Daily Readings - 15/09/2026
OUR LADY OF SORROWS
First Reading : 1 Cor 12, 12-14. 27-31a
The analogy of the body
12:12 Just as a human body, though it is made up of many parts, is a single unit because all these parts, though many, make one body, so it is with Christ.
12:13 In the one Spirit we were all baptised, Jews as well as Greeks, slaves as well as citizens, and one Spirit was given to us all to drink.
12:14 Nor is the body to be identified with any one of its many parts.
12:27 Now you together are Christ’s body; but each of you is a different part of it.
12:28 In the Church, God has given the first place to apostles, the second to prophets, the third to teachers; after them, miracles, and after them the gift of healing; helpers, good leaders, those with many languages.
12:29 Are all of them apostles, or all of them prophets, or all of them teachers? Do they all have the gift of miracles,
12:30 or all have the gift of healing? Do all speak strange languages, and all interpret them?
The order of importance in spiritual gifts. Love
12:31 Be ambitious for the higher gifts. And I am going to show you a way that is better than any of them.
Psalm : Ps 99
R. We are his people.
God, righteous and holy king
99:1 Yahweh is king, the nations tremble; he is enthroned on the cherubs, earth quakes;
99:2 Yahweh is great in Zion. He is high over all nations;
99:3 may they praise your great and terrible name, ‘Holy is he,
99:4 and mighty!’ You are a king who loves justice, insisting on honesty, justice, virtue, as you have done for Jacob.
99:5 Let us extol Yahweh our God, and worship at his footstool, ‘Holy is he!’
99:6 Moses, Aaron one of his priests, and Samuel his votary, all invoked Yahweh: and he answered them.
99:7 He talked with them in the pillar of cloud; they obeyed his decrees, the Law he gave them.
99:8 Yahweh our God, you responded to them, a God of forgiveness for them, in spite of punishing their sins.
99:9 Extol Yahweh our God, worship at his holy mountain, ‘Holy is Yahweh our God!’
Gospel : Jn 19, 25-27
Jesus and his mother
19:25 Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala.
19:26 Seeing his mother and the disciple he loved standing near her, Jesus said to his mother, ‘Woman, this is your son.
19:27 Then to the disciple he said, ‘This is your mother’. And from that moment the disciple made a place for her in his home.