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18 April 2025Good FridaySacred Heart Church, Tampa, FloridaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: C(I).There is no Mass today. The readings given here are used in the afternoon celebration of the Lord's Passion.First readingIsaiah 52:13-53:12The servant of the Lord, an expiatory SacrificeSee, my servant will prosper,he shall be lifted up, exalted, rise to great heights.As the crowds were appalled on seeing him– so disfigured did he lookthat he seemed no longer human –so will the crowds be astonished at him,and kings stand speechless before him;for they shall see something never toldand witness something never heard before:‘Who could believe what we have...

17 April 2025 Maundy Thursday Pope Alexander I, St. Paul Cathedral, Vatican Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(I).These are the readings for the morning Chrism Mass.These are the readings for the evening Mass of the Lord's Supper.These are the readings for the morning Chrism Mass.First readingIsaiah 61:1-3,6,8-9The Lord has anointed meThe spirit of the Lord has been given to me,for the Lord has anointed me.He has sent me to bring good news to the poor,to bind up hearts that are broken;to proclaim liberty to captives,freedom to those in prison;to proclaim a year of favour from the Lord,a day...

16 April 2025 Wednesday of Holy Week Lourdes basilicaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: C(I).First readingIsaiah 50:4-9Who thinks he has a case against me? Let him approach meThe Lord has given mea disciple’s tongue.So that I may know how to reply to the weariedhe provides me with speech.Each morning he wakes me to hear,to listen like a disciple.The 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...

15 April 2025 Tuesday of Holy Week Assumption Ukrainian Catholic Church, OmahaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: C(I).First readingIsaiah 49:1-6I will make you the light of the nations so that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earthIslands, listen to me,pay attention, remotest peoples.The Lord called me before I was born,from my mother’s womb he pronounced my name.He made my mouth a sharp sword,and hid me in the shadow of his hand.He made me into a sharpened arrow,and concealed me in his quiver.He said to me, ‘You are my servant (Israel)in whom I shall be glorified’;while I was...

14 April 2025 Monday of Holy Week Saint Lidwina Basilica, SchiedamReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: C(I).First readingIsaiah 42:1-7Here is my chosen one in whom my soul delightsHere is my servant whom I uphold,my chosen one in whom my soul delights.I have endowed him with my spiritthat he may bring true justice to the nations.He does not cry out or shout aloud,or make his voice heard in the streets.He does not break the crushed reed,nor quench the wavering flame.Faithfully he brings true justice;he will neither waver, nor be crusheduntil true justice is established on earth,for the islands are awaiting his...

13 April 2025 Palm SundayInterior of the chapel of San Hermenegildo in the cathedral of Seville, (Spain). In the foreground you can see the tomb of Cardinal Juan de Cervantes (1382-1453), and on the left the Baroque altarpiece of the chapel, which is dedicated to San Hermenegild.Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: C(I).This gospel is read at the procession with palms before Mass.GospelLuke 19:28-40Blessings on him who comes in the name of the Lord.Jesus went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.When he drew near to Bethphage and Bethany,at the mount that is called Olivet,he sent two disciples,saying, ‘Go into...

12 April 2025 Saturday of the 5th week of LentThe tomb of Saint Teresa of Jesus of the Andes in the crypt of his sanctuary of Auco, ChileReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: C(I).First readingEzekiel 37:21-28I will bring them home and make them one nationThe Lord says this: ‘I am going to take the sons of Israel from the nations where they have gone. I shall gather them together from everywhere and bring them home to their own soil. I shall make them into one nation in my own land and on the mountains of Israel, and one king...

11 April 2025 Friday of the 5th week of Lent (optional commemoration of Saint Stanislaus, Bishop, Martyr)Saint Stanislaus Roman Catholic Church (Polish) - Milwaukee, WIReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: C(I).First readingJeremiah 20:10-13He has delivered the soul of the needy from the hands of evil menJeremiah said:I hear so many disparaging me,‘“Terror from every side!”Denounce him! Let us denounce him!’All those who used to be my friendswatched for my downfall,‘Perhaps he will be seduced into error.Then we will master himand take our revenge!’But the Lord is at my side, a mighty hero;my opponents will stumble, mastered,confounded by their failure;everlasting,...

10 April 2025Thursday of the 5th week of LentSanta Maddalena di Canossa, RomeReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: C(I).First readingGenesis 17:3-9Abraham, the father of a multitude of nationsAbram bowed to the ground and God said this to him, ‘Here now is my covenant with you: you shall become the father of a multitude of nations. You shall no longer be called Abram; your name shall be Abraham, for I make you father of a multitude of nations. I will make you most fruitful. I will make you into nations, and your issue shall be kings. I will establish my...

9 April 2025 Wednesday of the 5th week of Lent Sanctuary of St. Casilda, ToledoReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: C(I).First readingDaniel 3:14-20,24-25,28God has sent his angel to rescue his servantsKing Nebuchadnezzar said, ‘Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, is it true that you do not serve my gods, and that you refuse to worship the golden statue I have erected? When you hear the sound of horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, or any other instrument, are you prepared to prostrate yourselves and worship the statue I have made? If you refuse to worship it, you must be thrown straight...

8 April 2025 Tuesday of the 5th week of Lent Tours Cathedral, main altarReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: C(I).First readingNumbers 21:4-9If anyone was bitten by a serpent, he looked up at the bronze serpent and livedThe Israelites left Mount Hor by the road to the Sea of Suph, to skirt the land of Edom. On the way the people lost patience. They spoke against God and against Moses, ‘Why did you bring us out of Egypt to die in this wilderness? For there is neither bread nor water here; we are sick of this unsatisfying food.’ At this...

7 April 2025 Monday of the 5th week of Lent (optional commemoration of Saint John Baptist de la Salle, Priest) St. John Baptist De La Salle, Granada Hills, CA Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: C(I).First readingDaniel 13:1-9,15-17,19-30,33-62Susanna and the eldersIn Babylon there lived a man named Joakim. He had married Susanna daughter of Hilkiah, a woman of great beauty; and she was God-fearing, because her parents were worthy people and had instructed their daughter in the Law of Moses. Joakim was a very rich man, and had a garden attached to his house; the Jews would often visit him...

6 April 20255th Sunday of Lent Crypt, which houses the relics of Saint Sixtus I, Alife Cathedral, ItalyReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: C(I).First readingIsaiah 43:16-21See, I am doing a new deed, and I will give my chosen people drinkThus says the Lord,who made a way through the sea,a path in the great waters;who put chariots and horse in the fieldand a powerful armywhich lay there never to rise again,snuffed out, put out like a wick:No need to recall the past,no need to think about what was done before.See, I am doing a new deed,even now it comes to...

5 April 2025 Saturday of the 4th week of Lent (optional commemoration of Saint Vincent Ferrer, Priest) Church of St. Vincent Ferrer, NY City Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: C(I).First readingJeremiah 11:18-20'Let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name may be quickly forgotten'The Lord revealed it to me; I was warned. O Lord, that was when you opened my eyes to their scheming. I for my part was like a trustful lamb being led to the slaughter-house, not knowing the schemes they were plotting against me, ‘Let us destroy the tree...

4 April 2025 Friday of the 4th week of Lent (optional commemoration of Saint Isidore, Bishop, Doctor) High Altar in Seville Cathedral Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: C(I).First readingWisdom 2:1,12-22Let us lie in wait for the virtuous man and condemn him to a shameful deathThe godless say to themselves, with their misguided reasoning:‘Our life is short and dreary,nor is there any relief when man’s end comes,nor is anyone known who can give release from Hades.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...

3 April 2025 Thursday of the 4th week of Lent The Shrine of St Richard Bishop of Chichester 1245 - 1253, Chichester Cathedral, UKReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: C(I).First readingExodus 32:7-14Moses pleads with the Lord his God to spare IsraelThe Lord spoke to Moses, ‘Go down now, because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have apostatised. They have been quick to leave the way I marked out for them; they have made themselves a calf of molten metal and have worshipped it and offered it sacrifice. “Here is your God, Israel,” they have cried, “who brought...

2 April 2025 Wednesday of the 4th week of Lent (optional commemoration of Saint Francis of Paola, hermit) St. Francis of Paola Church, Milan, ItalyReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: C(I).First readingIsaiah 49:8-15On the day of salvation I will help youThus says the Lord:At the favourable time I will answer you,on the day of salvation I will help you.(I have formed you and have appointed youas covenant of the people.)I will restore the landand assign you the estates that lie waste.I will say to the prisoners, ‘Come out’,to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’On every roadway they will graze,and...

1 April 2025 Tuesday of the 4th week of Lent Church of St. Nuno Alvarez Pereira, Adoria (?) Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: C(I).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 outer east gate...

31 March 2025 Monday of the 4th week of LentImmaculate Conception Ukrainian Catholic Church, Hamtramck, MI Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: C(I).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...

30 March 2025 4th Sunday of Lent (Laetare Sunday) St Church of St. John Climacus, SinaiReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Rose or Violet. Year: C(I).First readingJoshua 5:9-12The Israelites celebrate their first Passover in the Promised LandThe Lord said to Joshua, ‘Today I have taken the shame of Egypt away from you.’ The Israelites pitched their camp at Gilgal and kept the Passover there on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening in the plain of Jericho. On the morrow of the Passover they tasted the produce of that country, unleavened bread and roasted ears of corn, that same day. From...