Readings of the day

First Reading: Mic 2, 1-5
Psalm: 9 (10), 22-23.24-25.28-29.35

Gospel: Mt 12, 14-21

The Pharisees went out and took counsel against Jesus to put him to death. When Jesus realised this, he withdrew from that place. Many people followed him, and he cured them all, but he warned them not to make him known. This was to fulfill what had been spoken through Isaiah the prophet:

“Behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved in whom I delight; I shall place my spirit upon him, and he will proclaim justice to the Gentiles… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Is 38, 1-6.21-22.7-8
Psalm: Is 38, 10.11.12abcd.16

Gospel: Mt 12, 1-8

Jesus was going through a field of grain on the sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat them. When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, “See, your disciples are doing what is unlawful to do on the sabbath.”

He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry, how he went into the house of God and ate the bread of offering, which neither he nor his companions but only the priests could lawfully eat? … Read more »

Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Readings of the day

L-Ewwel Qari: Kings 18, 42b-45a
Psalm: 14, 1-4

Gospel: Jn 19, 25-27

In those day, standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 

When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing near, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home… Read more »