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15 December 2023 Friday of the 2nd week of Advent The Tomb of Saint Nina in Bodbe Monastery Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: B(II).First readingIsaiah 48:17-19 ©If you had been alert to my commandments, your happiness would have been like a riverThus says the Lord, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:I, the Lord, your God, teach you what is good for you,I lead you in the way that you must go.If only you had been alert to my commandments,your happiness would have been like a river,your integrity like the waves of the sea.Your children would have been...

14 December 2023 Saint John of the Cross, Priest, Doctor on Thursday of the 2nd week of Advent St. John of the Cross parish, Manila Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: B(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingIsaiah 41:13-20 ©I, the Holy One of Israel, am your redeemerI, the Lord, your God,I am holding you by the right hand;I tell you, ‘Do not be afraid,I will help you.’Do not be afraid, Jacob, poor worm,Israel, puny mite.I will help you – it is the Lord who speaks –the Holy One of Israel is your...

13 December 2023 Saint Lucy, Virgin, Martyr on Wednesday of the 2nd week of Advent Church of Saint Lucy, Valetta, MaltaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: B(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingIsaiah 40:25-31 ©The Lord strengthens the powerless‘To whom could you liken meand who could be my equal?’ says the Holy One.Lift your eyes and look.Who made these starsif not he who drills them like an army,calling each one by name?So mighty is his power, so great his strength,that not one fails to answer.How can you say, Jacob,how can you insist,...

Thursday 2 November 2023 All Souls Saint Victorinus side altar, St. George's Parish Church, Ptuj, Slovenia Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet or Black. Year: A(I).(The following psalms and readings are selected from the many options for this day.)First readingWisdom 3:1-9 ©The souls of the virtuous are in the hands of GodThe souls of the virtuous are in the hands of God,no torment shall ever touch them.In the eyes of the unwise, they did appear to die,their going looked like a disaster,their leaving us, like annihilation;but they are in peace.If they experienced punishment as men see it,their hope was rich with...

4 October 2023 Saint Francis of Assisi on Wednesday of week 26 in Ordinary Time The monastery church of St. Francis of Assisi, Piran, Slovenia Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingNehemiah 2:1-8 ©'Give me leave to go to the city of my ancestors and rebuild it'In the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, the wine being my concern, I took up the wine and offered it to the king. Now I had never been downcast before. So the king said, ‘Why...

20 July 2023Thursday of week 15 in Ordinary TimeParish of St. Apollinaris, DusseldorfReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingExodus 3:13-20 ©God reveals his name to MosesMoses, hearing the voice of God coming from the middle of the bush, said to him, ‘I am to go, then, to the sons of Israel and say to them, “The God of your fathers has sent me to you.” But if they ask me what his name is, what am I to tell them?’ And God said to Moses, ‘I Am who I Am. This’ he added ‘is what you must say to...

19 July 20233Wednesday of week 15 in Ordinary TimeChapel at Mount St. Macrina, Uniontown, PAReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingExodus 3:1-6,9-12 ©The burning bushMoses was looking after the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, priest of Midian. He led his flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in the shape of a flame of fire, coming from the middle of a bush. Moses looked; there was the bush blazing but it was not being burnt up. ‘I must go and look...

18 July 2023Tuesday of week 15 in Ordinary TimeWawel CathedralThe Black Crucifix, also called the cross of Queen JadwigaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingExodus 2:1-15 ©Pharaoh's daughter finds Moses among the bulrushesThere was a man of the tribe of Levi who had taken a woman of Levi as his wife. She conceived and gave birth to a son and, seeing what a fine child he was, she kept him hidden for three months. When she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him; coating it with bitumen and pitch, she put the child inside...

9 July 202314th Sunday in Ordinary TimeThe reliquary of the Martyrs of Gorkum at the Franciscan church of St Nicholas in Brussels.Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingZechariah 9:9-10 ©See now, your king comes humbly to youThe Lord says this:Rejoice heart and soul, daughter of Zion!Shout with gladness, daughter of Jerusalem!See now, your king comes to you;he is victorious, he is triumphant,humble and riding on a donkey,on a colt, the foal of a donkey.He will banish chariots from Ephraimand horses from Jerusalem;the bow of war will be banished.He will proclaim peace for the nations.His empire shall stretch from sea...

Friday 16 June 2023The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus SolemnitySt. Benno Meißen Cathedral, GermanyReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(I).First readingDeuteronomy 7:6-11 ©The Lord set his heart on you and chose youMoses said to the people: ‘You are a people consecrated to the Lord your God; it is you that the Lord our God has chosen to be his very own people out of all the peoples on the earth. ‘If the Lord set his heart on you and chose you, it was not because you outnumbered other peoples: you were the least of all peoples. It was for...

11 December 20223rd Sunday of Advent St. Damasus in the apse of the church of San Lorenzo in Damaso Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Rose or Violet. Year: A(I).First readingIsaiah 35:1-6,10 ©God himself is coming to save youLet the wilderness and the dry-lands exult,let the wasteland rejoice and bloom,let it bring forth flowers like the jonquil,let it rejoice and sing for joy.The glory of Lebanon is bestowed on it,the splendour of Carmel and Sharon;they shall see the glory of the Lord,the splendour of our God.Strengthen all weary hands,steady all trembling kneesand say to all faint hearts,‘Courage! Do not be afraid.‘Look, your...

9 December 2022Friday of the 2nd week of Advent Mission San Diego de Alcala, CA Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(I).First readingIsaiah 48:17-19 ©If you had been alert to my commandments, your happiness would have been like a riverThus says the Lord, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:I, the Lord, your God, teach you what is good for you,I lead you in the way that you must go.If only you had been alert to my commandments,your happiness would have been like a river,your integrity like the waves of the sea.Your children would have been numbered like the sand,your...

7 December 2022Saint Ambrose, Bishop, Doctor on Wednesday of the 2nd week of Advent St. Ambrose Catholic Church, Latham, NY Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingIsaiah 40:25-31 ©The Lord strengthens the powerless‘To whom could you liken meand who could be my equal?’ says the Holy One.Lift your eyes and look.Who made these starsif not he who drills them like an army,calling each one by name?So mighty is his power, so great his strength,that not one fails to answer.How can you say, Jacob,how can you insist, Israel,‘My...

4 October 2022Saint Francis of Assisi on Tuesday of week 27 in Ordinary Time St. Francis of Assisi, Frisco, TX Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingGalatians 1:13-24 ©God called me through his grace and chose to reveal his Son in meYou must have heard of my career as a practising Jew, how merciless I was in persecuting the Church of God, how much damage I did to it, how I stood out among other Jews of my generation, and how enthusiastic I was for the traditions...

14 July 2022Saint Kateri Tekakwitha Thursday of week 15 in Ordinary Time St. George (Yiry), Uzhgorod, Ukraine Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingIsaiah 26:7-9,12,16-19 ©'Awake and exult, all you who lie in the dust'The path of the upright man is straight,you smooth the way of the upright.Following the path of your judgements,we hoped in you, O Lord,your name, your memory are all my soul desires.At night my soul longs for youand my spirit in me seeks for you;when your judgements appear on earththe inhabitants of the...

13 July 2022Wednesday of week 15 in Ordinary Time Church of St Henry and St Kunhuta (Cunigunde), Prague Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(II).First readingIsaiah 10:5-7,13-16 ©Assyria's arrogance and coming ruinThe Lord of hosts says this:Woe to Assyria, the rod of my anger,the club brandished by me in my fury!I sent him against a godless nation;I gave him commission against a people that provokes me,to pillage and to plunder freelyand to stamp down like the mud in the streets.But he did not intend this,his heart did not plan it so.No, in his heart was to destroy,to go on cutting...

12 July 2022Tuesday of week 15 in Ordinary Time Chapel of St John Gualbert, Rome Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(II).First readingIsaiah 7:1-9 ©Isaiah tells the king not to fearIn the reign of Ahaz son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Razon the king of Aram went up against Jerusalem with Pekah son of Remaliah, king of Israel, to lay siege to it; but he was unable to capture it. The news was brought to the House of David. ‘Aram’ they said ‘has reached Ephraim.’ Then the heart of the king and the hearts of the people...

Friday 29 April 2022Saint Catherine of Siena, Virgin, Doctor Saint Catherine of Siena Church, Phoenix, AZ Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White.Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingActs 5:34-42 ©They were glad to have had the honour of suffering humiliation for the sake of the nameOne member of the Sanhedrin, a Pharisee called Gamaliel, who was a doctor of the Law and respected by the whole people, stood up and asked to have the apostles taken outside for a time. Then he addressed the Sanhedrin, ‘Men of Israel, be careful how you deal with...

December 10, 2021 Friday of the 2nd week of Advent Burgos - San Esteban, altar of Saint Eulalia of Merida Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet.First readingIsaiah 48:17-19 ©If you had been alert to my commandments, your happiness would have been like a riverThus says the Lord, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:I, the Lord, your God, teach you what is good for you,I lead you in the way that you must go.If only you had been alert to my commandments,your happiness would have been like a river,your integrity like the waves of the sea.Your children would have been numbered...

December 9, 2021 Thursday of the 2nd week of Advent Virgen de Guadalupe altar, Mexico City Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet.First readingIsaiah 41:13-20 ©I, the Holy One of Israel, am your redeemerI, the Lord, your God,I am holding you by the right hand;I tell you, ‘Do not be afraid,I will help you.’Do not be afraid, Jacob, poor worm,Israel, puny mite.I will help you – it is the Lord who speaks –the Holy One of Israel is your redeemer.See, I turn you into a threshing-sled,new, with doubled teeth;you shall thresh and crush the mountains,and turn the hills to chaff.You shall winnow...