Daily Gospel Reading for August 29, 2022, Monday – Memorial of the Passion of Saint John the Baptist Bible Verse

The 29th of August, 2022, Monday is the Memorial of the Passion of Saint John the Baptist. The Bible scriptures for the holy mass readings for this day came from the 2022 Liturgical Calendar.

Reading 1: 1 COR 2:1-5

The first reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Corinthians.

When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.

For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.

My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith wouldn’t stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

Responsorial Psalm: PS 119:97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102

Response: How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.

How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.

R: How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.

Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for your commandments are always with me.

R: How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.

I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation.

R: How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.

I understand more than the aged, because I have kept your precepts.

R: How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.

I have kept my feet from every evil way, that I might observe your word.

R: How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.

I have not turned away from your ordinances, for you have taught me.

R: How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.

Gospel of the Day: MK 6:17-29

From the gospel verse according to Mark.

For Herod himself had sent out and arrested John and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, for he had married her.

For John had said to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.”

Herodias set herself against him and desired to kill him, but she couldn’t, for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe. When he heard him, he did many things, and he heard him gladly.

Then a convenient day came when Herod on his birthday made a supper for his nobles, the high officers, and the chief men of Galilee.

When the daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced, she pleased Herod and those sitting with him. The king said to the young lady, “Ask me whatever you want, and I will give it to you.”

He swore to her, “Whatever you ask of me, I will give you, up to half of my kingdom.”

She went out and said to her mother, “What shall I ask?” She said, “The head of John the Baptizer.”

She came in immediately with haste to the king and requested, “I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptizer on a platter.”

The king was exceedingly sorry, but for the sake of his oaths and of his dinner guests, he didn’t wish to refuse her.

Immediately the king sent out a soldier of his guard and commanded to bring John’s head; and he went and beheaded him in the prison, and brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the young lady; and the young lady gave it to her mother.

When his disciples heard this, they came and took up his corpse and laid it in a tomb.

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