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5 March 2025 Ash WednesdaySt Piran's Old Church, Perranporth, Cornwell, UKReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: C(I).First readingJoel 2:12-18Let your hearts be broken, not your garments torn‘Now, now – it is the Lord who speaks –come back to me with all your heart,fasting, weeping, mourning.’Let your hearts be broken, not your garments torn,turn to the Lord your God again,for he is all tenderness and compassion,slow to anger, rich in graciousness,and ready to relent.Who knows if he will not turn again, will not relent,will not leave a blessing as he passes,oblation and libationfor the Lord your God?Sound the trumpet in...

4 March 2025 Tuesday of week 8 in Ordinary Time St Casimir Polish Church, ClevelandReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingEcclesiasticus 35:2-15Give to the Most High as he has given to youA man multiplies offerings by keeping the Law; he offers communion sacrifices by following the commandments.By showing gratitude he makes an offering of fine flour, by giving alms he offers a sacrifice of praise.Withdraw from wickedness and the Lord will be pleased, withdraw from injustice and you make atonement.Do not appear empty-handed in the Lord’s presence; for all these things are due under the commandment.A virtuous man’s offering...

3 March 2025 Monday of week 8 in Ordinary Time The parish church of Cunigunde of Luxembourg, Mürzzuschlag, Styria, AustriaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingEcclesiasticus 17:20-28Return to the Lord and leave sin behindTo those who repent, God permits return, and he encourages those who were losing hope.Return to the Lord and leave sin behind, plead before his face and lessen your offence.Come back to the Most High and turn away from iniquity, and hold in abhorrence all that is foul.Who will praise the Most High in Sheol, if the living do not do so by giving glory to...

1 March 2025 Saturday of week 7 in Ordinary Time Dewi Sant Welsh United Church, Toronto, ON Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingEcclesiasticus 17:1-13Their ways cannot be hidden from his sightThe Lord fashioned man from the earth, to consign him back to it.He gave them so many days’ determined time, he gave them authority over everything on earth.He clothed them with strength like his own, and made them in his own image.He filled all living things with dread of man, making him master over beasts and birds.He shaped for them a mouth and tongue, eyes and ears, and...

28 February 2025 Friday of week 7 in Ordinary TimeSt._Hilarius Freiburg, GermanyReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingEcclesiasticus 6:5-17A faithful friend is a sure shelterA kindly turn of speech multiplies a man’s friends, and a courteous way of speaking invites many a friendly reply.Let your acquaintances be many, but your advisers one in a thousand.If you want to make a friend, take him on trial, and be in no hurry to trust him;for one kind of friend is only so when it suits him but will not stand by you in your day of trouble.Another kind of friend...

27 October 202430th Sunday in Ordinary Time San Frumenzio, RomeReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First readingJeremiah 31:7-9I will guide them by a smooth path where they will not stumbleThe Lord says this:Shout with joy for Jacob!Hail the chief of nations!Proclaim! Praise! Shout:‘The Lord has saved his people,the remnant of Israel!’See, I will bring them backfrom the land of the Northand gather them from the far ends of earth;all of them: the blind and the lame,women with child, women in labour:a great company returning here.They had left in tears,I will comfort them as I lead them back;I will guide them...

20 October 2024 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time Santa Iria chapel, Tomar, Portugal Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First readingIsaiah 53:10-11If he offers his life in atonement, what the Lord wishes will be doneThe Lord has been pleased to crush his servant with suffering.If he offers his life in atonement,he shall see his heirs, he shall have a long lifeand through him what the Lord wishes will be done.His soul’s anguish over,he shall see the light and be content.By his sufferings shall my servant justify many,taking their faults on himself.Responsorial PsalmPsalm 32(33):4-5,18-20,22May your love be upon us, O...

13 October 2024 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time St Edward The Confessor Catholic Church, Syosset, NY Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First readingWisdom 7:7-11I esteemed Wisdom more than sceptres or thronesI prayed, and understanding was given me;I entreated, and the spirit of Wisdom came to me.I esteemed her more than sceptres and thrones;compared with her, I held riches as nothing.I reckoned no priceless stone to be her peer,for compared with her, all gold is a pinch of sand,and beside her silver ranks as mud.I loved her more than health or beauty,preferred her to the light,since her radiance never...

6 October 2024 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Bruno Catholic Church, Whittier, CA Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First readingGenesis 2:18-24A man and his wife become one bodyThe Lord God said, ‘It is not good that the man should be alone. I will make him a helpmate.’ So from the soil the Lord God fashioned all the wild beasts and all the birds of heaven. These he brought to the man to see what he would call them; each one was to bear the name the man would give it. The man gave names to all the...

30 May 2024 Thursday of week 8 in Ordinary Time St. Joan of Arc, Lisle, IL Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First reading1 Peter 2:2-5,9-12 ©You are a royal priesthood, a people set apartYou are new born, and, like babies, you should be hungry for nothing but milk – the spiritual honesty which will help you to grow up to salvation – now that you have tasted the goodness of the Lord. He is the living stone, rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to him; set yourselves close to him so that you too, the...

29 May 2024 Wednesday of week 8 in Ordinary Time newly-formed St. Paul VI Parish celebration at St. Hugh, ChicagoReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First reading1 Peter 1:18-25 ©You were ransomed by the precious blood of Christ, the spotless lambRemember, the ransom that was paid to free you from the useless way of life your ancestors handed down was not paid in anything corruptible, neither in silver nor gold, but in the precious blood of a lamb without spot or stain, namely Christ; who, though known since before the world was made, has been revealed only in our...

28 May 2024 Tuesday of week 8 in Ordinary Time Church Saint-Bernard-de-Menthon, Ferrette, France Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First reading1 Peter 1:10-16 ©Put your trust in the grace that is coming to youIt was this salvation that the prophets were looking and searching so hard for; their prophecies were about the grace which was to come to you. The Spirit of Christ which was in them foretold the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would come after them, and they tried to find out at what time and in what circumstances all this was to be...

27 May 2024 Monday of week 8 in Ordinary Time St. Augustine of Canterbury Parish, Toronto Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First reading1 Peter 1:3-9 ©You did not see Christ, yet you love himBlessed be God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who in his great mercy has given us a new birth as his sons, by raising Jesus Christ from the dead, so that we have a sure hope and the promise of an inheritance that can never be spoilt or soiled and never fade away, because it is being kept for you in the heavens....

25 May 2024 Saturday of week 7 in Ordinary Time St. Bede the Venerable Catholic Church, Montgomery, ALReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First readingJames 5:13-20 ©A good man's heartfelt prayer has great powerIf any one of you is in trouble, he should pray; if anyone is feeling happy, he should sing a psalm. If one of you is ill, he should send for the elders of the church, and they must anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord and pray over him. The prayer of faith will save the sick man and the Lord will...

24 May 2024 Friday of week 7 in Ordinary TimeSts. Volodymyr and Olha Ukrainian Catholic Church, ChicagoReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First readingJames 5:9-12 ©Do not ask for judgement, or you may receive itDo not make complaints against one another, brothers, so as not to be brought to judgement yourselves; the Judge is already to be seen waiting at the gates. For your example, brothers, in submitting with patience, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord; remember it is those who had endurance that we say are the blessed ones. You have heard of...

1 June 2023Saint Justin, Martyr on Thursday of week 8 in Ordinary TimeSt. Justin Martyr, Unionville, OntarioReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: A(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingEcclesiasticus 42:15-26 ©The work of the Lord is full of his gloryI will remind you of the works of the Lord, and tell of what I have seen.By the words of the Lord his works come into being and all creation obeys his will.As the sun in shining looks on all things, so the work of the Lord is full of his glory.The Lord has...

30 May 2023Tuesday of week 8 in Ordinary Time Saint Joan of Arc Catholic Church, Powell, OhioReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingEcclesiasticus 35:2-15 ©Give to the Most High as he has given to youA man multiplies offerings by keeping the Law; he offers communion sacrifices by following the commandments.By showing gratitude he makes an offering of fine flour, by giving alms he offers a sacrifice of praise.Withdraw from wickedness and the Lord will be pleased, withdraw from injustice and you make atonement.Do not appear empty-handed in the Lord’s presence; for all these things are due under the commandment.A...

1 March 2022 Tuesday of week 8 in Ordinary Time St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church in Wilmington, Delaware Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First reading1 Peter 1:10-16 ©Put your trust in the grace that is coming to youIt was this salvation that the prophets were looking and searching so hard for; their prophecies were about the grace which was to come to you. The Spirit of Christ which was in them foretold the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would come after them, and they tried to find out at what time and in what circumstances all this was to...

28 February 2022Monday of week 8 in Ordinary Time Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Kharkiv Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First reading1 Peter 1:3-9 ©You did not see Christ, yet you love himBlessed be God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who in his great mercy has given us a new birth as his sons, by raising Jesus Christ from the dead, so that we have a sure hope and the promise of an inheritance that can never be spoilt or soiled and never fade away, because it is being kept for you in the heavens....

February 26th 2022 Saturday of week 7 in Ordinary Time Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ. Greek Catholic Church in Kyiv, Ukraine Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green First readingJames 5:13-20 ©A good man's heartfelt prayer has great powerIf any one of you is in trouble, he should pray; if anyone is feeling happy, he should sing a psalm. If one of you is ill, he should send for the elders of the church, and they must anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord and pray over him. The prayer of faith will save the sick man...