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5 October 2024Saturday of week 26 in Ordinary TimeChapel of the miraculous image of the Merciful Jesus and the tomb of St. Faustina, Łagiewniki Shrine, Krakow Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First readingJob 42:1-3,5-6,12-17In dust and in ashes I repentThis was the answer Job gave to the Lord:I know that you are all-powerful: what you conceive, you can perform.I am the man who obscured your designs with my empty-headed words.I have been holding forth on matters I cannot understand, on marvels beyond me and my knowledge.I knew you then only by hearsay; but now, having seen you with my...

4 October 2024 Saint Francis of Assisi on Friday of week 26 in Ordinary TimeSaint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, Ann Arbor, Michigan.Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: B(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingJob 38:1,12-21,40:3-5The 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 clay...

3 October 2024 Thursday of week 26 in Ordinary Time Chapel dedicated to the martyrs of Natal, São Gonçalo do Amarante, BrazilReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First readingJob 19:21-27My Avenger lives and will set me close to him when I awakeJob said:Pity me, pity me, you, my friends, for the hand of God has struck me.Why do you hound me down like God, will you never have enough of my flesh?Ah, would that these words of mine were written down, inscribed on some monumentwith iron chisel and engraving tool, cut into the rock for ever.This I know: that...

2 October 2024 The Holy Guardian Angels on Wednesday of week 26 in Ordinary Time The Church of St. Leodegar, LucerneReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: B(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingJob 9:1-13,14-16How can man be in the right against God?Job spoke to his friends:Indeed, I know it is as you say: how can man be in the right against God?If any were so rash as to challenge him for reasons, one in a thousand would be more than they could answer.His heart is wise, and his strength is great: who...

1 October 2024 Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus, Virgin, Doctor on Tuesday of week 26 in Ordinary Time Roman-catholic church of Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus, Pavlodar, Kazakhstan Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: B(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingJob 3:1-3,11-17,20-23Why did I not perish on the day I was born?Job broke the silence and cursed the day of his birth. This is what he said:May the day perish when I was born, and the night that told of a boy conceived.Why did I not die new-born, not perish...

Mmm dd, 2024 TITLE St. Jerome Church - Walbridge, OhioReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: B(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingJob 1:6-22The Lord gave, the Lord has taken back: blessed be the name of the LordOne day the Sons of God came to attend on the Lord, and among them was Satan. So the Lord said to Satan, ‘Where have you been?’ ‘Round the earth,’ he answered ‘roaming about.’ So the Lord asked him, ‘Did you notice my servant Job? There is no one like him on the earth: a sound...

29 September 202426th Sunday in Ordinary TimeCatholic University of America, Saint Michael the Archangel chapel, Washington, DCReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First readingNumbers 11:25-29If only the whole people of the Lord were prophets!The Lord came down in the Cloud. He spoke with Moses, but took some of the spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders. When the spirit came on them they prophesied, but not again. Two men had stayed back in the camp; one was called Eldad and the other Medad. The spirit came down on them; though they had not gone to...

28 September 2024 Saturday of week 25 in Ordinary Time St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church, Wahoo, NEReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First readingEcclesiastes 11:9-12:8Remember your creator in the days of your youthRejoice in your youth, you who are young;let your heart give you joy in your young days.Follow the promptings of your heartand the desires of your eyes.But this you must know: for all these things God will bring you to judgement.Cast worry from your heart,shield your flesh from pain.Yet youth, the age of dark hair, is vanity. And remember your creator in the days of your youth, before...

27 September 2024 Saint Vincent de Paul, Priest on Friday of week 25 in Ordinary Time St. Vincent De Paul Los AngelesReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: B(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingEcclesiastes 3:1-11There is a time for every occupation under heavenThere is a season for everything, a time for every occupation under heaven:A time for giving birth, a time for dying; a time for planting, a time for uprooting what has been planted.A time for killing, a time for healing; a time for knocking down, a time for building.A time...

26 September 2024 Thursday of week 25 in Ordinary Time The Church of Santi Cosma e Damiano in RomeReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First readingEcclesiastes 1:2-11Nothing is new and all is vanityVanity of vanities, the Preacher says. Vanity of vanities. All is vanity! For all his toil, his toil under the sun, what does man gain by it? A generation goes, a generation comes, yet the earth stands firm for ever. The sun rises, the sun sets; then to its place it speeds and there it rises. Southward goes the wind, then turns to the north; it turns...

25 September 2024 Wednesday of week 25 in Ordinary Time Chapel of Sanint Fermin, Paplona, Spain Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First readingProverbs 30:5-9Give me neither riches nor poverty, only my shareEvery word of God is unalloyed, he is the shield of those who take refuge in him.To his words make no addition, lest he reprove you and know you for a fraud.Two things I beg of you, do not grudge me them before I die:keep falsehood and lies far from me, give me neither poverty nor riches, grant me only my share of bread to eat,for fear...

24 September 2024 Tuesday of week 25 in Ordinary Time Salzburg CathedralReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First readingProverbs 21:1-6,10-13On wickedness and virtueLike flowing water is the heart of the king in the hand of the Lord, who turns it where he pleases.A man’s conduct may strike him as upright, the Lord, however, weighs the heart.To act virtuously and with justice is more pleasing to the Lord than sacrifice.Haughty eye, proud heart, lamp of the wicked, nothing but sin.The hardworking man is thoughtful, and all is gain; too much haste, and all that comes of it is want.To make...

23 September 2024 Saint Pius of Pietrelcina (Padre Pio), Priest on Monday of week 25 in Ordinary Time The Sanctuary of San Pio da Pietrelcina, San Giovanni Rotondo, ItalyReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: B(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingProverbs 3:27-34The Lord blesses the home of the virtuousMy son, do not refuse a kindness to anyone who begs it, if it is in your power to perform it.Do not say to your neighbour, ‘Go away! Come another time! I will give it you tomorrow’, if you can do it now.Do not plot...

22 September 2024 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Emmeram Basilica, RegensburgReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First readingWisdom 2:12,17-20The wicked prepare to ambush the just manThe godless say to themselves:‘Let us lie in wait for the virtuous man, since he annoys usand opposes our way of life,reproaches us for our breaches of the lawand accuses us of playing false to our upbringing.‘Let us see if what he says is true,let us observe what kind of end he himself will have.If the virtuous man is God’s son, God will take his partand rescue him from the clutches of his...

Saturday 21 September 2024 Saint Matthew, Apostle, Evangelist Feast St. Matthew’s, East Syracuse, NY Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: B(II).First readingEphesians 4:1-7,11-13We are all to come to unity, fully mature in the knowledge of the Son of GodI, the prisoner in the Lord, implore you to lead a life worthy of your vocation. Bear with one another charitably, in complete selflessness, gentleness and patience. Do all you can to preserve the unity of the Spirit by the peace that binds you together. There is one Body, one Spirit, just as you were all called into one and the...

20 September 2024 Saints Andrew Kim Taegon, Priest, and Paul Chong Hasang, and their Companions, Martyrs on Friday of week 24 in Ordinary Time Korean saint’s memorial church, Anseong, South KoreaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: B(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst reading1 Corinthians 15:12-20If Christ has not been raised, your belief is uselessNow if Christ raised from the dead is what has been preached, how can some of you be saying that there is no resurrection of the dead? If there is no resurrection of the dead, Christ himself cannot have...

19 September 2024 Thursday of week 24 in Ordinary Time St Januarius (San Gennaro) Cathedral, Naples, ItalyReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First reading1 Corinthians 15:1-11I preached what the others preach, and you all believedBrothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, the gospel that you received and in which you are firmly established; because the gospel will save you only if you keep believing exactly what I preached to you – believing anything else will not lead to anything. Well then, in the first place, I taught you what I had been taught...

18 September 2024 Wednesday of week 24 in Ordinary Time Basilica of St. Joseph of Cupertino – Osimo, ItalyReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First reading1 Corinthians 12:31-13:13The supremacy of charityBe ambitious for the higher gifts. And I am going to show you a way that is better than any of them. If I have all the eloquence of men or of angels, but speak without love, I am simply a gong booming or a cymbal clashing. If I have the gift of prophecy, understanding all the mysteries there are, and knowing everything, and if I have faith in...

17 September 2024 Tuesday of week 24 in Ordinary Time Benedictine Abbey of St. Hildegard, overlooking the towns of Rüdesheim and Bingen, Germany.Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First reading1 Corinthians 12:12-14,27-31You 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 well as citizens, and one Spirit was given to us all to...

16 September 2024 Saints Cornelius, Pope, and Cyprian, Bishop, Martyrs on Monday of week 24 in Ordinary Time St. Cornelius and Cyprian church, Lippborg, Germany Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: B(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst reading1 Corinthians 11:17-26,33If 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,...