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Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/100426.cfm Lectionary: 139 Reading 1 Isaiah 5:1-7 Let me now sing of my friend, my friend’s song concerning his vineyard. My friend had a vineyard on a fertile hillside; he spaded it, cleared it of stones, and planted the choicest vines; within it he built a watchtower, and hewed out a wine press. Then he… | Continue reading..
Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/092726.cfm Lectionary: 136 Reading 1 Ezekiel 18:25-28 Thus says the LORD: You say, “The LORD’s way is not fair!” Hear now, house of Israel: Is it my way that is unfair, or rather, are not your ways unfair? When someone virtuous turns away from virtue to commit iniquity, and dies, it is because of the… | Continue reading..
Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/092026.cfm Lectionary: 133 Reading 1 Isaiah 55:6-9 Seek the LORD while he may be found, call him while he is near. Let the scoundrel forsake his way, and the wicked his thoughts; let him turn to the LORD for mercy; to our God, who is generous in forgiving. For my thoughts are not your thoughts,… | Continue reading..
Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/091326.cfm Lectionary: 130 Reading 1 Sirach 27:30—28:7 Wrath and anger are hateful things, yet the sinner hugs them tight. The vengeful will suffer the LORD’s vengeance, for he remembers their sins in detail. Forgive your neighbor’s injustice; then when you pray, your own sins will be forgiven. Could anyone nourish anger against another and expect… | Continue reading..
Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/090626.cfm Lectionary: 127 Reading 1 Ezekiel 33:7-9 Thus says the LORD: You, son of man, I have appointed watchman for the house of Israel; when you hear me say anything, you shall warn them for me. If I tell the wicked, “O wicked one, you shall surely die, ” and you do not speak out… | Continue reading..
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..
