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5 March 20232nd Sunday of Lent St Piran's Chapel, Trethevy, Cornwall Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(I).First readingGenesis 12:1-4 ©All the tribes of the earth shall bless themselves by youThe Lord said to Abram, ‘Leave your country, your family and your father’s house, for the land I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name so famous that it will be used as a blessing.‘I will bless those who bless you:I will curse those who slight you.All the tribes of the earthshall bless themselves by you.’So Abram went as...

4 March 2023Saturday of the 1st week of Lent (optional commemoration of Saint Casimir) St. Casimir Church Cleveland, Ohio Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(I).First readingDeuteronomy 26:16-19 ©You will be a people consecrated to the LordMoses said to the people: ‘The Lord your God today commands you to observe these laws and customs; you must keep and observe them with all your heart and with all your soul. ‘You have today made this declaration about the Lord: that he will be your God, but only if you follow his ways, keep his statutes, his commandments, his ordinances, and listen...

3 March 2023Friday of the 1st week of Lent The Saint Katharine Drexel Catholic Church, Frederick, Maryland Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(I).First readingEzekiel 18:21-28 ©I prefer to see the wicked man renounce his wickedness and liveThus says the Lord: ‘If the wicked man renounces all the sins he has committed, respects my laws and is law-abiding and honest, he will certainly live; he will not die. All the sins he committed will be forgotten from then on; he shall live because of the integrity he has practised. What! Am I likely to take pleasure in the death of...

2 March 2023Thursday of the 1st week of Lent Saint Agnes of Bohemia Catholic Church, Chicago, IL Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(I).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 2023 Wednesday of the 1st week of Lent Saint David Catholic Church & School, Davie, FL Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(I).First readingJonah 3:1-10 ©The 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 a day’s journey....

28 February 2023Tuesday of the 1st week of Lent Church of St. Nicholas, Kyiv Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(I).First readingIsaiah 55:10-11 ©The 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...

27 February 2023Monday of the 1st week of Lent St. Gregory of Narek Armenian Church, Cleveland, OH Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(I).First readingLeviticus 19:1-2,11-18 ©Only 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 Lord your God, am holy. ‘“You must not steal nor deal deceitfully or fraudulently with your neighbour. You must not swear falsely by my name, profaning the name of your God. I am the Lord. You must not exploit or...

26 February 2023 1st Sunday of Lent St. Isabel Catholic Church, Sanibel, FL Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(I).First readingGenesis 2:7-9,3:1-7 ©The Creation, and the sin of our first parentsThe Lord God fashioned man of dust from the soil. Then he breathed into his nostrils a breath of life, and thus man became a living being. The Lord God planted a garden in Eden which is in the east, and there he put the man he had fashioned. The Lord God caused to spring up from the soil every kind of tree, enticing to look at and good to...

25 February 2023Saturday after Ash Wednesday Altar in the chapel of Saint Tarasios, Venice Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(I).First readingIsaiah 58:9-14 ©You will be like a spring whose waters never run dryThe Lord says this:If you do away with the yoke,the clenched fist, the wicked word,if you give your bread to the hungry,and relief to the oppressed,your light will rise in the darkness,and your shadows become like noon.The Lord will always guide you,giving you relief in desert places.He will give strength to your bonesand you shall be like a watered garden,like a spring of waterwhose waters never run...

24 February 2023Friday after Ash Wednesday St. Matthias the Apostle Catholic Church, Magnolia, TX Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(I).First readingIsaiah 58:1-9 ©The 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 long for God to draw near:‘Why should we fast...

23 February 2023Thursday after Ash Wednesday St. Polycarp Church, Smyrna Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(I).First readingDeuteronomy 30:15-20 ©I 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 land which you...

22 February 2023 Ash Wednesday St. Philip's Martyrion, Pamukkale, modern Turkey Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(I).First readingJoel 2:12-18 ©Let 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...

21 February 2023Tuesday of week 7 in Ordinary Time St. Peter Damian Church, Bartlett, IL Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingEcclesiasticus 2:1-11 ©The 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 the fire, and...

20 February 2023Monday of week 7 in Ordinary Time The Basilica of Our Lady of Fátima, Portugal Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingEcclesiasticus 1:1-10 ©Before 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?...

19 February 20237th Sunday in Ordinary Time One of the oldest church altars in Volyn, Ukraine (Museum of the Volyn Icon exhibit) Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingLeviticus 19:1-2,17-18 ©You must love your neighbour as yourselfThe 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 Lord your God, am holy. ‘“You must not bear hatred for your brother in your heart. You must openly tell him, your neighbour, of his offence; this way you will not take a sin upon yourself. You...

18 February 2023Saturday of week 6 in Ordinary Time Saint Kuriakose Elias Chavara Pilgrim Center, Kerala, India Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingHebrews 11:1-7 ©It is by faith that we understand that the world was created by one word from GodOnly faith can guarantee the blessings that we hope for, or prove the existence of the realities that at present remain unseen. It was for faith that our ancestors were commended. It is by faith that we understand that the world was created by one word from God, so that no apparent cause can account for the things...

17 February 2023Friday of week 6 in Ordinary Time St. Evermode of Ratzeburg blessing the church Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingGenesis 11:1-9 ©The tower of BabelThroughout the earth men spoke the same language, with the same vocabulary. Now as they moved eastwards they found a plain in the land of Shinar where they settled. They said to one another, ‘Come, let us make bricks and bake them in the fire.’ (For stone they used bricks, and for mortar they used bitumen). ‘Come,’ they said ‘let us build ourselves a town and a tower with its top reaching...

16 February 2023Thursday of week 6 in Ordinary Time A tomb that is said to be St. Juliana's, in Santillana del Mar Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingGenesis 9:1-13 ©The sign of the CovenantGod blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, ‘Be fruitful, multiply and fill the earth. Be the terror and the dread of all the wild beasts and all the birds of heaven, of everything that crawls on the ground and all the fish of the sea; they are handed over to you. Every living and crawling thing shall provide food for you, no less...

15 February 2023 Wednesday of week 6 in Ordinary Time Saint Claude la Colombière chapel in Paray-le-Monial, Saône-et-Loire, France Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingGenesis 8:6-13,20-22 ©The dove returnsAt the end of forty days Noah opened the porthole he had made in the ark and he sent out the raven. This went off, and flew back and forth until the waters dried up from the earth. Then he sent out the dove, to see whether the waters were receding from the surface of the earth. The dove, finding nowhere to perch, returned to him in the ark, for...

14 February 20233Saints Cyril, monk, and Methodius, Bishop on Tuesday of week 6 in Ordinary Time Saints Cyril and Methodius Church, Shiner, TX Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst 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...