Transfiguration of the Lord – Feast
Readings of the day

First Reading: Daniel 7:9-10,13-14
Psalm: 96:1-2,5-6,9
Second Reading: 2 Peter 1:16-19

Gospel: Matthew 17:1-9

Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and his brother John and led them up a high mountain, by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became dazzling white. Suddenly there appeared to them Moses and Elijah, talking with him. Then Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be here; if you wish, I will make three dwellings here, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.” 

While he was still speaking, suddenly a bright cloud overshadowed them, and from the cloud a voice said, “This is my Son, the Beloved; with him I am well pleased; listen to him!” When the disciples heard this, they fell to the ground and were overcome by fear. But Jesus came and touched them, saying, “Get up and do not be afraid.” And when they looked up, they saw no one except Jesus himself alone. As they were coming down the mountain, Jesus ordered them, “Tell no one about the vision until after the Son of Man has been raised from the dead.”  Read more »

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Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings of the day

First Reading: 1 Kings 3:5,7-12
Psalm: 118 (119):57,72,76-77,127-128,129-130
Second Reading: Romans 8:28-30

Gospel: Matthew 13:44-52

Jesus said to his disciples: “The Kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in a field, which a person finds and hides again, and out of joy goes and sells all that he has and buys that field… Read more »

The Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings of the day

First Reading: Wisdom 12:13,16-19
Psalm: 85 (86):5-6,9-10,15-16a
Second Reading: Rom 8:26-27

Gospel: Matthew 13:24-43

Jesus proposed a parable to the crowds. “The kingdom of heaven may be likened to a man who sowed good seed in his field. While everyone was asleep his enemy came and sowed weeds all through the wheat, and then went off… Read more »

The Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings of the day

First Reading: Isaiah 55:10-11
Psalm: 64 (65):10abcd,10e-11,12-13,14
Second Reading: Romans 8:18-23

Gospel: Matthew 13:1-23

On that day, Jesus went out of the house and sat down by the sea. Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat down, and the whole crowd stood along the shore… Read more »

The Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings of the day

First Reading: Zechariah 9:9-10
Psalm: 144 (145):1-2,8-9,10-11,13cd-14
Second Reading: Romans 8:9,11-13

Gospel: Matthew 11:25-30

At that time Jesus exclaimed, “I give praise to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike… Read more »

Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings of the day

First Reading: 2 Kings 4:8-11,14-16a
Psalm: 88 (89):2-3,16-17,18-19
Second Reading: Romans 6:3-4,8-11

Gospel: Matthew 10:37-42

Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever does not take up his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me… Read more »

Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings of the day

First Reading: Jeremiah 20:10-13
Psalm: 68 (69):8-10,14,17,33-35
Second Reading: Romans 5:12-15

Gospel: Matthew 10:26-33

Therefore do not be afraid of them. Nothing is concealed that will not be revealed, nor secret that will not be known. What I say to you in the darkness, speak in the light; what you hear whispered, proclaim on the housetops… Read more »

Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings of the day

First Reading: Ezekiel 19:2-6a
Psalm: 99 (100):2,3,5
Second Reading: Romans 5:6-11

Gospel: Matthew 9:36 – 10:8

At the sight of the crowds, his heart was moved with pity for them because they were troubled and abandoned, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest.”

Then he summoned his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits to drive them out and to cure every disease and every illness… Read more »

The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ – Solemnity
Readings of the day

First Reading: Deuteronomy 8:2-3,14b-16a
Psalm: 146(147):12-13,14-15,19-20
Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 10:16-17

Gospel: John 6:51-58

Jesus said to the crowds: “I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.”

The Jews quarrelled among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us (his) flesh to eat?”

Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you… Read more »