Daily readings

Friday, July 10, 2026

Friday of the 14th week of Ordinary Time. Ordinary Time. A clean reading layout for church, prayer, or preparation.

CelebrationFriday of the 14th week of Ordinary Time

TypeWeekday

SeasonOrdinary Time

Year2026 archive

The Roman Catholic readings for this date are shown below on-site. Use plain reading mode if you want clearer modern wording, or switch back to the original Douay-Rheims wording at any time.

Reading mode

Plain mode helps modern readers follow the text more easily.

On-site scripture text: Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition. Plain mode is a built-in reading aid that modernizes older wording for easier understanding while keeping the same Roman Catholic reading references for the day.

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First Reading

Hosea 14:2-10

How to approach it

Read this as the first big movement of the day. Notice what God is doing, who is speaking, and what part of the story or teaching should stay with you.

2Return, OH Israel, to the Lord your God: for you have fallen down by your sin.

3Take with you words, and return to the Lord, and say to him: Take away all sin, and receive the good: and we will render the calves of our lips.

4Assyria shall not save us, we will not ride upon horses, neither will we say any more: The works of our hands are our gods, for you will have mercy on the fatherless that is in you.

5I will heal their breaches, I will love them freely: for my wrath is turned away from them.

6I will be as the dew, Israel shall spring as the lily, and his root shall shoot forth as that of Libanus.

7His branches shall spread, and his glory shall be as the olive tree: and his smell as that of Libanus.

8They shall be converted that sit under his shadow: they shall live upon wheat, and they shall blossom as a vine: his memorial shall be as the wine of Libanus.

9Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I will hear him, and I will make him flourish like a green fir tree: from me is your fruit found.

10Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know these things? for the ways of the Lord are right, and the righteous shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall in them.

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Psalm

Psalm 51:3-4, 8-9, 12-13, 14, 17

How to pray it

The psalm is meant to be prayed, not rushed. If the wording feels older, focus on the main movement of the prayer: trust, praise, sorrow, gratitude, or hope.

3Have mercy on me, OH God, according to your great mercy. And according to the crowd of your tender mercies blot out my sin.

4Wash me yet more from my sin, and cleanse me from my sin.

8For look you have loved truth: the uncertain and hidden things of your wisdom you have made clear to me.

9You shall sprinkle me with hyssop, and I shall be cleansed: you shall wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow.

12Create a clean heart in me, OH God: and renew a right spirit within my bowels.

13Cast me not away from your face; and take not your holy spirit from me.

14Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and strengthen me with a perfect spirit.

17OH Lord, you will open my lips: and my mouth shall declare your praise.

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Gospel

Matthew 10:16-23

What to watch for

The Gospel is the center of the reading set. Pay close attention to what Jesus says, what Jesus does, and what response he is asking for.

16Look I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves. Be you therefore wise as serpents and simple as doves.

17But beware of men. For they will deliver you up in councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues.

18And you shall be brought before governors, and before kings for my sake, for a teaching to them and to the Gentiles:

19But when they shall deliver you up, take no thought how or what to speak: for it shall be given you in that hour what to speak.

20For it is not you that speak, but the Spirit of your Father that speaketh in you.

21The brother also shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the son: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and shall put them to death.

22And you shall be hated by all men for my name's sake: but the one who will persevere to the end, he shall be saved.

23And when they shall persecute you in this city, flee into another. Amen I say to you, you shall not finish all the cities of Israel, till the Son of Man come.

Source note

This page uses the Catholic Readings API for the day's references and liturgical celebration data, while the on-site scripture text is rendered from the public-domain Douay-Rheims Bible distributed through the Open Bibles project.