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Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary Lectionary: 461 Reading 1 GAL 1:6-12 Brothers and sisters: I am amazed that you are so quickly forsaking the one who called you by the grace of Christ for a different gospel (not that there is another). But there are some who are disturbing you and wish to...

Saturday of the Twenty-sixth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 460 Reading 1 JB 42:1-3, 5-6, 12-17 Job answered the LORD and said: I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be hindered. I have dealt with great things that I do not understand; things too wonderful for...

Memorial of Saint Francis of Assisi, Religious Lectionary: 651 Below are the readings suggested for today's Memorial. However, readings for the Memorial may also be taken from the Common of Holy Men and Women: For Religious, #737-742. Reading 1 Galatians 6:14-18 Brothers and sisters: May I...

Thursday of the Twenty-sixth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 458 Reading 1 JB 19:21-27 Job said: Pity me, pity me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has struck me! Why do you hound me as though you were divine, and insatiably prey upon me? Oh, would that my words were written down! Would...

Memorial of the Holy Guardian Angels Lectionary: 457/650 Reading 1 Jb 9:1-12, 14-16 Job answered his friends and said: I know well that it is so; but how can a man be justified before God? Should one wish to contend with him, he could not answer him once in a thousand times. God is wise in...

Memorial of Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus, ****** and doctor of the Church Lectionary: 456 Reading 1 Jb 3:1-3, 11-17, 20-23 Job opened his mouth and cursed his day. Job spoke out and said: Perish the day on which I was born, the night when they said, “The child is a boy!” Why did I not...

Memorial of Saint Jerome, Priest and Doctor of the Church Lectionary: 455 Reading 1 Jb 1:6-22 One day, when the angels of God came to present themselves before the LORD, Satan also came among them. And the LORD said to Satan, "Whence do you come?" Then Satan answered the LORD and said, "From...

Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 137 Reading 1 Nm 11:25-29 The LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to Moses. Taking some of the spirit that was on Moses, the LORD bestowed it on the seventy elders; and as the spirit came to rest on them, they prophesied. Now two men, one named...

Memorial of Saint Vincent de Paul, Priest Lectionary: 453 Reading 1 Eccl 3:1-11 There is an appointed time for everything, and a time for every thing under the heavens. A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to uproot the plant. A time to kill, and a time to heal; a...

Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 134 Reading 1 Wis 2:12, 17-20 The wicked say: Let us beset the just one, because he is obnoxious to us; he sets himself against our doings, reproaches us for transgressions of the law and charges us with violations of our training. Let us see...

Memorial of Saints Andrew Kim Tae-gŏn, Priest, and Paul Chŏng Ha-sang, and Companions, Martyrs Lectionary: 447 Reading 1 1 COR 15:12-20 Brothers and sisters: If Christ is preached as raised from the dead, how can some among you say there is no resurrection of the dead? If there is no...

Thursday of the Twenty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 446 Reading 1 1 COR 15:1-11 I am reminding you, brothers and sisters, of the Gospel I preached to you, which you indeed received and in which you also stand. Through it you are also being saved, if you hold fast to the word I...

Wednesday of the Twenty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 445 Reading 1 1 Cor 12:31-13:13 Brothers and sisters: Strive eagerly for the greatest spiritual gifts. But I shall show you a still more excellent way. If I speak in human and angelic tongues but do not have love, I am a...

Tuesday of the Twenty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 444 Reading 1 1 Cor 12:12-14, 27-31a Brothers and sisters: As a body is one though it has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though many, are one body, so also Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one Body...

Memorial of Saints Cornelius, Pope, and Cyprian, Bishop, Martyrs Lectionary: 443 Reading 1 1 Cor 11:17-26, 33 Brothers and sisters: In giving this instruction, I do not praise the fact that your meetings are doing more harm than good. First of all, I hear that when you meet as a Church there are...

Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 131 Reading 1 Is 50:5-9a The Lord GOD opens my ear that I may hear; and I have not rebelled, have not turned back. I gave my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who plucked my beard; my face I did not shield from buffets and spitting...

Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross Lectionary: 638 Reading 1 NM 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...

Memorial of the Most Holy Name of Mary Lectionary: 636B 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 Galatians 4:4-7 Brothers and sisters: When the fullness of time...

Wednesday of the Twenty-third Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 439 Reading 1 1 Cor 7:25-31 Brothers and sisters: In regard to ******s, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my opinion as one who by the Lord’s mercy is trustworthy. So this is what I think best because of the present...

Memorial of Saint Peter Claver, Priest Lectionary: 437 Reading 1 1 COR 5:1-8 Brothers and sisters: It is widely reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality of a kind not found even among pagans– a man living with his father’s wife. And you are inflated with pride. Should you not...