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13 August 2025 Wednesday of week 19 in Ordinary Time St. Hyppolitus, Eferding, Upper AustriaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingDeuteronomy 34:1-12Moses dies and is buriedLeaving the plains of Moab, Moses went up Mount Nebo, the peak of Pisgah opposite Jericho, and the Lord showed him the whole land; Gilead as far as Dan, all Naphtali, the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the Western Sea, the Negeb, and the stretch of the Valley of Jericho, city of palm trees, as far as Zoar. The Lord said to him, ‘This is...

12 August 2025 Tuesday of week 19 in Ordinary TimeAltar of the Church of the Visitation in Ein Karem, the Holy LandReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingDeuteronomy 31:1-8Joshua shall cross the Jordan at your headMoses proceeded to address these words to the whole of Israel, ‘I am one hundred and twenty years old now, and can no longer come and go as I will. The Lord has said to me, “You shall not cross this Jordan.” It is the Lord your God who will cross it at your head to destroy these nations facing you and dispossess...

11 August 2025 Saint Clare, Virgin on Monday of week 19 in Ordinary Time Daniel Island (Charleston), South Carolina: Saint Clare of Assisi ChurchReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingDeuteronomy 10:12-22The Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lordsMoses said to the people: ‘Now, Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you? Only this: to fear the Lord your God, to follow all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your...

10 August 202519th Sunday in Ordinary Time Virgin Mary Altar in the Saint Lawrence Church in Denkendorf, GermanyReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingWisdom 18:6-9You made us glorious by calling us to youThat night had been foretold to our ancestors, so that,once they saw what kind of oaths they had put their trust in,they would joyfully take courage.This was the expectation of your people,the saving of the virtuous and the ruin of their enemies;for by the same act with which you took vengeance on our foesyou made us glorious by calling us to you.The devout children of worthy men...

9 August 2025 Saturday of week 18 in Ordinary Time Church of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein) in Lubliniec, PolandReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingDeuteronomy 6:4-13You shall love the Lord your God with all your heartMoses said to the people: ‘Listen, Israel: the Lord our God is the one Lord. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength. Let these words I urge on you today be written on your heart. You shall repeat them to your children and say them over to...

8 August 2025 Saint Dominic, Priest on Friday of week 18 in Ordinary Time St Dominic's priory church, San Francisco.Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingDeuteronomy 4:32-40'Did ever a people before you hear the voice of the living God, and remain alive?'Moses said to the people: ‘Put this question to the ages that are past, that went before you, from the time God created man on earth: Was there ever a word so majestic, from one end of heaven to the other? Was anything ever heard?...

7 August 2025 Thursday of week 18 in Ordinary Time St. Albert of Trapani Catholic Church, Houston, TexasReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingNumbers 20:1-13Moses makes water flow from the rock at MeribahThe sons of Israel, the whole community, arrived in the first month at the desert of Zin. The people settled at Kadesh. It was there that Miriam died and was buried. There was no water for the community, and they were all united against Moses and Aaron. The people challenged Moses: ‘We would rather have died,’ they said, ‘as our brothers died before the Lord! Why...

Wednesday 6 August 2025 The Transfiguration of the Lord Feast Oakdale, MN Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(I).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.(This rule is not followed in the United States, so two separate readings are shown here).First readingDaniel 7:9-10,13-14His robe was white as snowAs I watched:Thrones were set in placeand one of great age took his seat.His robe was white as snow,the hair of his head as pure as wool.His throne was a...

5 August 2025 Tuesday of week 18 in Ordinary Time St. Ulrich's and St. Afra's Abbey, AugsburgReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingNumbers 12:1-13'How have you dared to speak against my servant Moses?'Miriam, and Aaron too, spoke against Moses in connexion with the Cushite woman he had taken. (For he had married a Cushite woman.) They said, ‘Has the Lord spoken to Moses only? Has he not spoken to us too?’ The Lord heard this. Now Moses was the most humble of men, the humblest man on earth. Suddenly, the Lord said to Moses and Aaron and Miriam,...

4 August 2025 Saint John Mary Vianney, Priest on Monday of week 18 in Ordinary Time St. John Vianney Catholic Church, Houston, TX BReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingNumbers 11:4-15The sons of Israel complain in the desertThe sons of Israel began to wail, ‘Who will give us meat to eat?’ they said. ‘Think of the fish we used to eat free in Egypt, the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic! Here we are wasting away, stripped of everything; there is nothing but manna for us...

3 August 2025 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Nicodemus and St. Joseph of Arimathea Church, Ramla, the Holy Land Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingEcclesiastes 1:2,2:21-23Vanity of vanities; all is vanityVanity of vanities, the Preacher says. Vanity of vanities. All is vanity! For so it is that a man who has laboured wisely, skilfully and successfully must leave what is his own to someone who has not toiled for it at all. This, too, is vanity and great injustice; for what does he gain for all the toil and strain that he has undergone under the sun?...

2 August 2025 Saturday of week 17 in Ordinary Time St Peter Julian’s Church, SydneyReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingLeviticus 25:1,8-17The law of the jubilee yearThe Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai. He said: ‘You are to count seven weeks of years – seven times seven years, that is to say a period of seven weeks of years, forty-nine years. And on the tenth day of the seventh month you shall sound the trumpet; on the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout the land. You will declare this fiftieth year sacred and proclaim...

1 August 2025 Saint Alphonsus Mary de' Liguori, Bishop, Doctor on Friday of week 17 in Ordinary TimeRome: Church of Saint Alphonsus LiguorReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingLeviticus 23:1,4-11,15-16,27,34-37The law of the festivals of the LordThe Lord spoke to Moses. He said: ‘These are the Lord’s solemn festivals, the sacred assemblies to which you are to summon the sons of Israel on the appointed day. ‘The fourteenth day of the first month, between the two evenings, is the Passover of the Lord; and the fifteenth...

31 July 2025 Saint Ignatius Loyola, Priest on Thursday of week 17 in Ordinary TimeSt. Ignatius Loyola Parish, Mississauga, ONReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingExodus 40:16-21,34-38The tabernacle is set upMoses did exactly as the Lord had directed him. The tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month in the second year. Moses erected the tabernacle. He fixed the sockets for it, put up its frames, put its crossbars in position, set up its posts. He spread the tent over the tabernacle...

30 July 2025 Wednesday of week 17 in Ordinary TimeChapel of St. Peter Chrisologus in RavennaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingExodus 34:29-35Moses passes on to the people the orders given by the LordWhen Moses came down from the mountain of Sinai – as he came down from the mountain, Moses had the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands – he did not know that the skin on his face was radiant after speaking with the Lord. And when Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses, the skin on his face shone so much...

29 July 2025 Saints Martha, Mary and Lazarus on Tuesday of week 17 in Ordinary Time St. Martha Church Enfield Ct Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingExodus 33:7-11,34:5-9,28'They are a headstrong people; but forgive us our faults'Moses used to take the Tent and pitch it outside the camp, at some distance from the camp. He called it the Tent of Meeting. Anyone who had to consult the Lord would go out to the Tent of Meeting, outside the camp. Whenever Moses went out to the...

28 July 2025 Monday of week 17 in Ordinary Time Saint Pope Victor I statue in the St. Peter's BasilicaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingExodus 32:15-24,30-34The golden calfMoses made his way back down the mountain with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands, tablets inscribed on both sides, inscribed on the front and on the back. These tablets were the work of God, and the writing on them was God’s writing engraved on the tablets. Joshua heard the noise of the people shouting. ‘There is the sound of battle in the camp’, he told Moses....

27 July 2025 17th Sunday in Ordinary TimeSt. Pantaleon Church - Cologne, GermanyReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingGenesis 18:20-32Abraham negotiates with the LordThe Lord said, ‘How great an outcry there is against Sodom and Gomorrah! How grievous is their sin! I propose to go down and see whether or not they have done all that is alleged in the outcry against them that has come up to me. I am determined to know.’ The men left there and went to Sodom while Abraham remained standing before the Lord. Approaching him he said, ‘Are you really going to...

26 July 2025 Saint Joachim and Saint Anne, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturday of week 16 in Ordinary Time Sts. Anne & Joachim Catholic Church, Fargo, NDReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingExodus 24:3-8This is the blood of the Covenant that the Lord has made with youMoses went and told the people all the commands of the Lord and all the ordinances. In answer, all the people said with one voice, ‘We will observe all the commands that the Lord has decreed.’ Moses...

Friday 25 July 2025 Saint James, Apostle Feast Church of Saint James (St. Jakobskirche), Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: C(I).First 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 problems, but never despair; we have been persecuted, but never deserted; knocked down, but never killed; always, wherever we...