Readings of the day

First Reading: Col 1, 21-23
Psalm: 53 (54), 3-4.6 & 8

Gospel: Lk 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? He entered the house of God and took and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and gave some to his companions?” Then he said to them, “The Son of Man is lord of the sabbath.”  Read more »

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Readings of the day

First Readng: Col 1, 15-20
Psalm: 99 (100), 2.3.4.5

Gospel: Lk 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: Saint Gregory the Great, Pope & Doctor of the Church Read more »

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Readings of the day

First Reading: Col 1, 9-14
Psalm: 97 (98), 2-3ab.3cd-4.5-6

Gospel: Lk 5, 1-11

Once the crowd was pressing in on Jesus to hear the word of God. He was beside the lake of Gennesaret. And he saw two boats there at the shore of the lake; the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. He got into one of the boats, the one belonging to Simon, and asked him to put out a little way from the shore… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Col 1, 1-8
Psalm: 51 (52), 10.11

Gospel: Lk 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. 

As the sun was setting, all those who had any who were sick with various kinds of diseases brought them to him; and he laid his hands on each of them and cured them. Demons also came out of many, shouting, “You are the Son of God!” But he rebuked them and would not allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Messiah. 

At daybreak he departed and went into a deserted place… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: 1 Thess 5, 1-6.9-11
Psalm: 26 (27), 1.4.13-14

Gospel: Lk 4, 31-37

In those days, Jesus went down to Capernaum, a city in Galilee, and was teaching them on the sabbath. They were astounded at his teaching, because he spoke with authority. 

In the synagogue there was a man who had the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice, “Let us alone! … Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: 1 Thess 4, 13-18
Psalm: 95 (96), 1 & 3. 4-5.11-12.13

Gospel: Lk 4, 16-30

In those days, Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He went to the synagogue on the sabbath day, as was his custom. He stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: 1 Thess 4, 9-11
Psalm: 97 (98), 1, 7-8.9

Gospel: Mt 25, 14-30

In those days, Jesus told his disciples this parable: “For it is as if a man, going on a journey, summoned his slaves and entrusted his property to them; to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: 1 Thess 4, 1-8
Psalm: 96 (97), 1 & 2b. 5-6. 10. 11-12

Gospel: Mt 25, 1-13

In those days, Jesus told his disciples this parable: “Then the kingdom of heaven will be like this. Ten bridesmaids took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. When the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them; but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. As the bridegroom was delayed, all of them became drowsy and slept. 

But at midnight there was a shout, “Look! … Read more »