Readings of the day

First Reading: Dan 3, 14-20.91-92.95
Psalm: Dan 3, 52.53-54.55-56

Gospel: Jn 8, 31-42

Jesus said to those Jews who believed in him, “If you remain in my word, you will truly be my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” They answered him, “We are descendants of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Num 21, 4-9
Psalm: 101 (102), 2-3.16-18.19-21

Gospel: Jn 8, 21-30

Jesus said to the Pharisees: “I am going away and you will look for me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come.” So the Jews said, “He is not going to kill himself, is he, because he said, ‘Where I am going you cannot come’?” He said to them, “You belong to what is below, I belong to what is above… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Dan 13, 1-9.15-17.19-30.33-62
Psalm: 22 (23), 1-3a.3b-4.5.6

Gospel: Jn 8, 1-11

Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. But early in the morning he arrived again in the temple area, and all the people started coming to him, and he sat down and taught them. Then the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery and made her stand in the middle… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Jer 11, 18-20
Psalm: 7, 2-3.9bc-10.11-12

Gospel: Jn 7, 40-53

Some in the crowd who heard these words of Jesus said, “This is truly the Prophet.” Others said, “This is the Messiah.” But others said, “The Messiah will not come from Galilee, will he? Does not scripture say that the Messiah will be of David’s family and come from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?” So a division occurred in the crowd because of him… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Wisdom 2, 1a.12-22
Psalm: 33 (34), 17-18.19-20.21 & 23

Gospel: Jn 7, 1-2.10.25-30

Jesus moved about within Galilee; but he did not wish to travel in Judea, because the Jews were trying to kill him. But the Jewish feast of Tabernacles was near. But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, he himself also went up, not openly but as it were in secret… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Exodus 32, 7-14
Psalm: 105 (106), 19-20.21-22.23

Gospel: Jn 5, 31-47

Jesus said to the Jews: “If I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is not true. But there is another who testifies on my behalf, and I know that the testimony he gives on my behalf is true. You sent emissaries to John, and he testified to the truth… Read more »

Annunciation of the Lord – Solemnity
Readings of the day

First Reading: Is 7, 10-14; 8: 10
Psalm: 39, 7-11
Second Reading: Hebrews 10, 4-10

Gospel: Lk 1, 26-38

In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth,
to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the house of David, and the virgin’s name was Mary… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Ezek 47, 1-9.12
Psalm: 45 (46), 2-3.5-6.8-9

Gospel: Jn 5, 1-3a.5-16

There was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem at the Sheep Gate a pool called in Hebrew Bethesda, with five porticoes. In these lay a large number of ill, blind, lame, and crippled… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Is 65, 17-21
Psalm: 29 (30), 2 & 4.5-6.11-12a & 13b

Gospel: Jn 4, 43-54

At that time Jesus left Samaria for Galilee. For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honour in his native place. When he came into Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, since they had seen all he had done in Jerusalem at the feast; for they themselves had gone to the feast… Read more »