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Wednesday of the 21st week of Ordinary Time

Today's Gospel, Reflection, and Prayer

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Gospel

Matthew 23:27-32

Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you are like to whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear to men beautiful, but within are full of dead men's bones, and of all filthiness.So you also outwardly indeed appear to men just; but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; that build the sepulchres of the prophets, and adorn the monuments of the just,And say: If we had been in the days of our Fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.Wherefore you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the sons of them that killed the prophets.Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

The Gospel of the Lord,

Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ

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References for August 26, 2026

Other readings

First Reading 2 Thessalonians 3:6-10, 16-18
And we charge you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother walking disorderly, and not according to the tradition which they have received of us.For yourselves know how you ought to imitate us: for we were not disorderly among you;Neither did we eat any man's bread for nothing, but in labour and in toil we worked night and day, lest we should be chargeable to any of you.Not as if we had not power: but that we might give ourselves a pattern unto you, to imitate us.For also when we were with you, this we declared to you: that, if any man will not work, neither let him eat.

Now the Lord of peace himself give you everlasting peace in every place. The Lord be with you all.The salutation of Paul with my own hand; which is the sign in every epistle. So I write.The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

Thanks be to God

Psalm Psalm 128:1-2, 4-5
Unless the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it. Unless the Lord keep the city, he watcheth in vain that keepeth it.It is vain for you to rise before light, rise ye after you have sitten, you that eat the bread of sorrow. When he shall give sleep to his beloved,As arrows in the hand of the mighty, so the children of them that have been shaken.Blessed is the man that hath filled the desire with them; he shall not be confounded when he shall speak to his enemies in the gate.