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Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/083026.cfm Lectionary: 124 Reading 1 Jeremiah 20:7-9 You duped me, O LORD, and I let myself be duped; you were too strong for me, and you triumphed. All the day I am an object of laughter; everyone mocks me. Whenever I speak, I must cry out, violence and outrage is my message; the word of… | Continue reading..
Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/082326.cfm Lectionary: 121 Reading 1 Isaiah 22:19-23 Thus says the LORD to Shebna, master of the palace: “I will thrust you from your office and pull you down from your station. On that day I will summon my servant Eliakim, son of Hilkiah; I will clothe him with your robe, and gird him with your… | Continue reading..
Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/081626.cfm Lectionary: 118 Reading 1 Isaiah 56:1, 6-7 Thus says the LORD: Observe what is right, do what is just; for my salvation is about to come, my justice, about to be revealed. The foreigners who join themselves to the LORD, ministering to him, loving the name of the LORD, and becoming his servants— all… | Continue reading..
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/080926.cfm Lectionary: 115 Reading 1 1 Kings 19:9a, 11-13a At the mountain of God, Horeb, Elijah came to a cave where he took shelter. Then the LORD said to him, “Go outside and stand on the mountain before the LORD; the LORD will be passing by.” A strong and heavy wind was rending the mountains… | Continue reading..
Eighteenth Sunday In Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/080226.cfm Lectionary: 112 Reading 1 Isaiah 55:1-3 Thus says the LORD: All you who are thirsty, come to the water! You who have no money, come, receive grain and eat; Come, without paying and without cost, drink wine and milk! Why spend your money for what is not bread; your wages for what fails to… | Continue reading..
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/072626.cfm Lectionary: 109 Reading 1 1 Kings 3:5, 7-12 The LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream at night. God said, “Ask something of me and I will give it to you.” Solomon answered: “O LORD, my God, you have made me, your servant, king to succeed my father David; but I am a mere… | Continue reading..
Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/071926.cfm Lectionary: 106 Reading 1 Wisdom 12:13, 16-19 There is no god besides you who have the care of all, that you need show you have not unjustly condemned. For your might is the source of justice; your mastery over all things makes you lenient to all. For you show your might when the perfection… | Continue reading..
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/071226.cfm Lectionary: 103 Reading 1 Isaiah 55:10-11 Thus says the LORD: Just as from the heavens the rain and snow come down and do not return there till they have watered the earth, making it fertile and fruitful, giving seed to the one who sows and bread to the one who eats, so shall my… | Continue reading..
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/070526.cfm Lectionary: 100 Reading 1 Zechariah 9:9-10 Thus says the LORD: Rejoice heartily, O daughter Zion, shout for joy, O daughter Jerusalem! See, your king shall come to you; a just savior is he, meek, and riding on an ass, on a colt, the foal of an ass. He shall banish the chariot from Ephraim,… | Continue reading..
Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/062826.cfm Lectionary: 97 Reading 1 2 Kings 4:8-11, 14-16a One day Elisha came to Shunem, where there was a woman of influence, who urged him to dine with her. Afterward, whenever he passed by, he used to stop there to dine. So she said to her husband, “I know that Elisha is a holy man… | Continue reading..
