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Liturgy of the Word The first part of the Catholic Mass is known as the Liturgy of the Word. It consists of the congregation listening to the word of God. The word “liturgy” means the rites and ceremonies of the Mass. During the Mass, trained parishioners called lectors read aloud two Scripture passages to the congregation; typically one from the Old Testament and one from the New Testament. In between the readings, a psalm is sung or read. The readings are all found in the Bible, but the lectors read from a book known as the lectionary. This book...

Why do Catholics in America support homosexuality proportionately more than the general population? Two reasons: lack of authentic Catholic teaching regarding homosexuality, and the Church omitted one of the clearest Bible verses on homosexuality from the lectionary. One of the very unfortunate results of the New Lectionary is that verses that might be deemed offensive have been omitted from our liturgical celebrations. (I've written about how three "offensive" Psalms were removed from the Liturgy of the Hours after 1971 here.) Verses against Homosexuality Omitted from Current LectionaryAn example of the silence of offensive passages is from the readings of last...

The Catholic Lectionary Websitecompiled by Felix Just, S.J., Ph.D.Introduction / Purpose: Many other websites provide easy access to the scripture readings assigned to particular Sundays and/or Weekdays in the Lectionaries of various Christian denominations (see my Links page). For the full text of the readings for the current and upcoming months in the Roman Catholic liturgy, see especially the website of the USCCB.In contrast, this website provides comprehensive tables of the scripture readings from several Latin and English editions of the Catholic Lectionary for Mass, so that you can easily obtain an overview of all the readings used in...

Here is video another in the series on the Sunday readings done by John Paul the Great Catholic University. Well done!!! http://singinginthereign.blogspot.com/2009/07/video-for-sundays-lectionary-readings.html

A new video series on the Sunday Lectionary readings offered by Prof. Michael Barber of John Paul the Great Catholic University. The video was produced by students there.

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OPENING COLLECT: God of all nations, you have revealed your will to your people and promissed your help to us all. Help us to hear and do what you comand, that the darkness may be overcome by the power of your light, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. EPISTLE • 2 Corinthians 1:1-11 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God that is in Corinth, including all the saints throughout Achaia: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be the...

Gutting the Gospels: The Sacrilegious Stripping of the Novus Ordo Lectionary Introduction When the Consilium ad exsequendam Constitutionem de Sacra Liturgica (Concilium for the Implementation of the Constitution on the Liturgy) released its new creation called the Novus Ordo Missae, very few people were aware that a full-scale liturgical revolution had been set in motion. This New Order of the Mass (hereafter, NOM) was not, as some claimed, merely a "restoration" of the Traditional Mass. Rather, it was a complete, wall-to-wall, top-to-bottom innovation - a brand new creation, conceived in the minds of the members of the Concilium. Far from...

July 14, 2003 Memorial of Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, virgin Psalm: Monday 31 Reading I Responsorial Psalm Gospel Reading IEx 1:8-14, 22 A new king, who knew nothing of Joseph, came to power in Egypt. He said to his subjects, "Look how numerous and powerful the people of the children of Israel are growing, more so than we ourselves! Come, let us deal shrewdly with them to stop their increase; otherwise, in time of war they too may join our enemies to fight against us, and so leave our country." Accordingly, taskmasters were set over the children of Israel to...

July 11, 2003 Memorial of Saint Benedict, abbot Psalm: Friday 30 Reading I Responsorial Psalm Gospel Reading IGn 46:1-7, 28-30 Israel set out with all that was his. When he arrived at Beer-sheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. There God, speaking to Israel in a vision by night, called, "Jacob! Jacob!" He answered, "Here I am." Then he said: "I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for there I will make you a great nation. Not only will I go down to Egypt with...

July 10, 2003 Thursday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time Psalm: Thursday 30 Reading I Responsorial Psalm Gospel Reading IGn 44:18-21, 23b-29; 45:1-5 Judah approached Joseph and said: "I beg you, my lord, let your servant speak earnestly to my lord, and do not become angry with your servant, for you are the equal of Pharaoh. My lord asked your servants, ‘Have you a father, or another brother?' So we said to my lord, ‘We have an aged father, and a young brother, the child of his old age. This one's full brother is dead, and since he...