Readings of the day

First Reading: 1 Timothy 1:15-17
Psalm: 112 (113):1-2,3-4,5a & 6-7

Gospel: Luke 6:43-49

In those days, Jesus told his disciples: “No good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit; for each tree is known by its own fruit. Figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush.  … Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: 1 Tim 1:1-2,12-14
Psalm: 15 (16):1-2a,5,7-8,11

Gospel: Luke 6:39-42

In those days, Jesus told them a parable: “Can a blind person guide a blind person? Will not both fall into a pit? A disciple is not above the teacher, but everyone who is fully qualified will be like the teacher. Why do you see the speck in your neighbour’s eye, but do not notice the log in your own eye?  … Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Colossians 3:12-17
Psalm: 150:1-2,3-4,5-6

Gospel: Luke 6:27-38

Jesus said to his disciples : “But I say to you that listen, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. If anyone strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also; and from anyone who takes away your coat do not withhold even your shirt.  … Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Colossians 3:1-11
Psalm: 144 (145):2-3,10-11,12-13ab

Gospel: Luke 6:20-26

Raising his eyes toward his disciples, Jesus said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. Blessed are you who are now hungry, for you will be satisfied. Blessed are you who are now weeping, for you will laugh. Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude and insult you, and denounce your name as evil on account of the Son of Man… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Colossians 2:6-15
Psalm: 144 (145):1-2,8-9,10-11

Gospel: Luke 6:12-19

During those days Jesus+ went out to the mountain to pray; and he spent the night in prayer to God. And when day came, he called his disciples and chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles: Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother Andrew, and James, and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James son of Alphaeus, and Simon, who was called the Zealot, and Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.  … Read more »

The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Solemnity
Readings of the day

First Reading: Micah 5:1-4a
Psalm: 12:6
Second Reading: Romans 8:28-30

Gospel: Matthew 1:1-16,18-23

An account of the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Aram, and Aram the father of Aminadab, and Aminadab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon, and Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Colossians 1:21-23
Psalm: 53 (54):3-4,6 & 8

Gospel: Luke 6:1-5

One sabbath while Jesus was going through the grainfields, his disciples plucked some heads of grain, rubbed them in their hands, and ate them. But some of the Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is not lawful on the sabbath?” 

Jesus answered, “Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?  … Read more »

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.’”

Saint of the day: St… Read more »