Daily Readings
You have followed my teaching, way of life, purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance, persecutions, and sufferings, such as happened to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra, persecutions that I endured. Yet from all these things the Lord delivered me. In fact, all who want to live religiously in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. But wicked people and charlatans will go from bad to worse, deceivers and deceived. But you, remain faithful to what you have learned and believed, because you know from whom you learned it, and that from infancy you have known the sacred Scriptures, which are capable of giving you wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for refutation, for correction, and for training in righteousness, so that one who belongs to God may be competent,equipped for every good work.
RESPONSORIAL Psalm:
PS 119:157, 160, 161, 165, 166, 168
Response: (R): O Lord, great peace have they who love your law.
Though my persecutors and my foes are many, I turn not away from your decrees. <R>
Permanence is your word’s chief trait; each of your just ordinances is everlasting. <R>
Princes persecute me without cause but my heart stands in awe of your word. <R>
Those who love your law have great peace, and for them there is no stumbling block. <R>
I wait for your salvation, O Lord, and your commands I fulfill. <R>
I keep your precepts and your decrees, for all my ways are before you. <R>
SECOND READING;
2 Corinthians 13:11-14
Brothers and sisters, rejoice. Mend your ways, encourage one another, agree with one another, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you. Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the holy ones greet you.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you.
GOSPEL: Mark 12:35-37
As Jesus was teaching in the temple area he said, “How do the scribes claim that the Christ is the son of David? David himself, inspired by the Holy Spirit, said: The Lord said to my lord, ‘Sit at my right hand until I place your enemies under your feet.’ David himself calls him ‘lord’; so how is he his son?” The great crowd heard this with delight.
DAILY REFLECTION: 05 June 2026
Memorial of St Boniface, Bishop and Martyr
A saint’s life is paradoxical – sufferings and hardships of every kind await those who wish to follow the noble path of serving God and neighbour! How do saints manage to stay steadfast?
St. Paul, writing to Timothy explains what it means to follow Christ wholeheartedly. Beginning with his own example, he assures Timothy of two things – suffering is part of the mission and Jesus will deliver us from these sufferings. In spite of this he goes on to encourage Timothy to “remain faithful” to what he learned and believed. Paul encourages Timothy to use Scripture “for teaching, refutation, correction & training.”
The Gospel has Jesus quoting the Psalms to confute the myopic view of the scribes that the Messiah would descend from David. Using Scripture he points out that the Messiah will not just be of Davidic descent but greater than David, since David himself refers to the Messiah as Lord.
Perhaps what separates us from the saints is that they didn’t just read Scripture but allowed it to equip them “for every good work”.
Source : Archdiocese of Bombay