Daily Readings - March 14, 2019 - Thursday

First Reading: Esther 12: 14 - 16, 23 - 25
Psalm 138
Gospel: Matthew 7: 7 - 12


Holy Gospel According to Saint Matthew:

Ask and you will receive; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened. For everyone who asks, receives; whoever seeks, finds; and the door will be opened to him who knocks. Would any of you give a stone to your son when he asks for bread? Or give him a snake, when he asks for a fish As bad as you are, you know how to give good things to your children. How much more, then, will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

So, do to others whatever you would that others do to you: there you have the Law and the Prophets.


First Reading:

Save us by your hand; help me who am alone and have none but you, O Lord.

You know everything; you know how I hate honor if from the impious, how I loathe the bed of the uncircumcised and of any foreigner.

You know I am here under constraint, that I loathe the diadem about my brow when I appear in public; as a filthy rag I loathe it and do not wear it in private.

Responsorial Psalm:

Lord, on the day I called for help, you answered me.