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Category: Reflections
Ash Wednesday
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/021424.cfm Reading 1 Jl 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 he will… | Continue reading..
Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year B
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/021124.cfm Lectionary: 77 Reading I Lv 13:1-2, 44-46 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “If someone has on his skin a scab or pustule or blotch which appears to be the sore of leprosy, he shall be brought to Aaron, the priest, or to one of the priests among his descendants. If the man… | Continue reading..
5th Sunday of Ordinary Time – Year B
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/020424.cfm Lectionary: 74 Reading 1 Jb 7:1-4, 6-7 Job spoke, saying: Is not man’s life on earth a drudgery? Are not his days those of hirelings? He is a slave who longs for the shade, a hireling who waits for his wages. So I have been assigned months of misery, and troubled nights have been… | Continue reading..
Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/012824.cfm Lectionary: 71 Reading 1 Dt 18:15-20 Moses spoke to all the people, saying: “A prophet like me will the LORD, your God, raise up for you from among your own kin; to him you shall listen. This is exactly what you requested of the LORD, your God, at Horeb on the day of the… | Continue reading..
Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/012124.cfm Lectionary: 68 Reading 1 Jon 3:1-5, 10 The word of the LORD came to Jonah, saying: “Set out for the great city of Nineveh, and announce to it the message that I will tell you.” So Jonah made ready and went to Nineveh, according to the LORD’S bidding. Now Nineveh was an enormously large… | Continue reading..
Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/011424.cfm Lectionary: 65 Reading 1 1 Sm 3:3b-10, 19 Samuel was sleeping in the temple of the LORD where the ark of God was. The LORD called to Samuel, who answered, “Here I am.” Samuel ran to Eli and said, “Here I am. You called me.” “I did not call you, ” Eli said. “Go… | Continue reading..
The Epiphany of the Lord
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/010724.cfm Lectionary: 20 Reading I Is 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..
First Sunday of Advent
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/120323.cfm Lectionary: 2 Reading 1 IS 63:16B-17, 19B; 64:2-7 You, LORD, are our father, our redeemer you are named forever. Why do you let us wander, O LORD, from your ways, and harden our hearts so that we fear you not? Return for the sake of your servants, the tribes of your heritage. Oh, that… | Continue reading..
The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/112623.cfm Lectionary: 160 Reading 1 Ez 34:11-12, 15-17 Thus says the Lord GOD: I myself will look after and tend my sheep. As a shepherd tends his flock when he finds himself among his scattered sheep, so will I tend my sheep. I will rescue them from every place where they were scattered when it… | Continue reading..
Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/111923.cfm Lectionary: 157 Reading 1 Prv 31:10-13, 19-20, 30-31 When one finds a worthy wife, her value is far beyond pearls. Her husband, entrusting his heart to her, has an unfailing prize. She brings him good, and not evil, all the days of her life. She obtains wool and flax and works with loving hands…. | Continue reading..
