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20 September 2023 Saints Andrew Kim Taegon, Priest, and Paul Chong Hasang, and their Companions, Martyrs on Wednesday of week 24 in Ordinary Time Roman Catholic shrine built to honor first Korean saint, Bocaue, the Philippines Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: A(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst reading1 Timothy 3:14-16 ©The mystery of our religion is very deepAt the moment of writing to you, I am hoping that I may be with you soon; but in case I should be delayed, I wanted you to know how people ought to behave...

19 September 2023 Tuesday of week 24 in Ordinary Time St Januarius Cathedral, Naples, Italy Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First reading1 Timothy 3:1-13 ©The president must be of impeccable characterHere is a saying that you can rely on: To want to be a presiding elder is to want to do a noble work. That is why the president must have an impeccable character. He must not have been married more than once, and he must be temperate, discreet and courteous, hospitable and a good teacher; not a heavy drinker, nor hot-tempered, but kind and peaceable. He must...

18 September 2023 Monday of week 24 in Ordinary Time Basilica of San Giuseppe da Copertino, Osimo, Italy Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First reading1 Timothy 2:1-8 ©Pray for everyone to God, who wants everyone to be savedMy advice is that, first of all, there should be prayers offered for everyone – petitions, intercessions and thanksgiving – and especially for kings and others in authority, so that we may be able to live religious and reverent lives in peace and quiet. To do this is right, and will please God our saviour: he wants everyone to be saved...

15 December 2022Thursday of the 3rd week of Advent Saint Nino and Nino Cross, Jvari Monastery, Mtskheta, Georgia According to traditional accounts, on this location in the early 4th century Saint Nino credited with converting King Mirian III of Iberia Kingdom to Christianity, erected a large wooden cross on the site of a pagan temple.weepingredorger.wordpress.comReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(I).First readingIsaiah 54:1-10 ©With great love I will take you backShout for joy, you barren women who bore no children!Break into cries of joy and gladness, you who were never in labour!For the sons of the forsaken one are more...

14 December 2022 Saint John of the Cross, Priest, Doctor on Wednesday of the 3rd week of Advent St John Of The Cross Parish, Western Springs IL Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingIsaiah 45:6-8,18,21-25 ©I, the Lord, shall create deliveranceApart from me, all is nothing.I am the Lord, unrivalled,I form the light and create the dark.I make good fortune and create calamity,it is I, the Lord, who do all this.Send victory like a dew, you heavens,and let the clouds rain it down.Let the earth openfor salvation...

Wednesday 2 November 2022All Souls Mission San Juan Capistrano, San Juan Capistrano CA Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet or Black. Year: C(II).(The following psalms and readings are selected from the many options for this day.)First readingWisdom 3:1-9 ©The souls of the virtuous are in the hands of GodThe souls of the virtuous are in the hands of God,no torment shall ever touch them.In the eyes of the unwise, they did appear to die,their going looked like a disaster,their leaving us, like annihilation;but they are in peace.If they experienced punishment as men see it,their hope was rich with immortality;slight was their...

September 13, 2022Saint John Chrysostom, Bishop, Doctor on Tuesday of week 24 in Ordinary Time St. John Chrysostom Byzantine Catholic Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst reading1 Corinthians 12:12-14,27-31 ©You together are Christ's body: each of you a different partJust as a human body, though it is made up of many parts, is a single unit because all these parts, though many, make one body, so it is with Christ. In the one Spirit we were all baptised, Jews as well as Greeks, slaves...

redgreen" size="6">Saint John Chrysostom, Bishop, Doctor on Tuesday of week 24 in Ordinary Time St. John Chrysostom Byzantine Catholic Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst reading1 Corinthians 12:12-14,27-31 ©You together are Christ's body: each of you a different partJust as a human body, though it is made up of many parts, is a single unit because all these parts, though many, make one body, so it is with Christ. In the one Spirit we were all baptised, Jews as well as Greeks, slaves as...

September 12th 2022 Monday of week 24 in ordinary time Church of St. John Nepomuk, ZwierzyniecAutorstwa Łukasz Niemiec - Praca własna, CC BY-SA 4.0 Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green First reading1 Corinthians 11:17-26,33 ©If each one hurries to be first, it is not the Lord's Supper you are eatingOn the subject of instructions, I cannot say that you have done well in holding meetings that do you more harm than good. In the first place, I hear that when you all come together as a community, there are separate factions among you, and I half believe it – since there...

27 August 2022Saint Monica on Saturday of week 21 in Ordinary Time Santa Monica, Whitefish Bay, WI Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst reading1 Corinthians 1:26-31 ©God chose what is foolish by human reckoning, to shame the wiseTake yourselves for instance, brothers, at the time when you were called: how many of you were wise in the ordinary sense of the word, how many were influential people, or came from noble families? No, it was to shame the wise that God chose what is foolish by human...

December 16th, 2021 Underground Catholic Church in China, People's Republic of China Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet First readingIsaiah 54:1-10 ©With great love I will take you backShout for joy, you barren women who bore no children!Break into cries of joy and gladness, you who were never in labour!For the sons of the forsaken one are more in numberthan the sons of the wedded wife, says the Lord.Widen the space of your tent,stretch out your hangings freely,lengthen your ropes, make your pegs firm;for you will burst out to right and to left.Your race will take possession of the nations,and people...

December 15th, 2021 St. Michael's Cathedral, Qingdao, People's Republic of China Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red First readingIsaiah 45:6-8,18,21-25 ©I, the Lord, shall create deliveranceApart from me, all is nothing.I am the Lord, unrivalled,I form the light and create the dark.I make good fortune and create calamity,it is I, the Lord, who do all this.Send victory like a dew, you heavens,and let the clouds rain it down.Let the earth openfor salvation to spring up.Let deliverance, too, bud forthwhich I, the Lord, shall create.Yes, thus says the Lord,creator of the heavens,who is God,who formed the earth and made it,who set it...

September 13th , 2021Memorial of St. John Chrysostom Parish of St. John Chrysostom, Madrid, Spain Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst reading1 Timothy 2:1-8 ©Pray for everyone to God, who wants everyone to be savedMy advice is that, first of all, there should be prayers offered for everyone – petitions, intercessions and thanksgiving – and especially for kings and others in authority, so that we may be able to live religious and reverent lives in peace and quiet. To do this is right, and will please God our...

August 27th , 2021 St. Monica, Indianapolis Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White Readings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst reading1 Thessalonians 4:1-8 ©What God wants is for you all to be holyBrothers, we urge you and appeal to you in the Lord Jesus to make more and more progress in the kind of life that you are meant to live: the life that God wants, as you learnt from us, and as you are already living it. You have not forgotten the instructions we gave you on the authority of the Lord Jesus. What God wants is...

December 16 2020 Wednesday of the Third Week of Advent St Mary Magdalene Church, Brighton, UK Lectionary 189Reading 1 IS 45:6C-8, 18, 21C-25 I am the LORD, there is no other; I form the light, and create the darkness, I make well-being and create woe; I, the LORD, do all these things. Let justice descend, O heavens, like dew from above, like gentle rain let the skies drop it down. Let the earth open and salvation bud forth; let justice also spring up! I, the LORD, have created this.For thus says the LORD, The creator of the heavens, who is...

September 17, 2020 Thursday of the Twenty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time Reading 1 1 COR 15:1-11 I am reminding you, brothers and sisters,of the Gospel I preached to you,which you indeed received and in which you also stand.Through it you are also being saved,if you hold fast to the word I preached to you,unless you believed in vain.For I handed on to you as of first importance what I also received:that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures;that he was buried;that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures;that he appeared to Cephas,...

September 16, 2020 Memorial of Saints Cornelius, Pope, and Cyprian, Bishop, Martyrs Reading 1 1 COR 12:31-13:13 Brothers and sisters: Strive eagerly for the greatest spiritual gifts. But I shall show you a still more excellent way. If I speak in human and angelic tongues but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away everything I own, and...

September 19 2019 Thursday of the Twenty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time Reading 1 1 Tm 4:12-16 Beloved:Let no one have contempt for your youth,but set an example for those who believe,in speech, conduct, love, faith, and purity.Until I arrive, attend to the reading, exhortation, and teaching.Do not neglect the gift you have,which was conferred on you through the prophetic wordwith the imposition of hands by the presbyterate.Be diligent in these matters, be absorbed in them,so that your progress may be evident to everyone.Attend to yourself and to your teaching;persevere in both tasks,for by doing so you will save both...

September 18 2019 Wednesday of the Twenty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time Reading 1 1 Tm 3:14-16 Beloved:I am writing you,although I hope to visit you soon.But if I should be delayed,you should know how to behave in the household of God,which is the Church of the living God,the pillar and foundation of truth.Undeniably great is the mystery of devotion, Who was manifested in the flesh,vindicated in the spirit,seen by angels,proclaimed to the Gentiles,believed in throughout the world,taken up in glory. Responsorial Psalm Ps 111:1-2, 3-4, 5-6 R.(2) How great are the works of the Lord!I will give thanks to...

September 17 2019 Tuesday of the Twenty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time Reading 1 1 Tm 3:1-13 Beloved, this saying is trustworthy:whoever aspires to the office of bishop desires a noble task.Therefore, a bishop must be irreproachable,married only once, temperate, self-controlled,decent, hospitable, able to teach,not a drunkard, not aggressive, but gentle,not contentious, not a lover of money.He must manage his own household well,keeping his children under control with perfect dignity;for if a man does not know how to manage his own household,how can he take care of the Church of God?He should not be a recent convert,so that he may...