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28 July 2025 Monday of week 17 in Ordinary Time Saint Pope Victor I statue in the St. Peter's BasilicaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingExodus 32:15-24,30-34The 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 the people shouting. ‘There is the sound of battle in the camp’, he told Moses....

26 July 2025 Saint Joachim and Saint Anne, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturday of week 16 in Ordinary Time Sts. Anne & Joachim Catholic Church, Fargo, NDReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingExodus 24:3-8This is the blood of the Covenant that the Lord has made with youMoses went and told the people all the commands of the Lord and all the ordinances. In answer, all the people said with one voice, ‘We will observe all the commands that the Lord has decreed.’ Moses...

Thursday 24 July 2025 Thursday of week 16 in Ordinary Time From Lebanon to New York, in the heart of St. Patrick's Cathedral, the city's most famous church, Lebanon has an important spot dedicated for Mar Charbel. The Chapel of Saint Sharbel is situated along the northeastern corridor of the cathedral, near the Lady Chapel, and is accessible by way of the ambulatory, or ramp, on the north side of the Sanctuary. Saint Patrick Cathedral’s most recent chapel honors the Catholic Maronite Saint Sharbel Makhlouf, O.L.M., a monk, and priest from Lebanon whose profound spirituality touched hearts the world...

23 July 2025 Wednesday of week 16 in Ordinary Time St. Bridget Of Sweden Catholic Church, Van Nuys, CAReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingExodus 16:1-5,9-15The Lord sends quails and manna from heavenFrom Elim they set out, and the whole community of the sons of Israel reached the wilderness of Sin – between Elim and Sinai – on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had left Egypt. And the whole community of the sons of Israel began to complain against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness and said to them, ‘Why did we not die at...

Mmm dd, 2025 Saint Agnes, Virgin, Martyr on Tuesday of week 2 in Ordinary Time St. Agnes Church in Arlington, VA Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: C(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingHebrews 6:10-20In this hope we have an anchor for our soulGod would not be so unjust as to forget all you have done, the love that you have for his name or the services you have done, and are still doing, for the saints. Our one desire is that every one of you should go on showing the same...

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...

1 August 2024 Saint Alphonsus Mary de' Liguori, Bishop, Doctor on Thursday of week 17 in Ordinary TimeSaint Alphonsus Liguori Church in Saint LouisReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: B(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingJeremiah 18:1-6When the clay goes wrong, the potter starts afreshThe word that was addressed to Jeremiah by the Lord, ‘Get up and make your way down to the potter’s house; there I shall let you hear what I have to say.’ So I went down to the potter’s house; and there he was, working at the wheel....

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...

30 July 2024 Tuesday of week 17 in Ordinary TimeRelics of St Peter Chrysologus, Cathedral of Saint Cassian, Imola, ItalyReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First readingJeremiah 14:17-22We confess our wickedness; you, God, are our hopeThe Lord said to me:Say this word to the people:‘Tears flood my eyesnight and day, unceasingly,since a crushing blow falls on the daughter of my people,a most grievous injury.If I go into the countryside,there lie men killed by the sword;if I go into the city,I see people sick with hunger;even prophets and priestsplough the land: they are at their wit’s end.’‘Have you rejected Judah...

27 July 2024 Saturday of week 16 in Ordinary Time Dom St Pantaleon altar, Ravello, ItalyReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First readingJeremiah 7:1-11Reform your behaviour and I will stay here with you, says the LordThe word that was addressed to Jeremiah by the Lord: ‘Go and stand at the gate of the Temple of the Lord and there proclaim this message. Say, “Listen to the word of the Lord, all you men of Judah who come in by these gates to worship the Lord. The Lord Sabaoth, the God of Israel, says this: Amend your behaviour and your actions...

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...

4 August 2023 Saint John Mary Vianney, Priest on Friday of week 17 in Ordinary Time Heart of St John Vianney on altar of St Catherine of Siena Parish Church, Trumbull, CTReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingLeviticus 23:1,4-11,15-16,27,34-37 ©The law of the festivals of the LordThe Lord spoke to Moses. He said: ‘These are the Lord’s solemn festivals, the sacred assemblies to which you are to summon the sons of Israel on the appointed day. ‘The fourteenth day of the first month, between the two evenings,...

3 August 2023 Thursday of week 17 in Ordinary Time The parish of Ramle, dedicated to St Joseph Arimathea and St Nicodemus Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingExodus 40:16-21,34-38 ©The tabernacle is set upMoses did exactly as the Lord had directed him. The tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month in the second year. Moses erected the tabernacle. He fixed the sockets for it, put up its frames, put its crossbars in position, set up its posts. He spread the tent over the tabernacle and on top of this the covering for...

2 August 2023 Wednesday of week 17 in Ordinary Time St Peter Julian’s Church, SydneyReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingExodus 34:29-35 ©Moses passes on to the people the orders given by the LordWhen Moses came down from the mountain of Sinai – as he came down from the mountain, Moses had the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands – he did not know that the skin on his face was radiant after speaking with the Lord. And when Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses, the skin on his face shone so much...

1 August 2023 Saint Alphonsus Mary de' Liguori, Bishop, Doctor on Tuesday of week 17 in Ordinary Time Church of St. Alphonsus Liguori, Rome Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingExodus 33:7-11,34:5-9,28 ©'They are a headstrong people; but forgive us our faults'Moses used to take the Tent and pitch it outside the camp, at some distance from the camp. He called it the Tent of Meeting. Anyone who had to consult the Lord would go out to the Tent of Meeting, outside the camp. Whenever Moses...

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...

30 July 2023 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time The Chapel of St Peter Chrysologus in Ravenna Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First reading1 Kings 3:5,7-12 ©Solomon chooses the gift of wisdomThe Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream and said, ‘Ask what you would like me to give you.’ Solomon replied, ‘O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in succession to David my father. But I am a very young man, unskilled in leadership. Your servant finds himself in the midst of this people of yours that you have chosen, a people so many its...

28 July 2023 Friday of week 16 in Ordinary Time Interior of the Transfiguration Cathedral in Odesa, damaged by a Russian missile Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingExodus 20:1-17 ©The Law given at SinaiGod spoke all these words. He said, ‘I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. ‘You shall have no gods except me. ‘You shall not make yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything in heaven or on earth beneath or in the waters under the earth; you shall not...

27 July 2023 Thursday of week 16 in Ordinary Time St. Pantaleone Cathedral, Ravello, Italy Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingExodus 19:1-2,9-11,16-20 ©Moses speaks with God on SinaiThree months after they came out of the land of Egypt, on that day the sons of Israel came to the wilderness of Sinai. From Rephidim they set out again; and when they reached the wilderness of Sinai, there in the wilderness they pitched their camp; there facing the mountain Israel pitched camp. The Lord said to Moses, ‘I am coming to you in a dense cloud so that the people...

26 July 2023 Saint Joachim and Saint Anne, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Wednesday of week 16 in Ordinary Time Ss. Joachim & Anne Parish, Queens Village NY Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingExodus 16:1-5,9-15 ©The Lord sends quails and manna from heavenFrom Elim they set out, and the whole community of the sons of Israel reached the wilderness of Sin – between Elim and Sinai – on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had left Egypt. And the whole...