Readings of the day

First Reading: Colossians 1:15-20
Psalm: 99 (100):2,3,4,5

Gospel: Luke 5:33-39

In those days, the scribes and Pharisees said to Jesus: “John’s disciples, like the disciples of the Pharisees, frequently fast and pray, but your disciples eat and drink.” Jesus said to them, “You cannot make wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them, can you? The days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days.” 

He also told them a parable: “No one tears a piece from a new garment and sews it on an old garment; otherwise the new will be torn, and the piece from the new will not match the old. And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the new wine will burst the skins and will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed. But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins. And no one after drinking old wine desires new wine, but says, “The old is good.’”

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Readings of the day

First Readng: Colossians 1:9-14
Psalm: 97 (98):2-3ab,3cd-4,5-6

Gospel: Luke 5:1-11

While the crowd was pressing in on Jesus and listening to the word of God, he was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret. He saw two boats there alongside the lake; the fishermen had disembarked and were washing their nets. Getting into one of the boats, the one belonging to Simon, he asked him to put out a short distance from the shore… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Colossians 1:1-8
Psalm: 51 (52):10,11

Gospel: Luke 4:38-44

In those days, Jesus got up and left the synagogue and he entered Simon’s house. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever, and they asked him about her. Then he stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her. Immediately she got up and began to serve them.  … Read more »