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Tuesday of the First Week of Lent Lectionary: 225 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...

Monday of the First Week of Lent Lectionary: 224 Reading 1 Leviticus 19:1-2, 11-18 The LORD said to Moses, "Speak to the whole assembly of the children of Israel and tell them: Be holy, for I, the LORD, your God, am holy. "You shall not s†éál. You shall not lie or speak falsely to one another...

First Sunday of Lent Lectionary: 24 Reading I Deuteronomy 26:4-10 Moses spoke to the people, saying: “The priest shall receive the basket from you and shall set it in front of the altar of the LORD, your God. Then you shall declare before the Lord, your God, ‘My father was a wandering Aramean...

Saturday after Ash Wednesday Lectionary: 222 Reading 1 Isaiah 58:9b-14 Thus says the LORD: If you remove from your midst oppression, false accusation and malicious speech; If you bestow your bread on the hungry and satisfy the afflicted; Then light shall rise for you in the darkness, and the...

Monday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 347 Reading 1 Sirach 17:20-24 To the penitent God provides a way back, he encourages those who are losing hope and has chosen for them the lot of truth. Return to him and give up sin, pray to the LORD and make your offenses few. Turn again...

Saturday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 346 Reading 1 Sirach 17:1-15 God from the earth created man, and in his own image he made him. He makes man return to earth again, and endows him with a strength of his own. Limited days of life he gives him, with power over all things...

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Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter, Apostle Lectionary: 535 Reading 1 1 Peter 5:1-4 Beloved: I exhort the presbyters among you, as a fellow presbyter and witness to the sufferings of Christ and one who has a share in the glory to be revealed. Tend the flock of God in your midst, overseeing not by...

Friday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 339 Reading 1 Genesis 11:1-9 The whole world spoke the same language, using the same words. While the people were migrating in the east, they came upon a valley in the land of Shinar and settled there. They said to one another, "Come, let us...

Thursday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 338 Reading 1 Genesis 9:1-13 God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them: “Be fertile and multiply and fill the earth. Dread fear of you shall come upon all the animals of the earth and all the birds of the air, upon all the creatures...

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Monday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 335 Reading 1 Genesis 4:1-15, 25 The man had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have produced a man with the help of the LORD.” Next she bore his brother Abel. Abel became a keeper of flocks, and Cain a...

Saturday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 334 Reading 1 Genesis 3:9-24 The LORD God called to Adam and asked him, "Where are you?" He answered, "I heard you in the garden; but I was afraid, because I was *****, so I hid myself." Then he asked, "Who told you that you were *****? You...

Thursday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 332 Reading 1 Genesis 2:18-25 The LORD God said: "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a suitable partner for him." So the LORD God formed out of the ground various wild animals and various birds of the air, and he brought...

Wednesday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 331 Reading 1 Genesis 2:4b-9, 15-17 At the time when the LORD God made the earth and the heavens -- while as yet there was no field shrub on earth and no grass of the field had sprouted, for the LORD God had sent no rain upon the earth and...

Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes Lectionary: 531 Below are the readings suggested for today's Memorial. However, readings for the Memorial may also be taken from the Common of the Blessed ****** Mary, #707-712. Reading 1 Isaiah 66:10-14c Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad because of...

Memorial of Saint Scholastica, ****** Lectionary: 329 Reading 1 Genesis 1:1-19 In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless wasteland, and darkness covered the abyss, while a mighty wind swept over the waters. Then God said, “Let there be light,” and...

Saturday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 328 Reading 1 Hebrews 13:15-17, 20-21 Brothers and sisters: Through Jesus, let us continually offer God a sacrifice of praise, that is, the fruit of lips that confess his name. Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have; God is...

Friday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 327 Reading 1 Hebrews 13:1-8 Let brotherly love continue. Do not neglect hospitality, for through it some have unknowingly entertained angels. Be mindful of prisoners as if sharing their imprisonment, and of the ill-treated as of yourselves...

Memorial of Saint Paul Miki and Companions, Martyrs Lectionary: 326 Reading 1 Hebrews 12:18-19, 21-24 Brothers and sisters: You have not approached that which could be touched and a blazing fire and gloomy darkness and storm and a trumpet blast and a voice speaking words such that those who...