Traditional Latin Mass Gospel Readings

Let your loins be girt, and lamps burning in your hands. Sint lumbi vestri praecincti, et lucernae ardentes in manibus vestris,  36  And you yourselves like to men who wait for their lord, when he shall return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open to him immediately. et vos similes hominibus exspectantibus dominum suum quando revertatur a nuptiis : ut, cum venerit et pu...

1 And entering in, he walked through Jericho. Et ingressus perambulabat Jericho.  2  And behold, there was a man named Zacheus, who was the chief of the publicans, and he was rich. Et ecce vir nomine Zachaeus : et hic princeps erat publicanorum, et ipse dives :  3  And he sought to see Jesus who he was, and he could not for the crowd, because he was low of stature. et quaerebat videre Jesum, quis...

As he was speaking these things unto them, behold a certain ruler came up, and adored him, saying: Lord, my daughter is even now dead; but come, lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live. Haec illo loquente ad eos, ecce princeps unus accessit, et adorabat eum, dicens : Domine, filia mea modo defuncta est : sed veni, impone manum tuam super eam, et vivet.  19  And Jesus rising up followed him, with...

As he was speaking these things unto them, behold a certain ruler came up, and adored him, saying: Lord, my daughter is even now dead; but come, lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live. Haec illo loquente ad eos, ecce princeps unus accessit, et adorabat eum, dicens : Domine, filia mea modo defuncta est : sed veni, impone manum tuam super eam, et vivet.  19  And Jesus rising up followed him, with...

As he was speaking these things unto them, behold a certain ruler came up, and adored him, saying: Lord, my daughter is even now dead; but come, lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live. Haec illo loquente ad eos, ecce princeps unus accessit, et adorabat eum, dicens : Domine, filia mea modo defuncta est : sed veni, impone manum tuam super eam, et vivet.  19  And Jesus rising up followed him, with...

As he was speaking these things unto them, behold a certain ruler came up, and adored him, saying: Lord, my daughter is even now dead; but come, lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live. Haec illo loquente ad eos, ecce princeps unus accessit, et adorabat eum, dicens : Domine, filia mea modo defuncta est : sed veni, impone manum tuam super eam, et vivet.  19  And Jesus rising up followed him, with...

14 For even as a man going into a far country, called his servants, and delivered to them his goods; Sicut enim homo peregre proficiscens, vocavit servos suos, et tradidit illis bona sua.  15  And to one he gave five talents, and to another two, and to another one, to every one according to his proper ability: and immediately he took his journey. Et uni dedit quinque talenta, alii autem duo, alii...

Pilate therefore went into the hall again, and called Jesus, and said to him: Art thou the king of the Jews? Introivit ergo iterum in praetorium Pilatus : et vocavit Jesum, et dixit ei : Tu es rex Judaeorum?  34  Jesus answered: Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or have others told it thee of me? Respondit Jesus : A temetipso hoc dicis, an alii dixerunt tibi de me?  35  Pilate answered: Am I a Je...

Amen, amen I say unto you, that the hour cometh, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear shall live. Amen, amen dico vobis, quia venit hora, et nunc est, quando mortui audient vocem Filii Dei : et qui audierint, vivent.  26 For as the Father hath life in himself, so he hath given the Son also to have life in himself:Sicut enim Pater habet vitam in semet...

And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain, and when he was set down, his disciples came unto him. Videns autem Jesus turbas, ascendit in montem, et cum sedisset, accesserunt ad eum discipuli ejus,  2  And opening his mouth, he taught them, saying: et aperiens os suum docebat eos dicens :  3  Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Beati pauperes spiritu : q...

Pilate therefore went into the hall again, and called Jesus, and said to him: Art thou the king of the Jews? Introivit ergo iterum in praetorium Pilatus : et vocavit Jesum, et dixit ei : Tu es rex Judaeorum?  34  Jesus answered: Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or have others told it thee of me? Respondit Jesus : A temetipso hoc dicis, an alii dixerunt tibi de me?  35  Pilate answered: Am I a Je...

Pilate therefore went into the hall again, and called Jesus, and said to him: Art thou the king of the Jews? Introivit ergo iterum in praetorium Pilatus : et vocavit Jesum, et dixit ei : Tu es rex Judaeorum?  34  Jesus answered: Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or have others told it thee of me? Respondit Jesus : A temetipso hoc dicis, an alii dixerunt tibi de me?  35  Pilate answered: Am I a Je...

Pilate therefore went into the hall again, and called Jesus, and said to him: Art thou the king of the Jews? Introivit ergo iterum in praetorium Pilatus : et vocavit Jesum, et dixit ei : Tu es rex Judaeorum?  34  Jesus answered: Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or have others told it thee of me? Respondit Jesus : A temetipso hoc dicis, an alii dixerunt tibi de me?  35  Pilate answered: Am I a Je...

These things I command you, that you love one another. Haec mando vobis : ut diligatis invicem.  18  If the world hate you, know ye, that it hath hated me before you. Si mundus vos odit, scitote quia me priorem vobis odio habuit.  19  If you had been of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth...

Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened to a king, who would take an account of his servants. Ideo assimilatum est regnum caelorum homini regi, qui voluit rationem ponere cum servis suis.  24 And when he had begun to take the account, one was brought to him, that owed him ten thousand talents. Et cum coepisset rationem ponere, oblatus est ei unus, qui debebat ei decem millia talenta.  25 And as...

Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened to a king, who would take an account of his servants. Ideo assimilatum est regnum caelorum homini regi, qui voluit rationem ponere cum servis suis.  24 And when he had begun to take the account, one was brought to him, that owed him ten thousand talents. Et cum coepisset rationem ponere, oblatus est ei unus, qui debebat ei decem millia talenta.  25 And as...

Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened to a king, who would take an account of his servants. Ideo assimilatum est regnum caelorum homini regi, qui voluit rationem ponere cum servis suis.  24  And when he had begun to take the account, one was brought to him, that owed him ten thousand talents. Et cum coepisset rationem ponere, oblatus est ei unus, qui debebat ei decem millia talenta.  25  And...

After these things was a festival day of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Post haec erat dies festus Judaeorum, et ascendit Jesus Jerosolymam.  2  Now there is at Jerusalem a pond, called Probatica, which in Hebrew is named Bethsaida, having five porches. Est autem Jerosolymis probatica piscina, quae cognominatur hebraice Bethsaida, quinque porticus habens.  3  In these lay a great multit...

Watch ye therefore, because ye know not what hour your Lord will come. Vigilate ergo, quia nescitis qua hora Dominus vester venturus sit.  43  But know this ye, that if the goodman of the house knew at what hour the thief would come, he would certainly watch, and would not suffer his house to be broken open. Illud autem scitote, quoniam si sciret paterfamilias qua hora fur venturus esset, vigilare...

Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened to a king, who would take an account of his servants. Ideo assimilatum est regnum caelorum homini regi, qui voluit rationem ponere cum servis suis.  24  And when he had begun to take the account, one was brought to him, that owed him ten thousand talents. Et cum coepisset rationem ponere, oblatus est ei unus, qui debebat ei decem millia talenta.  25  And...

And it came to pass, as he spoke these things, a certain woman from the crowd, lifting up her voice, said to him: Blessed is the womb that bore thee, and the paps that gave thee suck. Factum est autem, cum haec diceret : extollens vocem quaedam mulier de turba dixit illi : Beatus venter qui te portavit, et ubera quae suxisti.  28  But he said: Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God,...

Let your loins be girt, and lamps burning in your hands. Sint lumbi vestri praecincti, et lucernae ardentes in manibus vestris, 36 And you yourselves like to men who wait for their lord, when he shall return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open to him immediately. et vos similes hominibus exspectantibus dominum suum quando revertatur a nuptiis : ut, cum venerit et puls...

Fear not, little flock, for it hath pleased your Father to give you a kingdom. Nolite timere pusillus grex, quia complacuit Patri vestro dare vobis regnum.  33  Sell what you possess and give alms. Make to yourselves bags which grow not old, a treasure in heaven which faileth not: where no thief approacheth, nor moth corrupteth. Vendite quae possidetis, et date eleemosynam. Facite vobis sacculos,...

And after these things the Lord appointed also other seventy-two: and he sent them two and two before his face into every city and place whither he himself was to come. Post haec autem designavit Dominus et alios septuaginta duos : et misit illos binos ante faciem suam in omnem civitatem et locum, quo erat ipse venturus.  2  And he said to them: The harvest indeed is great, but the labourers are f...

At that time Jesus answered and said: I confess to thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to the little ones. In illo tempore respondens Jesus dixit : Confiteor tibi, Pater, Domine caeli et terrae, quia abscondisti haec a sapientibus, et prudentibus, et revelasti ea parvulis.  26  Yea, Father; for so hath it se...