Readings of the day

First Reading: 1 Corinthians 3:18-23
Psalm: 23 (24):1-2,3-4ab,5-6

Gospel: Luke 5:1-11

While the crowd was pressing in on Jesus and listening to the word of God, he was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret. He saw two boats there alongside the lake; the fishermen had disembarked and were washing their nets. Getting into one of the boats, the one belonging to Simon, he asked him to put out a short distance from the shore… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: 1 Corinthians 3:1-9
Psalm: 32 (33):12-13,14-15,20-21

Gospel: Luke 4:38-44

After Jesus left the synagogue, he entered the house of Simon. Simon’s mother-in-law was afflicted with a severe fever, and they interceded with him about her. He stood over her, rebuked the fever, and it left her. She got up immediately and waited on them.

At sunset, all who had people sick with various diseases brought them to him… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: 1 Corinthians 2:10b-16
Psalm: 144 (145):8-9,10-11,12-13ab,13ċd-14

Gospel: Luke 4:31-37

Jesus then went down to Capernaum, a town of Galilee. He taught them on the sabbath, and they were astonished at his teaching because he spoke with authority.

In the synagogue there was a man with the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out in a loud voice, Ha! … Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: 1 Corinthians 2:1-5
Psalm: 118 (119):97,98,99,100,101,102

Gospel: Luke 4:16-30

Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had grown up, and went according to his custom into the synagogue on the sabbath day. He stood up to read and was handed a scroll of the prophet Isaiah. He unrolled the scroll and found the passage where it was written: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor… Read more »

Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings of the day

First Reading: Deuteronomy 4:1-2,6-8
Psalm: 14(15):2-3a,3cd-4ab,5
Second Reading: James 1:17-18,21b-22,27

Gospel: Mark 7:1-8,14-15,21-23

In those days, the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him, and they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing them. For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they thoroughly wash their hands, thus observing the tradition of the elders; and they do not eat anything from the market unless they wash it; and there are also many other traditions that they observe, the washing of cups, pots, and bronze kettles… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: 1 Corinthians 1:26-31
Psalm: 32 (33):12-13,18-19,20-21

Gospel: Matthew 25:14-30

In those days, Jesus told his disciples this parable: “For it is as if a man, going on a journey, summoned his slaves and entrusted his property to them; to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. 

The one who had received the five talents went off at once and traded with them, and made five more talents. In the same way, the one who had the two talents made two more talents. But the one who had received the one talent went off and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s money. 

After a long time the master of those slaves came and settled accounts with them. Then the one who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five more talents, saying, “Master, you handed over to me five talents; see, I have made five more talents.’ His master said to him, “Well done, good and trustworthy slave; you have been trustworthy in a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master.’ 

And the one with the two talents also came forward, saying, “Master, you handed over to me two talents; see, I have made two more talents.’ His master said to him, “Well done, good and trustworthy slave; you have been trustworthy in a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master.’ 

Then the one who had received the one talent also came forward, saying, “Master, I knew that you were a harsh man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter seed; so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: 1 Corinthians 1:17-25
Psalm: 32 (33):1-2,4-5,10ab & 11

Gospel: Matthew 25:1-13

Jesus told his disciples this parable: “The kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish and five were wise. The foolish ones, when taking their lamps, brought no oil with them, but the wise brought flasks of oil with their lamps… Read more »

Beheading of Saint John the Baptist
Readings of the day

First Reading: Jeremiah 1:17-19
Psalm: 70:1-6,15-17

Gospel: Mark 6:17-29

Herod was the one who had John arrested and bound in prison on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, whom he had married. John had said to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.” Herodias harbuored a grudge against him and wanted to kill him but was unable to do so… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: 2 Thess 3, 6-10.16-18
Psalm: 127 (128), 1-2.4-5

Gospel: Mt 23, 27-32

Jesus said, “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You are like whitewashed tombs, which appear beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of filth. Even so, on the outside you appear righteous, but inside you are filled with hypocrisy and evildoing… Read more »

Readings of the day

First Reading: 2 Thessalonians 2:1-3a,13-17
Psalm: 138 (139):1-3,4-6

Gospel: Matthew 23:23-26

Jesus said: “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier things of the law: judgement and mercy and fidelity. But these you should have done, without neglecting the others. Blind guides, who strain out the gnat and swallow the camel! … Read more »