Readings of the day

First Reading: Dan 1:1-6,8-20
Psalm: Dan 3:52,53,54,55,56

Gospel: Lk 21:1-4

In those days, Jesus looked up and saw rich people putting their gifts into the treasury; he also saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins. He said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them; for all of them have contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty has put in all she had to live on.”  Read more »

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Readings of the day

First Reading: 1 Maccabees 6:1-13
Psalm: 9:2-3,4 & 6,16b & 19

Gospel: Luke 20:27-40

In those days, some Sadducees, those who say there is no resurrection, came to Jesus and asked him a question, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaving a wife but no children, the man shall marry the widow and raise up children for his brother. Now there were seven brothers; the first married, and died childless; then the second and the third married her, and so in the same way all seven died childless. Finally the woman also died. In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? … Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: 1 Maccabbes 4:36-37,52-59
Psalm: 1 Chronicles 29:10,11abc,11d-12a,12bcd

Gospel: Luke 19:45-48

Then he entered the temple and began to drive out those who were selling things there; and he said, “It is written, “My house shall be a house of prayer’; but you have made it a den of robbers.” Every day he was teaching in the temple… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: 1 Maccabees 2:15-29
Psalm: 49 (50):1-2,5-6,14-15

Gospel: Luke 19:41-44

In those days, Jesus came near the city of Jerusalem and, he wept over it, saying, “If you, even you, had only recognized on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. Indeed, the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up ramparts around you and surround you, and hem you in on every side. They will crush you to the ground, you and your children within you, and they will not leave within you one stone upon another; because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.” 

Saint of the day: Saint Clement I, Pope and martyr Read more »

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Readings of the day

First Reading: 2 Maccabees 7:1,20-31
Psalm: 16 (17):1,5-6,8b u 15

Gospel: Luke 19:11-28

In those days, Jesus went on to tell a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and because they supposed that the kingdom of God was to appear immediately. So he said, “A nobleman went to a distant country to get royal power for himself and then return. He summoned ten of his slaves, and gave them ten pounds, and said to them, “Do business with these until I come back.’ 

But the citizens of his country hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, “We do not want this man to rule over us.’ When he returned, having received royal power, he ordered these slaves, to whom he had given the money, to be summoned so that he might find out what they had gained by trading. The first came forward and said, “Lord, your pound has made ten more pounds.’ He said to him, “Well done, good slave! … Read more »

The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary 
Readings of the day

First Reading: Zechariah 2:10-13
Psalm: Luke 1:46-55

Gospel: Matthew 12:46-50

While he was still speaking to the people, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, asking to speak to him. But he replied to the man who told him, “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?”

And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother, and sister, and mother.” Read more »

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Readings of the day

First Reading: 1 Maccabees 1:10-15,41-43,54-57,62-64
Psalm: 118 (119):53,61,134,150,155,158

Gospel: Luke 18, 35-43

As Jesus approached Jericho a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging, and hearing a crowd going by, he inquired what was happening. They told him, “Jesus of Nazareth is passing by.”

He shouted, “Jesus, Son of David, have pity on me!” The people walking in front rebuked him, telling him to be silent, but he kept calling out all the more, “Son of David, have pity on me!”

Then Jesus stopped and ordered that he be brought to him; and when he came near, Jesus asked him, What do you want me to do for you? … Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Wisdom 18:14-16; 19:6-9
Psalm: 104 (105):2-3,36-37,42-43

Gospel: Luke 18:1-8

Jesus told his disciples a parable about the necessity for them to pray always without becoming weary. He said, “There was a judge in a certain town who neither feared God nor respected any human being. And a widow in that town used to come to him and say, ‘Render a just decision for me against my adversary.’

For a long time the judge was unwilling, but eventually he thought, ‘While it is true that I neither fear God nor respect any human being, because this widow keeps bothering me I shall deliver a just decision for her lest she finally come and strike me.’”

The Lord said, “Pay attention to what the dishonest judge says… Read more »