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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...

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....

4 September 2022 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Rose of Viterbo Convent, La Crosse, Wisconsin Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(II).First readingWisdom 9:13-18 ©Who can divine the will of God?What man indeed can know the intentions of God?Who can divine the will of the Lord?The reasonings of mortals are unsureand our intentions unstable;for a perishable body presses down the soul,and this tent of clay weighs down the teeming mind.It is hard enough for us to work out what is on earth,laborious to know what lies within our reach;who, then, can discover what is in the heavens?As for your...

28 August 202222nd Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Augustine's Catholic Church, Austin TX Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(II).First readingEcclesiasticus 3:19-21,30-31 ©Behave 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...

November 3rd, 2021St Martin de Porres St. Anne Catholic Church, Salt Lake city, Utah Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet / Black 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 that cannot hurt...

October 30th, 2021 Our Lady of the Shoals, Tuscumbia, Alabama Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green First 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 Elijah – how he complained to God about Israel’s behaviour? Let me put another question then: have the Jews fallen for ever, or have they...

October 29, 2021 Friday of week 30 in Ordinary Time Missionaries of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, Secondigliano, Italy Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.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...

November 4 2020 Memorial of Saint Charles Borromeo, bishop Thirty First Wednesday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 487 Reading 1 PHIL 2:12-18 My beloved, obedient as you have always been,not only when I am present but all the more now when I am absent,work out your salvation with fear and trembling.For God is the one who, for his good purpose,works in you both to desire and to work.Do everything without grumbling or questioning,that you may be blameless and innocent,children of God without blemishin the midst of a crooked and perverse generation,among whom you shine like lights in the world,as you hold...

November 3 2020 Memorial of Saint Martin de Porres Thirty First Tuesday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 669 Reading 1 PHIL 2:5-11 Brothers and sisters: Have among yourselves the same attitude that is also yours in Christ Jesus, Who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God something to be grasped. Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness; and, found human in appearance, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross. Because of this, God greatly exalted him and bestowed on him the name...

October 31 2020 Saturday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time Thirtieth Saturday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 484 Reading 1 PHIL 1:18B-26 Brothers and sisters: As long as in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is being proclaimed, and in that I rejoice. Indeed I shall continue to rejoice, for I know that this will result in deliverance for me through your prayers and support from the Spirit of Jesus Christ. My eager expectation and hope is that I shall not be put to shame in any way, but that with all boldness, now as always, Christ...

October 30 2020 Friday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time Thirtieth Friday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 483 Reading 1 PHIL 1:1-11 Paul and Timothy, slaves of Christ Jesus, to all the holy ones in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, with the bishops and deacons: grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I give thanks to my God at every remembrance of you, praying always with joy in my every prayer for all of you, because of your partnership for the Gospel from the first day until now. I am confident of...

November 6 2019 Wednesday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time Reading 1 Rom 13:8-10 Brothers and sisters:Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another;for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.The commandments, You shall not commit adultery;you shall not kill;you shall not steal;you shall not covet,and whatever other commandment there may be,are summed up in this saying, namely,You shall love your neighbor as yourself.Love does no evil to the neighbor;hence, love is the fulfillment of the law. Responsorial Psalm Ps 112:1b-2, 4-5, 9 R.( 5a) Blessed the man who is gracious and lends to those...