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Monday 9 January 2023The Baptism of the Lord Feast Church of Saint Anne in Lviv, Ukraine Readings at MassThe readings shown here are for places where the Epiphany is celebrated on Sunday 8 January.If you are celebrating the Epiphany on Friday 6 January this year then these are not the right readings. To see the right readings, you need to set this web site to use your own local calendar. On this web page, find the list of dates. After the last date there is a heading which says “Calendar Used”. Click on the calendar name below this heading, and...

Sunday 8 January 2023The Epiphany of the Lord Solemnity Epiphany Catholic Church, Normal, IL Readings at MassThe readings shown here are for places where the Epiphany is celebrated on Sunday 8 January.If you are celebrating the Epiphany on Friday 6 January this year then these are not the right readings. To see the right readings, you need to set this web site to use your own local calendar. On this web page, find the list of dates. After the last date there is a heading which says “Calendar Used”. Click on the calendar name below this heading, and choose your...

Saturday 7 January 20237 January (before Epiphany) Saint Raymond Catholic Church, Springfield, VA Readings at MassThe readings shown here are for places where the Epiphany is celebrated on Sunday 8 January.If you are celebrating the Epiphany on Friday 6 January this year then these are not the right readings. To see the right readings, you need to set this web site to use your own local calendar. On this web page, find the list of dates. After the last date there is a heading which says “Calendar Used”. Click on the calendar name below this heading, and choose your local...

Friday 6 January 20236 January (before Epiphany) Cathedral of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine Readings at MassThe readings shown here are for places where the Epiphany is celebrated on Sunday 8 January.If you are celebrating the Epiphany on Friday 6 January this year then these are not the right readings. To see the right readings, you need to set this web site to use your own local calendar. On this web page, find the list of dates. After the last date there is a heading which says “Calendar Used”. Click on the calendar name below this heading,...

Russia President Vladimir Putin on Thursday allegedly called on Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to order a ceasefire in Ukraine in observation of Orthodox Christmas. "Given the appeal of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill, I instruct the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation to introduce a ceasefire regime along the entire line of contact between the parties in Ukraine from 12:00 on January 6 to 24:00 on January 7," a statement from the Kremlin chief said according to Russian media outlet RIA. According to Putin, the Russian Orthodox bishop called for a Christmas truce so that the "Orthodox people can attend...

Thursday 5 January 2023Saint John Neumann, Bishop on 5 January St. John Neumann Catholic Church, Sunbury, OH Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst reading1 John 3:11-21 ©Our love is to be something real and activeThis is the messageas you heard it from the beginning:that we are to love one another;not to be like Cain, who belonged to the Evil Oneand cut his brother’s throat;cut his brother’s throat simply for this reason,that his own life was evil and his brother lived a good life.You must not be surprised,...

Wednesday 4 January 2023 Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton on 4 January St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church, Houston. Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst reading1 John 3:7-10 ©No-one sins who has been begotten by GodMy children, do not let anyone lead you astray:to live a holy lifeis to be holy just as he is holy;to lead a sinful life is to belong to the devil,since the devil was a sinner from the beginning.It was to undo all that the devil has donethat the Son of God...

Tuesday 3 January 2023Christmas Weekday Saint-Étienne-du-Mont: Final Resting Place of Saint Genevieve Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(I).First reading1 John 2:29-3:6 ©Everyone must try to be as pure as ChristYou know that God is righteous –then you must recognise that everyone whose life is righteoushas been begotten by him.Think of the love that the Father has lavished on us,by letting us be called God’s children;and that is what we are.Because the world refused to acknowledge him,therefore it does not acknowledge us.My dear people, we are already the children of Godbut what we are to be in the future has...

Monday 2 January 2023Saints Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Doctors Church of Santa Maria della Concezione in Campo Marzio Chapel of St Gregory Nazianzen Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst reading1 John 2:22-28 ©The anointing he gave you teaches you everythingThe man who denies that Jesus is the Christ –he is the liar,he is Antichrist;and he is denying the Father as well as the Son,because no one who has the Father can deny the Son,and to acknowledge the Son is to have the Father as...

Sunday 1 January 2023Mary, the Holy Mother of God Solemnity Church of the Mother of God of Perpetual Help, Lviv, Ukraine Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(I).First readingNumbers 6:22-27 ©They are to call down my name on the sons of Israel, and I will bless themThe Lord spoke to Moses and said, ‘Say this to Aaron and his sons: “This is how you are to bless the sons of Israel. You shall say to them: May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord let his face shine on you and be gracious to you. May the...

Merry Christmas everyone! May God have mercy on us this coming year and relieve of us evil leadership. Turn back to God this year and live for Him. We will be blessed.

Saturday 31 December 20227th day within the octave of Christmas (optional commemoration of Saint Silvester I, Pope) St. Sylvester New Church, München Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(I).First reading1 John 2:18-21 ©You have been anointed by the Holy OneChildren, these are the last days;you were told that an Antichrist must come,and now several antichrists have already appeared;we know from this that these are the last days.Those rivals of Christ came out of our own number, but they had never really belonged;if they had belonged, they would have stayed with us;but they left us, to prove that not one of...

Friday 30 December 2022The Holy Family Feast Church of the Holy Family, Chicago, IL Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(I).When a Feast of the Lord is celebrated on a weekday there is only one reading before the Gospel, which may be chosen from either the first or second reading.First readingEcclesiasticus 3:2-6,12-14 ©He who fears the Lord respects his parentsThe Lord honours the father in his children, and upholds the rights of a mother over her sons.Whoever respects his father is atoning for his sins, he who honours his mother is like someone amassing a fortune.Whoever respects his father will...

Thursday 29 December 20225th day within the octave of Christmas (optional commemoration of Saint Thomas Becket, Bishop, Martyr) Shrine to Saint Thomas BecketCanterbury Cathedral, Kent, England Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(I).First reading1 John 2:3-11 ©Anyone who loves his brother is living in the lightWe can be sure that we know Godonly by keeping his commandments.Anyone who says, ‘I know him’,and does not keep his commandments,is a liar,refusing to admit the truth.But when anyone does obey what he has said,God’s love comes to perfection in him.We can be sure that we are in Godonly when the one who claims...

HILLSDALE COUNTY, Mich. (WILX/Gray News) – Troopers in Michigan pooled their own money to buy a family Christmas presents after they learned the father, whom they arrested, did not buy any gifts for his children. According to Michigan State Police, troopers were sent to the home on Christmas Day and arrested the father for domestic violence and felonious assault. While they were there, the troopers learned that the father had not given his four children any Christmas presents. After leaving the home, troopers decided to pool together their own money to buy and wrap gifts for the kids. The troopers...

A New Jersey mother accused of shooting her husband dead on Christmas Day had been fighting with him before the murder, according to new court documents. Marylue Wigglesworth, 51, has been arrested and charged with killing her husband, David, 57, at their May’s Landing home over the festive period. An affidavit reveals that Wigglesworth called 911 at around 10.19pm on Sunday and told the dispatcher that she and her husband had been in a fight.

A man released from prison two months ago is now the suspect in a bizarre DUI incident that included him attacking a Florida deputy, then rapping “you think I’m scared of prison,” according to the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office. The incident happened on Christmas when a crash was reported at the intersection of Sisco Road and Olivia Lane in Pomona Park, the sheriff’s office said in a news release. Pomona Park is about 75 miles south of Jacksonville. “Upon arrival, the deputy made contact with (a man) sitting in the driver’s seat of a Hyundai Sonata that appeared to have...

Wednesday 28 December 2022The Holy Innocents, Martyrs Feast Church of the Holy Innocents, New York City Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: A(I).First reading1 John 1:5-2:2 ©The blood of Jesus Christ purifies us all from sinThis is what we have heard from Jesus Christ,and the message that we are announcing to you:God is light; there is no darkness in him at all.If we say that we are in union with Godwhile we are living in darkness,we are lying because we are not living the truth.But if we live our lives in the light,as he is in the light,we are in...

OUR FIRST ANIMATED CHRISTMAS SPECIAL: How Joe Biden's Grinch Stole Baggage 🧳 A timeless Christmas classic about a mentally-ill Joe Biden employee who tried to ruin Christmas for women in America by stealing their luggage. Wait for the heartwarming ending — Merry Christmas!

Tuesday 27 December 2022 Saint John, Apostle, Evangelist Feast St John the Apostle Church Milford, DE Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(I).First reading1 John 1:1-4 ©The Word, who is life - this is our subjectSomething which has existed since the beginning,that we have heard,and we have seen with our own eyes;that we have watchedand touched with our hands:the Word, who is life –this is our subject.That life was made visible:we saw it and we are giving our testimony,telling you of the eternal lifewhich was with the Father and has been made visible to us.What we have seen and heardwe...