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Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/082723.cfm Lectionary: 121 Reading 1 Is 22:19-23 Thus says the LORD to Shebna, master of the palace: “I will thrust you from your office and pull you down from your station. On that day I will summon my servant Eliakim, son of Hilkiah; I will clothe him with your robe, and gird him with your… | Continue reading..
Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/082023.cfm Lectionary: 118 Reading 1 Is 56:1, 6-7 Thus says the LORD: Observe what is right, do what is just; for my salvation is about to come, my justice, about to be revealed. The foreigners who join themselves to the LORD, ministering to him, loving the name of the LORD, and becoming his servants— all… | Continue reading..
Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/081523-Day.cfm Lectionary: 622 Reading 1 RV 11:19A; 12:1-6A, 10AB God’s temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant could be seen in the temple. A great sign appeared in the sky, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars…. | Continue reading..
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/081323.cfm Lectionary: 115 Reading 1 1 Kgs 19:9a, 11-13a At the mountain of God, Horeb, Elijah came to a cave where he took shelter. Then the LORD said to him, “Go outside and stand on the mountain before the LORD; the LORD will be passing by.” A strong and heavy wind was rending the mountains… | Continue reading..
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/073023.cfm Lectionary: 109 Reading 1 1 Kgs 3:5, 7-12 The LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream at night. God said, “Ask something of me and I will give it to you.” Solomon answered: “O LORD, my God, you have made me, your servant, king to succeed my father David; but I am a mere… | Continue reading..
Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/072323.cfm Lectionary: 106 Reading 1 Wis 12:13, 16-19 There is no god besides you who have the care of all, that you need show you have not unjustly condemned. For your might is the source of justice; your mastery over all things makes you lenient to all. For you show your might when the perfection… | Continue reading..
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/071623.cfm Lectionary: 103 Reading 1 Is 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 eats, so shall my… | Continue reading..
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/070923.cfm Lectionary: 100 Reading 1 Zec 9:9-10 Thus says the LORD: Rejoice heartily, O daughter Zion, shout for joy, O daughter Jerusalem! See, your king shall come to you; a just savior is he, meek, and riding on an ass, on a colt, the foal of an ass. He shall banish the chariot from Ephraim,… | Continue reading..
Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/062523.cfm Lectionary: 94 Reading 1 Jer 20:10-13 Jeremiah said: “I hear the whisperings of many: ‘Terror on every side! Denounce! let us denounce him!’ All those who were my friends are on the watch for any misstep of mine. ‘Perhaps he will be trapped; then we can prevail, and take our vengeance on him.’ But… | Continue reading..
Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/061123.cfm Lectionary: 167 Reading 1 Dt 8:2-3, 14b-16a Moses said to the people: “Remember how for forty years now the LORD, your God, has directed all your journeying in the desert, so as to test you by affliction and find out whether or not it was your intention to keep his commandments. He therefore let… | Continue reading..
