• The Holy Family – Feast Readings of the day

• First Reading: 1 Sam 1, 20-22.24-28
  Psalm:83 (84), 2-3. 5-6. 9-10
  Second Reading: 1 John 3, 1-2, 21-24

  Gospel: Luke 2, 41-52

• Each year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the feast of Passover, and when he was twelve years old, they went up according to festival custom…

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• Readings of the day

• First Reading: 1 John 2, 3-11
  Psalm: 95 (96), 1-2a.2b-3.5b-6

  Gospel: Luke 2, 22-35

• When the days were completed for their purification according to the law of Moses, Mary and Joseph took Jesus up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord, just as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every male that opens the womb shall be consecrated to the Lord,” and to offer the sacrifice of “a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons,” in accordance with the dictate in the law of the Lord…

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• The Holy Innocents, martyrs – Feast Readings of the day

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

  Gospel: Matthew 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…

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• Saint John, Apostle and Evangelist – Feast Readings of the day

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

  Gospel: John 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…

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• Saint Stephen, first martyr – Feast Readings of the day

• First Reading: Acts 6, 8-10; 7,54-59
  Psalm 30

  Gospel: Matthew 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…

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• Readings of the day

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

  Gospel: Luke 1, 67-79

• Zechariah 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.” 

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• Readings of the day

• First Reading: 1 Sam 1, 24-28
  Psalm: 1 Sam 2, 1.4-5.6-7.8abcd

  Gospel: Luke 1, 46-55

• Mary said: “My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my spirit rejoices in God my saviour. For he has looked with favour on his lowly servant; from this day all generations will call me blessed…

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• Readings of the day

• First Reading: Songs 2, 8-14 or Soph 3, 14-18a
  Psalm: 32 (33), 2-3.11-12.20-21

  Gospel: Luke 1, 39-45

• Mary set out in those days and travelled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth…

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