Readings of the day

First Reading: Daniel 3:14-20,91-92,95
Psalm: Daniel 3:52,53-54,55-56

Gospel: John 8:31-42

Jesus said to those Jews who believed in him, “If you remain in my word, you will truly be my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” They answered him, “We are descendants of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Numbers 21:4-9
Psalm: 101 (102):2-3,16-18,19-21

Gospel: John 8:21-30

Jesus said to the Pharisees: “I am going away and you will look for me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come.” So the Jews said, “He is not going to kill himself, is he, because he said, ‘Where I am going you cannot come’?” He said to them, “You belong to what is below, I belong to what is above… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Daniel 13:1-9,15-17,19-30,33-62
Psalm: 22 (23):1-3a,3b-4,5,6

Gospel: John 8:1-11

Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. But early in the morning he arrived again in the temple area, and all the people started coming to him, and he sat down and taught them. Then the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery and made her stand in the middle… Read more »

Annunciation of the Lord – Solemnity
Readings of the day

First Reading: Isaiah 7:10-14; 8:10
Psalm: 39:7-11
Second Reading: Hebrews 10:4-10

Gospel: Luke 1:26-38

In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth,
to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the house of David, and the virgin’s name was Mary… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Wisdom 2:1a,12-22
Psalm: 33 (34):17-18,19-20,21,23

Gospel: John 7:1-2,10,25-30

Jesus moved about within Galilee; but he did not wish to travel in Judea, because the Jews were trying to kill him. But the Jewish feast of Tabernacles was near. But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, he himself also went up, not openly but (as it were) in secret… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Exodus 32:7-14
Psalm: 105 (106):19-20,21-22,23

Gospel: John 5:31-47

In those days, Jesus said to the Jews: “If I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is not true.
But there is another who testifies on my behalf, and I know that the testimony he gives on my behalf is true. You sent emissaries to John, and he testified to the truth… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Isaiah 49:8-15
Psalm: 144 (145):8-9,13cd-14,17-18
Gospel: John 5:17-30

In those days, Jesus answered the Jews: “My Father is at work until now, so I am at work.” For this reason the Jews tried all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the sabbath but he also called God his own father, making himself equal to God… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Ezekiel 47:1-9,12
Psalm: 45 (46):2-3,5-6,8-9

Gospel: John 5:1-3a,5-16

There was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem at the Sheep Gate a pool called in Hebrew Bethesda, with five porticoes. In these lay a large number of ill, blind, lame, and crippled.

One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years… Read more »

Saint Joseph, Husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Solemnity
Readings of the day

First Reading: 2 Samuel 7:4-5a,12-14a,16
Psalm: 88:2-5,27,29
Second Reading: Romans 4:13,16-18,22

Gospel: Matthew 1:16,18-21,24a (or Luke 2:41-51a)

Jacob was the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary. Of her was born Jesus who is called the Christ. Now this is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about… Read more »