the image of his Son)
7 Sept 26 - Monday of week 23 in Ordinary Time
1 Corinthians 5:1-8 (Cleanse out the old leaven; for Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed)
6 Sept 2026 - 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
Ezekiel 33:7-9 (If you do not speak to warn the wicked, his blood
I will require at your hand) Romans 13:8-10 (Love is the fulfilling of the law)
5 September 26 - St Theresa of Calcutta
1 Corinthians 4:6-15 ·(We hunger and thirst, we are poorly dressed.) Isaiah 58:6-11 ·(Share your bread with the hungry.)
4 September 26 - St Cuthbert
1 Corinthians 4:1-5 ·(The Lord will disclose the purposes of the heart.) Deuteronomy 10:8-9 (The Lord is his inheritance.)
2 September 26 - Wednesday of week 22 in Ordinary Time
1 Corinthians 3:1-9 ·(We are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s field, God’s building.)
1 September 26 - Tuesday of week 22 in Ordinary Time
1 Corinthians 2:10-16 · (The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God; the spiritual person judges all things.)
31 August 26 - St Aidan
1 Corinthians 2:1-5 ·(I proclaimed to you the mystery of Christ crucified.) Deuteronomy 10:8-9 (The Lord is his inheritance.)
30 August 26 - 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
Jeremiah 20:7-9 ·(The word of the Lord has become for me a reproach.) Romans 12:1-2 ·(Present your bodies as a living sacrifice.)
29 August 26 - The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist
1 Corinthians 1:26-31 (God chose what is weak in the world) Jeremiah 1:4, 17-19 (Say to them everything that I command you. Do not be dismayed by them)
28 August 26 - St Augustine
1 Corinthians 1:17-25 (We preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to men, but to those who are called, the wisdom of God) 1 John 4:7-16 (God loved us)
27 August 26 - St Monica
1 Corinthians 1:1-9 (In every way you were enriched in him) Sirach 26:1-4, 13-16 (Like the sun rising, so is the beauty of a good wife in her well-ordered home)
26 August 26 - Blessed Dominic of the Mother of God
2 Thessalonians 3:6-10, 16-18 (If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat) 1 Corinthians 1:18-25 (It pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe)
25 August 26 - St Louis
2 Thessalonians 2:1-3, 14-17 (Hold to the traditions that your were taught) Isaiah 58:6-11 (Share your bread with the hungry)
24 August 26 - St Bartholomew
Revelation 21:9-14 (On the foundations were the names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb)
23 August 26 - 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time
Isaiah 22:15, 19-23 (I will place on his shoulder the key of the house of David) Romans 11:33-36 (From him and through him and to him are all things)
22 August 26 - Our Lady, Mother and Queen
Ezekiel 43:1-7 (The glory of the Lord entered the Temple.)
Isaiah 9:2-7 · (A son is given to us.)
20 August 26 - St Bernard
Ezekiel 36:23-28 (I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you.) Sirach 15:1-6 (She will feed him with the bread of understanding.)
19 August 26 - St John Eudas
Ezekiel 34:1-11 (I will rescue my sheep from their mouths, that they may not be food for them.) Ephesians 3:14-19 (To know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge.)
18 August 26 - Tuesday of week 20 in Ordinary Time
Ezekiel 28:1-10 (You are but a man, and no god, though you make your heart like the heart of a god.)
17 August 26 - Monday of week 20 in Ordinary Time
Ezekiel 24:15-24 (Ezekiel shall be to you a sign; according to all that he has done you shall do.)
21 August 26 - St Pius X
Ezekiel 37:1-14 (Dry bones, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live.) 1 Thessalonians 2:2-8 · (We were ready to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own selves.)
16 August 26 - The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Revelation 11:19; 12:1-6, 10 ·(A woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet.) 1 Corinthians 15:20-27 ·
(Christ the first fruits, then those who belong to Christ.)
15 August 26 - Saturday of week 19 in Ordinary Time
Ezekiel 18:1-10, 13, 30-32 (I will judge you, every one according to his ways)
14 August 26 - St Maximilian Kolbe
Ezekiel 16:59-63 (Remrember my covenant with you and be confounded) Wisdom 3:1-9 (Like a sacrificial whole burnt offering he accepted them)
13 August 26 - Saints Pontian and Hippolytus
Ezekiel 12:1-12 (You shall go like an exile from your place) 1 Peter 4:12-19 (Rejoice as you share Christ's sufferings)
12 August 26 - St Frances de Chantal
Ezekiel 9:1-7; 10:18-22 (Put a mark on the foreheads of those who groan over the abominations of Jerusalem) Philippians 4:4-9 (Whatever is pure, think about these things)
11 August 26 - St Clare
Ezekiel 2:8-3:4 (He gave me this scroll to eat and it was in my mouth as sweet as honey) Philippians 3:8-14 (For the sake of Christ I have suffered the loss of all things, becoming like him in his death)
10 August 26 - St Laurence
2 Corinthians 9:6-10 (God loves a cheerful giver)
9 August 26 - 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time
1 Kinga 19:9, 11-13 (Stand on the mount before the Lord) Romans 9:1-5 (I wish that I were accursed for the sake of my brothers and sisters)
8 August 26 - St Dominic
Habakkuk 1:12-24 (The righteous shall live by his faith) 1 Corinthians 2:1-10 (We impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God)
7 August 26 - St Cajetan
Nahum 1:15; 2:2; 3:1-3, 6-7 (Woe to the city of blood) Sirach 2:7-11(You who fear the Lord, trust, hope, love)