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Mmm dd, 2025 Thursday of week 10 in Ordinary Time San Juan de Sahagún chapel, Burgos Cathedral, SpainReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First reading2 Corinthians 3:15-4:1,3-6The veil over their eyes will not be removed until they turn to the LordEven today, whenever Moses is read, the veil is over their minds. It will not be removed until they turn to the Lord. Now this Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we, with our unveiled faces reflecting like mirrors the brightness of the Lord, all grow brighter and brighter...

11 June 2025Saint Barnabas, Apostle on Wednesday of week 10 in Ordinary TimeSaint Barnabas Parish, OmahaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: C(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaThe following reading is proper to the memorial, and must be used even if you have otherwise chosen to use the ferial readings.First readingActs 11:21-26,13:1-3He was a good man, filled with the Holy Spirit and with faithA great number believed and were converted to the Lord. The church in Jerusalem heard about this and they sent Barnabas to Antioch. There he could see for himself that...

10 June 2025 Tuesday of week 10 in Ordinary Time L'Aquila Cathedral in Quarto di San Giovanni, L'Aquila, ItalyReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First reading2 Corinthians 1:18-22God himself has anointed us and given us his SpiritI swear by God’s truth, there is no Yes and No about what we say to you. The Son of God, the Christ Jesus that we proclaimed among you – I mean Silvanus and Timothy and I – was never Yes and No: with him it was always Yes, and however many the promises God made, the Yes to them all is in...

10 June 2025 Tuesday of week 10 in Ordinary Time St. Columba, St. Paul, MNReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First reading2 Corinthians 1:18-22God himself has anointed us and given us his SpiritI swear by God’s truth, there is no Yes and No about what we say to you. The Son of God, the Christ Jesus that we proclaimed among you – I mean Silvanus and Timothy and I – was never Yes and No: with him it was always Yes, and however many the promises God made, the Yes to them all is in him. That is why...

13 March 2025Thursday of the 1st week of LentHigh Altar in Seville Cathedral in Seville, SpainReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: C(I).First readingEsther 4:17I 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, Lord, choseIsrael...

12 March 2025Wednesday of the 1st week of LentArtwork Replica Tomb Altar of St Fina, San Gimignano, 1477 by Benedetto Da MaianoReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: C(I).First readingJonah 3:1-10The Ninevites repent, and God spares themThe word of the Lord was addressed to Jonah: ‘Up!’ he said ‘Go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach to them as I told you to.’ Jonah set out and went to Nineveh in obedience to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was a city great beyond compare: it took three days to cross it. Jonah went on into the city, making...

11 March 2025 Tuesday of the 1st week of Lent St. George the Great Martyr Catholic Ukrainian Church, Oshawa, OntarioReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: C(I).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...

10 March 2025 Monday of the 1st week of Lent Pope Benedict XVI named four new saints from France, Malta, the Netherlands and Poland during a canonization mass at St Peter's square under pouring rain. The new saints are: Sister Marie Eugenie de Jesus Milleret, a French nun who in 1839 founded the Religious of the Assumption ...Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: C(I).First readingLeviticus 19:1-2,11-18Only pass judgement on your neighbour according to justiceThe Lord spoke to Moses; he said: ‘Speak to the whole community of the sons of Israel and say to them: ‘“Be holy, for I, the...

7 March 2025 Friday after Ash Wednesday Sts. Perpetua and Felicity Chapel, Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, D.C. Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: C(I).First readingIsaiah 58:1-9The sort of fast that pleases meThus says the Lord:Shout for all you are worth, raise your voice like a trumpet.Proclaim their faults to my people, their sins to the House of Jacob.They seek me day after day, they long to know my ways,like a nation that wants to act with integrity and not ignore the law of its God.They ask me for laws that are just, they...

6 March 2025 Thursday after Ash Wednesday St. Fridolin cathedral in Bad Saeckingen, GermanyReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: C(I).First readingDeuteronomy 30:15-20I set before you today life or death, blessing or curseMoses said to the people: ‘See, today I set before you life and prosperity, death and disaster. If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I enjoin on you today, if you love the Lord your God and follow his ways, if you keep his commandments, his laws, his customs, you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the...

5 March 2025 Ash WednesdaySt Piran's Old Church, Perranporth, Cornwell, UKReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: C(I).First readingJoel 2:12-18Let your hearts be broken, not your garments torn‘Now, now – it is the Lord who speaks –come back to me with all your heart,fasting, weeping, mourning.’Let your hearts be broken, not your garments torn,turn to the Lord your God again,for he is all tenderness and compassion,slow to anger, rich in graciousness,and ready to relent.Who knows if he will not turn again, will not relent,will not leave a blessing as he passes,oblation and libationfor the Lord your God?Sound the trumpet in...

4 March 2025 Tuesday of week 8 in Ordinary Time St Casimir Polish Church, ClevelandReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingEcclesiasticus 35:2-15Give to the Most High as he has given to youA man multiplies offerings by keeping the Law; he offers communion sacrifices by following the commandments.By showing gratitude he makes an offering of fine flour, by giving alms he offers a sacrifice of praise.Withdraw from wickedness and the Lord will be pleased, withdraw from injustice and you make atonement.Do not appear empty-handed in the Lord’s presence; for all these things are due under the commandment.A virtuous man’s offering...

3 March 2025 Monday of week 8 in Ordinary Time The parish church of Cunigunde of Luxembourg, Mürzzuschlag, Styria, AustriaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingEcclesiasticus 17:20-28Return to the Lord and leave sin behindTo those who repent, God permits return, and he encourages those who were losing hope.Return to the Lord and leave sin behind, plead before his face and lessen your offence.Come back to the Most High and turn away from iniquity, and hold in abhorrence all that is foul.Who will praise the Most High in Sheol, if the living do not do so by giving glory to...

2 March 2025 8th Sunday in Ordinary TimeSt. Agnes of Bohemia Franciscan Convent in Prague Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingEcclesiasticus 27:5-8The 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...

1 March 2025 Saturday of week 7 in Ordinary Time Dewi Sant Welsh United Church, Toronto, ON Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingEcclesiasticus 17:1-13Their ways cannot be hidden from his sightThe Lord fashioned man from the earth, to consign him back to it.He gave them so many days’ determined time, he gave them authority over everything on earth.He clothed them with strength like his own, and made them in his own image.He filled all living things with dread of man, making him master over beasts and birds.He shaped for them a mouth and tongue, eyes and ears, and...

28 February 2025 Friday of week 7 in Ordinary TimeSt._Hilarius Freiburg, GermanyReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingEcclesiasticus 6:5-17A faithful friend is a sure shelterA kindly turn of speech multiplies a man’s friends, and a courteous way of speaking invites many a friendly reply.Let your acquaintances be many, but your advisers one in a thousand.If you want to make a friend, take him on trial, and be in no hurry to trust him;for one kind of friend is only so when it suits him but will not stand by you in your day of trouble.Another kind of friend...

27 February 2025 Thursday of week 7 in Ordinary TimeSt. Gregory of Narek Armenian Church, Cleveland OhioReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingEcclesiasticus 5:1-10Do not delay your return to the LordDo not give your heart to your money, or say, ‘With this I am self-sufficient.’Do not be led by your appetites and energy to follow the passions of your heart.And do not say, ‘Who has authority over me?’ for the Lord will certainly be avenged on you.Do not say, ‘I sinned, and what happened to me?’ for the Lord’s forbearance is long.Do not be so sure of forgiveness...

26 February 2025 Wednesday of week 7 in Ordinary TimeCOLEGIO PAULA MONTALReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingEcclesiasticus 4:12-22Whoever loves wisdom loves lifeWisdom brings up her own sons, and cares for those who seek her.Whoever loves her loves life, those who wait on her early will be filled with happiness.Whoever holds her close will inherit honour, and wherever he walks the Lord will bless him.Those who serve her minister to the Holy One, and the Lord loves those who love her.Whoever obeys her judges aright, and whoever pays attention to her dwells secure.If he trusts himself to her...

25 February 2025 Tuesday of week 7 in Ordinary Time Church of San Zaccaria, Chapel of San Tarasio, Venice, CastelloReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingEcclesiasticus 2:1-11The chosen are tested like gold in the fireMy son, if you aspire to serve the Lord, prepare yourself for an ordeal.Be sincere of heart, be steadfast, and do not be alarmed when disaster comes.Cling to him and do not leave him, so that you may be honoured at the end of your days.Whatever happens to you, accept it, and in the uncertainties of your humble state, be patient,since gold is tested in...

24 February 2025 Monday of week 7 in Ordinary Time St. Matthias Church, Budapest, HungaryReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingEcclesiasticus 1:1-10Before all other things, wisdom was createdAll wisdom is from the Lord, and it is his own for ever.The sand of the sea and the raindrops, and the days of eternity, who can assess them?The height of the sky and the breadth of the earth, and the depth of the abyss, who can probe them?Before all other things wisdom was created, shrewd understanding is everlasting.For whom has the root of wisdom ever been uncovered? Her resourceful ways,...