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January 12 2021 Memorial of St. Marguerite Bourgeoys St. Marguerite Bourgeoys church, Brookfield, Connecticut Lectionary 306Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingHebrews 2:5-12 ©The one who sanctifies and the ones who are sanctified are of the same stockGod did not appoint angels to be rulers of the world to come, and that world is what we are talking about. Somewhere there is a passage that shows us this. It runs: What is man that you should spare a thought for him, the son of man that you should care for him? For a short while you made him lower than the...

January 11 2021 Monday of the First Week in Ordinary Time St. Edward's Church, Little rock, Arkansas Lectionary 305Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingHebrews 1:1-6 ©God has spoken to us through his SonAt various times in the past and in various different ways, God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets; but in our own time, the last days, he has spoken to us through his Son, the Son that he has appointed to inherit everything and through whom he made everything there is. He is the radiant light of God’s glory and the perfect copy of his nature, sustaining...

January 10 2021 The Baptism of the Lord Christ in majesty, Florence Baptisery, Visit Florence Lectionary 216Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White.First readingIsaiah 55:1-11 ©Come to me and your soul will live, and I will make an everlasting covenant with youThus says the Lord:Oh, come to the water all you who are thirsty;though you have no money, come!Buy corn without money, and eat,and, at no cost, wine and milk.Why spend money on what is not bread,your wages on what fails to satisfy?Listen, listen to me, and you will have good things to eatand rich food to enjoy.Pay attention, come to me;listen,...

December 2 2020 First Wednesday of Advent Lectionary 177Reading 1 IS 25:6-10AOn this mountain the LORD of hosts will provide for all peoples A feast of rich food and choice wines, juicy, rich food and pure, choice wines. On this mountain he will destroy the veil that veils all peoples, The web that is woven over all nations; he will destroy death forever. The Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from all faces; The reproach of his people he will remove from the whole earth; for the LORD has spoken.On that day it will be said: “Behold our God,...

November 30 2020 Feast of St Andrew, ApostleŚw Andrzej Bobola, Warszawa - St. Andrew bobola church, Warsaw, Poland Monday of the Thirty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary 684 Reading 1 ROM 10:9-18Brothers and sisters: If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For one believes with the heart and so is justified, and one confesses with the mouth and so is saved. The Scripture says,No one who believes in him will be put to shame. There is no distinction between Jew and...

November 29 2020 First Sunday of Advent Sunday of the Thirty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary 2 Reading 1 IS 63:16B-17, 19B; 64:2-7 You, LORD, are our father,our redeemer you are named forever.Why do you let us wander, O LORD, from your ways,and harden our hearts so that we fear you not?Return for the sake of your servants,the tribes of your heritage.Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down,with the mountains quaking before you,while you wrought awesome deeds we could not hope for,such as they had not heard of from of old.No ear has ever heard, no eye...

November 28 2020St. Stephen’s Cathedral – Vienna, Austria Saturday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time Reading 1 RV 22:1-7John said: An angel showed me the river of life-giving water, sparkling like crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the street, On either side of the river grew the tree of life that produces fruit twelve times a year, once each month; the leaves of the trees serve as medicine for the nations. Nothing accursed will be found anymore. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and...

November 27 2020 Altar of the Franciscan church in Józefów Friday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary TimeLectionary: 507Reading 1 RV 20:1-4, 11—21:2I, John, saw an angel come down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the abyss and a heavy chain. He seized the dragon, the ancient serpent, which is the Devil or Satan, and tied it up for a thousand years and threw it into the abyss, which he locked over it and sealed, so that it could no longer lead the nations astray until the thousand years are completed. After this, it is to be...

November 26 2020 Thursday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary TimeLectionary: 506Reading 1 RV 18:1-2, 21-23; 19:1-3, 9A I, John, saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth became illumined by his splendor. He cried out in a mighty voice:“Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great. She has become a haunt for demons. She is a cage for every unclean spirit, a cage for every unclean bird, a cage for every unclean and disgusting beast.”A mighty angel picked up a stone like a huge millstone and threw it into the sea and said:“With such force will...

November 25 2020 Memorial of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, virgin and martyr Wednesday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary TimeLectionary: 505Reading 1 RV 15:1-4 I, John, saw in heaven another sign, great and awe-inspiring: seven angels with the seven last plagues, for through them God’s fury is accomplished.Then I saw something like a sea of glass mingled with fire. On the sea of glass were standing those who had won the victory over the beast and its image and the number that signified its name. They were holding God’s harps, and they sang the song of Moses, the servant of...

November 24 2020 Memorial of Saint Andrew Dung-Lac, Priest, and Companions, Martyrs Thirty Fourth Tuesday in Ordinary TimeLectionary: 504Reading 1 RV 14:14-19 I, John, looked and there was a white cloud, and sitting on the cloud one who looked like a son of man, with a gold crown on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. Another angel came out of the temple, crying out in a loud voice to the one sitting on the cloud, “Use your sickle and reap the harvest, for the time to reap has come, because the earth’s harvest is fully ripe.” So...

November 23 2020 Memorial of Blessed Miguel Agustín Pro, priest and martyr; of Saint Columban, abbot; of Saint Clement I, pope and martyr Pilgrimage church of St. Colomba in Schwangau, Germany, near Neuschwanstein castleThirty Fourth Monday in Ordinary TimeLectionary: 503Reading 1 Rv 14:1-3, 4b-5I, John, looked and there was the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads. I heard a sound from heaven like the sound of rushing water or a loud peal of thunder. The sound I heard was like that...

November 22 2020 The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe Altar of the Church of Christ the King in TarnoBrzeg Thirty Fourth Sunday in Ordinary TimeLectionary: 160Reading 1 EZ 34:11-12, 15-17 Thus says the Lord GOD: I myself will look after and tend my sheep. As a shepherd tends his flock when he finds himself among his scattered sheep, so will I tend my sheep. I will rescue them from every place where they were scattered when it was cloudy and dark. I myself will pasture my sheep; I myself will give them rest, says the...

November 21 2020 Memorial of the Presentation of the Virgin Mary Thirty Third Saturday in Ordinary TimeLectionary: 502Reading Rv 11:4-12I, John, heard a voice from heaven speak to me: Here are my two witnesses: These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. If anyone wants to harm them, fire comes out of their mouths and devours their enemies. In this way, anyone wanting to harm them is sure to be slain. They have the power to close up the sky so that no rain can fall during the time of...

November 20 2020 Kościół p.w. Matki Bożej Królowej Polski (Warszawa) (Church of the Mother of God, Queen of Poland) parish, Warsaw-Żoliborz Thirty Third Friday in Ordinary TimeLectionary: 501Reading 1 RV 10:8-11 I, John, heard a voice from heaven speak to me.Then the voice spoke to me and said:“Go, take the scroll that lies open in the hand of the angelwho is standing on the sea and on the land.”So I went up to the angel and told him to give me the small scroll.He said to me, “Take and swallow it.It will turn your stomach sour,but in your mouth it...

November 19 2020 Św Jan Kantego (St. John Cantius) parish, Warsaw-Żoliborz Thirty Third Thursday in Ordinary TimeLectionary: 500Reading 1 RV 5:1-10 I, John, saw a scroll in the right hand of the one who sat on the throne. It had writing on both sides and was sealed with seven seals. Then I saw a mighty angel who proclaimed in a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?” But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or to examine it. I shed many tears because...

November 18 2020 Memorial of Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne, Memorial of Dedication of the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, ApostlesThirty Third Wednesday in Ordinary TimeLectionary: 499Reading 1 Rv 4:1-11I, John, had a vision of an open door to heaven,and I heard the trumpetlike voicethat had spoken to me before, saying,“Come up here and I will show you what must happen afterwards.”At once I was caught up in spirit.A throne was there in heaven, and on the throne sat onewhose appearance sparkled like jasper and carnelian.Around the throne was a halo as brilliant as an emerald.Surrounding the throne I saw...

November 17 2020 Memorial of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, religiousThirty Third Tuesday in Ordinary TimeLectionary: 498Reading 1 RV 3:1-6, 14-22 I, John, heard the Lord saying to me: “To the angel of the Church in Sardis, write this:“‘The one who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars says this: “I know your works, that you have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead. Be watchful and strengthen what is left, which is going to die, for I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God. Remember then how you accepted and...

November 16 2020 Memorial of Saint Margaret of Scotland and Memorial of Saint GertrudeThirty Third Monday in Ordinary TimeLectionary: 497Reading 1 RV 1:1-4; 2:1-5 The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him, to show his servants what must happen soon. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who gives witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ by reporting what he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud and blessed are those who listen to this prophetic message and heed what is written in it, for the...

November 15, 2020Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Stanislaus Kostka Catholic Church Anderson, TX Reading 1 PRV 31:10-13, 19-20, 30-31 When one finds a worthy wife,her value is far beyond pearls.Her husband, entrusting his heart to her,has an unfailing prize.She brings him good, and not evil,all the days of her life.She obtains wool and flaxand works with loving hands.She puts her hands to the distaff,and her fingers ply the spindle.She reaches out her hands to the poor,and extends her arms to the needy.Charm is deceptive and beauty fleeting;the woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.Give her a reward...