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22 June 2025 The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ Solemnity St Albans Cathedral, St Albans, EnglandReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(I).First readingGenesis 14:18-20Melchizedek brought bread and wineMelchizedek king of Salem brought bread and wine; he was a priest of God Most High. He pronounced this blessing:‘Blessed be Abram by God Most High, creator of heaven and earth,and blessed be God Most High for handing over your enemies to you.’And Abram gave him a tithe of everything.How to listenResponsorial PsalmPsalm 109(110):1-4You are a priest for ever, a priest like Melchizedek of old.The Lord’s revelation to my Master:...

21 June 2025Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, Religious on Saturday of week 11 in Ordinary Time Side Altar of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, located at the Church of Saint Ignatius of Loyola in Rome Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst reading2 Corinthians 12:1-10'My power is at its best in weakness'Must I go on boasting, though there is nothing to be gained by it? But I will move on to the visions and revelations I have had from the Lord. I know a man in Christ who, fourteen years ago, was...

20 June 2025 Friday of week 11 in Ordinary TimeChurch St. Silverio, Ponza, Pontinian islands, Campania, ItalyReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First reading2 Corinthians 11:18,21-30If I am to boast, let me boast of my own feeblenessSo many others have been boasting of their worldly achievements, that I will boast myself. But if anyone wants some brazen speaking – I am still talking as a fool – then I can be as brazen as any of them, and about the same things. Hebrews, are they? So am I. Israelites? So am I. Descendants of Abraham? So am I. The...

19 June 2025 Thursday of week 11 in Ordinary TimeSt. Romuald Parish, Hardinsburg, KY Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First reading2 Corinthians 11:1-11I was careful not to be a burden to you in any wayI only wish you were able to tolerate a little foolishness from me. But of course: you are tolerant towards me. You see, the jealousy that I feel for you is God’s own jealousy: I arranged for you to marry Christ so that I might give you away as a chaste virgin to this one husband. But the serpent, with his cunning, seduced Eve, and...

18 June 2025 Wednesday of week 11 in Ordinary Time Schönau Monastery, Germany Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First reading2 Corinthians 9:6-11There is no limit to the blessings which God can send youDo not forget: thin sowing means thin reaping; the more you sow, the more you reap. Each one should give what he has decided in his own mind, not grudgingly or because he is made to, for God loves a cheerful giver. And there is no limit to the blessings which God can send you – he will make sure that you will always have all...

17 June 2025 Tuesday of week 11 in Ordinary Time Church of St. Albert Chmielowski in Zielona Góra, Poland Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First reading2 Corinthians 8:1-9The Lord Jesus was rich but became poor for your sakeNow here, brothers, is the news of the grace of God which was given in the churches in Macedonia; and of how, throughout great trials by suffering, their constant cheerfulness and their intense poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity. I can swear that they gave not only as much as they could afford, but far more, and quite spontaneously,...

16 June 2025Monday of week 11 in Ordinary Time Catholic church St Benno - MunichReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First reading2 Corinthians 6:1-10How we prove that we are God's servantsAs his fellow workers, we beg you once again not to neglect the grace of God that you have received. For he says: At the favourable time, I have listened to you; on the day of salvation I came to your help. Well, now is the favourable time; this is the day of salvation. We do nothing that people might object to, so as not to bring discredit on...

Sunday 15 June 2025 The Most Holy Trinity Solemnity St. Vitus Church, ClevelandReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(I).First readingProverbs 8:22-31Before the earth came into being, Wisdom was bornThe Wisdom of God cries aloud:The Lord created me when his purpose first unfolded, before the oldest of his works.From everlasting I was firmly set, from the beginning, before earth came into being.The deep was not, when I was born, there were no springs to gush with water.Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I came to birth;before he made the earth, the countryside, or the first grains of the world’s...

14 June 2025 Saturday of week 10 in Ordinary Time Saint Elisha Deir Mar Lichaa historic maronite monastery, Qadisha valley, Qannoubine, LebanonReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First reading2 Corinthians 5:14-21From now onwards we do not judge anyone by the standards of the fleshThe love of Christ overwhelms us when we reflect that if one man has died for all, then all men should be dead; and the reason he died for all was so that living men should live no longer for themselves, but for him who died and was raised to life for them. From now onwards,...

13 June 2025 Saint Antony of Padua, Priest, Doctor on Friday of week 10 in Ordinary Time Saint Anthony of Padua Church in Saint Louis, Missouri Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst reading2 Corinthians 4:7-15Such an overwhelming power comes from God and not from usWe are only the earthenware jars that hold this treasure, to make it clear that such an overwhelming power comes from God and not from us. We are in difficulties on all sides, but never cornered; we see no answer to our...

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...