Daily Reading for Sunday, August 8th, 2021

Daily Reading for Sunday August 8, 2021

Reading 1, First Kings 19:4-8
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9
Gospel, John 6:41-51
Reading 2, Ephesians 4:30-5:2
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Reading 1, First Kings 19:4-8

⁴ He himself went on into the desert, a day's journey, and sitting under a furze bush wished he were dead. 'Yahweh,' he said, 'I have had enough. Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors.'

⁵ Then he lay down and went to sleep. Then all of a sudden an angel touched him and said, 'Get up and eat.'

⁶ He looked round, and there at his head was a scone baked on hot stones, and a jar of water. He ate and drank and then lay down again.

⁷ But the angel of Yahweh came back a second time and touched him and said, 'Get up and eat, or the journey will be too long for you.'

⁸ So he got up and ate and drank, and strengthened by that food he walked for forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, God's mountain.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9

² I will praise Yahweh from my heart; let the humble hear and rejoice.

³ Proclaim with me the greatness of Yahweh, let us acclaim his name together.

⁴ I seek Yahweh and he answers me, frees me from all my fears.

⁵ Fix your gaze on Yahweh and your face will grow bright, you will never hang your head in shame.

⁶ A pauper calls out and Yahweh hears, saves him from all his troubles.

⁷ The angel of Yahweh encamps around those who fear him, and rescues them.

⁸ Taste and see that Yahweh is good. How blessed are those who take refuge in him.

⁹ Fear Yahweh, you his holy ones; those who fear him lack for nothing.

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Gospel, John 6:41-51

⁴¹ Meanwhile the Jews were complaining to each other about him, because he had said, 'I am the bread that has come down from heaven.'

⁴² They were saying, 'Surely this is Jesus son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know. How can he now say, "I have come down from heaven?" '

⁴³ Jesus said in reply to them, 'Stop complaining to each other.

⁴⁴ 'No one can come to me unless drawn by the Father who sent me, and I will raise that person up on the last day.

⁴⁵ It is written in the prophets: They will all be taught by God; everyone who has listened to the Father, and learnt from him, comes to me.

⁴⁶ Not that anybody has seen the Father, except him who has his being from God: he has seen the Father.

⁴⁷ In all truth I tell you, everyone who believes has eternal life.

⁴⁸ I am the bread of life.

⁴⁹ Your fathers ate manna in the desert and they are dead;

⁵⁰ but this is the bread which comes down from heaven, so that a person may eat it and not die.

⁵¹ I am the living bread which has come down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will live for ever; and the bread that I shall give is my flesh, for the life of the world.'

Reading 2, Ephesians 4:30-5:2

³⁰ do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God who has marked you with his seal, ready for the day when we shall be set free.

³¹ Any bitterness or bad temper or anger or shouting or abuse must be far removed from you -- as must every kind of malice.

³² Be generous to one another, sympathetic, forgiving each other as readily as God forgave you in Christ.

¹ As God's dear children, then, take him as your pattern,

² and follow Christ by loving as he loved you, giving himself up for us as an offering and a sweet-smelling sacrifice to God.

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