Readings at Mass

Friday 5 June 2026

Saint Boniface, Bishop, Martyr 

 on Friday of week 9 in Ordinary Time

Liturgical Colour: Red. Year: A(II).

Readings at Mass

Readings for the feria (Friday)

There is a choice today between the readings for the ferial day (Friday) and those for the memorial. The ferial readings are recommended unless pastoral reasons suggest otherwise.

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First reading

2 Timothy 3:10-17

‘All who desire to live a godly life in Christ will be persecuted.’

Beloved: You have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness, my persecutions and sufferings that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra — which persecutions I endured; yet from them all the Lord rescued me. Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

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Responsorial Psalm

Ps 119(118):157, 160. 161, 165. 166, 168. ℟165a

The lovers of your law have great peace, O LORD.

Though my foes and oppressors are countless,

I have not swerved from your decrees.

Truth is the sum of your word;

all your just judgements are eternal. 

The lovers of your law have great peace, O LORD.

Though princes oppress me without cause,

my heart reveres your word.

The lovers of your law have great peace;

no stumbling block for them. 

The lovers of your law have great peace, O LORD.

I await your salvation, O LORD;

I fulfil your commands.

I obey your precepts and decrees;

all my ways are before you. 

The lovers of your law have great peace, O LORD.

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Gospel Acclamation

John 14:23

Alleluia, alleluia.

If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, says the Lord,

and my Father will love him, and we will come to him.

Alleluia.

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Gospel

Mark 12:35-37

‘How can they say that the Christ is the son of David?’

At that time: As Jesus taught in the Temple, he said, ‘How can the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David? David himself, in the Holy Spirit, declared, “The Lord said to my Lord, ‘Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet.’ ” David himself calls him Lord. So how is he his son?’ And the great throng heard him gladly.