Daily Reading for Saturday, June 8th, 2024

Reading 1, Second Timothy 4:1-8

¹ Before God and before Christ Jesus who is to be judge of the living and the dead, I charge you, in the name of his appearing and of his kingdom:

² proclaim the message and, welcome or unwelcome, insist on it. Refute falsehood, correct error, give encouragement -- but do all with patience and with care to instruct.

³ The time is sure to come when people will not accept sound teaching, but their ears will be itching for anything new and they will collect themselves a whole series of teachers according to their own tastes;

⁴ and then they will shut their ears to the truth and will turn to myths.

⁵ But you must keep steady all the time; put up with suffering; do the work of preaching the gospel; fulfil the service asked of you.

⁶ As for me, my life is already being poured away as a libation, and the time has come for me to depart.

⁷ I have fought the good fight to the end; I have run the race to the finish; I have kept the faith;

⁸ all there is to come for me now is the crown of uprightness which the Lord, the upright judge, will give to me on that Day; and not only to me but to all those who have longed for his appearing.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 71:8-9, 14-15, 16-17, 22

⁸ My mouth is full of your praises, filled with your splendour all day long.

⁹ Do not reject me in my old age, nor desert me when my strength is failing,

¹⁴ As for me, my hope will never fade, I will praise you more and more.

¹⁵ My lips shall proclaim your saving justice, your saving power all day long.

¹⁶ I will come in the power of Yahweh to tell of your justice, yours alone.

¹⁷ God, you have taught me from boyhood, and I am still proclaiming your marvels.

²² For my part, I will thank you on the lyre for your constancy, my God. I will play the harp in your honour, Holy One of Israel.

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