• Saint Bridget of Sweden, Religious and  Patron of Europe – Feast 
  Readings of the day

• First Reading: Gal 2:19-20
  Psalm: 33: 2-11

  Gospel: Jn 15:1-8

• In those days, Jesus told his disciples: “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch of mine that bears no fruit, he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. You are already made clean by the word which I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you…

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• Saint Mary Magdalene – Feast
  Readings of the day

• First Reading: Sgs 3: 1-4a
  Psalm: 62, 2-6.8-9

  Gospel: Jn 20:1-2.11-18

• On the first day of the week, Mary of Magdala came to the tomb early in the morning, while it was still dark, and saw the stone removed from the tomb…

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• Readings of the day

• First Reading: Exodus 12, 37-42
  Psalm: 135 (136), 1 & 23-24. 10-12.13-15

  Gospel: Mt 12, 14-2

• The Pharisees went out and took counsel against Jesus to put him to death. When Jesus realised this, he withdrew from that place. Many people followed him, and he cured them all, but he warned them not to make him known…

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• Readings of the day

• First Reading: Exodus 11, 10 – 12, 14
  Psalm: 115 (116), 12-13.15-16bc.17-18

  Gospel: Mt 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? …

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• Readings of the day

• First Reading: Exodus 3, 13-20
  Psalm: 104 (105) 1 & 5. 8-9.24-25.26-27

  Gospel: Mt 11, 28-30

• Jesus said to the crowds: “Come to me, all you who labour and are burdened, and I will give you rest.

  Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for yourselves…

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• Readings of the day

• First Reading: Exodus 3, 1-6.9-12
  Psalm: 102 (103), 1-2.3-4.6-7

  Gospel: Mt 11, 25-27

• At that time Jesus exclaimed, “I give praise to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike…

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• Our Lady of Mount Carmel Readings of the day

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

  Gospel: Jn 19:25-27

• Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

  When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing near, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home. 

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• Readings of the day

• First Reading: Exodus 1, 8-14. 22
  Psalm: 123 (124): 1-3.4-6.7-8

  Gospel: Mt 10, 34 – 11, 1

• Jesus said to his Apostles: “Do not think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth. I have come to bring not peace but the sword. For I have come to set a man ‘against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and one’s enemies will be those of his household.’

  Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever does not take up his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me…

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