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Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/040723.cfm Lectionary: 40 Reading I Is 52:13—53:12 See, my servant shall prosper, he shall be raised high and greatly exalted. Even as many were amazed at him — so marred was his look beyond human semblance and his appearance beyond that of the sons of man– so shall he startle many nations, because of him… | Continue reading..
Holy Thursday -Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/040623-Supper.cfm Lectionary: 39 Reading I Ex 12:1-8, 11-14 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, “This month shall stand at the head of your calendar; you shall reckon it the first month of the year. Tell the whole community of Israel: On the tenth of this month every one of… | Continue reading..
Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/040223.cfm Lectionary: 37 and 38 At the Procession with Palms – Gospel Mt 21:1-11 When Jesus and the disciples drew near Jerusalem and came to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them, “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find an ass tethered, and a colt… | Continue reading..
Fourth Sunday of Lent
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/031923.cfm Lectionary: 31 Reading 1 1 Sm 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a The LORD said to Samuel: “Fill your horn with oil, and be on your way. I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem, for I have chosen my king from among his sons.” As Jesse and his sons came to the sacrifice, Samuel looked at… | Continue reading..
Second Sunday of Lent
https://bible.usccb.org/daily-bible-reading Lectionary: 25 Reading 1 Gn 12:1-4a The LORD said to Abram: “Go forth from the land of your kinsfolk and from your father’s house to a land that I will show you. “I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you… | Continue reading..
First Sunday of Lent
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/022623.cfm Lectionary: 22 Reading 1 Gn 2:7-9; 3:1-7 The LORD God formed man out of the clay of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and so man became a living being. Then the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and placed there the man whom he… | Continue reading..
Ash Wednesday
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/022223.cfm Lectionary: 219 Reading 1 Jl 2:12-18 Even now, says the LORD, return to me with your whole heart, with fasting, and weeping, and mourning; Rend your hearts, not your garments, and return to the LORD, your God. For gracious and merciful is he, slow to anger, rich in kindness, and relenting in punishment. Perhaps… | Continue reading..
Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/021223.cfm Lectionary: 76 Reading 1 Sir 15:15-20 If you choose you can keep the commandments, they will save you; if you trust in God, you too shall live; he has set before you fire and water to whichever you choose, stretch forth your hand. Before man are life and death, good and evil, whichever he… | Continue reading..
Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/020523.cfm Lectionary: 73 Reading 1 Is 58:7-10 Thus says the LORD: Share your bread with the hungry, shelter the oppressed and the homeless; clothe the naked when you see them, and do not turn your back on your own. Then your light shall break forth like the dawn, and your wound shall quickly be healed;… | Continue reading..
Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/012923.cfm Lectionary: 70 Reading 1 Zep 2:3; 3:12-13 Seek the LORD, all you humble of the earth, who have observed his law; seek justice, seek humility; perhaps you may be sheltered on the day of the LORD’s anger.But I will leave as a remnant in your midst a people humble and lowly, who shall take… | Continue reading..
