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2 July 2025 Wednesday of week 13 in Ordinary Time Chapel dedicated to San Bernardino Realino in the right transept of the church of the Gesù in Lecce. Under the altar are preserved the mortal remains of the saint inside an urn Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingGenesis 21:5,8-20Hagar and Ishmael, expelled for Sarah's sake, saved by the LordAbraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him. The child grew and was weaned, and Abraham gave a great banquet on the day Isaac was weaned. Now Sarah watched the son that Hagar...

1 July 2025Tuesday of week 13 in Ordinary Time Tilaco, Mexico | The Franciscan missions of Sierra GordaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingGenesis 19:15-29The destruction of Sodom and GomorrahThe angels urged Lot, ‘Come, take your wife and these two daughters of yours, or you will be overwhelmed in the punishment of the town.’ And as he hesitated, the men took him by the hand, and his wife and his two daughters, because of the pity the Lord felt for him. They led him out and left him outside the town. As they were leading him out he said,...

30 June 2025 Monday of week 13 in Ordinary Time Interior of Nonnberg Abbey, Salzburg, AustriaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingGenesis 18:16-33Abraham negotiates with the LordFrom Mamre the men set out and arrived within sight of Sodom, with Abraham accompanying them to show them the way. Now the Lord had wondered, ‘Shall I conceal from Abraham what I am going to do, seeing that Abraham will become a great nation with all the nations of the earth blessing themselves by him? For I have singled him out to command his sons and his household after him to maintain...

2 December 2024 Monday of the 1st week of AdventThe church of Santa Bibiana, RomeReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: C(I).First readingIsaiah 2:1-5The Lord gathers all nations together into the eternal peace of God's kingdomThe vision of Isaiah son of Amoz, concerning Judah and Jerusalem.In the days to comethe mountain of the Temple of the Lordshall tower above the mountainsand be lifted higher than the hills.All the nations will stream to it,peoples without number will come to it; and they will say: ‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the Temple of the God...

Wednesday 3 July 2024 Saint Thomas, Apostle Feast St. Thomas the Apostle Church, Ann Arbor, MIReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: B(II).First readingEphesians 2:19-22In Christ you are no longer aliens, but citizens like usYou are no longer aliens or foreign visitors: you are citizens like all the saints, and part of God’s household. You are part of a building that has the apostles and prophets for its foundations, and Christ Jesus himself for its main cornerstone. As every structure is aligned on him, all grow into one holy temple in the Lord; and you too, in him, are being...

2 July 2024 Tuesday of week 13 in Ordinary Time Resting place of Saint Bernardino Realino in Jesuit Church of Jesus, Lecce Italy BReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First readingAmos 3:1-8,4:11-12It is for all your sins that I mean to punish youListen, sons of Israel, to this oracle the Lord speaks against you, against the whole family I brought out of the land of Egypt:You alone, of all the families of earth, have I acknowledged,therefore it is for all your sins that I mean to punish you.Do two men take the road togetherif they have not planned to...

1 July 2024 Monday of week 13 in Ordinary TimeSerra Chapel at the Mission San Juan Capistrano, CaliforniaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First readingAmos 2:6-10,13-16Because of your crimes I will crush you into the groundThe Lord says this:For the three crimes, the four crimes, of IsraelI have made my decree and will not relent:because they have sold the virtuous man for silverand the poor man for a pair of sandals,because they trample on the heads of ordinary peopleand push the poor out of their path,because father and son have both resorted to the same girl,profaning my holy name,because...

28 June 2024 Saint Irenaeus, Bishop, Doctor, Martyr on Friday of week 12 in Ordinary TimeMontreal, Quebec: Saint Irenaeus Church Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: B(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst reading2 Kings 25:1-12The sack of Jerusalem and the final deportationIn the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with his whole army to attack Jerusalem; he pitched camp in front of the city and threw up earthworks round it. The city lay under siege till the...

4 December 2023 Monday of the 1st week of Advent Tomb of St. John the Baptist, Umayyad Grand Mosque, Damascus Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: B(II).First readingIsaiah 2:1-5 ©The Lord gathers all nations together into the eternal peace of God's kingdomThe vision of Isaiah son of Amoz, concerning Judah and Jerusalem.In the days to comethe mountain of the Temple of the Lordshall tower above the mountainsand be lifted higher than the hills.All the nations will stream to it,peoples without number will come to it; and they will say: ‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the...

5 July 2023Wednesday of week 13 in Ordinary TimeThe altar at the Chapel of St. Joseph at Cremona Cathedral, at which St. Anthony Mary Zaccaria was ordained a subdeacon, a deacon, and a priest.Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingGenesis 21:5,8-20 ©Hagar and Ishmael, expelled for Sarah's sake, saved by the LordAbraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him. The child grew and was weaned, and Abraham gave a great banquet on the day Isaac was weaned. Now Sarah watched the son that Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham, playing with her...

4 July 2023 Tuesday of week 13 in Ordinary TimeRichmond, London. The Roman Catholic Church of St Elizabeth of PortugalReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingGenesis 19:15-29 ©The destruction of Sodom and GomorrahThe angels urged Lot, ‘Come, take your wife and these two daughters of yours, or you will be overwhelmed in the punishment of the town.’ And as he hesitated, the men took him by the hand, and his wife and his two daughters, because of the pity the Lord felt for him. They led him out and left him outside the town. As they were leading him...

1 July 2023Saturday of week 12 in Ordinary Timethe mission church of Tancoyol, Jalpan de Serra, Querétaro, MexicoReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingGenesis 18:1-15 ©'Next year your wife Sarah will have a son'The Lord appeared to Abraham at the Oak of Mamre while he was sitting by the entrance of the tent during the hottest part of the day. He looked up, and there he saw three men standing near him. As soon as he saw them he ran from the entrance of the tent to meet them, and bowed to the ground. ‘My lord,’ he said ‘I...

30 June 2023Friday of week 12 in Ordinary TimeSalzburg cathedral, AustriaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingGenesis 17:1,9-10,15-22 ©The Lord make a covenant and gives Abram and Sarai new namesWhen Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to him and said, ‘I am El Shaddai. Bear yourself blameless in my presence, and I will make a Covenant between myself and you. You on your part shall maintain my Covenant, yourself and your descendants after you, generation after generation. Now this is my Covenant which you are to maintain between myself and you, and your descendants after you: all...

28 November 2022Monday of the 1st week of Advent Chapel of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Paris, France. Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(I).First readingIsaiah 4:2-6 ©The fruit of the earth shall be the pride and adornment of Israel's survivorsThat day, the branch of the Lordshall be beauty and glory,and the fruit of the earthshall be the pride and adornmentof Israel’s survivors.Those who are left of Zionand remain of Jerusalemshall be called holyand those left in Jerusalem, noted down for survival.When the Lord has washed awaythe filth of the daughter of Zionand cleansed Jerusalem of the blood shed...

28th November 2022Monday of the 1st week of Advent Chapel of The Miraculous Medal, Paris, FranceReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet First readingIsaiah 4:2-6 ©The fruit of the earth shall be the pride and adornment of Israel's survivorsThat day, the branch of the Lordshall be beauty and glory,and the fruit of the earthshall be the pride and adornmentof Israel’s survivors.Those who are left of Zionand remain of Jerusalemshall be called holyand those left in Jerusalem, noted down for survival.When the Lord has washed awaythe filth of the daughter of Zionand cleansed Jerusalem of the blood shed in herwith the blast of...

28 June 2022Saint Irenaeus, Bishop, Doctor, Martyr on Tuesday of week 13 in Ordinary Time Saint Irenaeus Church Montreal, Quebec Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red.Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingAmos 3:1-8,4:11-12 ©It is for all your sins that I mean to punish youListen, sons of Israel, to this oracle the Lord speaks against you, against the whole family I brought out of the land of Egypt:You alone, of all the families of earth, have I acknowledged,therefore it is for all your sins that I mean to punish you.Do two men take the...

27 June 2022 Monday of week 13 in Ordinary Time St Cyril of Alexandria ChurchHouston, TX Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingAmos 2:6-10,13-16 ©Because of your crimes I will crush you into the groundThe Lord says this:For the three crimes, the four crimes, of IsraelI have made my decree and will not relent:because they have sold the virtuous man for silverand the poor man for a pair of sandals,because they trample on the heads of ordinary peopleand push the poor out of their path,because father and son have both resorted to the same girl,profaning my holy name,because they stretch themselves...

November 29th, 2021 St. Joseph, Huntington, West Virginia Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet First readingIsaiah 2:1-5 ©The Lord gathers all nations together into the eternal peace of God's kingdomThe vision of Isaiah son of Amoz, concerning Judah and Jerusalem.In the days to comethe mountain of the Temple of the Lordshall tower above the mountainsand be lifted higher than the hills.All the nations will stream to it,peoples without number will come to it; and they will say: ‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the Temple of the God of Jacob that he may teach us...

June 30 , 2021 Memorial of the first martyrs of the see of Rome St. Andrews Church Reddiarpalayam Pondicherry India Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green First readingGenesis 21:5,8-20 ©Hagar and Ishmael, expelled for Sarah's sake, saved by the LordAbraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him. The child grew and was weaned, and Abraham gave a great banquet on the day Isaac was weaned. Now Sarah watched the son that Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham, playing with her son Isaac. ‘Drive away that slave-girl and her son,’ she said to Abraham; ‘this...

June 28 , 2021 Memorial of St. Irenaeus St. Irenaeus, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingGenesis 18:16-33 ©Abraham negotiates with the LordFrom Mamre the men set out and arrived within sight of Sodom, with Abraham accompanying them to show them the way. Now the Lord had wondered, ‘Shall I conceal from Abraham what I am going to do, seeing that Abraham will become a great nation with all the nations of the earth blessing themselves by him? For I have singled him out to...