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17 March 2026 Tuesday of the 4th week of Lent (optional commemoration of Saint Patrick, Bishop, Missionary) Saint Patrick's Cathedral, New York CityReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(II).First readingEzekiel 47:1-9,12Wherever the water flows, it will bring life and healthThe angel brought me to the entrance of the Temple, where a stream came out from under the Temple threshold and flowed eastwards, since the Temple faced east. The water flowed from under the right side of the Temple, south of the altar. He took me out by the north gate and led me right round outside as far as the...

16 March 2026 Monday of the 4th week of Lent reconstructed cell St Julian's Church, Norwich, UKReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(II).First readingIsaiah 65:17-21Be glad and rejoice for ever at what I am creatingThus says the Lord: Now I create new heavens and a new earth, and the past will not be remembered, and will come no more to men’s minds. Be glad and rejoice for ever and ever for what I am creating, because I now create Jerusalem ‘Joy’ and her people ‘Gladness.’ I shall rejoice over Jerusalem and exult in my people. No more will the...

15 March 2026 4th Sunday of Lent (Laetare Sunday) St Clement Mary Hofbauer Parish - Rosedale (Maryland)Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Rose or Violet. Year: A(II).First reading1 Samuel 16:1,6-7,10-13David is anointed by SamuelThe Lord said to Samuel, ‘Fill your horn with oil and go. I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem, for I have chosen myself a king among his sons.’ When Samuel arrived, he caught sight of Eliab and thought, ‘Surely the Lord’s anointed stands there before him,’ but the Lord said to Samuel, ‘Take no notice of his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him:...

14 March 2026 Saturday of the 3rd week of Lent St. Matilda ruins, Marmora, Canada Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(II).First readingHosea 5:15-6:6What I want is love, not sacrifice and holocaustsThe Lord says this:They will search for me in their misery.‘Come, let us return to the Lord.He has torn us to pieces, but he will heal us;he has struck us down, but he will bandage our wounds;after a day or two he will bring us back to life,on the third day he will raise usand we shall live in his presence.Let us set ourselves to know the Lord;that...

13 March 2026 Friday of the 3rd week of LentSt. Leander Church, San Leandro, CA Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(II).First readingHosea 14:2-10A call to conversion and promise of safetyThe Lord says this:Israel, come back to the Lord your God;your iniquity was the cause of your downfall.Provide yourself with wordsand come back to the Lord.Say to him, ‘Take all iniquity awayso that we may have happiness againand offer you our words of praise.Assyria cannot save us,we will not ride horses any more,or say, “Our God!” to what our own hands have made,for you are the one in whom...

12 March 2026 Thursday of the 3rd week of Lent St Fina Chapel, Collegiate Church of the Assumption in San Gimignano, Italy Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(II).First readingJeremiah 7:23-28Here is the nation that will not listen to the voice of the Lord its GodThese were my orders: Listen to my voice, then I will be your God and you shall be my people. Follow right to the end the way that I mark out for you, and you will prosper. But they did not listen, they did not pay attention; they followed the dictates of their own...

11 March 2026 Wednesday of the 3rd week of LentSt Vincentius Church, Volendam, The NetherlandsReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(II).First readingDeuteronomy 4:1,5-9Keep these laws and observe themMoses 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. ‘See, as the Lord my God has commanded me, I teach you the laws and customs that you are to observe in the land you...

10 March 2026 Tuesday of the 3rd week of LentShrine of St John Ogilvie, in St Aloysius', the main Jesuit church in Glasgow Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(II).First readingDaniel 3:25,34-43Let our sacrifice to you today be a contrite soul and humbled spiritAzariah stood in the heart of the fire, and he began to pray:Oh! Do not abandon us for ever,for the sake of your name;do not repudiate your covenant,do not withdraw your favour from us,for the sake of Abraham, your friend,of Isaac your servant,and of Israel your holy one,to whom you promised descendants as countless as the...

9 March 2026Monday of the 3rd week of Lent (optional commemoration of Saint Frances of Rome, Religious)St Frances of Rome, Ross on Wye, UKReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(II).First reading2 Kings 5:1-15There were many lepers in Israel, but only Naaman, the Syrian, was curedNaaman, army commander to the king of Aram, was a man who enjoyed his master’s respect and favour, since through him the Lord had granted victory to the Aramaeans. But the man was a leper. Now on one of their raids, the Aramaeans had carried off from the land of Israel a little girl who had...

8 March 2026 3rd Sunday of Lent St John of God Church, Somerset, MAReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(II).First readingExodus 17:3-7Strike the rock, and water will flow from itTormented by thirst, the people complained against Moses. ‘Why did you bring us out of Egypt?’ they said. ‘Was it so that I should die of thirst, my children too, and my cattle?’ Moses appealed to the Lord. ‘How am I to deal with this people?” he said. ‘A little more and they will stone me!’ the Lord said to Moses, ‘Take with you some of the elders of Israel...

7 March 2026 Saturday of the 2nd week of Lent (optional commemoration of Saints Perpetua and Felicity, Martyrs) Saints Felicitas & Perpetua Church, San Marino, CAReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(II).First readingMicah 7:14-15,18-20Have pity on us one more timeWith shepherd’s crook, O Lord, lead your people to pasture,the flock that is your heritage,living confined in a forestwith meadow land all around.Let them pasture in Bashan and Gileadas in the days of old.As in the days when you came out of Egyptgrant us to see wonders.What god can compare with you: taking fault away,pardoning crime,not cherishing anger for everbut...

6 March 2026 Friday of the 2nd week of Lent St Fridolin Cathedral In Bad Saeckingen. GermanyReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(II).First readingGenesis 37:3-4,12-13,17-28Let us kill him: then we shall see what becomes of his dreamsIsrael loved Joseph more than all his other sons, for he was the son of his old age, and he had a coat with long sleeves made for him. But his brothers, seeing how his father loved him more than all his other sons, came to hate him so much that they could not say a civil word to him. His brothers went...

5 March 2026 Thursday of the 2nd week of Lent St Piran's Oratory in its excavated state, Perranporth, UK Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(II).First readingJeremiah 17:5-10A curse on the man who puts his trust in man and turns from the LordThe Lord says this:‘A curse on the man who puts his trust in man,who relies on things of flesh,whose heart turns from the Lord.He is like dry scrub in the wastelands:if good comes, he has no eyes for it,he settles in the parched places of the wilderness,a salt land, uninhabited.‘A blessing on the man who puts his...

4 March 2026 Wednesday of the 2nd week of Lent (optional commemoration of Saint Casimir)St. Casimir Church, ClevelandReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(II).First readingJeremiah 18:18-20My enemies are digging a pit for me‘Come on,’ they said, ‘let us concoct a plot against Jeremiah; the priest will not run short of instruction without him, nor the sage of advice, nor the prophet of the word. Come on, let us hit at him with his own tongue; let us listen carefully to every word he says.’Listen to me, O Lord,hear what my adversaries are saying.Should evil be returned for good?For they...

3 March 2026 Tuesday of the 2nd week of Lent (optional commemoration of Saint Katharine Drexel) Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament at prayer, Trevose, PAReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(II).First readingIsaiah 1:10,16-20Cease to do evil; learn to do goodHear the word of the Lord,you rulers of Sodom;listen to the command of our God,you people of Gomorrah.‘Wash, make yourselves clean.Take your wrong-doing out of my sight.Cease to do evil.Learn to do good,search for justice,help the oppressed,be just to the orphan,plead for the widow.‘Come now, let us talk this over,says the Lord.Though your sins are like scarlet,they shall be as...

2 March 2026 Monday of the 2nd week of Lent St. Agnes of Bohemia, ChicagoReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(II).First readingDaniel 9:4-10Yours is the integrity, Lord; ours the shameO Lord, God great and to be feared, you keep the covenant and have kindness for those who love you and keep your commandments: we have sinned, we have done wrong, we have acted wickedly, we have betrayed your commandments and your ordinances and turned away from them. We have not listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, our ancestors, and...

1 March 2026 2nd Sunday of Lent St David's Cathedral, Pembrokeshire, Wales Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(II).First readingGenesis 12:1-4All the tribes of the earth shall bless themselves by youThe Lord said to Abram, ‘Leave your country, your family and your father’s house, for the land I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name so famous that it will be used as a blessing.‘I will bless those who bless you:I will curse those who slight you.All the tribes of the earthshall bless themselves by you.’So Abram went...

28 February 2026 Saturday of the 1st week of Lent Saint Hilarius church in Limons, Puy-de-Dôme, France Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(II).First readingDeuteronomy 26:16-19You will be a people consecrated to the LordMoses said to the people: ‘The Lord your God today commands you to observe these laws and customs; you must keep and observe them with all your heart and with all your soul. ‘You have today made this declaration about the Lord: that he will be your God, but only if you follow his ways, keep his statutes, his commandments, his ordinances, and listen to his...

27 February 2026 Friday of the 1st week of Lent (optional commemoration of Saint Gregory of Narek, Abbot and Doctor of the Church) St. Gregory of Narek Armenian Church in Cleveland Ohio Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(II).First readingEzekiel 18:21-28I prefer to see the wicked man renounce his wickedness and liveThus says the Lord: ‘If the wicked man renounces all the sins he has committed, respects my laws and is law-abiding and honest, he will certainly live; he will not die. All the sins he committed will be forgotten from then on; he shall live because of the...

26 February 2026 Thursday of the 1st week of Lent Basilica of Saint-Denis, where the relics of St. Isabelle of France were moved after the destruction of churches in the French Revolution.Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(II).First readingEsther 4:17I am alone, Lord, and have no-one but youQueen Esther took refuge with the Lord in the mortal peril which had overtaken her. She besought the Lord God of Israel in these words:‘My Lord, our King, the only one,come to my help, for I am aloneand have no helper but youand am about to take my life in my hands.‘I have...