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September 18, 2009                               Friday of the Twenty-fourth Week                             in Ordinary Time   Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 11 Tm 6:2c-12 Beloved:Teach and urge these things.Whoever teaches something differentand does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christand the religious teachingis conceited, understanding nothing,and has a morbid disposition for arguments and verbal disputes.From these come envy, rivalry, insults, evil suspicions,and mutual friction among people with corrupted minds,who are deprived of the truth,supposing religion to be a means of gain.Indeed, religion with contentment is a great gain.For we brought nothing into the world,just...

September 17, 2009                                 Thursday of the Twenty-fourth Week                                 in Ordinary Time   Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 11 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...

September 16, 2009                        Memorial of Saint Cornelius, pope and martyr,                         and Saint Cyprian, bishop and martyr     Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 11 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 PsalmPs 111:1-2, 3-4, 5-6...

September 15, 2009                                 Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows   Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 11 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...

September 14, 2009                                 Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Nm 21:4b-9 With their patience worn out by the journey,the people complained against God and Moses,“Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in this desert,where there is no food or water?We are disgusted with this wretched food!” In punishment the LORD sent among the people saraph serpents,which bit the people so that many of them died.Then the people came to Moses and said,“We have sinned in complaining against the LORD and you.Pray the...

September 13, 2009                                 Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time   Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Is 50:5-9a The Lord GOD opens my ear that I may hear;and I have not rebelled,have not turned back.I gave my back to those who beat me,my cheeks to those who plucked my beard;my face I did not shieldfrom buffets and spitting. The Lord GOD is my help,therefore I am not disgraced;I have set my face like flint,knowing that I shall not be put to shame.He is near who upholds my right;if anyone wishes to oppose me,let us...

September 12, 2009                             Saturday of the Twenty-third Week                                 in Ordinary Time Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 11 Tm 1:15-17 Beloved:This saying is trustworthy and deserves full acceptance:Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.Of these I am the foremost.But for that reason I was mercifully treated,so that in me, as the foremost,Christ Jesus might display all his patience as an examplefor those who would come to believe in him for everlasting life. To the king of ages, incorruptible, invisible, the only God,honor and glory forever...

September 11, 2009                                 Friday of the Twenty-third Week                             in Ordinary Time     Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 11 Tm 1:1-2, 12-14 Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus by command of God our saviorand of Christ Jesus our hope,to Timothy, my true child in faith:grace, mercy, and peace from God the Fatherand Christ Jesus our Lord. I am grateful to him who has strengthened me, Christ Jesus our Lord,because he considered me trustworthyin appointing me to the ministry.I was once a blasphemer and a persecutor and...

September 10, 2009                                 Thursday of the Twenty-third Week                             in Ordinary Time   Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Col 3:12-17 Brothers and sisters:Put on, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved,heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience,bearing with one another and forgiving one another,if one has a grievance against another;as the Lord has forgiven you, so must you also do.And over all these put on love,that is, the bond of perfection.And let the peace of Christ control your hearts,the peace into which you were also called in...

September 9, 2009                             Wednesday of the Twenty-third Week                         in Ordinary Time Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Col 3:1-11 Brothers and sisters:If you were raised with Christ, seek what is above,where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.Think of what is above, not of what is on earth.For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.When Christ your life appears,then you too will appear with him in glory. Put to death, then, the parts of you that are earthly:immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire,and...

September 8, 2009                                     Feast of the Nativity of the                                     Blessed Virgin Mary Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Mi 5:1-4a or Rom 8:28-30 The LORD says:You, Bethlehem-Ephrathah,too small to be among the clans of Judah,From you shall come forth for meone who is to be ruler in Israel;Whose origin is from of old,from ancient times.(Therefore the Lord will give them up, until the timewhen she who is to give birth has borne,And the rest of his brethren shall returnto the children of Israel.)He shall...

September 7, 2009                                 Monday of the Twenty-third Week                             in Ordinary Time       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Col 1:24–2:3 Brothers and sisters:I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake,and in my flesh I am filling upwhat is lacking in the afflictions of Christon behalf of his Body, which is the Church,of which I am a ministerin accordance with God’s stewardship given to meto bring to completion for you the word of God,the mystery hidden from ages and from generations past.But now it has been...

September 6, 2009                                 Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Is 35:4-7a Thus says the LORD:Say to those whose hearts are frightened:Be strong, fear not!Here is your God,he comes with vindication;with divine recompensehe comes to save you.Then will the eyes of the blind be opened,the ears of the deaf be cleared;then will the lame leap like a stag,then the tongue of the mute will sing.Streams will burst forth in the desert,and rivers in the steppe.The burning sands will become pools, and the thirsty ground, springs of water. Responsorial PsalmPs...

September 5, 2009                                 Saturday of the Twenty-second Week                                 in Ordinary Time       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Col 1:21-23 Brothers and sisters:You once were alienated and hostile in mind because of evil deeds;God has now reconciled youin the fleshly Body of Christ through his death,to present you holy, without blemish,and irreproachable before him,provided that you persevere in the faith,firmly grounded, stable,and not shifting from the hope of the Gospel that you heard,which has been preached to every creature under heaven,of which I, Paul,...

September 4, 2009                                 Friday of the Twenty-second Week                                   in Ordinary Time     Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Col 1:15-20 Brothers and sisters:Christ Jesus is the image of the invisible God,the firstborn of all creation.For in him were created all things in heaven and on earth,the visible and the invisible,whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers;all things were created through him and for him.He is before all things,and in him all things hold together.He is the head of the Body, the Church.He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead,that in all...

September 3, 2009                                     Memorial of Saint Gregory the Great,                                     Pope and Doctor of the Church       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Col 1:9-14 Brothers and sisters:From the day we heard about you, we do not cease praying for youand asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of God’s willthrough all spiritual wisdom and understandingto walk in a manner worthy of the Lord,so as to be fully pleasing, in every good work bearing fruitand growing in the knowledge of God,strengthened...

September 2, 2009                                 Wednesday of the Twenty-second Week                                 in Ordinary Time       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Col 1:1-8 Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God,and Timothy our brother, to the holy ones and faithful brothers and sisters in Christ in Colossae:grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,when we pray for you,for we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesusand the love that...

September 1, 2009                                    Tuesday of the Twenty-second Week                             in Ordinary Time Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 11 Thes 5:1-6, 9-11 Concerning times and seasons, brothers and sisters,you have no need for anything to be written to you.For you yourselves know very wellthat the day of the Lord will come like a thief at night.When people are saying, “Peace and security,”then sudden disaster comes upon them,like labor pains upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. But you, brothers and sisters, are not in darkness,for that day to overtake you like a thief.For all...

August 31, 2009                                Monday of the Twenty-Second Week                            in Ordinary Time Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 11 Thes 4:13-18 We do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters,about those who have fallen asleep,so that you may not grieve like the rest, who have no hope.For if we believe that Jesus died and rose,so too will God, through Jesus,bring with him those who have fallen asleep.Indeed, we tell you this, on the word of the Lord,that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of...

August 30, 2009                               Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time     Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Dt 4:1-2, 6-8 Moses said to the people:“Now, Israel, hear the statutes and decreeswhich I am teaching you to observe,that you may live, and may enter in and take possession of the landwhich the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you. In your observance of the commandments of the LORD, your God,which I enjoin upon you,you shall not add to what I command you nor subtract from it. Observe them carefully,for thus will you give evidenceof...

August 29, 2009                                 Memorial of the Martyrdom                                 of Saint John the Baptist Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 11 Thes 4:9-11 Brothers and sisters:On the subject of fraternal charityyou have no need for anyone to write you,for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.Indeed, you do this for all the brothers throughout Macedonia.Nevertheless we urge you, brothers and sisters, to progress even more,and to aspire to live a tranquil life,to mind your own affairs,and to work with your own hands,as we instructed...

August 28, 2009                                     Memorial of Saint Augustine,                                     Bishop and Doctor of the Church     Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 11 Thes 4:1-8 Brothers and sisters,we earnestly ask and exhort you in the Lord Jesus that,as you received from ushow you should conduct yourselves to please God– and as you are conducting yourselves– you do so even more.For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus. This is the will of God, your holiness:that you refrain from immorality,that each of you know how to acquire a wife for...

August 27, 2009                                     Memorial of Saint Monica     Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 11 Thes 3:7-13 We have been reassured about you, brothers and sisters,in our every distress and affliction, through your faith.For we now live, if you stand firm in the Lord. What thanksgiving, then, can we render to God for you,for all the joy we feel on your account before our God?Night and day we pray beyond measure to see you in personand to remedy the deficiencies of your faith.Now may God himself, our Father, and our Lord Jesusdirect...

August 26, 2009                                 Wednesday of the Twenty-first Week                                 in Ordinary Time Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 11 Thes 2:9-13 You recall, brothers and sisters, our toil and drudgery.Working night and day in order not to burden any of you,we proclaimed to you the Gospel of God.You are witnesses, and so is God,how devoutly and justly and blamelesslywe behaved toward you believers.As you know, we treated each one of you as a father treats his children,exhorting and encouraging you and insistingthat you walk in a manner...

August 25, 2009                                 Tuesday of the Twenty-first Week                                 in Ordinary Time Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 11 Thes 2:1-8 You yourselves know, brothers and sisters,that our reception among you was not without effect.Rather, after we had suffered and been insolently treated,as you know, in Philippi,we drew courage through our Godto speak to you the Gospel of God with much struggle.Our exhortation was not from delusion or impure motives,nor did it work through deception.But as we were judged worthy by God to be entrusted with the...

August 24, 2009                                 Feast of Saint Bartholomew, Apostle Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Rv 21:9b-14 The angel spoke to me, saying,“Come here.I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”He took me in spirit to a great, high mountainand showed me the holy city Jerusalemcoming down out of heaven from God.It gleamed with the splendor of God.Its radiance was like that of a precious stone,like jasper, clear as crystal.It had a massive, high wall,with twelve gates where twelve angels were stationedand on which names were inscribed,the names of the twelve tribes...

August 23, 2009                                 Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time   Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Jos 24:1-2a, 15-17, 18b Joshua gathered together all the tribes of Israel at Shechem,summoning their elders, their leaders,their judges, and their officers. When they stood in ranks before God,Joshua addressed all the people:“If it does not please you to serve the LORD,decide today whom you will serve,the gods your fathers served beyond the Riveror the gods of the Amorites in whose country you are now dwelling. As for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.” But...

August 22, 2009                                     Memorial of the Queenship of the                             Blessed Virgin Mary   Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Ru 2:1-3, 8-11; 4:13-17 Naomi had a prominent kinsman named Boaz,of the clan of her husband Elimelech.Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi,“Let me go and glean ears of grain in the fieldof anyone who will allow me that favor.”Naomi said to her, “Go, my daughter,” and she went.The field she entered to glean after the harvestershappened to be the section belonging to Boazof the clan of Elimelech....

August 21, 2009                                 Memorial of Saint Pius X, pope Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Ru 1:1, 3-6, 14b-16, 22 Once in the time of the judges there was a famine in the land;so a man from Bethlehem of Judahdeparted with his wife and two sonsto reside on the plateau of Moab.Elimelech, the husband of Naomi, died,and she was left with her two sons, who married Moabite women,one named Orpah, the other Ruth.When they had lived there about ten years,both Mahlon and Chilion died also,and the woman was left with neither her two sons...

August 20, 2009                                     Memorial of Saint Bernard,                                       Abbot and Doctor of the Church     Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Jgs 11:29-39a The Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah.He passed through Gilead and Manasseh,and through Mizpah-Gilead as well,and from there he went on to the Ammonites.Jephthah made a vow to the LORD.“If you deliver the Ammonites into my power,” he said,“whoever comes out of the doors of my houseto meet me when I return in triumph from the Ammonitesshall belong to the LORD.I shall offer him up as a burnt offering.” Jephthah then went on to the Ammonites to...

August 19, 2009                                 Wednesday of the Twentieth Week                                     in Ordinary Time   Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Jgs 9:6-15 All the citizens of Shechem and all Beth-millo came togetherand proceeded to make Abimelech kingby the terebinth at the memorial pillar in Shechem. When this was reported to him,Jotham went to the top of Mount Gerizim and, standing there,cried out to them in a loud voice:“Hear me, citizens of Shechem, that God may then hear you!Once the trees went to anoint a king over themselves.So...

August 18, 2009                                 Tuesday of the Twentieth Week                                   in Ordinary Time Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Jgs 6:11-24a The angel of the LORD came and sat under the terebinth in Ophrahthat belonged to Joash the Abiezrite.While his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine pressto save it from the Midianites,the angel of the LORD appeared to him and said,“The LORD is with you, O champion!”Gideon said to him, “My Lord, if the LORD is with us,why has all this happened to us?Where are his wondrous deeds of which our fatherstold us...

August 17, 2009                                 Monday of the Twentieth Week                             in Ordinary Time Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Jgs2:11-19 The children of Israel offended the Lord by serving the Baals.Abandoning the LORD, the God of their fathers,who led them out of the land of Egypt,they followed the other gods of the various nations around them,and by their worship of these gods provoked the LORD. Because they had thus abandoned him and served Baal and the Ashtaroth,the anger of the LORD flared up against Israel,and he delivered them over...

August 15, 2009                                     Solemnity of the Assumption of the                                               Blessed Virgin Mary                                               Mass during the Day     Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Rv 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab God’s temple in heaven was opened,and the ark of his covenant could be seen in the temple.A great sign appeared in the sky, a woman clothed with the sun,with the moon under her feet,and on her head a crown of twelve stars.She was with child and wailed aloud in pain as she labored to give birth.Then another sign appeared in...

August 14, 2009                                 Solemnity of the Assumption of the                             Blessed Virgin Mary - Vigil       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 11 Chr 15:3-4, 15-16; 16:1-2 David assembled all Israel in Jerusalem to bring the ark of the Lordto the place which he had prepared for it.David also called together the sons of Aaron and the Levites.The Levites bore the ark of God on their shoulders with poles,as Moses had ordained according to the word of the Lord.David commanded the chiefs of the Levitesto...

August 14, 2009                                 Memorial of Saint Maximilian Mary Kolbe,                                 priest and martyr     Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Jos 24:1-13 Joshua gathered together all the tribes of Israel at Shechem,summoning their elders, their leaders,their judges and their officers.When they stood in ranks before God, Joshua addressed all the people: “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: In times past your fathers, down to Terah,father of Abraham and Nahor,dwelt beyond the River and served other gods.But I brought your father Abraham from the region...

August 13, 2009                                     Thursday of the Nineteenth Week                                     in Ordinary Time     Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Jos 3:7-10a, 11, 13-17 The LORD said to Joshua,“Today I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel,that they may know I am with you, as I was with Moses.Now command the priests carrying the ark of the covenantto come to a halt in the Jordanwhen you reach the edge of the waters.”So Joshua said to the children of Israel,“Come here and...

August 12, 2009                             Wednesday of the Nineteenth Week                                 in Ordinary Time       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Dt 34:1-12 Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo,the headland of Pisgah which faces Jericho,and the LORD showed him all the land—Gilead, and as far as Dan, all Naphtali,the land of Ephraim and Manasseh,all the land of Judah as far as the Western Sea,the Negeb, the circuit of the Jordanwith the lowlands at Jericho, city of palms,and as far as Zoar.The LORD then...

August 11, 2009                                     Memorial of Saint Clare, virgin       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Dt 31:1-8 When Moses had finished speaking to all Israel, he said to them,“I am now one hundred and twenty years oldand am no longer able to move about freely;besides, the LORD has told me that I shall not cross this Jordan.It is the LORD, your God, who will cross before you;he will destroy these nations before you,that you may supplant them.It is Joshua who will cross before you, as the LORD promised.The LORD will deal...

August 10, 2009                                   Feast of Saint Lawrence,                                     deacon and martyr     Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 12 Cor 9:6-10 Brothers and sisters:Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly,and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.Each must do as already determined, without sadness or compulsion,for God loves a cheerful giver.Moreover, God is able to make every grace abundant for you,so that in all things, always having all you need,you may have an abundance for every good work.As it is written:He scatters abroad, he gives to the poor;his righteousness endures forever.The...

August 9, 2009                                 Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 11 Kgs 19:4-8 Elijah went a day’s journey into the desert,until he came to a broom tree and sat beneath it. He prayed for death saying:“This is enough, O LORD! Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.” He lay down and fell asleep under the broom tree,but then an angel touched him and ordered him to get up and eat. Elijah looked and there at his head was a hearth cakeand a...

August 8, 2009                                     Memorial of Saint Dominic, priest       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Dt 6:4-13 Moses said to the people:“Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD alone! Therefore, you shall love the LORD, your God,with all your heart,and with all your soul,and with all your strength.Take to heart these words which I enjoin on you today.Drill them into your children.Speak of them at home and abroad, whether you are busy or at rest.Bind them at your wrist as a signand let them be as a pendant on...

August 7, 2009                                     Friday of the Eighteenth Week                                     in Ordinary Time       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Dt 4:32-40 Moses said to the people:“Ask now of the days of old, before your time,ever since God created man upon the earth;ask from one end of the sky to the other:Did anything so great ever happen before?Was it ever heard of? Did a people ever hear the voice of Godspeaking from the midst of fire, as you did, and live?Or did any god...

August 6, 2009                                 Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Dn 7:9-10, 13-14 As I watched:Thrones were set upand the Ancient One took his throne.His clothing was bright as snow,and the hair on his head as white as wool;his throne was flames of fire,with wheels of burning fire.A surging stream of fireflowed out from where he sat;Thousands upon thousands were ministering to him,and myriads upon myriads attended him.The court was convened and the books were opened.As the visions during the night continued, I saw:One...

August 5, 2009                                 Wednesday of the Eighteenth Week                                       in Ordinary Time       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Nm 13:1-2, 25–14:1, 26a-29a, 34-35 The LORD said to Moses [in the desert of Paran,]“Send men to reconnoiter the land of Canaan,which I am giving the children of Israel.You shall send one man from each ancestral tribe,all of them princes.”After reconnoitering the land for forty days they returned,met Moses and Aaron and the whole congregation of the children of Israelin the desert of Paran at Kadesh,made a report to them all,and showed the fruit...

August 4, 2009                             Memorial of Saint John Mary Vianney, priest       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Nm 12:1-13 Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses on the pretextof the marriage he had contracted with a Cushite woman.They complained, “Is it through Moses alone that the LORD speaks?Does he not speak through us also?”And the LORD heard this.Now, Moses himself was by far the meekest man on the face of the earth.So at once the LORD said to Moses and Aaron and Miriam,“Come out, you three, to the meeting tent.”And the three of them...

August 3, 2009                                 Monday of the Eighteenth Week                                 in Ordinary Time       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Nm 11:4b-15 The children of Israel lamented,“Would that we had meat for food!We remember the fish we used to eat without cost in Egypt,and the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks,the onions, and the garlic.But now we are famished;we see nothing before us but this manna.”Manna was like coriander seed and had the color of resin.When they had gone about and gathered it up,the people would grind...

August 2, 2009                                 Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Ex 16:2-4, 12-15 The whole Israelite community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The Israelites said to them,“Would that we had died at the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt,as we sat by our fleshpots and ate our fill of bread! But you had to lead us into this desertto make the whole community die of famine!”Then the LORD said to Moses,“I will now rain down bread from heaven for you. Each day the people are...

August 1, 2009                                 Memorial of Saint Alphonsus Liguori,                                 bishop and doctor of the Church       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Lv 25:1, 8-17 The LORD said to Moses on Mount Sinai,“Seven weeks of years shall you count–seven times seven years–so that the seven cycles amount to forty-nine years.Then, on the tenth day of the seventh month, let the trumpet resound;on this, the Day of Atonement, the trumpet blast shall re-echothroughout your land.This fiftieth year you shall make sacredby proclaiming liberty in the land...

July 31, 2009                              Memorial of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, priest       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Lv 23:1, 4-11, 15-16, 27, 34b-37 The LORD said to Moses,"These are the festivals of the LORD which you shall celebrateat their proper time with a sacred assembly.The Passover of the LORD falls on the fourteenth day of the first month,at the evening twilight.The fifteenth day of this month is the LORD's feast of Unleavened Bread.For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.On the first of these days you shall hold a sacred assemblyand do no sort of work.On each of the seven...