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October 7, 2007                              Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Psalm: Sunday 37       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Hab 1:2-3; 2:2-4 How long, O LORD? I cry for helpbut you do not listen!I cry out to you, "Violence!"but you do not intervene.Why do you let me see ruin;why must I look at misery?Destruction and violence are before me;there is strife, and clamorous discord.Then the LORD answered me and said:Write down the vision clearly upon the tablets,so that one can read it readily.For the vision still has its time,presses on to fulfillment, and will not disappoint;if it delays, wait for...

September 30, 2007                                 Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Psalm: Sunday 36       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Am 6:1a, 4-7 Thus says the LORD the God of hosts:Woe to the complacent in Zion!Lying upon beds of ivory,stretched comfortably on their couches,they eat lambs taken from the flock,and calves from the stall!Improvising to the music of the harp,like David, they devise their own accompaniment.They drink wine from bowlsand anoint themselves with the best oils;yet they are not made ill by the collapse of Joseph!Therefore, now they shall be the first to...

September 23, 2007                             Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Psalm: Sunday 35       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Am 8:4-7 Hear this, you who trample upon the needyand destroy the poor of the land!“When will the new moon be over,” you ask,“that we may sell our grain,and the sabbath, that we may display the wheat?We will diminish the ephah,add to the shekel,and fix our scales for cheating!We will buy the lowly for silver,and the poor for a pair of sandals;even the refuse of the wheat we will sell!”The LORD has sworn by...

September 16, 2007                                 Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Psalm: Sunday 34     Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Ex 32:7-11, 13-14 The LORD said to Moses,“Go down at once to your people,whom you brought out of the land of Egypt,for they have become depraved. They have soon turned aside from the way I pointed out to them,making for themselves a molten calf and worshiping it,sacrificing to it and crying out,‘This is your God, O Israel,who brought you out of the land of Egypt!’“I see how stiff-necked this people is, ” continued the...

September 9, 2007                             Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time Psalm: Sunday 33           Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Wis 9:13-18b Who can know God’s counsel,or who can conceive what the LORD intends?For the deliberations of mortals are timid,and unsure are our plans.For the corruptible body burdens the souland the earthen shelter weighs down the mind that has many concerns.And scarce do we guess the things on earth,and what is within our grasp we find with difficulty;but when things are in heaven, who can search them out?Or who ever knew your counsel,...

September 2, 2007                             Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time Psalm: Sunday 32     Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Sir 3:17-18, 20, 28-29 My child, conduct your affairs with humility,and you will be loved more than a giver of gifts.Humble yourself the more, the greater you are,and you will find favor with God.What is too sublime for you, seek not,into things beyond your strength search not.The mind of a sage appreciates proverbs,and an attentive ear is the joy of the wise.Water quenches a flaming fire,and alms atone for sins. Responsorial PsalmPs 68:4-5, 6-7, 10-11...

August 26, 2007                                 Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time Psalm: Sunday 31       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Is 66:18-21 Thus says the LORD:I know their works and their thoughts,and I come to gather nations of every language;they shall come and see my glory. I will set a sign among them;from them I will send fugitives to the nations:to Tarshish, Put and Lud, Mosoch, Tubal and Javan,to the distant coastlandsthat have never heard of my fame, or seen my glory;and they shall proclaim my glory among the nations. They shall bring...

August 19, 2007                                 Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Psalm: Sunday 30       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Jer 38:4-6, 8-10 In those days, the princes said to the king:“Jeremiah ought to be put to death;he is demoralizing the soldiers who are left in this city,and all the people, by speaking such things to them;he is not interested in the welfare of our people,but in their ruin.” King Zedekiah answered: “He is in your power”;for the king could do nothing with them. And so they took Jeremiahand threw him into the...

August 12, 2007                                 Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Psalm: Sunday 29       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Wis 18:6-9 The night of the passover was known beforehand to our fathers,that, with sure knowledge of the oaths in which they put their faith,they might have courage.Your people awaited the salvation of the justand the destruction of their foes.For when you punished our adversaries,in this you glorified us whom you had summoned.For in secret the holy children of the good were offering sacrificeand putting into effect with one accord the divine institution. Responsorial...

August 5, 2007                                 Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Psalm: Sunday 28     Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Ecc 1:2; 2:21-23 Vanity of vanities, says Qoheleth,vanity of vanities! All things are vanity! Here is one who has labored with wisdom and knowledge and skill,and yet to another who has not labored over it,he must leave property. This also is vanity and a great misfortune. For what profit comes to man from all the toil and anxiety of heartwith which he has labored under the sun? All his days sorrow and grief are...

July 29, 2007                             Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Psalm: Sunday 27       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Gn 18:20-32 In those days, the LORD said: “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great,and their sin so grave,that I must go down and see whether or not their actionsfully correspond to the cry against them that comes to me. I mean to find out.” While Abraham’s visitors walked on farther toward Sodom,the LORD remained standing before Abraham. Then Abraham drew nearer and said:“Will you sweep away the innocent with the guilty?...

July 22, 2007                                 Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Psalm: Sunday 26       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Gn 18:1-10a The LORD appeared to Abraham by the terebinth of Mamre,as he sat in the entrance of his tent,while the day was growing hot. Looking up, Abraham saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he ran from the entrance of the tent to greet them;and bowing to the ground, he said:“Sir, if I may ask you this favor,please do not go on past your servant. Let some water be brought,...

July 15, 2007                                     Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Psalm: Sunday 25       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Dt 30:10-14 Moses said to the people:“If only you would heed the voice of the LORD, your God,and keep his commandments and statutesthat are written in this book of the law,when you return to the LORD, your God,with all your heart and all your soul. “For this command that I enjoin on you todayis not too mysterious and remote for you.It is not up in the sky, that you should say,‘Who will...

July 8, 2007                                 Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Psalm: Sunday 24     Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Is 66:10-14c Thus says the LORD:Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad because of her,all you who love her;exult, exult with her,all you who were mourning over her!Oh, that you may suck fullyof the milk of her comfort,that you may nurse with delightat her abundant breasts!For thus says the LORD:Lo, I will spread prosperity over Jerusalem like a river,and the wealth of the nations like an overflowing torrent.As nurslings, you shall be carried in her...

July 1, 2007                                 Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Psalm: Sunday 23     Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 11 Kgs 19:16b, 19-21 The LORD said to Elijah:“You shall anoint Elisha, son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah,as prophet to succeed you.” Elijah set out and came upon Elisha, son of Shaphat,as he was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen;he was following the twelfth.Elijah went over to him and threw his cloak over him.Elisha left the oxen, ran after Elijah, and said,“Please, let me kiss my father and mother goodbye,and I will follow you.”Elijah answered,...

June 24, 2007                                    Solemnity of the Nativity of                                 Saint John the Baptist                                 Mass during the Day Psalm: Sunday 23       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Is 49:1-6 Hear me, O coastlands,listen, O distant peoples.The LORD called me from birth,from my mother’s womb he gave me my name.He made of me a sharp-edged swordand concealed me in the shadow of his arm.He made me a polished arrow,in his quiver he hid me.You are my servant, he said to me,Israel, through...

June 17, 2007                                 Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Psalm: Sunday 22     Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 12 Sm 12:7-10, 13 Nathan said to David: “Thus says the LORD God of Israel: ‘I anointed you king of Israel.I rescued you from the hand of Saul.I gave you your lord’s house and your lord’s wives for your own.I gave you the house of Israel and of Judah.And if this were not enough, I could count up for you still more.Why have you spurned the Lord and done evil in his sight?You have cut...

June 10, 2007                                         The Solemnity of the Most Holy                                         Body and Blood of Christ Psalm: Sunday 21     Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Gn 14:18-20 In those days, Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought out bread and wine,and being a priest of God Most High,he blessed Abram with these words:"Blessed be Abram by God Most High,the creator of heaven and earth;and blessed be God Most High,who delivered your foes into your hand."Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything. Responsorial...

June 3, 2007                             The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity Psalm: Sunday 20     Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Prv 8:22-31 Thus says the wisdom of God:"The LORD possessed me, the beginning of his ways,the forerunner of his prodigies of long ago;from of old I was poured forth,at the first, before the earth.When there were no depths I was brought forth,when there were no fountains or springs of water;before the mountains were settled into place,before the hills, I was brought forth;while as yet the earth and fields were not made,nor the first...

May 27, 2007                                         Pentecost Sunday                                        Mass during the Day Psalm: Sunday 20     Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Acts 2:1-11 When the time for Pentecost was fulfilled,they were all in one place together.And suddenly there came from the skya noise like a strong driving wind,and it filled the entire house in which they were.Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire,which parted and came to rest on each one of them.And they were all filled with the Holy Spiritand...