Daily readings

Wednesday, July 29, 2026

Saint Martha. Ordinary Time. A clean reading layout for church, prayer, or preparation.

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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

Jeremiah 15:10, 16-21

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.

10Sorrow is me, my mother: why have you borne me a man of strife, a man of contention to all the earth? I have not lent on usury, neither has any man lent to me on usury: yet all curse me.

16Your words were found, and I did eat them, and your word was to me a joy and gladness of my heart: for your name is called upon me, OH Lord God of hosts.

17I sat not in the assembly of jesters, nor did I make a boast of the presence of your hand: I sat alone, because you have satisfied me with threats.

18Why is my sorrow become perpetual, and my wound desperate so as to refuse to be healed? it is become to me as the falsehood of deceitful waters that cannot be trusted.

19Therefore thus says the Lord: If you will be converted, I will convert you, and you shall stand before my face; and if you will separate the precious from the vile, you shall be as my mouth: they shall be turned to you, and you shall not be turned to them.

20And I will make you to this people as a strong wall of brass: and they shall fight against you, and shall not prevail: for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you, says the Lord.

21And I will deliver you out of the hand of the evil, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the mighty.

2

Psalm

Psalm 59:2-3, 4, 10-11, 17, 18

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.

2Deliver me from my enemies, OH my God; and defend me from them that rise up against me.

3Deliver me from them that work sin, and save me from bloody men.

4For look they have caught my soul: the mighty have rushed in upon me:

10I will keep my strength to you: for you art my protector:

11my God, his mercy shall prevent me.

17But I will sing your strength: and will extol your mercy in the morning. For you art become my support, and my refuge, in the day of my trouble.

18To you, OH my helper, will I sing, for you art God my defence: my God my mercy.

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Gospel

John 11:19-27

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.

19And many of the Jews were come to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.

20Martha therefore, as soon as she heard that Jesus had come, went to meet him: but Mary sat at home.

21Martha therefore said to Jesus: Lord, if you had been here, my brother had not died.

22But now also I know that whatever you will ask of God, God will give it you.

23Jesus says to her: Your brother shall rise again.

24Martha says to him: I know that he shall rise again, in the resurrection at the last day.

25Jesus said to her: I am the resurrection and the life: he that believes in me, although he be dead, shall live:

26And every one that liveth, and believes in me, shall not die forever. Believest you this?

27She says to him: Yea, Lord, I have believed that you art Christ the Son of the living God, who art come into this world.

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.