Fourth Sunday of Easter
Readings of the day

First Reading: Acts 4:8-12
Psalm: 117(118):1,8-9,21-23,26,28cd,29
Second Reading: 1 John 3:1-2

Gospel: John 10:11-18

In those days, Jesus said: “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. The hired hand, who is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away—and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. The hired hand runs away because a hired hand does not care for the sheep. 

I am the good shepherd… Read more »

Third Sunday of Easter
Readings of the day

First Reading: Acts 3:13-15,17-19
Psalm: 4:2,4,7,9
Second Reading: 1 John 2:1-5a

Gospel: Luke 24:35-48

In those days, the disciples of Jesus recounted what had taken place along the way, and how Jesus was made known to them in the breaking of bread. While they were still speaking about this, he stood in their midst and said to them, “Peace be with you.” But they were startled and terrified and thought that they were seeing a ghost… Read more »

Divine Mercy Sunday
Readings of the day

First Reading: Acts 2:42-47
Psalm: 117(118):2-4,13-15,22-24
Second Reading: 1 John 5:1-6

Gospel: John 20:19-31

On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked, where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, “Peace be with you.” When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side… Read more »

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

First Reading: 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 Mark 16:1-7 or, in the evening, Luke 24:15-35

A reading from the Gospel of John

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. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and told them, “They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we don’t know where they put him.”

So Peter and the other disciple went out and came to the tomb. They both ran, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and arrived at the tomb first; he bent down and saw the burial cloths there, but did not go in. When Simon Peter arrived after him, he went into the tomb and saw the burial cloths there, and the cloth that had covered his head, not with the burial cloths but rolled up in a separate place… 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: Philipppians 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: Jeremiah 31:31-34
Psalm: 50 (51):3-4,12-13,14-15
Second Reading: Hebrews 5:7-9

Gospel: John 12:20-33

In those days, there were some Greeks among those who had come up to worship at the feast. They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, “Sir, we would like to see Jesus.” Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus… Read more »

Fourth Sunday of Lent
Readings of the day

First Reading: 2 Chronicles 36:14-16,19-23
Psalm: 136 (137):1-2,3,4-5,6
Second Reading: Ephesians 2:4-10

Gospel: John 3:14-21

In those days, Jesus said to Nicodemus, “And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.”

For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life… Read more »

Third Sunday of Lent
Readings of the day

First Reading: Exodus 20:1-17
Psalm: 18 (19):8,9,10,11
Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 1:22-25

Gospel: John 2:13-25

Since the Passover of the Jews was near, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. He found in the temple area those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, as well as the money-changers seated there.

He made a whip out of cords and drove them all out of the temple area, with the sheep and oxen, and spilled the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables, and to those who sold doves he said, “Take these out of here, and stop making my Father’s house a marketplace.” His disciples recalled the words of scripture, “Zeal for your house will consume me.”

At this the Jews answered and said to him, “What sign can you show us for doing this?”
Jesus answered and said to them, “Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up.”
The Jews said, “This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and you will raise it up in three days?”

But he was speaking about the temple of his body… Read more »

Second Sunday of Lent
Readings of the day

First Reading: Genesis 22:1-2,9a,10-13,15-18
Psalm: 115(116):10,15-19
Second Reading: Romans 8:31b-34

Gospel: Mark 9:2-10

Jesus took Peter, James, and John and led them up a high mountain apart by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no fuller on earth could bleach them. Then Elijah appeared to them along with Moses, and they were conversing with Jesus… Read more »

First Sunday of Lent
Readings of the day

First Reading: Genesis 9:8-15
Psalm: 24 (25):4-5ab,6-7bc,8-9
Second Reading: 1 Peter 3:18-22

Gospel: Mark 1:12-15

In those days the Spirit drove Jesus out into the desert, and he remained in the desert for forty days, tempted by Satan. He was among wild beasts, and the angels ministered to him.

After John had been arrested, Jesus came to Galilee proclaiming the gospel of God: “This is the time of fulfilment… Read more »