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Daily Readings - 14/12/2026
MONDAY. SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS, priest and doctor of the Church, obligatory memorial
First Reading : Nm 24, 2-7. 15-17a
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Psalm : Ps 25 (24)
R// Teach me your paths, Lord.
Aleph
25:1 To you, Yahweh, I lift up my soul,
25:2 O my God.
Ghimel
25:3 No, those who hope in you are never shamed, shame awaits disappointed traitors.
Daleth
25:4 Yahweh, make your ways known to me, teach me your paths.
He
25:5 set me in the way of your truth, and teach me, for you are the God who saves me.
Zain
25:6 Remember your kindness, Yahweh, your love, that you showed long ago.
Teth
25:8 Yahweh is so good, so upright, he teaches the way to sinners;
Yod
25:9 in all that is right he guides the humble, and instructs the poor in his way
Kaph
25:10 All Yahweh’s paths are love and truth for those who keep his covenant and his decrees.
Lamed
25:11 For the sake of your name, Yahweh, forgive my guilt, for it is great.
Mem
25:12 Everyone who fears Yahweh will be taught the course a man should choose;
Nun
25:13 his soul will live in prosperity, his children have the land for their own.
Samek
25:14 The close secret of Yahweh belongs to them who fear him, his covenant also, to bring them knowledge.
Ain
25:15 My eyes are always on Yahweh, for he releases my feet from the net.
Pe
25:16 Turn to me, take pity on me, alone and wretched as I am!
Sade
25:17 Relive the distress of my heart, free me from my sufferings.
Qoph
25:18 See my misery and pain, forgive all my sins!
Resh
25:19 See how my enemies multiply, and how violent their hatred has grown.
Shin
25:20 Watch over my soul, rescue me; let me not be shamed: I take shelter in you.
Tau
25:21 Let innocence and integrity be my protection, since my hope is in you, Yahweh. Redeem Israel, God, from all his troubles.
Gospel : Mt 21, 23-27
The authority of Jesus is questioned
21:23 He had gone into the Temple and was teaching, when the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him and said, ‘What authority have you for acting like this? And who gave you this authority?’
21:24 ‘And I’ replied Jesus ‘will ask you a question, only one; if you tell me the answer to it, I will then tell you my authority for acting like this.
21:25 John’s baptism: where did it come from: heaven or man?’ And they argued it out this way among themselves, ‘If we say from heaven, he will retort, “Then why did you refuse to believe him?”;
21:26 but if we say from man, we have the people to fear, for they all hold that John was a prophet’.
21:27 So their reply to Jesus was, ‘We do not know’. And he retorted, ‘Nor will I tell you my authority for acting like this.