Traditional Latin Mass Gospel Readings

“12:35. Let your loins be girt and lamps burning in your hands. 12:36. 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. 12:37. Blessed are those servants whom the Lord, when he cometh, shall find watching. Amen I say to you that he will gird himself and make them sit down to meat and p...

“5:13. You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt lose its savour, wherewith shall it be salted? It is good for nothing anymore but to be cast out, and to be trodden on by men. 5:14. You are the light of the world. A city seated on a mountain cannot be hid. 5:15. Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but upon a candlestick, that it may shine to all that are in the house. 5:1...

“14:26. If any man come to me, and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters, yea and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. Hate not, etc. . .The law of Christ does not allow us to hate even our enemies, much less our parents: but the meaning of the text is, that we must be in that disposition of soul, as to be willing to renounce, and part with every thi...

“5:43. You have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thy enemy. 5:44. But I say to you, Love your enemies: do good to them that hate you: and pray for them that persecute and calumniate you: 5:45. That you may be the children of your Father who is in heaven, who maketh his sun to rise upon the good, and bad, and raineth upon the just and the unjust. 5:46. For if yo...

“7:15. Beware of false prophets, who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. 7:16. By their fruits you shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? 7:17. Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, and the evil tree bringeth forth evil fruit. 7:18. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can an evil tree bring forth go...

“12:46. As he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold his mother and his brethren stood without, seeking to speak to him. 12:47. And one said unto him: Behold thy mother and thy brethren stand without, seeking thee. 12:48. But he answering him that told him, said: Who is my mother, and who are my brethren? Who is my mother?. . .This was not spoken by way of slighting his mother, but to shew tha...

“10:23. And Jesus walked in the temple, in Solomon's porch.” “10:24. The Jews therefore came round about him and said to him: How long dost thou hold our souls in suspense? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly. 10:25. Jesus answered them: I speak to you, and you believe not: the works that I do in the name of my Father, they give testimony of me. 10:26. But you do not believe, because you are no...

“13:44. The kingdom of heaven is like unto a treasure hidden in a field. Which a man having found, hid it, and for joy thereof goeth, and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field. 13:45. Again the kingdom of heaven is like to a merchant seeking good pearls.” “13:46. Who when he had found one pearl of great price, went his way, and sold all that he had, and bought it. 13:47. Again the kingdo...

“10:1. 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. 10:2. And he said to them: The harvest indeed is great, but the labourers are few. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest that he send labourers into his harvest. 10:3. Go: Behold I send you as lambs among wolves. 10:4....

“14:22. And forthwith Jesus obliged his disciples to go up into the boat, and to go before him over the water, till he dismissed the people. 14:23. And having dismissed the multitude, he went into a mountain alone to pray. And when it was evening, he was there alone. 14:24. But the boat in the midst of the sea was tossed with the waves: for the wind was contrary.” “14:25. And in the fourth watch o...

“10:15. Amen I say to you, whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall not enter into it.” “10:16. And embracing them and laying his hands upon them, he blessed them. 10:17. And when he was gone forth into the way, a certain man, running up and kneeling before him, asked him: Good Master, what shall I do that I may receive life everlasting? 10:18. And Jesus said to him:...

“Mark Chapter 8 Christ feeds four thousand. He foreshadows how He will feed the souls of men by means of the Holy Sacrament-the True Bread from heaven. 8:1. In those days again, when there was great multitude and they had nothing to eat; calling his disciples together, he saith to them: 8:2. I have compassion on the multitude, for behold they have now been with me three days and have nothing to ea...

“25:14. For even as a man going into a far country called his servants and delivered to them his goods;” “25:15. 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. 25:16. And he that had received the five talents went his way and traded with the same and gained other five. 25:17. And in like ma...

“1:39. And Mary rising up in those days, went into the hill country with haste into a city of Juda. 1:40. And she entered into the house of Zachary and saluted Elizabeth. 1:41. And it came to pass that when Elizabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the infant leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost.” “1:42. And she cried out with a loud voice and said: Blessed art thou among...

“19:30. Jesus therefore, when he had taken the vinegar, said: It is consummat” “consummated. And bowing his head, he gave up the ghost. 19:31. Then the Jews (because it was the parasceve), that the bodies might not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day (for that was a great sabbath day), besought Pilate that their legs might be broken: and that they might be taken away. 19:32. The soldiers ther...

“10:16. Behold I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves. Be ye therefore wise as serpents and simple as doves. Simple. . .That is, harmless, plain, sincere, and without guile. 10:17. But beware of men. For they will deliver you up in councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues. 10:18. And you shall be brought before governors, and before kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and...

“16:13. And Jesus came into the quarters of Cesarea Philippi: and he asked his disciples, saying: Whom do men say that the Son of man is? 16:14. But they said: Some John the Baptist, and other some Elias, and others” “Jeremias, or one of the prophets. 16:15. Jesus saith to them: But whom do you say that I am? 16:16. Simon Peter answered and said: Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God. 16:17....

The Hail Mary is a biblical prayer in the first part as the Angel Gabriel greeted Mary in the Bible. In the second part it is an invocation for her to pray for us as we would ask anyone to pray for us but Mary is very close to Jesus in a special way.

“21:15. When therefore they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter: Simon, son of John, lovest thou me more than these? He saith to him: Yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. He saith to him: Feed my lambs. 21:16. He saith to him again: Simon, son of John, lovest thou me? He saith to him: yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. He saith to him: Feed my lambs. 21:17. He said to him the third t...

Gospel Matt 5:20-24 “5:20. For I tell you, that unless your justice abound more than that of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. The scribes and Pharisees. . .The scribes were the doctors of the law of Moses: the Pharisees were a precise set of men, making profession of a more exact observance of the law: and upon that” “account greatly esteemed among the peo...

Gospel Luke 12:1-8 “Christ warns us against hypocrisy, the fear of the world and covetousness. He admonishes all to watch. 12:1. And when great multitudes stood about him, so that they trod one upon another, he began to say to his disciples: Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. 12:2. For there is nothing covered that shall not be revealed: nor hidden that shall not be know...

Gospel Matt 19:27-29 “19:27. Then Peter answering, said to him: Behold we have left all things, and have followed thee: what therefore shall we have?”“19:28. And Jesus said to them: Amen I say to you, that you who have followed me, in the regeneration, when the Son of man shall sit on the seat of his majesty, you also shall sit on twelve seats judging the twelve tribes of Israel. 19:29. And every...

Gospel Luke 1:57-68 “1:57. Now Elizabeth's full time of being delivered was come: and she brought forth a son. 1:58. And her neighbors and kinsfolks heard that the Lord had shewed his great mercy towards her: and they congratulated with her. 1:59. And it came to pass that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child: and they called him by his father's name Zachary. 1:60. And his mother ans...

Gospel Luke 1:5-17 “1:5. There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zachary, of the course of Abia: and his” “his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name Elizabeth. Of the course of Abia. . .that is, of the rank of Abia, which word in the Greek is commonly put for the employment of one day: but here for the functions of a whole week. For, by the appointment...

“12:32. Fear not, little flock, for it hath pleased your Father to give you a kingdom. 12:33. 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. 12:34. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” Excerpt From The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous https://book...