Reading for the day
Ezekiel 2:8-3:4

• The Lord GOD said to me:
• As for you, son of man, obey me when I speak to you: be not rebellious like this house of rebellion,
  but open your mouth and eat what I shall give you.
• It was then I saw a hand stretched out to me, in which was a written scroll which he unrolled before me.
• It was covered with writing front and back,and written on it was: Lamentation and wailing and woe!
  
  
• He said to me: Son of man, eat what is before you; eat this scroll, then go, speak to the house of Israel.
• So I opened my mouth and he gave me the scroll to eat.
• Son of man, he then said to me, feed your belly and fill your stomach with this scroll I am giving you.
• I ate it, and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth.
• He said: Son of man, go now to the house of Israel, and speak my words to them.

Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 119(118):14, 24, 72, 103, 111, 131

Response: How sweet to my taste is your promise!

• 14 In the way of your decrees I rejoice,as much as in all riches. R
• 24 Yes, your decrees are my delight; they are my counselors. 
• 72 The law of your mouth is to me more precious than thousands of gold and silver pieces. R
• 103 How sweet to my palate are your promises,sweeter than honey to my mouth! 
• 111 Your decrees are my inheritance forever;the joy of my heart they are. 
• 131 I gasp with open mouth, in my yearning for your commands. R

Gospel for the day
Matthew 18:1-5,10,12-14

• 1 At that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying: Who thinkest thou is the greater in the kingdom of heaven?
• 2 And Jesus calling unto him a little child, set him in the midst of them,
• 3 And said: Amen I say to you, unless you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
• 4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, he is the greater in the kingdom of heaven.
• 5 And he that shall receive one such little child in my name, receiveth me.
• 10 See that you despise not one of these little ones: for I say to you, that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.
• 12 What think you? If a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them should go astray: doth he not leave the ninety-nine in the mountains, and go to seek that which is gone astray?
• 13 And if it so be that he find it: Amen I say to you, he rejoiceth more for that, than for the ninety-nine that went not astray.
• 14 Even so it is not the will of your Father, who is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.