Daily Readings - March 12, 2019 - Tuesday

First Reading: Isaiah 55: 10 - 11
Psalm 34
Gospel: Matthew 6: 7 - 15


Holy Gospel According to Saint Matthew:

When you pray, do not use a lot of words, as the pagans do, for they hold that the more they say, the more chance they have of being heard. Do not be like them. Your Father knows what you need, even before you ask him.

This, then, is how you should pray:

Our Father in heaven,
holy be your name,
your kingdom come
and your will be done,
 on earth as in heaven.

Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our debts
 just as we have forgiven those who are in debt to us.
Do not bring us to the test
but deliver us from the evil one.

If you forgive others their wrongs, your Father in heaven will also forgive yours. If you do not forgive others, then your Father will not forgive you either.


First Reading:

As the rain and the snow come down

from the heavens and do not return 

till they have watered the earth,

making it yield seed for the sower

and food for others to eat,

so is my word that goes forth out of my mouth:

it will not return to me idle,

but it shall accomplish my will,

the purpose for which it has been sent.

Responsorial Psalm:

From all their distress God rescues the just.