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Thursday 2 November 2023 All Souls Saint Victorinus side altar, St. George's Parish Church, Ptuj, Slovenia Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet or Black. Year: A(I).(The following psalms and readings are selected from the many options for this day.)First readingWisdom 3:1-9 ©The souls of the virtuous are in the hands of GodThe souls of the virtuous are in the hands of God,no torment shall ever touch them.In the eyes of the unwise, they did appear to die,their going looked like a disaster,their leaving us, like annihilation;but they are in peace.If they experienced punishment as men see it,their hope was rich with...

31 October 2023 Tuesday of week 30 in Ordinary Time St. Wolfgang Altar, Regensburg Cathedral Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingRomans 8:18-25 ©The whole creation is eagerly waiting for God to reveal his sonsI think that what we suffer in this life can never be compared to the glory, as yet unrevealed, which is waiting for us. The whole creation is eagerly waiting for God to reveal his sons. It was not for any fault on the part of creation that it was made unable to attain its purpose, it was made so by God; but creation...

30 October 2023 Monday of week 30 in Ordinary Time St. Alphonsus Rodriguez Catholic Church, Woodstock, MD Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingRomans 8:12-17 ©The Spirit himself and our spirit bear united witness that we are children of GodMy brothers, there is no necessity for us to obey our unspiritual selves or to live unspiritual lives. If you do live in that way, you are doomed to die; but if by the Spirit you put an end to the misdeeds of the body you will live. Everyone moved by the Spirit is a son of God. The spirit...

31 October 2022Monday of week 31 in Ordinary Time St Wolfgang Altarpiece, Salzkammergut, Austria Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(II).First readingPhilippians 2:1-4 ©Be united in your loveIf our life in Christ means anything to you, if love can persuade at all, or the Spirit that we have in common, or any tenderness and sympathy, then be united in your convictions and united in your love, with a common purpose and a common mind. That is the one thing which would make me completely happy. There must be no competition among you, no conceit; but everybody is to be self-effacing....

27 October 2022 Thursday of week 30 in Ordinary Time St. Anthony Church, Korets, Ukraine Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(II).First readingEphesians 6:10-20 ©Put on God's armour and resist the devilGrow strong in the Lord, with the strength of his power. Put God’s armour on so as to be able to resist the devil’s tactics. For it is not against human enemies that we have to struggle, but against the Sovereignties and the Powers who originate the darkness in this world, the spiritual army of evil in the heavens. That is why you must rely on God’s armour, or...

26 October 2022 Wednesday of week 30 in Ordinary Time Cathedral of the Exaltation of the Cross, Chernivtsi, Ukraine Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(II).First readingEphesians 6:1-9 ©Duties in domestic lifeChildren, be obedient to your parents in the Lord – that is your duty. The commandment that has a promise attached to it is: Honour your father and mother, and the promise is: and you will prosper and have a long life in the land. And parents, never drive your children to resentment but in bringing them up correct them and guide them as the Lord does. Slaves, be...

25 October 2022Tuesday of week 30 in Ordinary Time Sacred Heart of Jesus. Chernivtsi, Ukraine Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(II).First readingEphesians 5:21-33 ©Give way to one another in obedience to ChristGive way to one another in obedience to Christ. Wives should regard their husbands as they regard the Lord, since as Christ is head of the Church and saves the whole body, so is a husband the head of his wife; and as the Church submits to Christ, so should wives to their husbands, in everything. Husbands should love their wives just as Christ loved the Church and...

24 October 2022Monday of week 30 in Ordinary Time St Anthony Claret Church, Lakewood, NJ Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(II).First readingEphesians 4:32-5:8 ©Follow Christ by loving as he loved youBe friends with one another, and kind, forgiving each other as readily as God forgave you in Christ. Try, then, to imitate God as children of his that he loves and follow Christ loving as he loved you, giving himself up in our place as a fragrant offering and a sacrifice to God. Among you there must be not even a mention of fornication or impurity in any of...

21 August 202221st Sunday in Ordinary Time St Pius X Church, South Yarmouth, MA Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(II).First readingIsaiah 66:18-21 ©They will bring all your brothers from all the nationsThe Lord says this: I am coming to gather the nations of every language. They shall come to witness my glory. I will give them a sign and send some of their survivors to the nations: to Tarshish, Put, Lud, Moshech, Rosh, Tubal, and Javan, to the distant islands that have never heard of me or seen my glory. They will proclaim my glory to the nations. As...

March 20th 2022 3rd Sunday of Lent St. John Nepocene, Cleveland, Ohio Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White First readingExodus 3:1-8,13-15 ©'I AM has sent me to you'Moses was looking after the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law priest of Midian. He led his flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in the shape of a flame of fire, coming from the middle of a bush. Moses looked; there was the bush blazing but it was not being burnt up. ‘I must go and...

October 27, 2021 Wednesday of week 30 in Ordinary Time Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Bermuda Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingRomans 8:26-30 ©The Spirit himself expresses our plea in a way that could never be put into wordsThe Spirit comes to help us in our weakness. For when we cannot choose words in order to pray properly, the Spirit himself expresses our plea in a way that could never be put into words, and God who knows everything in our hearts knows perfectly well what he means, and that the pleas of the saints expressed by the Spirit are according to...

October 27th, 2021St. Ambrose Edward Barlow, English marty Thessaloniki, Church of Prophet EliasReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green First readingRomans 8:26-30 ©The Spirit himself expresses our plea in a way that could never be put into wordsThe Spirit comes to help us in our weakness. For when we cannot choose words in order to pray properly, the Spirit himself expresses our plea in a way that could never be put into words, and God who knows everything in our hearts knows perfectly well what he means, and that the pleas of the saints expressed by the Spirit are according to the...

October 26, 2021 Tuesday of week 30 in Ordinary Time Thessaloniki, Church of St Demetrius Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingRomans 8:18-25 ©The whole creation is eagerly waiting for God to reveal his sonsI think that what we suffer in this life can never be compared to the glory, as yet unrevealed, which is waiting for us. The whole creation is eagerly waiting for God to reveal his sons. It was not for any fault on the part of creation that it was made unable to attain its purpose, it was made so by God; but creation still retains the...

October 25th, 2021St. Ambrose Edward Barlow, English martyr Sacred Heart Church, Liverpool, UK Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green First readingRomans 8:12-17 ©The Spirit himself and our spirit bear united witness that we are children of GodMy brothers, there is no necessity for us to obey our unspiritual selves or to live unspiritual lives. If you do live in that way, you are doomed to die; but if by the Spirit you put an end to the misdeeds of the body you will live. Everyone moved by the Spirit is a son of God. The spirit you received is not the...

October 23, 2021 Saturday of week 29 in Ordinary Time The Grand Retablo of the Mission Basilica San Juan CapistranoSan Juan Capistrano, California The Trinity at top center, St. Junípero Serra top left, St. Kateri Tekakwitha top right, St. Francis bottom right, St. Joseph bottom left and Our Lady of Guadalupe bottom centerReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingRomans 8:1-11 ©The Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in youThe reason why those who are in Christ Jesus are not condemned is that the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from...

October 29, 2020 Thursday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time Reading 1 EPH 6:10-20 Brothers and sisters: Draw your strength from the Lord and from his mighty power. Put on the armor of God so that you may be able to stand firm against the tactics of the Devil. For our struggle is not with flesh and blood but with the principalities, with the powers, with the world rulers of this present darkness, with the evil spirits in the heavens. Therefore, put on the armor of God, that you may be able to resist on the evil day and,...

October 27 2020 Tuesday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time Thirtieth Tuesday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 480 Reading 1 EPH 5:21-33 Brothers and sisters: Be subordinate to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives should be subordinate to their husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is head of his wife just as Christ is head of the Church, he himself the savior of the Body. As the Church is subordinate to Christ, so wives should be subordinate to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ loved the Church and handed himself over...

October 26 2020 Monday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time Thirtieth Monday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 479 Reading 1 EPH 4:32–5:8 Brothers and sisters: Be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another as God has forgiven you in Christ. Be imitators of God, as beloved children, and live in love, as Christ loved us and handed himself over for us as a sacrificial offering to God for a fragrant aroma. Immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be mentioned among you, as is fitting among holy ones, no obscenity or silly or suggestive talk, which is...

October 24, 2020 Saturday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time Reading 1 EPH 4:7-16 Brothers and sisters: Grace was given to each of us according to the measure of Christ’s gift. Therefore, it says: He ascended on high and took prisoners captive; he gave gifts to men. What does “he ascended” mean except that he also descended into the lower regions of the earth? The one who descended is also the one who ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things. And he gave some as Apostles, others as prophets, others as evangelists, others as...

October 31 2019 Thursday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time Reading 1 Rom 8:31b-39 Brothers and sisters:If God is for us, who can be against us?He did not spare his own Sonbut handed him over for us all,how will he not also give us everything else along with him?Who will bring a charge against God's chosen ones?It is God who acquits us.Who will condemn?It is Christ Jesus who died, rather, was raised,who also is at the right hand of God,who indeed intercedes for us.What will separate us from the love of Christ?Will anguish, or distress, or persecution, or...