– Monday within the Octave of Corpus Christi — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year
Liturgy of the Hours
– 6.7.26 Vespers II, Sunday Evening Catholic Prayer of the Liturgy of the Hours
– 6.8.26 Lauds, Monday Morning Catholic Prayer of the Liturgy of the Hours
ORDINARY ROMAN CALENDAR
https://en.peripsum.org/AM/gospel/2026-06-08
Readings
– Daily Reading for Monday, June 8th, 2026 HD
Reflection
– Questions for Reflection for June 8, 2026 HD
1st book of Kings 17,1-6.
Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab: “As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, during these years there shall be no dew or rain except at my word.”
The LORD then said to Elijah:
“Leave here, go east and hide in the Wadi Cherith, east of the Jordan.
You shall drink of the stream, and I have commanded ravens to feed you there.”
So he left and did as the LORD had commanded. He went and remained by the Wadi Cherith, east of the Jordan.
Ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the stream.
Psalms 121(120),1-2.3-4.5-6.7-8.
I lift up my eyes toward the mountains;
whence shall help come to me?
My help is from the LORD,
who made heaven and earth.
May he not suffer your foot to slip;
may he slumber not who guards you:
indeed he neither slumbers nor sleeps,
the guardian of Israel.
The LORD is your guardian; the LORD is your shade;
he is beside you at your right hand.
The sun shall not harm you by day,
nor the moon by night.
The LORD will guard you from all evil;
he will guard your life.
The LORD will guard your coming and your going,
both now and forever.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 5,1-12.
When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain, and after he had sat down, his disciples came to him.
He began to teach them, saying:
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are they who mourn, for they will be comforted.
Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the land.
Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied.
Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
Blessed are the clean of heart, for they will see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.
Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you and utter every kind of evil against you (falsely) because of me.
Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven.”
Copyright © Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, USCCB
Saint Nerses Chnorhali (1102-1173)
Armenian patriarch
Part 2, § 351-366
Jesus climbed the mountain and taught them
You went up to sit on a high mountain As before You came down to Sinai; In the cloud You had exposed the ancient Law; In your body, O Word, You taught the New. You opened your divine mouth, You have blessed the apostles; In exchange for the Tablets of the Ten Commandments, You gave the Nine Beatitudes of the New Law. You set a ladder from earth to heaven With nine steps Through it You have raised the human race; You placed her among the nine Choirs. But me, I stuck so closely to the earth Because of the vices of sin so heavy to bear, That I didn’t even climb a single one Among the nine degrees! (…) Now I beseech Thee, Lord, all in tears; I kiss, Lord, your feet; Lighten me, who am in one body, From the heavy burden of sins, So that it is possible for my soul here below To ascend to You in heaven, Following your Words like a ladder, By climbing one step after the other.
1962 Missal
Readings & Reflection
https://en.peripsum.org/TRA/gospel/2026-06-08
First Epistle of Saint John 3,13-18.
Wonder not, brethren, if the world hate you.
We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not abideth in death. Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer. And you know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in himself. In this we have known the charity of God, because he hath laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. He that hath the substance of this world and shall see his brother in need and shall shut up his bowels from him: how doth the charity of God abide in him? My little children, let us not love in word nor in tongue, but in deed and in truth.
Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 14,16-24.
But he said to him: A certain man made a great supper and invited many. And he sent his servant at the hour of supper to say to them that were invited, that they should come: for now all things are ready.
And they began all at once to make excuse. The first said to him: I have bought a farm and I must needs go out and see it. I pray thee, hold me excused.
And another said: I have bought five yoke of oxen and I go to try them. I pray thee, hold me excused.
And another said: I have married a wife; and therefore I cannot come. And the servant returning, told these things to his lord. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant: Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city; and bring in hither the poor and the feeble and the blind and the lame. And the servant said: Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded; and yet there is room.
And the Lord said to the servant: Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. But I say unto you that none of those men that were invited shall taste of my supper.
The Divine Liturgy of Saint Basil the Great (4th century) – Eucharistic prayer, 1st part (©Holy Cross Orthodox press)
“‘Go out to the highways and hedgerows and make people come in that my home may be filled”
Truly You are holy and most holy, and there are no bounds to the majesty of Your holiness. You are holy in all Your works, for with righteousness and true judgment You have ordered all things for us. For having made man by taking dust from the earth, and having honored him with Your own image, O God, You placed him in a garden of delight, promising him eternal life and the enjoyment of everlasting blessings in the observance of Your commandments. But when he disobeyed You, the true God who had created him, and was led astray by the deception of the serpent becoming subject to death through his own transgressions, You, O God, in Your righteous judgment, expelled him from paradise into this world, returning him to the earth from which he was taken.
Yet You provided for him the salvation of regeneration in Your Christ. For You did not forever reject Your creature whom You made, O Good One, nor did You forget the work of Your hands, but because of Your tender compassion, You visited him in various ways: You sent forth prophets; You performed mighty works by Your saints who in every generation have pleased You. You spoke to us by the mouth of Your servants the prophets, announcing to us the salvation which was to come; You gave us the law to help us; You appointed angels as guardians.
And when the fullness of time had come, You spoke to us through Your Son Himself, through whom You created the ages. He, being the splendor of Your glory and the image of Your being, upholding all things by the word of His power, thought it not robbery to be equal with You, God and Father. But, being God before all ages, He appeared on earth and lived with humankind. Becoming incarnate from a holy Virgin, He emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, conforming to the body of our lowliness, that He might change us in the likeness of the image of His glory (Heb 1,2-3; Phil 2, 6-7; 3,21).
For, since through man sin came into the world and through sin death, it pleased Your only begotten Son, who is in Your bosom, God and Father, born of a woman, the holy Theotokos and ever virgin Mary; born under the law, to condemn sin in His flesh, so that those who died in Adam may be brought to life in Him, Your Christ. He lived in this world, and gave us precepts of salvation. Releasing us from the delusions of idolatry, He guided us to the sure knowledge of You, the true God and Father. He acquired us for Himself, as His chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation.
Saint of the Day
– St. Medard, Bishop of Noyon (8 June): Butler’s Lives of the Saints