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22 June 2025 The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ Solemnity St Albans Cathedral, St Albans, EnglandReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(I).First readingGenesis 14:18-20Melchizedek brought bread and wineMelchizedek king of Salem brought bread and wine; he was a priest of God Most High. He pronounced this blessing:‘Blessed be Abram by God Most High, creator of heaven and earth,and blessed be God Most High for handing over your enemies to you.’And Abram gave him a tithe of everything.How to listenResponsorial PsalmPsalm 109(110):1-4You are a priest for ever, a priest like Melchizedek of old.The Lord’s revelation to my Master:...

16 March 2025 2nd Sunday of Lent Side view of the altar of the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Transit and Santo Cura BrocheroReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: C(I).First readingGenesis 15:5-12,17-18God enters into a Covenant with Abraham, the man of faithTaking Abram outside, the Lord said, ‘Look up to heaven and count the stars if you can.’ ‘Such will be your descendants,’ he told him. Abram put his faith in the Lord, who counted this as making him justified. ‘I am the Lord’ he said to him ‘who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldaeans to make...

6 March 2025 Thursday after Ash Wednesday St. Fridolin cathedral in Bad Saeckingen, GermanyReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: C(I).First readingDeuteronomy 30:15-20I set before you today life or death, blessing or curseMoses said to the people: ‘See, today I set before you life and prosperity, death and disaster. If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I enjoin on you today, if you love the Lord your God and follow his ways, if you keep his commandments, his laws, his customs, you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the...

5 February 2025 Saint Agatha, Virgin, Martyr on Wednesday of week 4 in Ordinary Time St Agatha, Portsmouth, UKReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: C(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingHebrews 12:4-7,11-15God is training you as his sonsIn the fight against sin, you have not yet had to keep fighting to the point of death. Have you forgotten that encouraging text in which you are addressed as sons? My son, when the Lord corrects you, do not treat it lightly; but do not get discouraged when he reprimands you. For the Lord...

1 October 2024 Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus, Virgin, Doctor on Tuesday of week 26 in Ordinary Time Roman-catholic church of Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus, Pavlodar, Kazakhstan Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: B(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingJob 3:1-3,11-17,20-23Why did I not perish on the day I was born?Job broke the silence and cursed the day of his birth. This is what he said:May the day perish when I was born, and the night that told of a boy conceived.Why did I not die new-born, not perish...

Mmm dd, 2024 TITLE St. Jerome Church - Walbridge, OhioReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: B(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingJob 1:6-22The Lord gave, the Lord has taken back: blessed be the name of the LordOne day the Sons of God came to attend on the Lord, and among them was Satan. So the Lord said to Satan, ‘Where have you been?’ ‘Round the earth,’ he answered ‘roaming about.’ So the Lord asked him, ‘Did you notice my servant Job? There is no one like him on the earth: a sound...

28 September 2024 Saturday of week 25 in Ordinary Time St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church, Wahoo, NEReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First readingEcclesiastes 11:9-12:8Remember your creator in the days of your youthRejoice in your youth, you who are young;let your heart give you joy in your young days.Follow the promptings of your heartand the desires of your eyes.But this you must know: for all these things God will bring you to judgement.Cast worry from your heart,shield your flesh from pain.Yet youth, the age of dark hair, is vanity. And remember your creator in the days of your youth, before...

27 September 2024 Saint Vincent de Paul, Priest on Friday of week 25 in Ordinary Time St. Vincent De Paul Los AngelesReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: B(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingEcclesiastes 3:1-11There is a time for every occupation under heavenThere is a season for everything, a time for every occupation under heaven:A time for giving birth, a time for dying; a time for planting, a time for uprooting what has been planted.A time for killing, a time for healing; a time for knocking down, a time for building.A time...

26 September 2024 Thursday of week 25 in Ordinary Time The Church of Santi Cosma e Damiano in RomeReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First readingEcclesiastes 1:2-11Nothing is new and all is vanityVanity of vanities, the Preacher says. Vanity of vanities. All is vanity! For all his toil, his toil under the sun, what does man gain by it? A generation goes, a generation comes, yet the earth stands firm for ever. The sun rises, the sun sets; then to its place it speeds and there it rises. Southward goes the wind, then turns to the north; it turns...

25 September 2024 Wednesday of week 25 in Ordinary Time Chapel of Sanint Fermin, Paplona, Spain Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First readingProverbs 30:5-9Give me neither riches nor poverty, only my shareEvery word of God is unalloyed, he is the shield of those who take refuge in him.To his words make no addition, lest he reprove you and know you for a fraud.Two things I beg of you, do not grudge me them before I die:keep falsehood and lies far from me, give me neither poverty nor riches, grant me only my share of bread to eat,for fear...

20 September 2024 Saints Andrew Kim Taegon, Priest, and Paul Chong Hasang, and their Companions, Martyrs on Friday of week 24 in Ordinary Time Korean saint’s memorial church, Anseong, South KoreaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: B(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst reading1 Corinthians 15:12-20If Christ has not been raised, your belief is uselessNow if Christ raised from the dead is what has been preached, how can some of you be saying that there is no resurrection of the dead? If there is no resurrection of the dead, Christ himself cannot have...

8 August 2024 Saint Dominic, Priest on Thursday of week 18 in Ordinary Time St. Dominic Church in Brick, New JerseyReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: B(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingJeremiah 31:31-34I will write my Law in their heartsSee, the days are coming – it is the Lord who speaks – when I will make a new covenant with the House of Israel (and the House of Judah), but not a covenant like the one I made with their ancestors on the day I took them by the hand to...

15 February 2024 Thursday after Ash Wednesday Saint Claude la Colombière chapel in Paray-le-Monial, Saône-et-Loire, FranceReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: B(II).First readingDeuteronomy 30:15-20 ©I set before you today life or death, blessing or curseMoses said to the people: ‘See, today I set before you life and prosperity, death and disaster. If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I enjoin on you today, if you love the Lord your God and follow his ways, if you keep his commandments, his laws, his customs, you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you...

5 February 2024 Saint Agatha, Virgin, Martyr on Monday of week 5 in Ordinary Time Saint Agatha Roman Catholic Church, Saint Louis, MOReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: B(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst reading1 Kings 8:1-7,9-13 ©The Ark of the Covenant is brought into the TempleSolomon called the elders of Israel together in Jerusalem to bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord up from the Citadel of David, which is Zion. All the men of Israel assembled round King Solomon in the month of Ethanim, at the time of...

4 October 2023 Saint Francis of Assisi on Wednesday of week 26 in Ordinary Time The monastery church of St. Francis of Assisi, Piran, Slovenia Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingNehemiah 2:1-8 ©'Give me leave to go to the city of my ancestors and rebuild it'In the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, the wine being my concern, I took up the wine and offered it to the king. Now I had never been downcast before. So the king said, ‘Why...

3 October 2023 Tuesday of week 26 in Ordinary Time St. Ewaldi, Aplerbeck, Dortmund ( Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingZechariah 8:20-23 ©Many peoples and great nations will come to seek the Lord of HostsThe Lord of Hosts says this: ‘There will be other peoples yet, and citizens of great cities. And the inhabitants of one city will go to the next and say, “Come, let us go and entreat the favour of the Lord, and seek the Lord of Hosts; I am going myself.” And many peoples and great nations will come to seek the Lord of...

30 September 2023 Saint Jerome, Priest, Doctor on Saturday of week 25 in Ordinary Time St. Jerome Church in Walbridge, OhioReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingZechariah 2:5-9,14-15 ©'I will be the glory of Jerusalem'Raising my eyes, I saw a vision. It was this: there was a man with a measuring line in his hand. I asked him, ‘Where are you going?’ He said, ‘To measure Jerusalem, to find out her breadth and her length.’ And then, while the angel who was talking to me stood...

28 September 2023 Thursday of week 25 in Ordinary Time Minor Basilica and National Shrine of Saint Lorenzo Ruiz, Binondo, Manila Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingHaggai 1:1-8 ©'Rebuild the House'In the second year of King Darius, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the Lord was addressed through the prophet Haggai to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, high commissioner of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, as follows, ‘The Lord of Hosts says this, “This people says: The time has not yet come to rebuild the Temple of the...

27 September 2023 Saint Vincent de Paul, Priest on Wednesday of week 25 in Ordinary Time St. Vincent de Paul Church, Kansas City, MO Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingEzra 9:5-9 ©'God has not forgotten us in our slavery'At the evening sacrifice I, Ezra, came out of my stupor and falling on my knees, with my garment and cloak torn, I stretched out my hands to the Lord my God, and said: ‘My God, I am ashamed, I blush to lift my face to you,...

20 September 2023 Saints Andrew Kim Taegon, Priest, and Paul Chong Hasang, and their Companions, Martyrs on Wednesday of week 24 in Ordinary Time Roman Catholic shrine built to honor first Korean saint, Bocaue, the Philippines Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: A(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst reading1 Timothy 3:14-16 ©The mystery of our religion is very deepAt the moment of writing to you, I am hoping that I may be with you soon; but in case I should be delayed, I wanted you to know how people ought to behave...