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31 July 2026 Saint Ignatius Loyola, Priest on Friday of week 17 in Ordinary Time Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola in Rome Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingJeremiah 26:1-9Jeremiah preaches in the Temple of the Lord and is threatened with deathAt the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word was addressed to Jeremiah by the Lord, ‘The Lord says this: Stand in the court of the Temple of the Lord. To all the people of the towns of...

30 July 2026 Thursday of week 17 in Ordinary Time The Chapel of St Peter Chrysologus in Ravenna Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(II).First 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. And whenever the vessel he was making came out wrong, as happens with the clay handled by potters,...

29 July 2026 Saints Martha, Mary and Lazarus on Wednesday of week 17 in Ordinary TimeSt. Lazarus Church of Bethany, near Jerusalem, Israel Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(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...

28 July 2026 Tuesday of week 17 in Ordinary Time Saint Victor Catholic Church West Hollywood, CAReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(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 altogether?Does your very...

27 July 2026 Monday of week 17 in Ordinary TimeChurch of Saint-Pantaléon, Troyes, France.Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(II).First readingJeremiah 13:1-11Let this evil people become good for nothingThe Lord said this to me, ‘Go and buy a linen loincloth and put it round your waist. But do not dip it in water.’ And so, as the Lord had ordered, I bought a loincloth and put it round my waist. A second time the word of the Lord was spoken to me, ‘Take the loincloth that you have bought and are wearing round your waist; up! Go to the...

26 July 2026 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time St Joachim And Anne Church, Elizabeth PaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(II).First reading1 Kings 3:5,7-12Solomon 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 number cannot be...

24 July 2026 Friday of week 16 in Ordinary Time monastery of Daimiel, SpainReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(II).First readingJeremiah 3:14-17Come back, my disloyal childrenCome back, disloyal children – it is the Lord who speaks – for I alone am your Master. I will take one from a town, two from a clan, and bring you to Zion. I will give you shepherds after my own heart, and these shall feed you on knowledge and discretion. And when you have increased and become many in the land, then – it is the Lord who speaks – no one...

23 July 2026 Thursday of week 16 in Ordinary Time St. Bridget of Sweden Catholic Church - Lindstrom, MNReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(II).First readingJeremiah 2:1-3,7-8,12-13I brought you to a fertile country and you defiled itThe word of the Lord was addressed to me, saying, ‘Go and shout this in the hearing of Jerusalem:‘“The Lord says this:I remember the affection of your youth,the love of your bridal days:you followed me through the wilderness,through a land unsown.Israel was sacred to the Lord,the first-fruits of his harvest;anyone who ate of this had to pay for it,misfortune came to them –it...

Sunday 19 July 202616th Sunday in Ordinary Time right arm of Macrina the Younger at the monastery of Saint George in Pomorie, BulgariaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(II).First readingWisdom 12:13,16-19You will grant repentance after sinThere is no god, other than you, who cares for every thing,to whom you might have to prove that you never judged unjustly.Your justice has its source in strength,your sovereignty over all makes you lenient to all.You show your strength when your sovereign power is questionedand you expose the insolence of those who know it;but, disposing of such strength, you are mild in judgement,you govern...

12 July 2026 15th Sunday in Ordinary TimeVallombrosa Abbey, Tuscany, Italy Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(II).First readingIsaiah 55:10-11The word that goes out from my mouth does not return to me emptyThus says the Lord: ‘As the rain and the snow come down from the heavens and do not return without watering the earth, making it yield and giving growth to provide seed for the sower and bread for the eating, so the word that goes from my mouth does not return to me empty, without carrying out my will and succeeding in what it was sent to...

21 January 2026 Saint Agnes, Virgin, Martyr on Wednesday of week 2 in Ordinary TimeChurch of Sant'Agnese in RomeReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: A(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst reading1 Samuel 17:32-33,37,40-51David and GoliathDavid said to Saul, ‘Let no-one lose heart on his account; your servant will go and fight the Philistine.’ But Saul answered David, ‘You cannot go and fight the Philistine; you are only a boy and he has been a warrior from his youth.’ ‘The Lord who rescued me from the claws of lion and bear’ David said ‘will...

30 September 2025 Saint Jerome, Priest, Doctor on Tuesday of week 26 in Ordinary Time St. Jerome Roman Catholic Church, ChicagoReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingZechariah 8:20-23Many 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;...

1 August 2025 Saint Alphonsus Mary de' Liguori, Bishop, Doctor on Friday of week 17 in Ordinary TimeRome: Church of Saint Alphonsus LiguorReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingLeviticus 23:1,4-11,15-16,27,34-37The 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, is the Passover of the Lord; and the fifteenth...

31 July 2025 Saint Ignatius Loyola, Priest on Thursday of week 17 in Ordinary TimeSt. Ignatius Loyola Parish, Mississauga, ONReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingExodus 40:16-21,34-38The 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...

30 July 2025 Wednesday of week 17 in Ordinary TimeChapel of St. Peter Chrisologus in RavennaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingExodus 34:29-35Moses 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...

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...