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June 19th 2022 Corpus Christi “‘I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any one eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh.’ They then disputed among themselves, saying, ‘How can this man give us his flesh to eat?’” (John 6:51–52). Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White First readingGenesis 14:18-20 ©Melchizedek 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...

March 13th 2022 2nd Sunday of Lent St. Joseph Cathedral, Sioux Falls, South Dakota Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: violet First readingGenesis 15:5-12,17-18 ©God enters into a Covenant with Abraham, the man of faithTaking Abram outside, the Lord said, ‘Look up to heaven and count the stars if you can.’ ‘Such will be your descendants,’ he told him. Abram put his faith in the Lord, who counted this as making him justified. ‘I am the Lord’ he said to him ‘who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldaeans to make you heir to this land.’ ‘My Lord,’ Abram replied ‘how...

Mmm dd, 2022 TITLE Saint Katharine Drexel Parish, New Britain, CT Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet.First readingDeuteronomy 30:15-20 ©I 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 land which you are...

5 February 2022 Saint Agatha, Virgin, Martyr on Saturday of week 4 in Ordinary Time High Altar In The Church Of St. Agatha, Schmerlenbach, Germany Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red.Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst reading1 Kings 3:4-13 ©Solomon chooses the gift of wisdomKing Solomon went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, since that was the greatest of the high places – Solomon offered a thousand holocausts on that altar. At Gibeon the Lord appeared in a dream to Solomon during the night. God said, ‘Ask what you would like me to give...

Oct 8, 2021 Friday of week 27 in Ordinary Time St. Vincent de Paul Parish - Los Angeles, CA Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingJoel 1:13-15,2:1-2 ©Let all tremble, for the day of the Lord is comingPriests, put on sackcloth and lament.Ministers of the altar, wail.Come, pass the night in sackcloth,you ministers of my God.For the house of our God has been deprivedof oblation and libation.Order a fast,proclaim a solemn assembly;elders, call togetherall the inhabitants of the countryto the house of the Lord your God.Cry out to the Lord,‘Oh, what a day!For the day of the Lord is near,it comes...

September 28th , 2021Memorial of Saints Lorenzo Ruiz and companions - Filipino martyr in Japan Memorial Catholic Church, Hiroshima Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green First readingZechariah 8:20-23 ©Many peoples and great nations will come to seek the Lord of HostsThe Lord of Hosts says this: ‘There will be other peoples yet, and citizens of great cities. And the inhabitants of one city will go to the next and say, “Come, let us go and entreat the favour of the Lord, and seek the Lord of Hosts; I am going myself.” And many peoples and great nations will come to seek...

September 27th , 2021Memorial of St. Vincent De Paul St. Vincent De Paul, Khar West, Mumbai, India Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingZechariah 8:1-8 ©The Lord will return to ZionThe word of the Lord of Hosts was addressed to me as follows:‘The Lord of Hosts says this.I am burning with jealousy for Zion,with great anger for her sake.‘The Lord of Hosts says this.I am coming back to Zionand shall dwell in the middle of Jerusalem.Jerusalem will be called Faithful Cityand the mountain of the Lord of Hosts,...

September 25th , 2021 Blessed Sacrament Church, Buffalo, NY Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green First readingZechariah 2:5-9,14-15 ©'I will be the glory of Jerusalem'Raising my eyes, I saw a vision. It was this: there was a man with a measuring line in his hand. I asked him, ‘Where are you going?’ He said, ‘To measure Jerusalem, to find out her breadth and her length.’ And then, while the angel who was talking to me stood still, another angel came forward to meet him. He said to him, ‘Run, and tell that young man this, “Jerusalem is to remain unwalled, because...

September 24th , 2021 By Capital photographer at English Wikipedia, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=50340426Our Lady of Sorrows, Chicago, Il Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green First readingHaggai 1:15-2:9 ©'The new glory of this Temple is to surpass the old'In the second year of King Darius, on the twenty-first day of the seventh month, the word of the Lord was addressed through the prophet Haggai, as follows, ‘You are to speak to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, the high commissioner of Judah, to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to all the remnant of the people. Say this, “Who is there...

September 23rd , 2021Memorial of Padre Pio Shrine of Padre Pio, San Antonio, Texas Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingHaggai 1:1-8 ©'Rebuild the House'In the second year of King Darius, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the Lord was addressed through the prophet Haggai to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, high commissioner of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, as follows, ‘The Lord of Hosts says this, “This people says: The time has not yet come to rebuild the...

September 22nd , 2021Memorial of the Blessed Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War Saint Francis of Assisi, Des Moines, Iowa Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: green First readingEzra 9:5-9 ©'God has not forgotten us in our slavery'At the evening sacrifice I, Ezra, came out of my stupor and falling on my knees, with my garment and cloak torn, I stretched out my hands to the Lord my God, and said: ‘My God, I am ashamed, I blush to lift my face to you, my God. For our crimes have increased, until they are higher than our heads, and our sin has...

September 20th , 2021Memorial of Saints Andrew Kim Taegon and Paul Chong Hasang - Korean martyrs Shrine of St. Andrew Kim, Bulacan, Philippines Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: red Readings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingEzra 1:1-6 ©Cyrus king of Persia frees the Jews to return to JerusalemIn the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfil the word of the Lord that was spoken through Jeremiah, the Lord roused the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to issue a proclamation and to have it publicly displayed throughout his kingdom: ‘Thus speaks Cyrus king of Persia,...

February 17 2021 Memorial of St. Kuriakose Elias Chavara St Joseph's Church, Mannam, Kerala, India Lectionary 220Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet.First readingDeuteronomy 30:15-20 ©I 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...

September 30, 2020 Memorial of Saint Jerome, Priest and Doctor of the Church Reading 1 JB 9:1-12, 14-16 Job answered his friends and said:I know well that it is so; but how can a man be justified before God? Should one wish to contend with him, he could not answer him once in a thousand times. God is wise in heart and mighty in strength; who has withstood him and remained unscathed? He removes the mountains before they know it; he overturns them in his anger. He shakes the earth out of its place, and the pillars beneath it tremble....

September 28, 2020 Monday of the Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Reading 1 JB 1:6-22 One day, when the angels of God came to present themselves before the LORD, Satan also came among them. And the LORD said to Satan, “Whence do you come?” Then Satan answered the LORD and said, “From roaming the earth and patrolling it.” And the LORD said to Satan, “Have you noticed my servant Job, and that there is no one on earth like him, blameless and upright, fearing God and avoiding evil?” But Satan answered the LORD and said, “Is it for nothing that...

September 25, 2020 Friday of the Twenty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time Reading 1 ECCL 3:1-11 There is an appointed time for everything, and a time for every thing under the heavens. A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to uproot the plant. A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to tear down, and a time to build. A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance. A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather them;...

September 26 2020 Saturday of the Twenty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time Twenty-fifth Saturday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 454 Reading 1 ECCL 11:9—12:8 Rejoice, O young man, while you are young and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth. Follow the ways of your heart, the vision of your eyes; Yet understand that as regards all this God will bring you to judgment. Ward off grief from your heart and put away trouble from your presence, though the dawn of youth is fleeting. Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come...

September 25 2020 Friday of the Twenty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time Twenty-fifth Friday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 453 Reading 1 ECCL 3:1-11 There is an appointed time for everything, and a time for every thing under the heavens. A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to uproot the plant. A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to tear down, and a time to build. A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance. A time to scatter...

September 24, 2020 Thursday of the Twenty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time Reading 1 ECCL 1:2-11 Vanity of vanities, says Qoheleth, vanity of vanities! All things are vanity! What profit has man from all the labor which he toils at under the sun? One generation passes and another comes, but the world forever stays. The sun rises and the sun goes down; then it presses on to the place where it rises. Blowing now toward the south, then toward the north, the wind turns again and again, resuming its rounds. All rivers go to the sea, yet never does the sea...

September 23, 2020 Memorial of Saint Pius of Pietrelcina, Priest Reading 1 PRV 30:5-9 Every word of God is tested; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him. Add nothing to his words, lest he reprove you, and you will be exposed as a deceiver. Two things I ask of you, deny them not to me before I die: Put falsehood and lying far from me, give me neither poverty nor riches; provide me only with the food I need; Lest, being full, I deny you, saying, “Who is the LORD?” Or, being in want, I steal,...