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30 September 2023 Saint Jerome, Priest, Doctor on Saturday of week 25 in Ordinary Time St. Jerome Church in Walbridge, OhioReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingZechariah 2:5-9,14-15 ©'I will be the glory of Jerusalem'Raising my eyes, I saw a vision. It was this: there was a man with a measuring line in his hand. I asked him, ‘Where are you going?’ He said, ‘To measure Jerusalem, to find out her breadth and her length.’ And then, while the angel who was talking to me stood...

4 August 2023 Saint John Mary Vianney, Priest on Friday of week 17 in Ordinary Time Heart of St John Vianney on altar of St Catherine of Siena Parish Church, Trumbull, CTReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingLeviticus 23:1,4-11,15-16,27,34-37 ©The law of the festivals of the LordThe Lord spoke to Moses. He said: ‘These are the Lord’s solemn festivals, the sacred assemblies to which you are to summon the sons of Israel on the appointed day. ‘The fourteenth day of the first month, between the two evenings,...

3 August 2023 Thursday of week 17 in Ordinary Time The parish of Ramle, dedicated to St Joseph Arimathea and St Nicodemus Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingExodus 40:16-21,34-38 ©The tabernacle is set upMoses did exactly as the Lord had directed him. The tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month in the second year. Moses erected the tabernacle. He fixed the sockets for it, put up its frames, put its crossbars in position, set up its posts. He spread the tent over the tabernacle and on top of this the covering for...

2 August 2023 Wednesday of week 17 in Ordinary Time St Peter Julian’s Church, SydneyReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingExodus 34:29-35 ©Moses passes on to the people the orders given by the LordWhen Moses came down from the mountain of Sinai – as he came down from the mountain, Moses had the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands – he did not know that the skin on his face was radiant after speaking with the Lord. And when Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses, the skin on his face shone so much...

1 August 2023 Saint Alphonsus Mary de' Liguori, Bishop, Doctor on Tuesday of week 17 in Ordinary Time Church of St. Alphonsus Liguori, Rome Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingExodus 33:7-11,34:5-9,28 ©'They are a headstrong people; but forgive us our faults'Moses used to take the Tent and pitch it outside the camp, at some distance from the camp. He called it the Tent of Meeting. Anyone who had to consult the Lord would go out to the Tent of Meeting, outside the camp. Whenever Moses...

31 July 2023 Saint Ignatius Loyola, Priest on Monday of week 17 in Ordinary TimeWorship - Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, NYCReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingExodus 32:15-24,30-34 ©The golden calfMoses made his way back down the mountain with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands, tablets inscribed on both sides, inscribed on the front and on the back. These tablets were the work of God, and the writing on them was God’s writing engraved on the tablets. Joshua heard the noise of...

30 July 2023 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time The Chapel of St Peter Chrysologus in Ravenna Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First reading1 Kings 3:5,7-12 ©Solomon chooses the gift of wisdomThe Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream and said, ‘Ask what you would like me to give you.’ Solomon replied, ‘O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in succession to David my father. But I am a very young man, unskilled in leadership. Your servant finds himself in the midst of this people of yours that you have chosen, a people so many its...

28 July 2023 Friday of week 16 in Ordinary Time Interior of the Transfiguration Cathedral in Odesa, damaged by a Russian missile Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingExodus 20:1-17 ©The Law given at SinaiGod spoke all these words. He said, ‘I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. ‘You shall have no gods except me. ‘You shall not make yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything in heaven or on earth beneath or in the waters under the earth; you shall not...

27 July 2023 Thursday of week 16 in Ordinary Time St. Pantaleone Cathedral, Ravello, Italy Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingExodus 19:1-2,9-11,16-20 ©Moses speaks with God on SinaiThree months after they came out of the land of Egypt, on that day the sons of Israel came to the wilderness of Sinai. From Rephidim they set out again; and when they reached the wilderness of Sinai, there in the wilderness they pitched their camp; there facing the mountain Israel pitched camp. The Lord said to Moses, ‘I am coming to you in a dense cloud so that the people...

26 July 2023 Saint Joachim and Saint Anne, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Wednesday of week 16 in Ordinary Time Ss. Joachim & Anne Parish, Queens Village NY Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingExodus 16:1-5,9-15 ©The Lord sends quails and manna from heavenFrom Elim they set out, and the whole community of the sons of Israel reached the wilderness of Sin – between Elim and Sinai – on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had left Egypt. And the whole...

23 July 202316th Sunday in Ordinary TimeAmber altar in the St. Bridget's Church of GdańskReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingWisdom 12:13,16-19 ©You will grant repentance after sinThere is no god, other than you, who cares for every thing,to whom you might have to prove that you never judged unjustly.Your justice has its source in strength,your sovereignty over all makes you lenient to all.You show your strength when your sovereign power is questionedand you expose the insolence of those who know it;but, disposing of such strength, you are mild in judgement,you govern us with great lenience,for you have only...

16 July 202315th Sunday in Ordinary TimeBasilica of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Valletta, MaltaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingIsaiah 55:10-11 ©The word that goes out from my mouth does not return to me emptyThus says the Lord: ‘As the rain and the snow come down from the heavens and do not return without watering the earth, making it yield and giving growth to provide seed for the sower and bread for the eating, so the word that goes from my mouth does not return to me empty, without carrying out my will and succeeding in what it...

21 January 2023Saint Agnes, Virgin, Martyr on Saturday of week 2 in Ordinary Time St. Agnes Parish, Arlington, Va. Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: A(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingHebrews 9:2-3,11-14 ©He has entered the sanctuary once and for all through his own bloodThere was a tent which comprised two compartments: the first, in which the lamp stand, the table and the presentation loaves were kept, was called the Holy Place; then beyond the second veil, an innermost part which was called the Holy of Holies. But now Christ has come,...

30 September 2022Saint Jerome, Priest, Doctor on Friday of week 26 in Ordinary Time St. Jerome Parish - Rogers Park - Chicago, IL Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingJob 38:1,12-21,40:3-5 ©The immeasurable greatness of GodFrom the heart of the tempest the Lord gave Job his answer. He said:Have you ever in your life given orders to the morning or sent the dawn to its post,telling it to grasp the earth by its edges and shake the wicked out of it,when it changes the earth to sealing...

28 July 2022Thursday of week 17 in Ordinary Time St. Andrew church, Lviv, Ukraine Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(II).First readingJeremiah 18:1-6 ©When the clay goes wrong, the potter starts afreshThe word that was addressed to Jeremiah by the Lord, ‘Get up and make your way down to the potter’s house; there I shall let you hear what I have to say.’ So I went down to the potter’s house; and there he was, working at the wheel. And whenever the vessel he was making came out wrong, as happens with the clay handled by potters, he would start...

27 July 2022Wednesday of week 17 in Ordinary Time St. Mary's Assumption and St. Pantaleon Cathedral, Ravello, Italy Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(II).First readingJeremiah 15:10,16-21 ©They will not overcome you, because I am with you‘Woe is me, my mother, for you have borne meto be a man of strife and of dissension for all the land.I neither lend nor borrow,yet all of them curse me.‘When your words came, I devoured them:your word was my delightand the joy of my heart;for I was called by your name,Lord, God of Hosts.I never took pleasure in sitting in scoffers’ company;with your...

26 July 2022Saint Joachim and Saint Anne,parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Tuesday of week 17 in Ordinary Time Sts. Anne & Joachim Catholic Church, Fargo Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingJeremiah 14:17-22 ©We confess our wickedness; you, God, are our hopeThe Lord said to me:Say this word to the people:‘Tears flood my eyesnight and day, unceasingly,since a crushing blow falls on the daughter of my people,a most grievous injury.If I go into the countryside,there lie men killed by the sword;if I go into the...

July 23 2022 St. Bridget of Sweden St. Michael's church, Birmingham Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green First readingJeremiah 7:1-11 ©Reform your behaviour and I will stay here with you, says the LordThe word that was addressed to Jeremiah by the Lord: ‘Go and stand at the gate of the Temple of the Lord and there proclaim this message. Say, “Listen to the word of the Lord, all you men of Judah who come in by these gates to worship the Lord. The Lord Sabaoth, the God of Israel, says this: Amend your behaviour and your actions and I will stay...

21 July 2022Thursday of week 16 in Ordinary Time St. Lawrence of Brindisi Catholic Church, Waskom, TX Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(II).First readingJeremiah 2:1-3,7-8,12-13 ©I brought you to a fertile country and you defiled itThe word of the Lord was addressed to me, saying, ‘Go and shout this in the hearing of Jerusalem:‘“The Lord says this:I remember the affection of your youth,the love of your bridal days:you followed me through the wilderness,through a land unsown.Israel was sacred to the Lord,the first-fruits of his harvest;anyone who ate of this had to pay for it,misfortune came to them –it is...

20 July 2022Wednesday of week 16 in Ordinary Time Holy Trinity Church, Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(II).First readingJeremiah 1:1,4-10 ©Go and say whatever I command you and do not fearThe words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, of a priestly family living at Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin. The word of the Lord was addressed to me, saying,‘Before I formed you in the womb I knew you;before you came to birth I consecrated you;I have appointed you as prophet to the nations.’I said, ‘Ah, Lord; look, I do not know how to speak: I am a...