The 22nd of August, 2022 is the Memorial of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Holy Bible verses for the mass readings for this day came from the Liturgical Calendar Year 2022.
Reading 1 :2 THES 1:1-5, 11-12
The first reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Thessalonians.
Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds, so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.
This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of God’s Kingdom, for which you also suffer.
To this end we also pray always for you that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power, that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Responsorial Psalm: PS 96:1-2A, 2B-3, 4-5
Response: Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples.
Sing to Yahweh a new song! Sing to Yahweh, all the earth.
Sing to Yahweh! Bless his name!
R: Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples.
Proclaim his salvation from day to day!
Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples.
R: Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples.
For Yahweh is great, and greatly to be praised! He is to be feared above all gods.
For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but Yahweh made the heavens.
R: Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples.
Gospel of the Day: MT 23:13-22
From the gospel scripture according to Matthew.
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.”
“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don’t enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of Gehenna as yourselves.”
“We to you, you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.’
You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold?
And, ‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is obligated?’
You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?
He therefore who swears by the altar, swears by it and by everything on it.
He who swears by the temple, swears by it and by him who has been living in it.
He who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God and by him who sits on it.”
