readings

Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 104 Reading I Am 7:12-15 Amaziah, priest of Bethel, said to Amos, “Off with you, visionary, flee to the land of Judah! There earn your bread by prophesying, but never again prophesy in Bethel; for it is the king’s sanctuary and a royal temple.”...

Friday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 387 Reading 1 HOS 14:2-10 Thus says the LORD: Return, O Israel, to the LORD, your God; you have collapsed through your guilt. Take with you words, and return to the LORD; Say to him, “Forgive all iniquity, and receive what is good, that...

Memorial of Saint Benedict, abbot Lectionary: 386 Reading 1 Hos 11:1-4, 8e-9 Thus says the LORD: When Israel was a child I loved him, out of Egypt I called my son. The more I called them, the farther they went from me, Sacrificing to the Baals and burning incense to idols. Yet it was I who...

Tuesday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 384 Reading 1 Hos 8:4-7, 11-13 Thus says the LORD: They made kings in Israel, but not by my authority; they established princes, but without my approval. With their silver and gold they made idols for themselves, to their own...

Monday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 383 Reading 1 Hos 2:16, 17c-18, 21-22 Thus says the LORD: I will allure her; I will lead her into the desert and speak to her heart. She shall respond there as in the days of her youth, when she came up from the land of Egypt. On that...

Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 101 Reading 1 Ez 2:2-5 As the LORD spoke to me, the spirit entered into me and set me on my feet, and I heard the one who was speaking say to me: Son of man, I am sending you to the Israelites, rebels who have rebelled against me; they and their...

Saturday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 382 Reading 1 AM 9:11-15 Thus says the LORD: On that day I will raise up the fallen hut of David; I will wall up its breaches, raise up its ruins, and rebuild it as in the days of old, That they may conquer what is left of Edom and...

Friday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 381 Reading 1 Am 8:4-6, 9-12 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...

Thursday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 380 Reading 1 Am 7:10-17 Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent word to Jeroboam, king of Israel: "Amos has conspired against you here within Israel; the country cannot endure all his words. For this is what Amos says: Jeroboam shall die...

Tuesday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 378 Reading 1 AM 3:1-8; 4:11-12 Hear this word, O children of Israel, that the Lord pronounces over you, over the whole family that I brought up from the land of Egypt: You alone have I favored, more than all the families of the...

Monday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 377 Reading 1 Am 2:6-10, 13-16 Thus says the LORD: For three crimes of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke my word; Because they sell the just man for silver, and the poor man for a pair of sandals. They trample the heads of the weak...

Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 98 Reading 1 Wis 1:13-15; 2:23-24 God did not make death, nor does he rejoice in the destruction of the living. For he fashioned all things that they might have being; and the creatures of the world are wholesome, and there is not a destructive drug...

Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles Mass during the Day Lectionary: 591 Reading I Acts 12:1-11 In those days, King Herod laid hands upon some members of the Church to harm them. He had James, the brother of John, killed by the sword, and when he saw that this was pleasing to the Jews he...

Wednesday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 373 Reading 1 2 Kgs 22:8-13; 23:1-3 The high priest Hilkiah informed the scribe Shaphan, "I have found the book of the law in the temple of the LORD." Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, who read it. Then the scribe Shaphan went to the...

Tuesday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 372 Reading 1 2 KGS 19:9B-11, 14-21, 31-35A, 36 Sennacherib, king of Assyria, sent envoys to Hezekiah with this message: “Thus shall you say to Hezekiah, king of Judah: ‘Do not let your God on whom you rely deceive you by saying that...

Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 95 Reading I Jb 38:1, 8-11 The Lord addressed Job out of the storm and said: Who shut within doors the sea, when it burst forth from the womb; when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling bands? When I...

Saturday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 370 Reading 1 2 Chr 24:17-25 After the death of Jehoiada, the princes of Judah came and ρáíd homage to King Joash, and the king then listened to them. They forsook the temple of the LORD, the God of their fathers, and began to serve the...

Thursday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 368 Reading 1 SIR 48:1-14 Like a fire there appeared the prophet Elijah whose words were as a flaming furnace. Their staff of bread he shattered, in his zeal he reduced them to straits; By the Lord’s word he shut up the heavens and...

Monday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 365 Reading 1 1 Kgs 21:1-16 Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard in Jezreel next to the palace of Ahab, king of Samaria. Ahab said to Naboth, “Give me your vineyard to be my vegetable garden, since it is close by, next to my house. I will...

Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 92 Reading 1 Ez 17:22-24 Thus says the Lord GOD: I, too, will take from the crest of the cedar, from its topmost branches tear off a tender shoot, and plant it on a high and lofty mountain; on the mountain heights of Israel I will plant it. It shall...