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Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time – 10/16/22
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/101622.cfm Lectionary: 147 Reading 1 Ex 17:8-13 In those days, Amalek came and waged war against Israel. Moses, therefore, said to Joshua, “Pick out certain men, and tomorrow go out and engage Amalek in battle. I will be standing on top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.” So Joshua did… | Continue reading..
Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/100922.cfm Lectionary: 144 Reading I 2 Kgs 5:14-17 Naaman went down and plunged into the Jordan seven times at the word of Elisha, the man of God. His flesh became again like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean of his leprosy. Naaman returned with his whole retinue to the man of… | Continue reading..
Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time – 09/25/22
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/092522.cfm Lectionary: 138 Reading 1 Am 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 – 09/18/22
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/091822.cfm Lectionary: 135 Reading 1 Am 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..
Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time – 09/11/22
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/091122.cfm Lectionary: 132 Reading 1 Ex 32:7-11, 13-14 The LORD said to Moses, “Go down at once to your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt, for they have become depraved. They have soon turned aside from the way I pointed out to them, making for themselves a molten calf and worshiping… | Continue reading..
Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time – 09/04/22
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/090422.cfm Lectionary: 129 Reading 1 Wis 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 – 08/28/22
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/082822.cfm Lectionary: 126 Reading 1 Sir 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 – 08/21/22
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/082122.cfm Lectionary: 123 Reading 1 Is 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..
Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary – August 15th, 2022
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/081522.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..
Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time – 08/14/22
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/081422.cfm Lectionary: 120 Reading 1 Jer 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..
