1 June 2026 (Monday) | Saint Justin, Martyr on Monday of week 9 in Ordinary Time | Memorial of Saint Justin, Martyr | Saint Justin, Martyr Obligatory Memorial (Ninth Week in Ordinary Time)

1 June 2026 (Monday)

Saint Justin, Martyr on Monday of week 9 in Ordinary Time.
Memorial of Saint Justin, Martyr.

Saint Justin, Martyr Obligatory Memorial (Ninth Week in Ordinary Time).

Readings from the Bible of the Roman Catholic Church:

First Reading: 2 Peter 1: 2-7
Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 90(91):1‐2,14‐16
Gospel acclamation: Alleluia: Revelation 1: 5ab
Gospel: Mark 12: 1-12
Liturgical year 2026 (Cycle A/II)
Liturgical color: Red.

First Reading : 2 Peter 1:2‐7

(Reader) A reading from the second Letter of Saint Peter.

May you have more and more grace and peace as you come to know our Lord more and more.
  By his divine power, he has given us all the things that we need for life and for true devotion, bringing us to know God himself, who has called us by his own glory and goodness. In making these gifts, he has given us the guarantee of something very great and wonderful to come: through them you will be able to share the divine nature and to escape corruption in a world that is sunk in vice. But to attain this, you will have to do your utmost yourselves, adding goodness to the faith that you have, understanding to your goodness, self‐control to your understanding, patience to your self‐control, true devotion to your patience, kindness towards your fellow men to your devotion, and, to this kindness, love.

(Reader) The Word of the Lord.
(All) Thanks be to God.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 90(91):1‐2,14‐16

My God, in you I trust.
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High
  and abides in the shade of the Almighty
says to the Lord: ‘My refuge,
  my stronghold, my God in whom I trust!’
My God, in you I trust.
His love he set on me, so I will rescue him;
  protect him for he knows my name.
When he calls I shall answer: ‘I am with you.’
My God, in you I trust.
I will save him in distress and give him glory.
  With length of life I will content him;
  I shall let him see my saving power.
My God, in you I trust.

Gospel acclamation: Alleluia: Revelation 1: 5ab
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
5ab Jesus Christ, you are the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead; you have loved us and freed us from our sins by your Blood.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
9. How much more can we be sure, therefore, that, now that we have been justified by his death, we shall be saved through him from the retribution of God (Romans 5:9).
4. Thus he chose us in Christ before the world was made to be holy and faultless before him in love, 5. marking us out for himself beforehand, to be adopted sons, through Jesus Christ. Such was his purpose and good pleasure, 6. to the praise of the glory of his grace, his free gift to us in the Beloved, 7. in whom, through his blood, we gain our freedom, the forgiveness of our sins. Such is the richness of the grace 8. which he has showered on us in all wisdom and insight (Ephesians 1:4-7).
18. For you know that the price of your ransom from the futile way of life handed down from your ancestors was paid, not in anything perishable like silver or gold, 19. but in precious blood as of a blameless and spotless lamb, Christ (1 Peter 1:18-19).
11. But now Christ has come, as the high priest of all the blessings which were to come. He has passed through the greater, the more perfect tent, not made by human hands, that is, not of this created order; 12. and he has entered the sanctuary once and for all, taking with him not the blood of goats and bull calves, but his own blood, having won an eternal redemption. Hebrews 9:11-12).

Gospel : Mark 12:1‐12

(Reader) A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark.
(All) Glory to you, O Lord.

Jesus began to speak to the chief priests, the scribes and the elders in parables: ‘A man planted a vineyard; he fenced it round, dug out a trough for the winepress and built a tower; then he leased it to tenants and went abroad. When the time came, he sent a servant to the tenants to collect from them his share of the produce from the vineyard. But they seized the man, thrashed him and sent him away empty‐handed. Next he sent another servant to them; him they beat about the head and treated shamefully. And he sent another and him they killed; then a number of others, and they thrashed some and killed the rest. He had still someone left: his beloved son. He sent him to them last of all. “They will respect my son” he said. But those tenants said to each other, “This is the heir. Come on, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.” So they seized him and killed him and threw him out of the vineyard. Now what will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and make an end of the tenants and give the vineyard to others. Have you not read this text of scripture:
It was the stone rejected by the builders
that became the keystone.
This was the Lord’s doing
and it is wonderful to see?
And they would have liked to arrest him, because they realised that the parable was aimed at them, but they were afraid of the crowds. So they left him alone and went away.

(Reader) The Gospel of the Lord.
(All) Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

For our reflection today:

The words of the Popes.

These are words that call to mind the great responsibility of those in every epoch who are called to work in the Lord’s vineyard, especially in roles of authority, and they press for a renewal of full fidelity to Christ.

He is “the very stone which the builders rejected” (cf. Mt 21:42), because they judged him to be hostile to the law and a danger to public order; but he himself, rejected and crucified, is risen, to become the “corner stone” on which the foundations of every human life and of the whole world may rest in total safety.

The truth of this is the subject of the Parable of the Unfaithful Tenants to whom a man entrusted his vineyard so that they might cultivate and harvest the produce. The owner of the vineyard symbolizes God himself, while the vineyard symbolizes his people, as well as the life he gives, so that with his grace and our hard work, we may do good. St Augustine comments: “God does also cultivate us as a field, that he may make us better” (cf. Sermo 87, 1, 2: PL 38, 531). God has a project for his friends. Firmly anchored in faith to the cornerstone which is Christ, let us abide in him, like the branch that can bear no fruit unless it remains attached to the vine. The Church, the People of the New Covenant, is built only in him, for him and with him. (Pope Benedict XVI, Angelus, 2 October 2011)

Jonathan Fabian Ginunggil,
Pelayan Atasan Tertinggi / Most High Servant,
Yesus, Maria, Yusuf Pelayanan Kasih / Jesus, Mary, Joseph Ministry of Love 
(Blessed and Saints and the Nine Choirs of Angels)

My vocation is Blessed and Saints.

"I am the most humble of all the Saints in Heaven" Mary, Mother of God."

"I am the handmaid of the Lord, said Mary ‘let what you have said be done to me."

Mother Mary is the most humble Saint in Heaven and she is also the Mother of God for us all
(Luke 1:38)