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10 March 2022Thursday of the 1st week of Lent Chapel and park of the Castle of Prieisch, Basse-Rentgen (France) Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet.First readingEsther 4:17 ©I am alone, Lord, and have no-one but youQueen Esther took refuge with the Lord in the mortal peril which had overtaken her. She besought the Lord God of Israel in these words:‘My Lord, our King, the only one,come to my help, for I am aloneand have no helper but youand am about to take my life in my hands.‘I have been taught from my earliest years, in the bosom of my family,that you,...

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 27th 2022 8th Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Nicholas Cathedral, Kyiv, Ukraine Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green First readingEcclesiasticus 27:5-8 ©The test of a man is in his conversationIn a shaken sieve the rubbish is left behind, so too the defects of a man appear in his talk.The kiln tests the work of the potter, the test of a man is in his conversation.The orchard where a tree grows is judged on the quality of its fruit, similarly a man’s words betray what he feels.Do not praise a man before he has spoken, since this is the test of...

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...

25 February 2022Friday of week 7 in Ordinary Time The Chapel of San Tarasio, Church of San Zaccaria, Venice Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.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...

24 February 2022Thursday of week 7 in Ordinary Time St. Matthias Church, Budapest, Hungary Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingJames 5:1-6 ©The Lord hears the cries of those you have cheatedAn answer for the rich. Start crying, weep for the miseries that are coming to you. Your wealth is all rotting, your clothes are all eaten up by moths. All your gold and your silver are corroding away, and the same corrosion will be your own sentence, and eat into your body. It was a burning fire that you stored up as your treasure for the last days. Labourers mowed...

February 23rd, 2022 St. Polycarp, bishop and Martyr St. Francis Xavier, Cincinnati, OhioReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingJames 4:13-17 ©You cannot know what will happen tomorrowHere is the answer for those of you who talk like this: ‘Today or tomorrow, we are off to this or that town; we are going to spend a year there, trading, and make some money.’ You never know what will happen tomorrow: you are no more than a mist that is here for a little while and then disappears. The most...

Tuesday 22 February 2022 Saint Peter's Chair Feast The Chair of Saint Peter St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White.First reading1 Peter 5:1-4 ©Watch over the flock, not simply as a duty but gladlyNow I have something to tell your elders: I am an elder myself, and a witness to the sufferings of Christ, and with you I have a share in the glory that is to be revealed. Be the shepherds of the flock of God that is entrusted to you: watch over it, not simply as a duty but gladly, because God wants it; not...

21 February 2022 Monday of week 7 in Ordinary Time St Peter Damian Catholic Church, Bartlett IL Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingJames 3:13-18 ©Show wisdom and avoid ambitionIf there are any wise or learned men among you, let them show it by their good lives, with humility and wisdom in their actions. But if at heart you have the bitterness of jealousy, or a self-seeking ambition, never make any claims for yourself or cover up the truth with lies – principles of this kind are not the wisdom that comes down from above: they are only earthly, animal and...

20 February 20227th Sunday in Ordinary Time Saint-Eucaire (Eucherius) church, Metz, France Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First reading1 Samuel 26:2,7-9,11-13,22-23 ©Do not lift your hand against the Lord's anointedSaul set off and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, accompanied by three thousand men chosen from Israel to search for David in the wilderness of Ziph. In the dark David and Abishai made their way towards the force, where they found Saul lying asleep inside the camp, his spear stuck in the ground beside his head, with Abner and the troops lying round him. Then Abishai said to David, ‘Today...

19 February 2022 Saturday of week 6 in Ordinary Time Benevento Cathedral, Italy Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingJames 3:1-10 ©The tongue cannot be tamedOnly a few of you, my brothers, should be teachers, bearing in mind that those of us who teach can expect a stricter judgement. After all, every one of us does something wrong, over and over again; the only man who could reach perfection would be someone who never said anything wrong – he would be able to control every part of himself. Once we put a bit into the horse’s mouth, to make it do...

18 February 2022Friday of week 6 in Ordinary Time St. Simon the Zealot's cave in Abkhazia, Georgia. The text, in Church Slavonic, says "Rejoice, Simon, Apostle of Christ, who prays for our souls" Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingJames 2:14-24,26 ©A body dies without spirit; faith without good works is not aliveTake the case, my brothers, of someone who has never done a single good act but claims that he has faith. Will that faith save him? If one of the brothers or one of the sisters is in need of clothes and has not enough food to live on,...

17 February 2022Thursday of week 6 in Ordinary Time Seven Holy Founders Altar in the Basilica of Our Lady of Sorrows in Chicago Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingJames 2:1-9 ©God chose the poor but you do not respect themMy brothers, do not try to combine faith in Jesus Christ, our glorified Lord, with the making of distinctions between classes of people. Now suppose a man comes into your synagogue, beautifully dressed and with a gold ring on, and at the same time a poor man comes in, in shabby clothes, and you take notice of the well-dressed man, and...

16 February 2022Wednesday of week 6 in Ordinary Time St. Juliana Catholic Church West Palm Beach Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingJames 1:19-27 ©The Word is not only to be listened to, but obeyedRemember this, my dear brothers: be quick to listen but slow to speak and slow to rouse your temper; God’s righteousness is never served by man’s anger; so do away with all the impurities and bad habits that are still left in you – accept and submit to the word which has been planted in you and can save your souls. But you must do what the...

15 February 2022Tuesday of week 6 in Ordinary Time Saint Claude la Colombière chapel in Paray-le-Monial, Saône-et-Loire, France Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingJames 1:12-18 ©Temptation is not from GodHappy the man who stands firm when trials come. He has proved himself, and will win the prize of life, the crown that the Lord has promised to those who love him. Never, when you have been tempted, say, ‘God sent the temptation’; God cannot be tempted to do anything wrong, and he does not tempt anybody. Everyone who is tempted is attracted and seduced by his own wrong desire. Then...

14 February 2022Saints Cyril, monk, and Methodius, Bishop on Monday of week 6 in Ordinary Time Saints Cyril & Methodius Catholic Church, Shiner, Texas Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White.Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingJames 1:1-11 ©Your faith is put to the test so that your patience may make you completeFrom James, servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. Greetings to the twelve tribes of the Dispersion. My brothers, you will always have your trials but, when they come, try to treat them as a happy privilege; you understand that your...

13 February 2022 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time Basilica of Saints Vincent and Caterina de 'Ricci, Prato, Italy Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingJeremiah 17:5-8 ©A blessing on the man who puts his trust in the LordThe Lord says this:‘A curse on the man who puts his trust in man,who relies on things of flesh,whose heart turns from the Lord.He is like dry scrub in the wastelands:if good comes, he has no eyes for it,he settles in the parched places of the wilderness,a salt land, uninhabited.‘A blessing on the man who puts his trust in the Lord,with the Lord for...

12 February 2022 Saturday of week 5 in Ordinary Time Crypt of St. Eulalia of Barcelona, Barcelona Cathedral Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First reading1 Kings 12:26-32,13:33-34 ©The prophecy of the separation of IsraelJeroboam thought to himself, ‘As things are, the kingdom will revert to the House of David. If this people continues to go up to the Temple of the Lord in Jerusalem to offer sacrifices, the people’s heart will turn back again to their lord, Rehoboam king of Judah, and they will put me to death.’ So the king thought this over and then made two golden calves; he...

11 February 2022 Friday of week 5 in Ordinary Time Altar of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes Quezon City, Philippines Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First reading1 Kings 11:29-32,12:19 ©Solomon is unfaithful; the Lord moderates his wrathOne day when Jeroboam had gone out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah of Shiloh accosted him on the road. Ahijah was wearing a new cloak; the two of them were in the open country by themselves. Ahijah took the new cloak he was wearing and tore it into twelve strips, saying to Jeroboam, ‘Take ten strips for yourself, for thus the Lord...