Presentation of the Lord – Feast
Readings of the day

First Reading: Malachi 3:1-4
Psalm: 23:7-10

Gospel: Luke 2:22-40

When the days were completed for their purification according to the law of Moses, Mary and Joseph took Jesus up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord, just as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every male that opens the womb shall be consecrated to the Lord,” and to offer the sacrifice of “a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons,” in accordance with the dictate in the law of the Lord… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: 2 Samuel 12:1-7a,10-17
Psalm: 50 (51):12-13,14-15,16-17

Gospel: Mark 4:35-41

On that day, as evening drew on, Jesus said to his disciples: “Let us cross to the other side.”
Leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat just as he was. And other boats were with him. A violent squall came up and waves were breaking over the boat, so that it was already filling up… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: 2 Samuel 11:1-4a,5-10a,13-17
Psalm: 51(50):3-4,5-6a,6bc-7,10-11

Gospel: Mark 4:26-34

Jesus said to the crowds: “This is how it is with the Kingdom of God; it is as if a man were to scatter seed on the land and would sleep and rise night and day and the seed would sprout and grow, he knows not how… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: 2 Sam 7:18-19,24-29
Psalm: 131 (132):1-2,3-5,11,12,13-14

Gospel: Mk 4:21-25

Jesus said to his disciples, “Is a lamp brought in to be placed under a bushel basket or under a bed, and not to be placed on a lampstand? For there is nothing hidden except to be made visible; nothing is secret except to come to light… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: 2 Samuel 7:4-17
Psalm: 88 (89):4-5,27-28,29-30

Gospel: Mark 4:1-20

On another occasion, Jesus began to teach by the sea. A very large crowd gathered around him so that he got into a boat on the sea and sat down. And the whole crowd was beside the sea on land. And he taught them at length in parables, and in the course of his instruction he said to them, Hear this! … Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: 2 Samuel 6:12b-15,17-19
Psalm: 23 (24):7,8,9,10

Gospel: Mark 3:31-35

The mother of Jesus and his brothers arrived at the house. Standing outside, they sent word to Jesus and called him. A crowd seated around him told him, “Your mother and your brothers and your sisters are outside asking for you.” But he said to them in reply, “Who are my mother and my brothers?”

And looking around at those seated in the circle he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: 2 Timothy 1:1-8
Psalm: 96(95):1-2a,2b-3,7-8a,10

Gospel: Luke 10:1-9

The Lord Jesus appointed seventy-two others whom he sent ahead of him in pairs to every town and place he intended to visit. He said to them,

“The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: 2 Samuel 1:1-4,11-12,19,23-27
Psalm: 79 (80):2-3,5-7

Gospel: Mark 3:20-21

Jesus came with his disciples into the house. Again the crowd gathered, making it impossible for them even to eat. When his relatives heard of this they set out to seize him, for they said, “He is out of his mind.”

Saint of the day: Saint Francis of Sales, bishop & Doctor of the Church Read more »

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