Daily Mass and Readings
Can’t make it to Holy Mass? EWTN offers the daily readings to enable viewers to accompany the Mass of the day as it is televised. They are also the perfect way to find time in your day for spiritual reflection. Listen, watch, or read from the comfort of your home. Our Catholic Daily Reading includes the readings of the day, along with online videos, and is a resource for all who desire to live a life of faith that is pleasing to our Lord.
Thursday, August 14, 2025
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Readings from the Franciscan Lectionary
First Reading
1 John 3:13-18
13Do not wonder, brethren, that the world hates you.
14We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love remains in death.
15Any one who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
16By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
17But if any one has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him?
18Little children, let us not love in word or speech but in deed and in truth.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 116:10-13, 16-17
10I kept my faith, even when I said, “I am greatly afflicted”;
11I said in my consternation, “Men are all a vain hope.”
12What shall I render to the LORD for all his bounty to me?
13I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the LORD,
16O LORD, I am thy servant; I am thy servant, the son of thy handmaid. Thou hast loosed my bonds.
17I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of the LORD.
Gospel
John 15:12-17
12“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
13Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
14You are my friends if you do what I command you.
15No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
16You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide; so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
17This I command you, to love one another.
