First Reading1 Corinthians 4:6-15

I have applied all this to myself and Apol’los for your benefit, brethren, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written that none of you may be puffed up in favor of one against another. For who sees anything different in you? What have you that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if it were not a gift?

Already you are filled! Already you have become rich! Without us you have become kings! And would that you did reign, so that we might share the rule with you! For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men. We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute. To the present hour we hunger and thirst, we are poorly clothed and buffeted and homeless, and we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when slandered, we try to conciliate; we have become, and are now, as the refuse of the world, the dregs of all things. 

I do not write this to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children. For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

Responsorial PsalmPsalm 145:17-18, 19-20, 21

℟The Lord is near to all who call upon him.

The Lord is just in all his ways, and kind in all his doings.

The Lord is near to all who call upon him, to all who call upon him in truth.

℟The Lord is near to all who call upon him.

He fulfils the desire of all who fear him, he also hears their cry, and saves them.

The Lord preserves all who love him; but all the wicked he will destroy.

℟The Lord is near to all who call upon him.

My mouth will speak the praise of the Lord, and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.

℟The Lord is near to all who call upon him.

AlleluiaJohn 14:6

℟Alleluia!

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me. 

℟Alleluia!

GospelLuke 6:1-5

On a sabbath, while he was going through the grainfields, his disciples plucked and ate some heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands. But some of the Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is not lawful to do on the sabbath?” And Jesus answered, “Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him: how he entered the house of God, and took and ate the showbread, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to those with him?” And he said to them, “The Son of man is lord of the sabbath.”