Readings of the day

First Reading: Song of Songs 3:1-4a
Psalm: 62:2-6,8-9

Gospel: John 20:1-2,11-18

Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.”

But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Micah 7:14-15,18-20
Psalm: 84 (85):2-4,5-6,7-8

Gospel: Matthew 12:46-50

While Jesus was speaking to the crowds, his mother and his brothers appeared outside, wishing to speak with him. Someone told him, “Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, asking to speak with you.”

But he said in reply to the one who told him, “Who is my mother? … Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Micah 6:1-4,6-8
Psalm: 49 (50):5-6,8-9,16bc-17,21 & 23

Gospel: Matthew 12:38-42

Some of the scribes and Pharisees said to Jesus, “Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.” He said to them in reply, “An evil and unfaithful generation seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it except the sign of Jonah the prophet. Just as Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights, so will the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Micah 2:1-5
Psalm: 9 (10):22-23,24-25,28-29,35

Gospel: Matthew 12:14-21

In those days, the Pharisees went out and conspired against him, how to destroy him. When Jesus became aware of this, he departed. Many crowds followed him, and he cured all of them, and he ordered them not to make him known. This was to fulfil what had been spoken through the prophet Isaiah: 

“Here is my servant, whom I have chosen, my beloved, with whom my soul is well pleased… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Isaiah 38:1-6,21-22,7-8
Psalm: Isaiah 38:10,11,12abcd,16

Gospel: Matthew 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

First Reading: 1 Kings 18:42b-45a
Psalm: 14:1-4

Gospel: John 19:25-27

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 »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Is 10:5-7,13-16
Psalm: 93 (94):5-6,7-8,9-10,14-15

Gospel: Mt 11:25-27

At that time Jesus exclaimed, “I give praise to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike. Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will.

All things have been handed over to me by my Father… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Isaiah 7:1-9
Psalm: 47 (48):2-3a,3b-4,5-6,7-8

Gospel: Matthew 11:20-24

Jesus began to reproach the towns where most of his mighty deeds had been done, since they had not repented. “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty deeds done in your midst had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would long ago have repented in sackcloth and ashes… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Is 1:10-17
Psalm: 49 (50):8-9,16bc-17,21 u 23

Gospel: Mt 10:34 – 11:1

Jesus said to his Apostles: “Do not think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth. I have come to bring not peace but the sword. For I have come to set a man ‘against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and one’s enemies will be those of his household.’

Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever does not take up his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me… Read more »