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15 September 2024 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time Saint Nicomedes, northern Italy Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First readingIsaiah 50:5-9I offered my back to those who struck meThe Lord has opened my ear.For my part, I made no resistance,neither did I turn away.I offered my back to those who struck me,my cheeks to those who tore at my beard;I did not cover my faceagainst insult and spittle.The Lord comes to my help,so that I am untouched by the insults.So, too, I set my face like flint;I know I shall not be shamed.My vindicator is here at hand. Does...

Mmm dd, 2024 TITLE St. John Chrysostom, Eminence, KYReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: B(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst reading1 Corinthians 9:16-19,22-27We go into strict training, like fighters at the gamesI do not boast of preaching the gospel, since it is a duty which has been laid on me; I should be punished if I did not preach it! If I had chosen this work myself, I might have been paid for it, but as I have not, it is a responsibility which has been put into my hands. Do you...

12 September 2024 Thursday of week 23 in Ordinary Time Saint Ailbe's Church. Emly, Co Tipperary, Ireland Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First reading1 Corinthians 8:1-7,11-13Your brethren may be weaker than you: do not lead them astrayNow about food sacrificed to idols. ‘We all have knowledge’; yes, that is so, but knowledge gives self-importance – it is love that makes the building grow. A man may imagine he understands something, but still not understand anything in the way that he ought to. But any man who loves God is known by him. Well then, about eating food sacrificed...

11 September 2024 Wednesday of week 23 in Ordinary Time St. Felix and Regula, Zurich, SwitzerlandReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First reading1 Corinthians 7:25-31The world as we know it is passing awayAbout remaining celibate, I have no directions from the Lord but give my own opinion as one who, by the Lord’s mercy, has stayed faithful. Well then, I believe that in these present times of stress this is right: that it is good for a man to stay as he is. If you are tied to a wife, do not look for freedom; if you are free...

10 September 2024 Tuesday of week 23 in Ordinary TimeSt. Nicholas of Tolentine Catholic Church - The Bronx, N.Y.Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First reading1 Corinthians 6:1-11Do not drag your brother to a pagan for judgementHow dare one of your members take up a complaint against another in the law courts of the unjust instead of before the saints? As you know, it is the saints who are to ‘judge the world’; and if the world is to be judged by you, how can you be unfit to judge trifling cases? Since we are also to judge angels,...

9 September 2024 Saint Peter Claver on Monday of week 23 in Ordinary Time St. Peter Claver Catholic Church, New Orleans, LA Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: B(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst reading1 Corinthians 5:1-8Get rid of the old yeast of evil and wickednessI have been told as an undoubted fact that one of you is living with his father’s wife. This is a case of sexual immorality among you that must be unparalleled even among pagans. How can you be so proud of yourselves? You should be in mourning. A...

6 September 2024 Friday of week 22 in Ordinary Time Collegiate Church of Saint Begge, Andenne, BelgiumReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First reading1 Corinthians 4:1-5The Lord alone is our judgePeople must think of us as Christ’s servants, stewards entrusted with the mysteries of God. What is expected of stewards is that each one should be found worthy of his trust. Not that it makes the slightest difference to me whether you, or indeed any human tribunal, find me worthy or not. I will not even pass judgement on myself. True, my conscience does not reproach me at all, but...

5 September 2024 Thursday of week 22 in Ordinary Time St. Rita’s Convent, Missionaries of Charity, the Bronx, United StatesReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First reading1 Corinthians 3:18-23The wisdom of the world is foolishness to GodMake no mistake about it: if any one of you thinks of himself as wise, in the ordinary sense of the word, then he must learn to be a fool before he really can be wise. Why? Because the wisdom of this world is foolishness to God. As scripture says: The Lord knows wise men’s thoughts: he knows how useless they are; or...

4 September 2024 Wednesday of week 22 in Ordinary TimeSaint Rose of Viterbo Church and Convent, Santiago de Queretaro, Queretaro, MexicoReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First reading1 Corinthians 3:1-9Neither the planter nor the waterer matters, only God, who makes things growBrothers, I myself was unable to speak to you as people of the Spirit: I treated you as sensual men, still infants in Christ. What I fed you with was milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it; and indeed, you are still not ready for it since you are still unspiritual. Isn’t that obvious...

3 September 2024 Saint Gregory the Great, Pope, Doctor on Tuesday of week 22 in Ordinary Time The Church of St Gregory the Great in Rome Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: B(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst reading1 Corinthians 2:10-16The Spirit reaches even the depths of GodThe Spirit reaches the depths of everything, even the depths of God. After all, the depths of a man can only be known by his own spirit, not by any other man, and in the same way the depths of God can only be known...

2 September 2024 Monday of week 22 in Ordinary Time Saint-Just in Lyon, France.Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First reading1 Corinthians 2:1-5The only knowledge I claimed was of the crucified ChristWhen I came to you, brothers, it was not with any show of oratory or philosophy, but simply to tell you what God had guaranteed. During my stay with you, the only knowledge I claimed to have was about Jesus, and only about him as the crucified Christ. Far from relying on any power of my own, I came among you in great ‘fear and trembling’ and in...

1 September 2024 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Altar of Repose at Saint Giles, ChicagoReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First readingDeuteronomy 4:1-2,6-8Observe these laws and customs, that you may have lifeMoses said to the people: ‘Now, Israel, take notice of the laws and customs that I teach you today, and observe them, that you may have life and may enter and take possession of the land that the Lord the God of your fathers is giving you. You must add nothing to what I command you, and take nothing from it, but keep the commandments of the Lord...

30 August 2024 Friday of week 21 in Ordinary Time Sanctuary in honor of the Ecuadorian saint Narcisa de Jesús Martillo, Nobol, Equador Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First reading1 Corinthians 1:17-25We preach a crucified Christ, the power and wisdom of GodChrist did not send me to baptise, but to preach the Good News, and not to preach that in the terms of philosophy in which the crucifixion of Christ cannot be expressed. The language of the cross may be illogical to those who are not on the way to salvation, but those of us who are on the...

29 August 2024 The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist on Thursday of week 21 in Ordinary Time St. John the Baptist Church in Newburgh, Indiana Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: B(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst reading1 Corinthians 1:1-9You have been enriched in many ways in ChristI, Paul, appointed by God to be an apostle, together with brother Sosthenes, send greetings to the church of God in Corinth, to the holy people of Jesus Christ, who are called to take their place among all the saints everywhere who pray to...

28 August 2024 Saint Augustine, Bishop, Doctor on Wednesday of week 21 in Ordinary Time Cathedral of St. Augustine, St. Augustine, FL Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: B(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst reading2 Thessalonians 3:6-10,16-18We worked night and day not to be a burden on youIn the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we urge you, brothers, to keep away from any of the brothers who refuses to work or to live according to the tradition we passed on to you. You know how you are supposed to imitate us:...

27 August 2024 Saint Monica on Tuesday of week 21 in Ordinary Time St. Monica's Church, Manhattan, NY Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: B(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst reading2 Thessalonians 2:1-3,14-17Stand firm and keep the traditions we have taught youTo turn, brothers, to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and how we shall all be gathered round him: please do not get excited too soon or alarmed by any prediction or rumour or any letter claiming to come from us, implying that the Day of the Lord has already...

26 August 2024 Monday of week 21 in Ordinary Time Monument to Saint Teresa Jornet, in Valencia, next to a nursing home for the Little Sisters of the Abandoned ElderlyReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First reading2 Thessalonians 1:1-5,11-12We thank God for your faith and your loveFrom Paul, Silvanus and Timothy, to the Church in Thessalonika which is in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ; wishing you grace and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. We feel we must be continually thanking God for you, brothers; quite rightly, because your faith is growing so...

Saturday 24 August 2024 Saint Bartholomew, Apostle FeastSt. Bartholomew's Church, New York CityReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: B(II).First readingApocalypse 21:9-14He showed me Jerusalem, the holy city, coming down from God out of heavenThe angel came to speak to me, and said, ‘Come here and I will show you the bride that the Lamb has married.’ In the spirit, he took me to the top of an enormous high mountain and showed me Jerusalem, the holy city, coming down from God out of heaven. It had all the radiant glory of God and glittered like some precious jewel of crystal-clear...

23 August 2024 Friday of week 20 in Ordinary Time Saint Rose of Lima, Murfreesboro, TNReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First readingEzekiel 37:1-14A vision of Israel's death and resurrectionThe hand of the Lord was laid on me, and he carried me away by the spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of a valley, a valley full of bones. He made me walk up and down among them. There were vast quantities of these bones on the ground the whole length of the valley; and they were quite dried up. He said to me,...

22 August 2024 Our Lady, Mother and Queen on Thursday of week 20 in Ordinary Time Altar "Our Lady Queen of Angels", Old Mission Church, Los Angeles, California Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: B(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingEzekiel 36:23-28I will remove the heart of stone from your bodies and give you a heart of fleshThe word of the Lord was addressed to me as follows: ‘I mean to display the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned among them. And...