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October 7, 2007                              Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Psalm: Sunday 37       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Hab 1:2-3; 2:2-4 How long, O LORD? I cry for helpbut you do not listen!I cry out to you, "Violence!"but you do not intervene.Why do you let me see ruin;why must I look at misery?Destruction and violence are before me;there is strife, and clamorous discord.Then the LORD answered me and said:Write down the vision clearly upon the tablets,so that one can read it readily.For the vision still has its time,presses on to fulfillment, and will not disappoint;if it delays, wait for...

September 30, 2007                                 Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Psalm: Sunday 36       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Am 6:1a, 4-7 Thus says the LORD the God of hosts:Woe to the complacent in Zion!Lying upon beds of ivory,stretched comfortably on their couches,they eat lambs taken from the flock,and calves from the stall!Improvising to the music of the harp,like David, they devise their own accompaniment.They drink wine from bowlsand anoint themselves with the best oils;yet they are not made ill by the collapse of Joseph!Therefore, now they shall be the first to...

September 23, 2007                             Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Psalm: Sunday 35       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Am 8:4-7 Hear this, you who trample upon the needyand destroy the poor of the land!“When will the new moon be over,” you ask,“that we may sell our grain,and the sabbath, that we may display the wheat?We will diminish the ephah,add to the shekel,and fix our scales for cheating!We will buy the lowly for silver,and the poor for a pair of sandals;even the refuse of the wheat we will sell!”The LORD has sworn by...

September 16, 2007                                 Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Psalm: Sunday 34     Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Ex 32:7-11, 13-14 The LORD said to Moses,“Go down at once to your people,whom you brought out of the land of Egypt,for they have become depraved. They have soon turned aside from the way I pointed out to them,making for themselves a molten calf and worshiping it,sacrificing to it and crying out,‘This is your God, O Israel,who brought you out of the land of Egypt!’“I see how stiff-necked this people is, ” continued the...

September 9, 2007                             Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time Psalm: Sunday 33           Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Wis 9:13-18b Who can know God’s counsel,or who can conceive what the LORD intends?For the deliberations of mortals are timid,and unsure are our plans.For the corruptible body burdens the souland the earthen shelter weighs down the mind that has many concerns.And scarce do we guess the things on earth,and what is within our grasp we find with difficulty;but when things are in heaven, who can search them out?Or who ever knew your counsel,...

September 2, 2007                             Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time Psalm: Sunday 32     Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Sir 3:17-18, 20, 28-29 My child, conduct your affairs with humility,and you will be loved more than a giver of gifts.Humble yourself the more, the greater you are,and you will find favor with God.What is too sublime for you, seek not,into things beyond your strength search not.The mind of a sage appreciates proverbs,and an attentive ear is the joy of the wise.Water quenches a flaming fire,and alms atone for sins. Responsorial PsalmPs 68:4-5, 6-7, 10-11...

August 26, 2007                                 Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time Psalm: Sunday 31       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Is 66:18-21 Thus says the LORD:I know their works and their thoughts,and I come to gather nations of every language;they shall come and see my glory. I will set a sign among them;from them I will send fugitives to the nations:to Tarshish, Put and Lud, Mosoch, Tubal and Javan,to the distant coastlandsthat have never heard of my fame, or seen my glory;and they shall proclaim my glory among the nations. They shall bring...

August 19, 2007                                 Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Psalm: Sunday 30       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Jer 38:4-6, 8-10 In those days, the princes said to the king:“Jeremiah ought to be put to death;he is demoralizing the soldiers who are left in this city,and all the people, by speaking such things to them;he is not interested in the welfare of our people,but in their ruin.” King Zedekiah answered: “He is in your power”;for the king could do nothing with them. And so they took Jeremiahand threw him into the...

August 12, 2007                                 Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Psalm: Sunday 29       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Wis 18:6-9 The night of the passover was known beforehand to our fathers,that, with sure knowledge of the oaths in which they put their faith,they might have courage.Your people awaited the salvation of the justand the destruction of their foes.For when you punished our adversaries,in this you glorified us whom you had summoned.For in secret the holy children of the good were offering sacrificeand putting into effect with one accord the divine institution. Responsorial...

August 5, 2007                                 Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Psalm: Sunday 28     Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Ecc 1:2; 2:21-23 Vanity of vanities, says Qoheleth,vanity of vanities! All things are vanity! Here is one who has labored with wisdom and knowledge and skill,and yet to another who has not labored over it,he must leave property. This also is vanity and a great misfortune. For what profit comes to man from all the toil and anxiety of heartwith which he has labored under the sun? All his days sorrow and grief are...

July 29, 2007                             Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Psalm: Sunday 27       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Gn 18:20-32 In those days, the LORD said: “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great,and their sin so grave,that I must go down and see whether or not their actionsfully correspond to the cry against them that comes to me. I mean to find out.” While Abraham’s visitors walked on farther toward Sodom,the LORD remained standing before Abraham. Then Abraham drew nearer and said:“Will you sweep away the innocent with the guilty?...

July 22, 2007                                 Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Psalm: Sunday 26       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Gn 18:1-10a The LORD appeared to Abraham by the terebinth of Mamre,as he sat in the entrance of his tent,while the day was growing hot. Looking up, Abraham saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he ran from the entrance of the tent to greet them;and bowing to the ground, he said:“Sir, if I may ask you this favor,please do not go on past your servant. Let some water be brought,...

July 15, 2007                                     Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Psalm: Sunday 25       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Dt 30:10-14 Moses said to the people:“If only you would heed the voice of the LORD, your God,and keep his commandments and statutesthat are written in this book of the law,when you return to the LORD, your God,with all your heart and all your soul. “For this command that I enjoin on you todayis not too mysterious and remote for you.It is not up in the sky, that you should say,‘Who will...

July 8, 2007                                 Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Psalm: Sunday 24     Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Is 66:10-14c Thus says the LORD:Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad because of her,all you who love her;exult, exult with her,all you who were mourning over her!Oh, that you may suck fullyof the milk of her comfort,that you may nurse with delightat her abundant breasts!For thus says the LORD:Lo, I will spread prosperity over Jerusalem like a river,and the wealth of the nations like an overflowing torrent.As nurslings, you shall be carried in her...

July 1, 2007                                 Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Psalm: Sunday 23     Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 11 Kgs 19:16b, 19-21 The LORD said to Elijah:“You shall anoint Elisha, son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah,as prophet to succeed you.” Elijah set out and came upon Elisha, son of Shaphat,as he was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen;he was following the twelfth.Elijah went over to him and threw his cloak over him.Elisha left the oxen, ran after Elijah, and said,“Please, let me kiss my father and mother goodbye,and I will follow you.”Elijah answered,...

June 24, 2007                                    Solemnity of the Nativity of                                 Saint John the Baptist                                 Mass during the Day Psalm: Sunday 23       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Is 49:1-6 Hear me, O coastlands,listen, O distant peoples.The LORD called me from birth,from my mother’s womb he gave me my name.He made of me a sharp-edged swordand concealed me in the shadow of his arm.He made me a polished arrow,in his quiver he hid me.You are my servant, he said to me,Israel, through...

June 17, 2007                                 Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Psalm: Sunday 22     Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 12 Sm 12:7-10, 13 Nathan said to David: “Thus says the LORD God of Israel: ‘I anointed you king of Israel.I rescued you from the hand of Saul.I gave you your lord’s house and your lord’s wives for your own.I gave you the house of Israel and of Judah.And if this were not enough, I could count up for you still more.Why have you spurned the Lord and done evil in his sight?You have cut...

June 10, 2007                                         The Solemnity of the Most Holy                                         Body and Blood of Christ Psalm: Sunday 21     Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Gn 14:18-20 In those days, Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought out bread and wine,and being a priest of God Most High,he blessed Abram with these words:"Blessed be Abram by God Most High,the creator of heaven and earth;and blessed be God Most High,who delivered your foes into your hand."Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything. Responsorial...

June 3, 2007                             The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity Psalm: Sunday 20     Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Prv 8:22-31 Thus says the wisdom of God:"The LORD possessed me, the beginning of his ways,the forerunner of his prodigies of long ago;from of old I was poured forth,at the first, before the earth.When there were no depths I was brought forth,when there were no fountains or springs of water;before the mountains were settled into place,before the hills, I was brought forth;while as yet the earth and fields were not made,nor the first...

May 27, 2007                                         Pentecost Sunday                                        Mass during the Day Psalm: Sunday 20     Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Acts 2:1-11 When the time for Pentecost was fulfilled,they were all in one place together.And suddenly there came from the skya noise like a strong driving wind,and it filled the entire house in which they were.Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire,which parted and came to rest on each one of them.And they were all filled with the Holy Spiritand...

May 26, 2007                                     Pentecost Sunday                                     At the Vigil Mass Psalm: Saturday 19       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Acts 11:1-9 The whole world spoke the same language, using the same words.While the people were migrating in the east,they came upon a valley in the land of Shinar and settled there.They said to one another,“Come, let us mold bricks and harden them with fire.”They used bricks for stone, and bitumen for mortar.Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a cityand...

May 17, 2007                                 The Ascension of the Lord Psalm: Thursday 18     Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Acts 1:1-11 In the first book, Theophilus,I dealt with all that Jesus did and taughtuntil the day he was taken up,after giving instructions through the Holy Spiritto the apostles whom he had chosen.He presented himself alive to themby many proofs after he had suffered,appearing to them during forty daysand speaking about the kingdom of God.While meeting with them,he enjoined them not to depart from Jerusalem,but to wait for “the promise of the Fatherabout which...

May 13, 2007 Sixth Sunday of Easter Psalm: Sunday 18         Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Acts 15:1-2, 22-29 Some who had come down from Judea were instructing the brothers,“Unless you are circumcised according to the Mosaic practice,you cannot be saved.”Because there arose no little dissension and debateby Paul and Barnabas with them,it was decided that Paul, Barnabas, and some of the othersshould go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and eldersabout this question. The apostles and elders, in agreement with the whole church,decided to choose representativesand to send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas.The ones...

May 6, 2007                                     Fifth Sunday of Easter Psalm: Sunday 17       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Acts 14:21-27 After Paul and Barnabas had proclaimed the good newsto that cityand made a considerable number of disciples,they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch.They strengthened the spirits of the disciplesand exhorted them to persevere in the faith, saying,“It is necessary for us to undergo many hardshipsto enter the kingdom of God.”They appointed elders for them in each church and,with prayer and fasting, commended them to the Lordin whom they...

April 29, 2007                                     Fourth Sunday of Easter Psalm: Sunday 16       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Acts 13:14, 43-52 Paul and Barnabas continued on from Pergaand reached Antioch in Pisidia.On the sabbath they entered the synagogue and took their seats.Many Jews and worshipers who were converts to Judaismfollowed Paul and Barnabas, who spoke to themand urged them to remain faithful to the grace of God. On the following sabbath almost the whole city gatheredto hear the word of the Lord.When the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with...

April 22, 2007                                 Third Sunday of Easter   Psalm: Sunday 15       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Acts 5:27-32, 40b-41 When the captain and the court officers had brought the apostles inand made them stand before the Sanhedrin,the high priest questioned them,“We gave you strict orders, did we not,to stop teaching in that name?Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teachingand want to bring this man’s blood upon us.”But Peter and the apostles said in reply,“We must obey God rather than men.The God of our ancestors raised Jesus,though you had...

April 15, 2007                                     Second Sunday of Easter Psalm: Sunday 14           Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Acts 5:12-16 Many signs and wonders were done among the peopleat the hands of the apostles.They were all together in Solomon’s portico.None of the others dared to join them, but the people esteemed them.Yet more than ever, believers in the Lord,great numbers of men and women, were added to them.Thus they even carried the sick out into the streetsand laid them on cots and matsso that when Peter came by,at least...

April 8, 2007                               Easter Sunday                                     The Resurrection of the Lord Psalm: Sunday 13         Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel The Mass of Easter DayReading 1Acts 10:34a, 37-43 Peter proceeded to speak and said:“You know what has happened all over Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptismthat John preached, how God anointed Jesus of Nazarethwith the Holy Spirit and power.He went about doing goodand healing all those oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.We are witnesses of all that he didboth in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem.They put him to death by hanging him on...

April 1, 2007                                      Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion                                Psalm: Sunday 12           Reading 1At The MassResponsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel At the Procession with PalmsReading 1Lk 19:28-40 Jesus proceeded on his journey up to Jerusalem.As he drew near to Bethphage and Bethany at the place called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples.He said, “Go into the village opposite you, and as you enter it you will find a colt tethered on which no one has ever sat.Untie it and bring it here.And if anyone should ask you,‘Why are you untying it?’ you...

March 25, 2007 Fifth Sunday of Lent Psalm: Sunday 11 Reading 1Is 43:16-21 Thus says the LORD,who opens a way in the seaand a path in the mighty waters,who leads out chariots and horsemen,a powerful army,till they lie prostrate together, never to rise,snuffed out and quenched like a wick.Remember not the events of the past,the things of long ago consider not;see, I am doing something new!Now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?In the desert I make a way,in the wasteland, rivers.Wild beasts honor me,jackals and ostriches,for I put water in the desertand rivers in the wastelandfor my chosen...

March 18, 2007 Fourth Sunday of Lent Psalm: Sunday 10 Reading 1Jos 5:9a, 10-12 The LORD said to Joshua, “Today I have removed the reproach of Egypt from you.” While the Israelites were encamped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, they celebrated the Passoveron the evening of the fourteenth of the month.On the day after the Passover,they ate of the produce of the land in the form of unleavened cakes and parched grain.On that same day after the Passover, on which they ate of the produce of the land, the manna ceased.No longer was there manna for the Israelites,...

March 11, 2007 Third Sunday of Lent Psalm: Sunday 9 Reading 1Ex 3:1-8a, 13-15 Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian.Leading the flock across the desert, he came to Horeb,the mountain of God.There an angel of the LORD appeared to Moses in fireflaming out of a bush.As he looked on, he was surprised to see that the bush,though on fire, was not consumed.So Moses decided,“I must go over to look at this remarkable sight,and see why the bush is not burned.” When the LORD saw him coming over to look at it more closely,...

March 4, 2007 Second Sunday of Lent Psalm: Sunday 8 Reading 1Gn 15:5-12, 17-18 The Lord God took Abram outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars, if you can.Just so,” he added, “shall your descendants be.”Abram put his faith in the LORD, who credited it to him as an act of righteousness. He then said to him, “I am the LORD who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land as a possession.”“O Lord GOD,” he asked, “how am I to know that I shall possess it?”He answered him, “Bring me...

February 25, 2007 First Sunday of Lent Psalm: Sunday 7 Reading 1Dt 26:4-10 Moses spoke to the people, saying: “The priest shall receive the basket from you and shall set it in front of the altar of the LORD, your God.Then you shall declare before the Lord, your God, ‘My father was a wandering Aramean who went down to Egypt with a small household and lived there as an alien.But there he became a nation great, strong, and numerous.When the Egyptians maltreated and oppressed us, imposing hard labor upon us, we cried to the LORD, the God of our fathers,...

February 18, 2007 Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Psalm: Sunday 7 Reading 11 Sm 26:2, 7-9, 12-13, 22-23 In those days, Saul went down to the desert of Ziphwith three thousand picked men of Israel,to search for David in the desert of Ziph.So David and Abishai went among Saul’s soldiers by nightand found Saul lying asleep within the barricade,with his spear thrust into the ground at his headand Abner and his men sleeping around him. Abishai whispered to David:“God has delivered your enemy into your grasp this day.Let me nail him to the ground with one thrust of the spear;I...

February 11, 2007 Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Psalm: Sunday 6 Reading 1Jer 17:5-8 Thus says the LORD:Cursed is the one who trusts in human beings,who seeks his strength in flesh,whose heart turns away from the LORD.He is like a barren bush in the desertthat enjoys no change of season,but stands in a lava waste,a salt and empty earth.Blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD,whose hope is the LORD.He is like a tree planted beside the watersthat stretches out its roots to the stream:it fears not the heat when it comes;its leaves stay green;in the year of drought...

February 4, 2007 Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Psalm: Sundsay 5 Reading 1Is 6:1-2a, 3-8 In the year King Uzziah died,I saw the Lord seated on a high and lofty throne,with the train of his garment filling the temple.Seraphim were stationed above. They cried one to the other,“Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts!All the earth is filled with his glory!”At the sound of that cry, the frame of the door shookand the house was filled with smoke. Then I said, “Woe is me, I am doomed!For I am a man of unclean lips,living among a people of unclean...

January 28, 2007 Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Psalm: Sunday 4 Reading 1Jer 1:4-5, 17-19 The word of the LORD came to me, saying:Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,before you were born I dedicated you,a prophet to the nations I appointed you. But do you gird your loins;stand up and tell themall that I command you.Be not crushed on their account,as though I would leave you crushed before them;for it is I this daywho have made you a fortified city,a pillar of iron, a wall of brass,against the whole land:against Judah’s kings and princes,against its priests...

January 21, 2007 Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Psalm: Sunday 3 Reading 1Neh 8:2-4a, 5-6, 8-10 Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly,which consisted of men, women,and those children old enough to understand.Standing at one end of the open place that was before the Water Gate,he read out of the book from daybreak till midday,in the presence of the men, the women,and those children old enough to understand;and all the people listened attentively to the book of the law.Ezra the scribe stood on a wooden platform that had been made for the occasion.He opened the scrollso that all...

January 14, 2007 Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Psalm: Sunday 2 Reading 1Is 62:1-5 For Zion’s sake I will not be silent,for Jerusalem’s sake I will not be quiet,until her vindication shines forth like the dawnand her victory like a burning torch. Nations shall behold your vindication,and all the kings your glory;you shall be called by a new namepronounced by the mouth of the LORD.You shall be a glorious crown in the hand of the LORD,a royal diadem held by your God.No more shall people call you “Forsaken, “or your land “Desolate, “but you shall be called “My Delight,”and your...

December 24, 2006 Vigil of Christmas Psalm: Sunday 51 Reading 1Is 62:1-5 For Zion’s sake I will not be silent,for Jerusalem’s sake I will not be quiet,until her vindication shines forth like the dawnand her victory like a burning torch. Nations shall behold your vindication,and all the kings your glory;you shall be called by a new namepronounced by the mouth of the LORD.You shall be a glorious crown in the hand of the LORD,a royal diadem held by your God.No more shall people call you “Forsaken, “or your land “Desolate,”but you shall be called “My Delight,”and your land “Espoused.”For the...

December 24, 2006 Fourth Sunday of Advent Psalm: Sunday 51 Reading 1Mi 5:1-4a Thus says the LORD:You, Bethlehem-Ephrathahtoo 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 kindred shall returnto the children of Israel.He shall stand firm and shepherd his flockby the strength of the LORD,in the majestic name of the LORD, his God;and they shall remain, for now his...

December 17, 2006 Third Sunday of Advent Psalm: Sunday 50 Reading 1Zep 3:14-18a Shout for joy, O daughter Zion!Sing joyfully, O Israel!Be glad and exult with all your heart,O daughter Jerusalem!The LORD has removed the judgment against youhe has turned away your enemies;the King of Israel, the LORD, is in your midst,you have no further misfortune to fear.On that day, it shall be said to Jerusalem:Fear not, O Zion, be not discouraged!The LORD, your God, is in your midst,a mighty savior;he will rejoice over you with gladness,and renew you in his love,he will sing joyfully because of you,as one sings...

December 10, 2006 Second Sunday of Advent Psalm: Sunday 49 Reading 1Bar 5:1-9 Jerusalem, take off your robe of mourning and misery;put on the splendor of glory from God forever:wrapped in the cloak of justice from God,bear on your head the mitrethat displays the glory of the eternal name.For God will show all the earth your splendor:you will be named by God foreverthe peace of justice, the glory of God(s worship. Up, Jerusalem! stand upon the heights;look to the east and see your childrengathered from the east and the westat the word of the Holy One,rejoicing that they are remembered...

December 3, 2006 First Sunday of Advent Psalm: Sunday 48 Reading 1Jer 33:14-16 The days are coming, says the LORD, when I will fulfill the promise I made to the house of Israel and Judah.In those days, in that time, I will raise up for David a just shoot; he shall do what is right and just in the land.In those days Judah shall be safe and Jerusalem shall dwell secure; this is what they shall call her: “The LORD our justice.” Responsorial PsalmPs 25:4-5, 8-9, 10, 14 R. (1b) To you, O Lord, I lift my soul.Your ways, O...

November 26, 2006 Thirty-Fourth or Last Sunday in Ordinary TimeSolemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ the King Psalm: Sunday 47 Reading 1Dn 7:13-14 As the visions during the night continued, I sawone like a Son of man coming,on the clouds of heaven;when he reached the Ancient Oneand was presented before him,the one like a Son of man received dominion, glory, and kingship;all peoples, nations, and languages serve him.His dominion is an everlasting dominionthat shall not be taken away,his kingship shall not be destroyed. Responsorial PsalmPs 93:1, 1-2, 5 R. (1a) The LORD is king; he is robed in majesty.The LORD...

November 19, 2006 Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time Psalm: Sunday 46 Reading 1Dn 12:1-3 In those days, I Daniel, heard this word of the Lord:"At that time there shall ariseMichael, the great prince,guardian of your people;it shall be a time unsurpassed in distresssince nations began until that time.At that time your people shall escape,everyone who is found written in the book. “Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake;some shall live forever,others shall be an everlasting horror and disgrace. “But the wise shall shine brightlylike the splendor of the firmament,and those who lead the many...

November 12, 2006 Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time Psalm: Sunday 46 Reading 11 Kgs 17:10-16 In those days, Elijah the prophet went to Zarephath.As he arrived at the entrance of the city,a widow was gathering sticks there; he called out to her,"Please bring me a small cupful of water to drink." She left to get it, and he called out after her,"Please bring along a bit of bread." She answered, "As the LORD, your God, lives,I have nothing baked; there is only a handful of flour in my jarand a little oil in my jug. Just now I was collecting...

November 5, 2006 Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time Psalm: Sunday 45 Reading 1Dt 6:2-6 Moses spoke to the people, saying:"Fear the LORD, your God,and keep, throughout the days of your lives,all his statutes and commandments which I enjoin on you,and thus have long life.Hear then, Israel, and be careful to observe them,that you may grow and prosper the more,in keeping with the promise of the LORD, the God of your fathers,to give you a land flowing with milk and honey. "Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD alone! Therefore, you shall love the LORD, your God,with all...

October 29, 2006 Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Psalm: Sunday 44 Reading 1Jer 31:7-9 Thus says the LORD:Shout with joy for Jacob,exult at the head of the nations;proclaim your praise and say:The LORD has delivered his people,the remnant of Israel.Behold, I will bring them backfrom the land of the north;I will gather them from the ends of the world,with the blind and the lame in their midst,the mothers and those with child;they shall return as an immense throng.They departed in tears,but I will console them and guide them;I will lead them to brooks of water,on a level road, so that...