Easter Sunday: The Resurrection of the Lord
Solemnity
Readings of the day

First Readings: Acts 10:34a,37-43
Psalm: 117(118):1-2,16ab-17,22-23
Second Reading: Colossians 3:1-4 or 1 Corinthians 5:6b-8

Gospel: John 20:1-9 or Matthew 28:1-10

On the first day of the week, Mary of Magdala came to the tomb early in the morning, while it was still dark, and saw the stone removed from the tomb… Read more »

Palm Sunday and the Passion of the Lord
Readings of the day

First Reading: Isaiah 50:4-7
Psalm: 21(22):8-9,17-18a,19-20,23-24
Second Reading: Philippians 2:6-11

Gospel: Matthew 26:14 – 27:66

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One of the Twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said,

“What are you willing to give me if I hand him over to you?”

They paid him thirty pieces of silver, and from that time on he looked for an opportunity to hand him over… Read more »

Fifth Sunday of Lent
Readings of the day

First Reading: Ezekiel 37:12-14
Psalm: 129 (130):1-2,3-4ab,4c-6,7-8
Second Reading: Romans 8:8-11

Gospel: John 11:1-45

Now a man was ill, Lazarus from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. Mary was the one who had anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and dried his feet with her hair; it was her brother Lazarus who was ill… Read more »

The Fourth Sunday of Lent
Readings of the day

First Reading: 1 Samuel 16:1b ,6-7, 10-13a
Psalm: 22 (23):1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6
Second Reading: Ephesians 5:8-14

Gospel: John 9:1-41

As Jesus passed by he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “Neither he nor his parents sinned; it is so that the works of God might be made visible through him… Read more »

The Third Sunday of Lent
Readings of the day

First Reading: Ezekiel 17:3-7
Psalm: 94 (95):1-2.6-7.8-9
Second Reading: Romans 5:1-2.5-8

Gospel: John 4:5-42

Jesus came to a town of Samaria called Sychar,  near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there. Jesus, tired from his journey, sat down there at the well. It was about noon… Read more »

Second Sunday of Lent
Readings of the day

First Reading: Genesis 12:1-4a
Psalm: 32 (33):4-5,18-19,20 u 22
Second Reading: 2 Timothy 1:8b-10

Gospel: Matthew 17:1-9

Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother,  and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And he was transfigured before them; his face shone like the sun and his clothes became white as light… Read more »

First Sunday of Lent
Readings of the day

First Reading: Genesis 2:7-9; 3:1-7
Psalm: 50 (51):3-4,5-6a,12-13,14 & 17
Second Reading: Romans 5:12-19

Gospel: Matthew 4:1-11

At that time Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. He fasted for forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was hungry.

The tempter approached and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become loaves of bread.” He said in reply, “It is written: ‘One does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of God.’”

Then the devil took him to the holy city, and made him stand on the parapet of the temple, and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down… Read more »

The Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings of the day

First Reading: Sirach 15:15-20
Psalm: 118 (119):1-2,4-5,17-18,33-34
Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 2:6-10

Gospel: Matthew 5:17-37

Jesus said to his disciples: “Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or the smallest part of a letter will pass from the law, until all things have taken place… Read more »

Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings of the day

First Reading: Isaiah 58:7-10
Psalm: 111 (112):4-5,6-7,8a,9
Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 2:1-5

Gospel: Matthew 5:13-16

Jesus said to his disciples: “You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its taste, with what can it be seasoned? It is no longer good for anything but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot… Read more »