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6 November 2025Thursday of week 31 in Ordinary TimeHoly Cross Cathedral, Lagos, NigeriaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingRomans 14:7-12Each of us must give an account of himself to GodThe life and death of each of us has its influence on others; if we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord, so that alive or dead we belong to the Lord. This explains why Christ both died and came to life: it was so that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living. This is also...

5 November 2025 Wednesday of week 31 in Ordinary Time Easter celebration, Nigeria Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingRomans 13:8-10Your only debt should be the debt of mutual loveAvoid getting into debt, except the debt of mutual love. If you love your fellow men you have carried out your obligations. All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbour as yourself. Love is the one thing that cannot hurt your neighbour;...

4 November 2025 Saint Charles Borromeo, Bishop on Tuesday of week 31 in Ordinary Time Sacred Heart Cathedral, Calabar, Nigeria Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingRomans 12:5-16Use the gifts you have been givenAll of us, in union with Christ, form one body, and as parts of it we belong to each other. Our gifts differ according to the grace given us. If your gift is prophecy, then use it as your faith suggests; if administration, then use it for administration; if teaching, then use it...

3 November 2025 Monday of week 31 in Ordinary Time St. Mary Catholic Church, Enugu, Nigeria Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingRomans 11:29-36God never takes back his giftsGod never takes back his gifts or revokes his choice. Just as you changed from being disobedient to God, and now enjoy mercy because of their disobedience, so those who are disobedient now – and only because of the mercy shown to you – will also enjoy mercy eventually. God has imprisoned all men in their own disobedience only to show mercy to all mankind. How rich are the depths...

31 October 2025Friday of week 30 in Ordinary TimeSt. Wolfgang, RegensburgReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingRomans 9:1-5I would willingly be condemned if it could help my brothersWhat I want to say now is no pretence; I say it in union with Christ – it is the truth – my conscience in union with the Holy Spirit assures me of it too. What I want to say is this: my sorrow is so great, my mental anguish so endless, I would willingly be condemned and be cut off from Christ if it could help my brothers of Israel,...

31 August 2025 22nd Sunday in Ordinary TimeLindisfarne Priory, Holy Island, England Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingEcclesiasticus 3:19-21,30-31Behave humbly, and you will find favour with the LordMy son, be gentle in carrying out your business, and you will be better loved than a lavish giver.The greater you are, the more you should behave humbly, and then you will find favour with the Lord;for great though the power of the Lord is, he accepts the homage of the humble.There is no cure for the proud man’s malady, since an evil growth has taken root in him.The heart of...

14 December 2024 Saint John of the Cross, Priest, Doctor on Saturday of the 2nd week of Advent St. John of the Cross Catholic Church Western Springs, ILReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingEcclesiasticus 48:1-4,9-12The prophet Elijah will come againThe prophet Elijah arose like a fire, his word flaring like a torch.It was he who brought famine on the people, and who decimated them in his zeal.By the word of the Lord, he shut up the heavens, he also, three times, brought down fire.How glorious you...

6 November 2024Wednesday of week 31 in Ordinary TimeSaint-Léonard-de-Noblat Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First readingPhilippians 2:12-18Work for your salvation, for God is working in youMy dear friends, continue to do as I tell you, as you always have; not only as you did when I was there with you, but even more now that I am no longer there; and work for your salvation ‘in fear and trembling.’ It is God, for his own loving purpose, who puts both the will and the action into you. Do all that has to be done without complaining or arguing and...

5 November 2024 Tuesday of week 31 in Ordinary Time Saint Elizabeth, Mother of John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church in Saint Louis, Missouri,Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First readingPhilippians 2:5-11Christ humbled himself but God raised him highIn your minds you must be the same as Christ Jesus:His state was divine,yet he did not clingto his equality with Godbut emptied himselfto assume the condition of a slave,and became as men are;and being as all men are,he was humbler yet,even to accepting death,death on a cross.But God raised him highand gave him the namewhich is above all other namesso...

4 November 2024 Saint Charles Borromeo, Bishop on Monday of week 31 in Ordinary TimeChurch of St. Charles Borromeo, Saint Anthony, MinnesotaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: B(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingPhilippians 2:1-4Be 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...

31 July 2024 Saint Ignatius Loyola, Priest on Wednesday of week 17 in Ordinary TimeSt. Ignatius of Loyola Church, Houghton, MichiganReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: B(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingJeremiah 15:10,16-21They will not overcome you, because I am with you‘Woe is me, my mother, for you have borne meto be a man of strife and of dissension for all the land.I neither lend nor borrow,yet all of them curse me.‘When your words came, I devoured them:your word was my delightand the joy of my heart;for I was called by...

14 December 2023 Saint John of the Cross, Priest, Doctor on Thursday of the 2nd week of Advent St. John of the Cross parish, Manila Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: B(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingIsaiah 41:13-20 ©I, the Holy One of Israel, am your redeemerI, the Lord, your God,I am holding you by the right hand;I tell you, ‘Do not be afraid,I will help you.’Do not be afraid, Jacob, poor worm,Israel, puny mite.I will help you – it is the Lord who speaks –the Holy One of Israel is your...

8 November 2023 Wednesday of week 31 in Ordinary TimeSt. Elizabeth of the Trinity Parish Chicago, IL Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingRomans 13:8-10 ©Your only debt should be the debt of mutual loveAvoid getting into debt, except the debt of mutual love. If you love your fellow men you have carried out your obligations. All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbour as yourself. Love is the one thing...

7 November 2023 Tuesday of week 31 in Ordinary Time The Tomb of Bl. Palau in the chapel of the Carmelite Missionaries of Tarragona. Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingRomans 12:5-16 ©Use the gifts you have been givenAll of us, in union with Christ, form one body, and as parts of it we belong to each other. Our gifts differ according to the grace given us. If your gift is prophecy, then use it as your faith suggests; if administration, then use it for administration; if teaching, then use it for teaching. Let the preachers deliver sermons,...

6 November 2023 Monday of week 31 in Ordinary Time Saint Leonard's Church, Samobor, Croatia Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingRomans 11:29-36 ©God never takes back his giftsGod never takes back his gifts or revokes his choice. Just as you changed from being disobedient to God, and now enjoy mercy because of their disobedience, so those who are disobedient now – and only because of the mercy shown to you – will also enjoy mercy eventually. God has imprisoned all men in their own disobedience only to show mercy to all mankind. How rich are the depths of...

4 November 2023 Saint Charles Borromeo, Bishop on Saturday of week 30 in Ordinary Time Saint Charles Borromeo Church, Pittsfield MA Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingRomans 11:1-2,11-12,25-29 ©The Jews have not fallen for everLet me put a question: is it possible that God has rejected his people? Of course not. I, an Israelite, descended from Abraham through the tribe of Benjamin, could never agree that God had rejected his people, the people he chose specially long ago. Do you remember what scripture says of...

3 November 2023 Friday of week 30 in Ordinary Time St Martin de Porres Catholic Church, Boulder, CO Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingRomans 9:1-5 ©I would willingly be condemned if it could help my brothersWhat I want to say now is no pretence; I say it in union with Christ – it is the truth – my conscience in union with the Holy Spirit assures me of it too. What I want to say is this: my sorrow is so great, my mental anguish so endless, I would willingly be condemned and be cut off from...

31 July 2023 Saint Ignatius Loyola, Priest on Monday of week 17 in Ordinary TimeWorship - Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, NYCReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingExodus 32:15-24,30-34 ©The golden calfMoses made his way back down the mountain with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands, tablets inscribed on both sides, inscribed on the front and on the back. These tablets were the work of God, and the writing on them was God’s writing engraved on the tablets. Joshua heard the noise of...

14 December 2022 Saint John of the Cross, Priest, Doctor on Wednesday of the 3rd week of Advent St John Of The Cross Parish, Western Springs IL Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingIsaiah 45:6-8,18,21-25 ©I, the Lord, shall create deliveranceApart from me, all is nothing.I am the Lord, unrivalled,I form the light and create the dark.I make good fortune and create calamity,it is I, the Lord, who do all this.Send victory like a dew, you heavens,and let the clouds rain it down.Let the earth openfor salvation...

Wednesday 2 November 2022All Souls Mission San Juan Capistrano, San Juan Capistrano CA Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet or Black. Year: C(II).(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 immortality;slight was their...