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Third Sunday of Easter
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/050425.cfm Lectionary: 48 Reading 1 Acts 5:27-32, 40b-41 When the captain and the court officers had brought the apostles in and made them stand before the Sanhedrin, the high priest questioned them, “We gave you strict orders, did we not, to stop teaching in that name? Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and… | Continue reading..
Second Sunday of Easter Sunday of Divine Mercy
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/042725.cfm Lectionary: 45 Reading I Acts 5:12-16 Many signs and wonders were done among the people at the hands of the apostles. They were all together in Solomon’s portico. None of the others dared to join them, but the people esteemed them. Yet more than ever, believers in the Lord, great numbers of men and… | Continue reading..
The Resurrection of the Lord The Mass of Easter Day
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/042025.cfm Lectionary: 42 Reading 1 Acts 10:34a, 37-43 Peter proceeded to speak and said: “You know what has happened all over Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached, how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power. He went about doing good and healing all those oppressed by the… | Continue reading..
Holy Saturday At the Easter Vigil in the Holy Night of Easter
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/041925.cfm Lectionary: 41 Reading I Genesis 1:1—2:2 In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless wasteland, and darkness covered the abyss, while a mighty wind swept over the waters. Then God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. God saw how good the light was. God… | Continue reading..
Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion
https://bible.usccb.org/daily-bible-reading Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion Lectionary: 40 Reading I Isaiah 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… | Continue reading..
First Sunday of Lent
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/030925.cfm Lectionary: 24 Reading I Deuteronomy 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..
Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/030225.cfm Lectionary: 84 Reading I Sirach 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
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/022325.cfm Lectionary: 81 Reading I 1 Samuel 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
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/021625.cfm Lectionary: 78 Reading I Jeremiah 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
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/020925.cfm Lectionary: 75 Reading 1 Isaiah 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..
