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First Sunday of Lent
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/022226.cfm Lectionary: 22 Reading 1 Genesis 2:7-9; 3:1-7 The LORD God formed man out of the clay of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and so man became a living being. Then the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and placed there the man whom he… | Continue reading..
Ash Wednesday
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/021826.cfm Lectionary: 219 Reading 1 Joel 2:12-18 Even now, says the LORD, return to me with your whole heart, with fasting, and weeping, and mourning; Rend your hearts, not your garments, and return to the LORD, your God. For gracious and merciful is he, slow to anger, rich in kindness, and relenting in punishment. Perhaps… | Continue reading..
Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/021526.cfm Lectionary: 76 Reading 1 Sirach 15:15-20 If you choose you can keep the commandments, they will save you; if you trust in God, you too shall live; he has set before you fire and water to whichever you choose, stretch forth your hand. Before man are life and death, good and evil, whichever he… | Continue reading..
The Epiphany of the Lord
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/010426.cfm Lectionary: 20 Reading I Isaiah 60:1-6 Rise up in splendor, Jerusalem! Your light has come, the glory of the Lord shines upon you. See, darkness covers the earth, and thick clouds cover the peoples; but upon you the LORD shines, and over you appears his glory. Nations shall walk by your light, and kings by… | Continue reading..
Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God The Octave Day of the Nativity of the Lord
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/010126.cfm Lectionary: 18 Reading I Numbers 6:22-27 The LORD said to Moses: “Speak to Aaron and his sons and tell them: This is how you shall bless the Israelites. Say to them: The LORD bless you and keep you! The LORD let his face shine upon you, and be gracious to you! The LORD look… | Continue reading..
Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/122825.cfm Lectionary: 17 Reading I Sirach 3:2-6, 12-14 God sets a father in honor over his children; a mother’s authority he confirms over her sons. Whoever honors his father atones for sins, and preserves himself from them. When he prays, he is heard; he stores up riches who reveres his mother. Whoever honors his father… | Continue reading..
The Nativity of the Lord (Christmas) Mass during the Night
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/122525-Night.cfm Lectionary: 14 Reading I Isaiah 9:1-6 The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; upon those who dwelt in the land of gloom a light has shone. You have brought them abundant joy and great rejoicing, as they rejoice before you as at the harvest, as people make merry when… | Continue reading..
Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/092825.cfm Lectionary: 138 Reading 1 Amos 6:1a, 4-7 Thus says the LORD the God of hosts: Woe to the complacent in Zion! Lying upon beds of ivory, stretched comfortably on their couches, they eat lambs taken from the flock, and calves from the stall! Improvising to the music of the harp, like David, they devise… | Continue reading..
Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/092125.cfm Lectionary: 135 Reading 1 Amos 8:4-7 Hear this, you who trample upon the needy and destroy the poor of the land! “When will the new moon be over,” you ask, “that we may sell our grain, and the sabbath, that we may display the wheat? We will diminish the ephah, add to the shekel,… | Continue reading..
Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/091425.cfm Lectionary: 638 Reading 1 Numbers 21:4b-9 With their patience worn out by the journey, the people complained against God and Moses, “Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in this desert, where there is no food or water? We are disgusted with this wretched food!” In punishment the LORD sent among… | Continue reading..
