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27 October 2023 Friday of week 29 in Ordinary Time St Frumentius, Via Cavriglia, Rome Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingRomans 7:18-25 ©Every time I want to do good it is something evil that comes to handI know of nothing good living in me – living, that is, in my unspiritual self – for though the will to do what is good is in me, the performance is not, with the result that instead of doing the good things I want to do, I carry out the sinful things I do not want. When I act against my...

26 October 2023 Thursday of week 29 in Ordinary Time Church of Agios Dimitrios in Thessaloniki, Greece Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingRomans 6:19-23 ©Now you are set free from sin, and slaves to GodIf I may use human terms to help your natural weakness: as once you put your bodies at the service of vice and immorality, so now you must put them at the service of righteousness for your sanctification. When you were slaves of sin, you felt no obligation to righteousness, and what did you get from this? Nothing but experiences that now make...

25 October 2023 Wednesday of week 29 in Ordinary Time St. Boniface Colony Church, ArkansasReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingRomans 6:12-18 ©Make every part of your body a weapon fighting on the side of GodYou must not let sin reign in your mortal bodies or command your obedience to bodily passions, you must not let any part of your body turn into an unholy weapon fighting on the side of sin; you should, instead, offer yourselves to God, and consider yourselves dead men brought back to life; you should make every part of your body into a weapon...

24 October 2023 Tuesday of week 29 in Ordinary TimeSaint Anthony Mary Claret Catholic Church, San Antonio, TX Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingRomans 5:12,15,17-21 ©Divine grace, coming through Jesus Christ, came as an abundant free giftSin entered the world through one man, and through sin death, and thus death has spread through the whole human race because everyone has sinned; but the gift itself considerably outweighed the fall. If it is certain that through one man’s fall so many died, it is even more certain that divine grace, coming through the one man, Jesus Christ, came...

23 October 2023 Monday of week 29 in Ordinary Time Mission Basilica San Juan Capistrano, San Juan Capistrano, California Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingRomans 4:20-25 ©We must believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the deadSince God had made him a promise, Abraham refused either to deny it or even to doubt it, but drew strength from faith and gave glory to God, convinced that God had power to do what he had promised. This is the faith that was ‘considered as justifying him.’ Scripture however does not refer only to him but to us...

21 October 2023 Saturday of week 28 in Ordinary Time Bridlington Priory, Bridlington, England Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingRomans 4:13,16-18 ©Abraham hoped and believed and became the father of many nationsThe promise of inheriting the world was not made to Abraham and his descendants on account of any law but on account of the righteousness which consists in faith. That is why what fulfils the promise depends on faith, so that it may be a free gift and be available to all of Abraham’s descendants, not only those who belong to the Law but also those...

20 October 2023 Friday of week 28 in Ordinary Time Saint Irene of Tomar altar, Tomar, Portugal Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingRomans 4:1-8 ©Abraham was justified not by his actions but by faithWhat shall we say about Abraham, the ancestor from whom we are all descended? If Abraham was justified as a reward for doing something, he would really have had something to boast about, though not in God’s sight because scripture says: Abraham put his faith in God, and this faith was considered as justifying him. If a man has work to show, his wages...

22 October 2022Saturday of week 29 in Ordinary Time The Chapel of Pope John Paul II High School, Huntsville, Alabama Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(II).First readingEphesians 4:7-16 ©By grace, we shall not be children any longerEach one of us has been given his own share of grace, given as Christ allotted it. It was said that he would:When he ascended to the height, he captured prisoners,he gave gifts to men.When it says, ‘he ascended’, what can it mean if not that he descended right down to the lower regions of the earth? The one who rose higher than...

21 October 2022Friday of week 29 in Ordinary Time Saints Peter and Paul, Peremyshlyany, Ukraine Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(II).First readingEphesians 4:1-6 ©One Body, one Spirit, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one GodI, the prisoner in the Lord, implore you to lead a life worthy of your vocation. Bear with one another charitably, in complete selflessness, gentleness and patience. Do all you can to preserve the unity of the Spirit by the peace that binds you together. There is one Body, one Spirit, just as you were all called into one and the same hope when you...

20 October 2022Thursday of week 29 in Ordinary Time St. Iria chapel, Tomar, Portugal Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(II).First readingEphesians 3:14-21 ©A prayer that faithful may know the love of ChristThis is what I pray, kneeling before the Father, from whom every family, whether spiritual or natural, takes its name: Out of his infinite glory, may he give you the power through his Spirit for your hidden self to grow strong, so that Christ may live in your hearts through faith, and then, planted in love and built on love, you will with all the saints have strength...

19 October 2022Saints John de Brébeuf and Isaac Jogues, priests, and their Companions, Martyrs on Wednesday of week 29 in Ordinary Time Saint-Jean-De-Brébeuf, Greater Sudbury, ON, Canada Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: C(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingEphesians 3:2-12 ©The pagans now share the same inheritanceYou have probably heard how I have been entrusted by God with the grace he meant for you, and that it was by a revelation that I was given the knowledge of the mystery, as I have just described it very shortly. If you read my...

17 October 2022Saint Ignatius of Antioch, Bishop, Martyr on Monday of week 29 in Ordinary Time St. Ignatius of Antioch Roman Catholic Church Tarpon Springs, FL Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: C(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingEphesians 2:1-10 ©Sinners are saved in Christ JesusYou were dead through the crimes and the sins in which you used to live when you were following the way of this world, obeying the ruler who governs the air, the spirit who is at work in the rebellious. We all were among them too in the...

15 October 2022Saint Teresa of Ávila, Virgin, Doctor on Saturday of week 28 in Ordinary Time Iglesia Santa Teresa de Avila, Avila, Spain Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingEphesians 1:15-23 ©Paul’s prayer for the enlightenment of the faithfulI, having once heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus, and the love that you show towards all the saints, have never failed to remember you in my prayers and to thank God for you. May the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, give...

14 October 2022Friday of week 28 in Ordinary Time St. Callixtus Catacombs Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(II).First readingEphesians 1:11-14 ©You have been stamped with the seal of the Holy SpiritIt is in Christ that we were claimed as God’s own,chosen from the beginning,under the predetermined plan of the one who guides all thingsas he decides by his own will;chosen to be,for his greater glory,the people who would put their hopes in Christ before he came.Now you too, in him,have heard the message of the truth and the good news of your salvation,and have believed it;and you too have...

14 August 202220th Sunday in Ordinary Time Saint Maximilian Mary Kolbe Church Quezon City, Manila, Philippines Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(II).First readingJeremiah 38:4-6,8-10 ©'Do not let the prophet die'The king’s leading men spoke to the king. ‘Let Jeremiah be put to death: he is unquestionably disheartening the remaining soldiers in the city, and all the people too, by talking like this. The fellow does not have the welfare of this people at heart so much as its ruin.’ ‘He is in your hands as you know,’ King Zedekiah answered ‘for the king is powerless against you.’ So they...

August 7th 2022 Memorial of St. Cajetan Church of St. Cajetan, Old Goa, India Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green First readingWisdom 18:6-9 ©You 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 offered sacrifice in...

July 31 2022 Sunday of week 18 in Ordinary time Church of the Blessed Sacrament, Birmingham, Alabama Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green First readingEcclesiastes 1:2,2:21-23 ©Vanity 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? What of all...

October 22, 2021 Friday of week 29 in Ordinary Time John Paul II Centre, Krakow Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingRomans 7:18-25 ©Every time I want to do good it is something evil that comes to handI know of nothing good living in me – living, that is, in my unspiritual self – for though the will to do what is good is in me, the performance is not, with the result that instead of doing the good things I want to do, I carry out the sinful things I do not want. When I act against my will, then,...

October 18th, 2021Saint Francis Xavier church, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA By MamaGeek at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17971316Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green First readingRomans 6:19-23 ©Now you are set free from sin, and slaves to GodIf I may use human terms to help your natural weakness: as once you put your bodies at the service of vice and immorality, so now you must put them at the service of righteousness for your sanctification. When you were slaves of sin, you felt no obligation to righteousness, and what did you get from this? Nothing but experiences that now make you blush, since...

October 20, 2021 Wednesday of week 29 in Ordinary Time S. Iria Chapel, Tomar, Portugal Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingRomans 6:12-18 ©Make every part of your body a weapon fighting on the side of GodYou must not let sin reign in your mortal bodies or command your obedience to bodily passions, you must not let any part of your body turn into an unholy weapon fighting on the side of sin; you should, instead, offer yourselves to God, and consider yourselves dead men brought back to life; you should make every part of your body into a weapon fighting...