The Blessed Virgin Mary of Fatima – Memorial Readings of the day

First Reading: Acts 16:1-10
Psalm: 99 (100):1-2,3,5

Gospel: John 15:18-21

Jesus said to his disciples: “If the world hates you, realize that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world, the world hates you… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Acts 15:22-31
Psalm: 56 (57):8-9,10-12

Gospel: John 15:12-17

Jesus said to his disciples: “This is my commandment: love one another as I love you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Acts 15:7-21
Psalm: 95 (96):1-2a,2b-3,10

Gospel: John 15:9-11

Jesus said to his disciples: “As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my love.
If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.” Read more »

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Readings of the day

First Reading: Acts 15:1-6
Psalm: 121 (122):1-2,3-4a,4b-5

Gospel: John 15:4a,5b

Jesus said to his disciples: “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine grower. He takes away every branch in me that does not bear fruit, and everyone that does he prunes so that it bears more fruit. You are already pruned because of the word that I spoke to you… Read more »

Saint George Preca, Priest and Founder of the Society of Christian Doctrine, M.U.S.E.U.M – Feast
Readings of the day

First Reading: Sirach 21:11-17,21
Psalm: 119:33-42
Second Reading: 2 Timothy 2:1-11

Gospel: Mark 16:14a,15-20

Later Jesus appeared to the eleven themselves as they were sitting at the table; and he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the good news to the whole creation. The one who believes and is baptised will be saved; but the one who does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: by using my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes in their hands, and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.” 

So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God. And they went out and proclaimed the good news everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by the signs that accompanied it… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Acts 14:5-18
Palm: 113B (115):1-2,3-4,15-16

Gospel: John 14:21-26

Jesus said to his disciples: “Whoever has my commandments and observes them is the one who loves me. Whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to him.”

Judas, not the Iscariot, said to him, “Master, (then) what happened that you will reveal yourself to us and not to the world?”

Jesus answered and said to him, “Whoever loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: Acts 13:44-52
Psalm: 97 (98):1,2-3ab,3cd-4
Gospel: John 14:7-14

Jesus said to his disciples:  “If you know me, then you will also know my Father.  From now on you do know him and have seen him.”  Philip said to him, “Master, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.” Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you for so long a time and you still do not know me, Philip? … Read more »

Readings of the Day

First Reading: Acts 13:26-33
Psalm: 2:6-7,8-9,10-11

Gospel: John 14:1-6

Jesus said to his disciples: “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You have faith in God; have faith also in me. In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places. If there were not, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? … Read more »

Readings of the Day

First Reading: Acts 13:13-25
Psalm: 88 (89):2-3,21-22,25,27

Gospel: John 13:16-20

When Jesus had washed the disciples’ feet, he said to them: “Amen, amen, I say to you, no slave is greater than his master nor any messenger greater than the one who sent him.
If you understand this, blessed are you if you do it. I am not speaking of all of you… Read more »