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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..
Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/062126.cfm Lectionary: 94 Reading 1 Jeremiah 20:10-13 Jeremiah said: “I hear the whisperings of many: ‘Terror on every side! Denounce! let us denounce him!’ All those who were my friends are on the watch for any misstep of mine. ‘Perhaps he will be trapped; then we can prevail, and take our vengeance on him.’ But… | Continue reading..
Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/061426.cfm Lectionary: 91 Reading 1 Exodus 19:2-6a In those days, the Israelites came to the desert of Sinai and pitched camp. While Israel was encamped here in front of the mountain, Moses went up the mountain to God. Then the LORD called to him and said, “Thus shall you say to the house of Jacob;… | Continue reading..
The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/060726.cfm Lectionary: 167 Reading 1 Deuteronomy 8:2-3, 14b-16a Moses said to the people: “Remember how for forty years now the LORD, your God, has directed all your journeying in the desert, so as to test you by affliction and find out whether or not it was your intention to keep his commandments. He therefore let… | Continue reading..
The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/053126.cfm Lectionary: 164 Reading 1 Exodus 34:4b-6, 8-9 Early in the morning Moses went up Mount Sinai as the LORD had commanded him, taking along the two stone tablets. Having come down in a cloud, the LORD stood with Moses there and proclaimed his name, “LORD.” Thus the LORD passed before him and cried out,… | Continue reading..
Second Sunday of Easter (or Sunday of Divine Mercy)
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/041226.cfm Lectionary: 43 Reading 1 Acts 2:42-47 They devoted themselves to the teaching of the apostles and to the communal life, to the breaking of bread and to the prayers. Awe came upon everyone, and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles. All who believed were together and had all things in common;… | Continue reading..
