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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..
Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/081725.cfm Lectionary: 120 Reading 1 Jeremiah 38:4-6, 8-10 In those days, the princes said to the king: “Jeremiah ought to be put to death; he is demoralizing the soldiers who are left in this city, and all the people, by speaking such things to them; he is not interested in the welfare of our people,… | Continue reading..
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/081025.cfm Lectionary: 117 Reading 1 Wisdom 18:6-9 The night of the passover was known beforehand to our fathers, that, with sure knowledge of the oaths in which they put their faith, they might have courage. Your people awaited the salvation of the just and the destruction of their foes. For when you punished our adversaries,… | Continue reading..
Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/080325.cfm Lectionary: 114 Reading 1 Ecclesiastes 1:2; 2:21-23 Vanity of vanities, says Qoheleth, vanity of vanities! All things are vanity! Here is one who has labored with wisdom and knowledge and skill, and yet to another who has not labored over it, he must leave property. This also is vanity and a great misfortune. For… | Continue reading..
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/072725.cfm Lectionary: 111 Reading 1 Genesis 18:20-32 In those days, the LORD said: “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great, and their sin so grave, that I must go down and see whether or not their actions fully correspond to the cry against them that comes to me. I mean to find out.”… | Continue reading..
