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February 16 2021 Memorial of St. Daniel of Egypt Saint Mark's Cathedral, Venice Lectionary 336Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingGenesis 6:5-8,7:1-5,10 ©Noah's ArkThe Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that the thoughts in his heart fashioned nothing but wickedness all day long. The Lord regretted having made man on the earth, and his heart grieved. ‘I will rid the earth’s face of man, my own creation,’ the Lord said ‘and of animals also, reptiles too, and the birds of heaven; for I regret having made them.’ But Noah had found favour with the...

February 15 2021 Memorial of St. Joseph of Antioch Church of St. Peter, Antioch (Antakya), TurkeyOne of the Oldest Churches in the world - The oldest surviving parts of the church building date from at least the 4th or 5th century By Dosseman - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=77749349 Lectionary 335Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingGenesis 4:1-15,25 ©The mark of CainThe man had intercourse with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. ‘I have acquired a man with the help of the Lord’ she said. She gave birth to a second child, Abel, the brother...

February 14 2021 Lectionary 77Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingLeviticus 13:1-2,44-46 ©The unclean man must live outside the campThe Lord said to Moses and Aaron, ‘If a swelling or scab or shiny spot appears on a man’s skin, a case of leprosy of the skin is to be suspected. The man must be taken to Aaron, the priest, or to one of the priests who are his sons. ‘The man is leprous: he is unclean. The priest must declare him unclean; he is suffering from leprosy of the head. A man infected with leprosy must wear his clothing torn and...

February 13 2021 Memorial of the blessed virgin Mary Our Lady of Dolours, Mumbai, India Lectionary 333Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingGenesis 3:9-24 ©The expulsion from the Garden of EdenThe Lord God called to the man. ‘Where are you?’ he asked. ‘I heard the sound of you in the garden;’ he replied ‘I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.’ ‘Who told you that you were naked?’ he asked ‘Have you been eating of the tree I forbade you to eat?’ The man replied, ‘It was the woman you put with me; she gave me the fruit, and...

February 13 2021 St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church – New York City, NY Saturday of week 5 in Ordinary TimeFirst readingGenesis 3:9-24 ©The expulsion from the Garden of EdenThe Lord God called to the man. ‘Where are you?’ he asked. ‘I heard the sound of you in the garden;’ he replied ‘I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.’ ‘Who told you that you were naked?’ he asked ‘Have you been eating of the tree I forbade you to eat?’ The man replied, ‘It was the woman you put with me; she gave me the fruit, and I...

February 12 2021 . St. Mary Star of the Sea church, New York Lectionary 332/p> Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingGenesis 3:1-8 ©The fall of manThe serpent was the most subtle of all the wild beasts that the Lord God had made. It asked the woman, ‘Did God really say you were not to eat from any of the trees in the garden?’ The woman answered the serpent, ‘We may eat the fruit of the trees in the garden. But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden God said, “You must not eat it, nor...

February 11 2021 Memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes Our Lady of Lourdes parish, Cincinnati, USA Lectionary 332Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingGenesis 2:18-25 ©Man and 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 cattle,...

February 10 2021 Memorial of St. Jose Luis Sanchez del Rio Saint Scholastica Monastery Chapel, Chicago Lectionary 331/p> Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White.Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingGenesis 2:4-9,15-17 ©The Lord God fashioned man out of dustAt the time when the Lord God made earth and heaven there was as yet no wild bush on the earth nor had any wild plant yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth, nor was there any man to till the soil. However, a flood was rising from the...

February 9 2021 Memorial of St. Miguel Febres Cordero The Metropolitan cathedral of Quito, Peru Lectionary 330Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingGenesis 1:20-2:4 ©'Let us make man in our own image'God said, ‘Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth within the vault of heaven.’ And so it was. God created great sea-serpents and every kind of living creature with which the waters teem, and every kind of winged creature. God saw that it was good. God blessed them, saying, ‘Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the waters of the seas; and let the birds...

February 8 2021 Memorial of St Josephine Bakhita of Sudan Chiesa Della Sacra Famiglia, Santa Guiseppina Bakhita, Schio, Italy Lectionary 329Readings at MassFirst readingJob 7:1-4,6-7 ©My life is but a breathJob began to speak:First readingGenesis 1:1-19 ©God saw that it was goodIn the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was a formless void, there was darkness over the deep, and God’s spirit hovered over the water. God said, ‘Let there be light’, and there was light. God saw that light was good, and God divided light from darkness. God called light ‘day’, and darkness he...

Monday of week 5 in Ordinary Time St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church – New York City, NYReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingGenesis 1:1-19 ©God saw that it was goodIn the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was a formless void, there was darkness over the deep, and God’s spirit hovered over the water. God said, ‘Let there be light’, and there was light. God saw that light was good, and God divided light from darkness. God called light ‘day’, and darkness he called ‘night.’ Evening came and morning came: the first day. God said,...

5th Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Pierre Church – Avignon, FranceReadings at MassFirst readingJob 7:1-4,6-7 ©My life is but a breathJob began to speak:Is not man’s life on earth nothing more than pressed service, his time no better than hired drudgery?Like the slave, sighing for the shade, or the workman with no thought but his wages,months of delusion I have assigned to me, nothing for my own but nights of grief.Lying in bed I wonder, ‘When will it be day?’ Risen I think, ‘How slowly evening comes!’ Restlessly I fret till twilight falls.Swifter than a weaver’s shuttle my days...

February 6 2021 Memorial of the 26 Martyrs of Japan (日本二十六聖人) (Basilica of the 26 Martyrs of Japan), Oura Cathedral, Nagasaki, Japan Lectionary 328Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red.Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingHebrews 13:15-17,20-21 ©May God turn us all into whatever is acceptable to himself through Jesus ChristThrough Christ, let us offer God an unending sacrifice of praise, a verbal sacrifice that is offered every time we acknowledge his name. Keep doing good works and sharing your resources, for these are sacrifices that please God. Obey your leaders and do as they...

February 5 2021 Memorial of St Agath of Sicily (died 251 AD) Chiesa Badia di Sant'Agata, Catania Lectionary 327Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red.Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingHebrews 13:1-8 ©Jesus Christ is the same today as he was yesterday and will be for everContinue to love each other like brothers, and remember always to welcome strangers, for by doing this, some people have entertained angels without knowing it. Keep in mind those who are in prison, as though you were in prison with them; and those who are being badly treated, since...

February 4 2021 Memorial of St. Gilbert of Sempringham and St. John de Britto Cathedral of the Holy Name, Colaba, Mumbai (Bombay), India Lectionary 326Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingHebrews 12:18-19,21-24 ©You have come to Mount Zion and the city of the living GodWhat you have come to is nothing known to the senses: not a blazing fire, or a gloom turning to total darkness, or a storm; or trumpeting thunder or the great voice speaking which made everyone that heard it beg that no more should be said to them. The whole scene was so terrible that Moses said:...

February 3 2021 Wednesday of week 4 in Ordinary Time Saint Patrick’s Catholic Church – New Orleans, LAReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingHebrews 12:4-7,11-15 ©God 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 trains the ones that he loves and he punishes all those that he acknowledges as...

February 3 2021 Memorial of Saint Blase, bishop and martyr Church of St. Blaise, Dubrovnik, Croatia Lectionary 325Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingHebrews 12:4-7,11-15 ©God 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 trains the ones that he loves and he punishes all those that he acknowledges as...

February 2 2021 Feast of the Presentation of the Lord Westminster Cathedral, London, England Lectionary 524Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White.When a Feast of the Lord is celebrated on a weekday there is only one reading before the Gospel, which may be chosen from either the first or second reading.First readingMalachi 3:1-4 ©The Lord you are seeking will suddenly enter his TempleThe Lord God says this: Look, I am going to send my messenger to prepare a way before me. And the Lord you are seeking will suddenly enter his Temple; and the angel of the covenant whom you are longing...

February 1 2021 Memorial of St. Brigid of Ireland St Brigid's church, Killester, Ireland Lectionary 323Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingHebrews 11:32-40 ©The example of the Old Testament saintsGideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel and the prophets – these were men who through faith conquered kingdoms, did what is right and earned the promises. They could keep a lion’s mouth shut, put out blazing fires and emerge unscathed from battle. They were weak people who were given strength, to be brave in war and drive back foreign invaders. Some came back to their wives from the dead, by resurrection; and...

January 31 2021 Memorial of St. John Bosco Don Bosco's shrine, Matunga, Mumbai (Bombay), India Lectionary 71Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingDeuteronomy 18:15-20 ©I will raise up a prophet and put my words into his mouthMoses said to the people: ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like myself, from among yourselves, from your own brothers; to him you must listen. This is what you yourselves asked of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the Assembly. “Do not let me hear again” you said “the voice of the Lord my God, nor...