Catholic Mass Readings for January 19 2026, Monday of Second Week Ordinary Time

Catholic Mass Readings for January 19 2026, Monday of Second Week in Ordinary Time

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First Reading: 1 Samuel 15:16-23

¹⁶Samuel said to Saul: “Stop! Let me tell you what the LORD said to me last night.” Saul replied, “Speak!” ¹⁷Samuel then said: “Though little in your own esteem, are you not leader of the tribes of Israel? The LORD anointed you king of Israel ¹⁸and sent you on a mission, saying, ‘Go and put the sinful Amalekites under a ban of destruction.

Fight against them until you have exterminated them.’ ¹⁹Why then have you disobeyed the LORD? You have pounced on the spoil, thus displeasing the LORD.” ²⁰ Saul answered Samuel:  “I did indeed obey the LORD and fulfill the mission on which the LORD sent me.

I have brought back Agag, and I have destroyed Amalek under the ban. ²¹ But from the spoil the men took sheep and oxen, the best of what had been banned, to sacrifice to the LORD their God in Gilgal.” ²²But Samuel said:

“Does the LORD so delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obedience to the command of the LORD? Obedience is better than sacrifice, and submission than the fat of rams.

²³For a sin like divination is rebellion, and presumption is the crime of idolatry. Because you have rejected the command of the LORD, he, too, has rejected you as ruler.”

Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 50:8-9, 16BC-17, 21 AND 23

R.^(23b) To the upright I will show the saving power of God.

⁸“Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you,

for your burnt offerings are before me always.

⁹I take from your house no bullock,

no goats out of your fold.”

R. To the upright I will show the saving power of God.

^16BC“Why do you recite my statutes,

and profess my covenant with your mouth,

¹⁷Though you hate discipline

and cast my words behind you?”

R. To the upright I will show the saving power of God.

²¹“When you do these things, shall I be deaf to it?

Or do you think that I am like yourself?

I will correct you by drawing them up

before your eyes.

²³He that offers praise as a sacrifice glorifies me;

and to him that goes the right way I will

show the salvation of God.”

R. To the upright I will show the saving power of God.

Alleluia: Hebrews 4:12

R. Alleluia, alleluia.

¹²The word of God is living and effective,

able to discern reflections and thoughts of the heart.

R. Alleluia, alleluia.

Gospel Reading for January 19 2026: Mark 2:18-22

¹⁸The disciples of John and of the Pharisees were accustomed to fast. People came to Jesus and objected, “Why do the disciples of John and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?”

¹⁹Jesus answered them, “Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they cannot fast.

²⁰But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast on that day. ²¹No one sews a piece of unshrunken cloth on an old cloak. If he does, its fullness pulls away, the new from the old, and the tear gets worse.

²²Likewise, no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the skins are ruined. Rather, new wine is poured into fresh wineskins.”

Tomorrow’s Catholic Mass Readings for January 20 2026, Tuesday of Second Week in Ordinary Time.