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2 December 2023 Saturday of week 34 in Ordinary Time Church of Santa Bibiana – Rome Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingDaniel 7:15-27 ©His sovereignty will be an eternal sovereigntyI, Daniel, was deeply disturbed and the visions that passed through my head alarmed me. So I approached one of those who were standing by and asked him to tell me the truth about all this. And in reply he revealed to me what these things meant. “These four great beasts are four kings who will rise from the earth. Those who are granted sovereignty are the saints...

1 December 2023 Friday of week 34 in Ordinary Time The Church of Sant' Eligio degli Orefici, Rome Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingDaniel 7:2-14 ©'I saw, coming on the clouds of heaven, one like a son of man'I, Daniel, have been seeing visions in the night. I saw that the four winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea; four great beasts emerged from the sea, each different from the other. The first was like a lion with eagle’s wings; and as I looked its wings were torn off, and it was lifted from the ground...

29 November 2023 Wednesday of week 34 in Ordinary Time basilica Saint-Sernin of Toulouse Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingDaniel 5:1-6,13-14,16-17,23-28 ©The writing on the wallKing Belshazzar gave a great banquet for his noblemen; a thousand of them attended, and he drank wine in company with this thousand. As he sipped his wine, Belshazzar gave orders for the gold and silver vessels to be brought which his father Nebuchadnezzar had looted from the sanctuary in Jerusalem, so that the king, his noblemen, his wives and his singing women could drink out of them. The gold and silver vessels...

28 November 2023 3 Tuesday of week 34 in Ordinary Time St. Catherine Labouré Catholic Church, Glenview, IL Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingDaniel 2:31-45 ©Daniel interprets Nebuchadnezzar's dreamDaniel said to Nebuchadnezzar, ‘You have had a vision, O king; this is what you saw: a statue, a great statue of extreme brightness, stood before you, terrible to see. The head of this statue was of fine gold, its chest and arms were of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, its legs of iron, its feet part iron, part earthenware. While you were gazing, a stone broke...

27 November 2023 Monday of week 34 in Ordinary Time The parish church of St. Virgil, Rattenberg, AustriaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingDaniel 1:1-6,8-20 ©Daniel and his companions are trained to be the king's servants in BabylonIn the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched on Jerusalem and besieged it. The Lord delivered Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hands, with some of the furnishings of the Temple of God. He took them away to the land of Shinar, and stored the sacred vessels in the treasury of his own...

27 November 2022 1st Sunday of Advent Parish Church of Saint Virgil, Rattenberg, Austria Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(I).First readingIsaiah 2:1-5 ©The Lord gathers all nations together into the eternal peace of God's kingdomThe vision of Isaiah son of Amoz, concerning Judah and Jerusalem.In the days to comethe mountain of the Temple of the Lordshall tower above the mountainsand be lifted higher than the hills.All the nations will stream to it,peoples without number will come to it; and they will say: ‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the Temple of the God...

26th November 2022Saturday of Week 34 in Ordinary time Church of St Catherine of Alexandria, Bethlehelm, Israel Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green First readingApocalypse 22:1-7 ©The Lord God will shine on them; it will never be night againThe angel showed me, John, the river of life, rising from the throne of God and of the Lamb and flowing crystal-clear down the middle of the city street. On either side of the river were the trees of life, which bear twelve crops of fruit in a year, one in each month, and the leaves of which are the cure for the...

25 November 2022Friday of week 34 in Ordinary Time St. Catherine of Alexandria Catholic Church Temecula, CA Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(II).First readingApocalypse 20:1-4,11-21:2 ©The book of life was opened, and the dead were judgedI, John, saw an angel come down from heaven with the key of the Abyss in his hand and an enormous chain. He overpowered the dragon, that primeval serpent which is the devil and Satan, and chained him up for a thousand years. He threw him into the Abyss, and shut the entrance and sealed it over him, to make sure he would not...

23 November 2022Wednesday of week 34 in Ordinary Time St. Clement of Rome Basilica, Rome Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(II).First readingApocalypse 15:1-4 ©The victors sang the hymn of Moses and of the LambWhat I, John, saw in heaven was a great and wonderful sign: seven angels were bringing the seven plagues that are the last of all, because they exhaust the anger of God. I seemed to see a glass lake suffused with fire, and standing by the lake of glass, those who had fought against the beast and won, and against his statue and the number which...

22 November 2022Saint Cecilia, Virgin, Martyr on Tuesday of week 34 in Ordinary Time St. Cecilia Catholic Church West Portal, San Francisco Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: C(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingApocalypse 14:14-19 ©The harvest and the vintage of the earth are ripeIn my vision I, John, saw a white cloud and, sitting on it, one like a son of man with a gold crown on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. Then another angel came out of the sanctuary, and shouted aloud to the one sitting...

21 November 2022The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Monday of week 34 in Ordinary Time Presentation Catholic Church, Marietta Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingApocalypse 14:1-5 ©The redeemed have Christ and his Father's name written on their foreheadsIn my vision I, John, saw Mount Zion, and standing on it a Lamb who had with him a hundred and forty-four thousand people, all with his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads. I heard a sound coming out of the sky like the...

13th November 202233rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Metropolitan Cathedral, Mexico city Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green First readingMalachi 3:19-20 ©For you the sun of righteousness will shine outThe day is coming now, burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and the evil-doers will be like stubble. The day that is coming is going to burn them up, says the Lord of Hosts, leaving them neither root nor stalk. But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness will shine out with healing in its rays.Responsorial PsalmPsalm 97(98):5-9 ©The Lord comes to rule the peoples with fairness.Sing psalms...

November 23rd, 2021 Feast of Christ the King Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption, Covington, Kentucky Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green First readingJeremiah 33:14-16 ©I will make a virtuous Branch grow for DavidSee, the days are coming – it is the Lord who speaks – when I am going to fulfil the promise I made to the House of Israel and the House of Judah:‘In those days and at that time,I will make a virtuous Branch grow for David,who shall practise honesty and integrity in the land.In those days Judah shall be savedand Israel shall dwell in confidence.And this is the...

November 27, 2021 Saturday of week 34 in Ordinary Time Cathedral Sts. Virgil & Rupert, Salzburg Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingDaniel 7:15-27 ©His sovereignty will be an eternal sovereigntyI, Daniel, was deeply disturbed and the visions that passed through my head alarmed me. So I approached one of those who were standing by and asked him to tell me the truth about all this. And in reply he revealed to me what these things meant. “These four great beasts are four kings who will rise from the earth. Those who are granted sovereignty are the saints of the Most...

November 26, 2021 Friday of week 34 in Ordinary Time Saint John Berchmans Cathedral, Shreveport, Louisiana Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingDaniel 7:2-14 ©'I saw, coming on the clouds of heaven, one like a son of man'I, Daniel, have been seeing visions in the night. I saw that the four winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea; four great beasts emerged from the sea, each different from the other. The first was like a lion with eagle’s wings; and as I looked its wings were torn off, and it was lifted from the ground and set standing on...

November 25, 2021 Thursday of week 34 in Ordinary TimeThanksgiving in the USA Saint Catherine Church in Tabán, Budapest Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingDaniel 6:12-28 ©Daniel in the lions' denThe presidents and satraps came along in a body and found Daniel praying and pleading with God. They then came to the king and said, ‘Have you not just signed an edict forbidding any man for the next thirty days to pray to anyone, god or man, other than to yourself O king, on pain of being thrown into the lions’ den?’ ‘The decision stands,’ the king replied ‘as befits...

November 23rd, 2021 Memorial of St. Clement I and Bl. Miguel Pro Rabban Hormizd Chaldean Catholic monastery, Mosul, Iraq Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green First readingDaniel 2:31-45 ©Daniel interprets Nebuchadnezzar's dreamDaniel said to Nebuchadnezzar, ‘You have had a vision, O king; this is what you saw: a statue, a great statue of extreme brightness, stood before you, terrible to see. The head of this statue was of fine gold, its chest and arms were of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, its legs of iron, its feet part iron, part earthenware. While you were gazing, a stone broke away,...

November 21st, 2021 Memorial of Blessed Baldji Oghlou Ohannes Christians Catholic Church, Khuzestan province, Iran Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingDaniel 1:1-6,8-20 ©Daniel and his companions are trained to be the king's servants in BabylonIn the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched on Jerusalem and besieged it. The Lord delivered Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hands, with some of the furnishings of the Temple of God. He took them away to the land of Shinar, and stored...

November 28 2020St. Stephen’s Cathedral – Vienna, Austria Saturday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time Reading 1 RV 22:1-7John said: An angel showed me the river of life-giving water, sparkling like crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the street, On either side of the river grew the tree of life that produces fruit twelve times a year, once each month; the leaves of the trees serve as medicine for the nations. Nothing accursed will be found anymore. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and...

November 27 2020 Altar of the Franciscan church in Józefów Friday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary TimeLectionary: 507Reading 1 RV 20:1-4, 11—21:2I, John, saw an angel come down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the abyss and a heavy chain. He seized the dragon, the ancient serpent, which is the Devil or Satan, and tied it up for a thousand years and threw it into the abyss, which he locked over it and sealed, so that it could no longer lead the nations astray until the thousand years are completed. After this, it is to be...