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Fourth Sunday of Lent – Year C – 3/27/22
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/032722-YearC.cfm Lectionary: 33 Reading I Jos 5:9a, 10-12 The LORD said to Joshua, “Today I have removed the reproach of Egypt from you.” While the Israelites were encamped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, they celebrated the Passover on the evening of the fourteenth of the month. On the day after the Passover, they… | Continue reading..
Third Sunday of Lent Year C – March 20th, 2022
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/032022-YearC.cfm Lectionary: 30 Reading I Ex 3:1-8a, 13-15 Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. Leading the flock across the desert, he came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There an angel of the LORD appeared to Moses in fire flaming out of a bush. As he looked on,… | Continue reading..
Second Sunday of Lent – March 13th, 2022
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/031322.cfm Lectionary: 27 Reading I Gn 15:5-12, 17-18 The Lord God took Abram outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars, if you can. Just so,” he added, “shall your descendants be.” Abram put his faith in the LORD, who credited it to him as an act of righteousness. He then… | Continue reading..
First Sunday of Lent – March 6, 2022
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/030622.cfm Lectionary: 24 Reading I Dt 26:4-10 Moses spoke to the people, saying: “The priest shall receive the basket from you and shall set it in front of the altar of the LORD, your God. Then you shall declare before the Lord, your God, ‘My father was a wandering Aramean who went down to Egypt… | Continue reading..
Ash Wednesday – March 2, 2022
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/030222.cfm Lectionary: 219 Reading I 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..
Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time – February 27, 2022
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/022722.cfm Lectionary: 84 Reading I Sir 27:4-7 When a sieve is shaken, the husks appear; so do one’s faults when one speaks. As the test of what the potter molds is in the furnace, so in tribulation is the test of the just. The fruit of a tree shows the care it has had; so… | Continue reading..
Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time – February 20, 2022
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/022022.cfm Lectionary: 81 Reading I 1 Sm 26:2, 7-9, 12-13, 22-23 In those days, Saul went down to the desert of Ziph with three thousand picked men of Israel, to search for David in the desert of Ziph. So David and Abishai went among Saul’s soldiers by night and found Saul lying asleep within the… | Continue reading..
Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time – February 13, 2022
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/021322.cfm Lectionary: 78 Reading I Jer 17:5-8 Thus says the LORD: Cursed is the one who trusts in human beings, who seeks his strength in flesh, whose heart turns away from the LORD. He is like a barren bush in the desert that enjoys no change of season, but stands in a lava waste, a… | Continue reading..
Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time – 2/6/22
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/020622.cfm Lectionary: 75 Reading I Is 6:1-2a, 3-8 In the year King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a high and lofty throne, with the train of his garment filling the temple. Seraphim were stationed above. They cried one to the other, “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts! All the earth… | Continue reading..
Third Sunday in Ordinary Time – 1/23/22
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/012322.cfm Lectionary: 69 Reading I Neh 8:2-4a, 5-6, 8-10 Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly, which consisted of men, women, and those children old enough to understand. Standing at one end of the open place that was before the Water Gate, he read out of the book from daybreak till midday, in… | Continue reading..
