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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..
Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/090725.cfm Lectionary: 129 Reading 1 Wisdom 9:13-18b Who can know God’s counsel, or who can conceive what the LORD intends? For the deliberations of mortals are timid, and unsure are our plans. For the corruptible body burdens the soul and the earthen shelter weighs down the mind that has many concerns. And scarce do we… | Continue reading..
Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/083125.cfm Lectionary: 126 Reading 1 Sirach 3:17-18, 20, 28-29 My child, conduct your affairs with humility, and you will be loved more than a giver of gifts. Humble yourself the more, the greater you are, and you will find favor with God. What is too sublime for you, seek not, into things beyond your strength… | Continue reading..
Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/082425.cfm Lectionary: 123 Reading 1 Isaiah 66:18-21 Thus says the LORD: I know their works and their thoughts, and I come to gather nations of every language; they shall come and see my glory. I will set a sign among them; from them I will send fugitives to the nations: to Tarshish, Put and Lud,… | Continue reading..
