Readings of the day

First Reading: 1 Jn 2, 18-21
Psalm: 95 (96), 1-2.11-12.13

Gospel: Jn 1, 1-18

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came to be through him, and without him nothing came to be. What came to be through him was life, and this life was the light of the human race; the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: 1 Jn 2, 12-17
Psalm: 95 (96), 7-8a.8b-9.10

Gospel: Lk 2, 36-40

There was also a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was advanced in years, having lived seven years with her husband after her marriage, and then as a widow until she was eighty-four. She never left the temple, but worshiped night and day with fasting and prayer… Read more »

The Holy Innocents, Martyrs – Feast
Readings of the day

First Reading: 1 Jn 1, 5; 2: 2
Psalm: 123, 2-5.7b-8

Gospel: Mt 2, 13-18

When the Magi had departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Rise, take the child and his mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you… Read more »

Saint John, Apostle & Evangelist – Feast
Readings of the day

First Reading: 1 Jn 1, 1-4
Psalm: 96, 1-2.5-6.11-12

Gospel: Jn 20, 2-8

On the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene ran and went to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and told them, “They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we don’t know where they put him.”

So Peter and the other disciple went out and came to the tomb… Read more »

Saint Stephen, First Martyr – Feast
Readings of the day

First Reading: Acts 6, 8-10; 7:54-59
Psalm: 30, 3cd-4.6ab.7b.8a.16

Gospel: Mt 10, 17-22

Jesus said to His disciples: “Beware of men, for they will hand you over to courts and scourge you in their synagogues, and you will be led before governors and kings for my sake as a witness before them and the pagans… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: 2 Sam 7, 1-5.8b-12.14a.16
Psalm: 88 (89), 2-3.4-5.27 & 29

Gospel: Lk 1, 67-79

In those days, Zechariah, John’s father, was filled with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying, 

“Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people, and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David, as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old, that we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all who hate us; to perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant, the oath which he swore to our father Abraham, to grant us that we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies, might serve him without fear, in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life. 

And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways, to give knowledge of salvation to his people in the forgiveness of their sins, through the tender mercy of our God, when the day shall dawn upon us from on high to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.”  Read more »

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Readings of the day

First Reading: Mal 3, 1-4.23-24
Psalm: 24 (25), 4bc-5ab.8-9.10 & 14

Gospel: Lk 1, 57-66

When the time arrived for Elizabeth to have her child she gave birth to a son. Her neighbours and relatives heard that the Lord had shown his great mercy toward her, and they rejoiced with her.

When they came on the eighth day to circumcise the child, they were going to call him Zechariah after his father, but his mother said in reply, “No… Read more »