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 »

Readings of the day

First Readng: Colossians 1:9-14
Psalm: 97 (98):2-3ab,3cd-4,5-6

Gospel: Luke 5:1-11

While the crowd was pressing in on Jesus and listening to the word of God, he was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret. He saw two boats there alongside the lake; the fishermen had disembarked and were washing their nets. Getting into one of the boats, the one belonging to Simon, he asked him to put out a short distance from the shore… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Colossians 1:1-8
Psalm: 51 (52):10,11

Gospel: Luke 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.  … Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: 1 Thessalonians 5:1-6,9-11
Psalm: 26 (27):1,4,13-14

Gospel: Luke 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 Thessalonians 4:13-18
Psalm: 95 (96):1 & 3,4-5,11-12,13

Gospel: Luke 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. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: 1 Thessalonians 4:9-11
Psalm: 97 (98):1,7-8,9

Gospel: Matthew 25:14-30

Jesus told his disciples this parable: “A man going on a journey called in his servants and entrusted his possessions to them. To one he gave five talents; to another, two; to a third, one– to each according to his ability. Then he went away. Immediately the one who received five talents went and traded with them, and made another five… Read more »