Readings of the day

First Reading: Exodus 14:5-18
Psalm: 15:1-2,3-4,5-6

Gospel: Matthew 12:38-42

In those days, some of the scribes and Pharisees said to him, “Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.” But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea monster, so for three days and three nights the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth.  … Read more »

First Reading: Exodus 12:37-42
Psalm: 135 (136):1 u 23-24,10-12,13-15

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: Exodus 11:10 – 12:14
Psalm: 115 (116):12-13,15-16bc,17-18

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 »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Exodus 3:13-20
Psalm: 104 (105:1 & 5,8-9,24-25,26-27

Gospel: Matthew 11:28-30

“Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” Read more »

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The Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel
Readings of the day

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

Gospel: John 19:25-27 (or Mt 12:46-50)

In those days, standing near the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing beside her, he said to his mother, “Woman, here is your son.” 

Then he said to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” And from that hour the disciple took her into his own home… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Exodus 2:1-15a
Psalm: 68 (69), 3.14.30-31.33-34

Gospel: Matthew 10: 20-24

In those days, Jesus began to reproach the cities in which most of his deeds of power had been done, because they did not repent. “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the deeds of power done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.  … Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Ex 1:8-14,22
Psalm: 123 (124):1-3,4-6,7-8

Gospel: Mt 10:34 – 11:1

In those days, Jesus told his apostles: “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and one’s foes will be members of one’s own household.  … Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Gen 49:29-33; 50:15-26a
Psalm: 104 (105):1-2,3-4,6-7

Gospel: Mt 10:24-33

In those days, Jesus told his apostles: “A disciple is not above the teacher, nor a slave above the master; it is enough for the disciple to be like the teacher, and the slave like the master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those of his household! 

“So have no fear of them; for nothing is covered up that will not be uncovered, and nothing secret that will not become known. What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light; and what you hear whispered, proclaim from the housetops. 

Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell. 

Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? … Read more »