Daily Reading for Sunday, August 18th, 2024

Daily Reading for Sunday August 18, 2024

Reading 1, Proverbs 9:1-6
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 34:2-3, 10-11, 12-13, 14-15
Gospel, John 6:51-58
Reading 2, Ephesians 5:15-20
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Reading 1, Proverbs 9:1-6

¹ Wisdom has built herself a house, she has hewn her seven pillars,

² she has slaughtered her beasts, drawn her wine, she has laid her table.

³ She has despatched her maidservants and proclaimed from the heights above the city,

⁴ 'Who is simple? Let him come this way.' To the fool she says,

⁵ 'Come and eat my bread, drink the wine which I have drawn!

⁶ Leave foolishness behind and you will live, go forwards in the ways of perception.'

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 34:2-3, 10-11, 12-13, 14-15

² I will praise Yahweh from my heart; let the humble hear and rejoice.

³ Proclaim with me the greatness of Yahweh, let us acclaim his name together.

¹⁰ Young lions may go needy and hungry, but those who seek Yahweh lack nothing good.

¹¹ Come, my children, listen to me, I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.

¹² Who among you delights in life, longs for time to enjoy prosperity?

¹³ Guard your tongue from evil, your lips from any breath of deceit.

¹⁴ Turn away from evil and do good, seek peace and pursue it.

¹⁵ The eyes of Yahweh are on the upright, his ear turned to their cry.

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Gospel, John 6:51-58

⁵¹ I am the living bread which has come down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will live for ever; and the bread that I shall give is my flesh, for the life of the world.'

⁵² Then the Jews started arguing among themselves, 'How can this man give us his flesh to eat?'

⁵³ Jesus replied to them: In all truth I tell you, if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.

⁵⁴ Anyone who does eat my flesh and drink my blood has eternal life, and I shall raise that person up on the last day.

⁵⁵ For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.

⁵⁶ Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me and I live in that person.

⁵⁷ As the living Father sent me and I draw life from the Father, so whoever eats me will also draw life from me.

⁵⁸ This is the bread which has come down from heaven; it is not like the bread our ancestors ate: they are dead, but anyone who eats this bread will live for ever.

Reading 2, Ephesians 5:15-20

¹⁵ So be very careful about the sort of lives you lead, like intelligent and not like senseless people.

¹⁶ Make the best of the present time, for it is a wicked age.

¹⁷ This is why you must not be thoughtless but must recognise what is the will of the Lord.

¹⁸ Do not get drunk with wine; this is simply dissipation; be filled with the Spirit.

¹⁹ Sing psalms and hymns and inspired songs among yourselves, singing and chanting to the Lord in your hearts,

²⁰ always and everywhere giving thanks to God who is our Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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