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Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/092224.cfm Lectionary: 134 Reading 1 Wis 2:12, 17-20 The wicked say: Let us beset the just one, because he is obnoxious to us; he sets himself against our doings, reproaches us for transgressions of the law and charges us with violations of our training. Let us see whether his words be true; let us find… | Continue reading..
Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/091524.cfm Lectionary: 131 Reading 1 Is 50:5-9a The Lord GOD opens my ear that I may hear; and I have not rebelled, have not turned back. I gave my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who plucked my beard; my face I did not shield from buffets and spitting. The Lord… | Continue reading..
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/072824.cfm Lectionary: 110 Reading 1 2 Kgs 4:42-44 A man came from Baal-shalishah bringing to Elisha, the man of God, twenty barley loaves made from the firstfruits, and fresh grain in the ear. Elisha said, “Give it to the people to eat.” But his servant objected, “How can I set this before a hundred people?”… | Continue reading..
Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/072124.cfm Lectionary: 107 Reading 1 Jer 23:1-6 Woe to the shepherds who mislead and scatter the flock of my pasture, says the LORD. Therefore, thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, against the shepherds who shepherd my people: You have scattered my sheep and driven them away. You have not cared for them, but… | Continue reading..
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/071424.cfm Lectionary: 104 Reading I Am 7:12-15 Amaziah, priest of Bethel, said to Amos, “Off with you, visionary, flee to the land of Judah! There earn your bread by prophesying, but never again prophesy in Bethel; for it is the king’s sanctuary and a royal temple.” Amos answered Amaziah, “I was no prophet, nor have… | Continue reading..
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/070724.cfm Lectionary: 101 Reading 1 Ez 2:2-5 As the LORD spoke to me, the spirit entered into me and set me on my feet, and I heard the one who was speaking say to me: Son of man, I am sending you to the Israelites, rebels who have rebelled against me; they and their ancestors… | Continue reading..
Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/063024.cfm Lectionary: 98 Reading 1 Wis 1:13-15; 2:23-24 God did not make death, nor does he rejoice in the destruction of the living. For he fashioned all things that they might have being; and the creatures of the world are wholesome, and there is not a destructive drug among them nor any domain of the… | Continue reading..
Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/062324.cfm Lectionary: 95 Reading I Jb 38:1, 8-11 The Lord addressed Job out of the storm and said: Who shut within doors the sea, when it burst forth from the womb; when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling bands? When I set limits for it and fastened the bar of… | Continue reading..
Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/061624.cfm Lectionary: 92 Reading 1 Ez 17:22-24 Thus says the Lord GOD: I, too, will take from the crest of the cedar, from its topmost branches tear off a tender shoot, and plant it on a high and lofty mountain; on the mountain heights of Israel I will plant it. It shall put forth branches… | Continue reading..
Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/060924.cfm Lectionary: 89 Reading 1 Gn 3:9-15 After the man, Adam, had eaten of the tree, the LORD God called to the man and asked him, “Where are you?” He answered, “I heard you in the garden; but I was afraid, because I was naked, so I hid myself.” Then he asked, “Who told you… | Continue reading..
