Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings of the day

First Reading: Isaiah 53:10-11
Psalm: 32 (33):4-5,18-19,20,22
Second Reading: Hebrews 4:14-16

Gospel: Mark 10:35-45

In those days, James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came forward to him and said to him, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you.” And he said to them, “What is it you want me to do for you?” And they said to him, “Grant us to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your glory.” 

But Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you are asking… Read more »

Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings of the day

First Reading: Wisdom 7:7-11
Psalm: 89(90):12-13,14-15,16-17
Second Reading: Hebrews 4:12-13

Gospel: Mark 10:17-30

In those days, Jesus was setting out on a journey, when a man ran up and knelt before him, and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” 

Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? … Read more »

Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings of the day

First Reading: Genesis 2:18-24
Psalm: 127(128):1-2,3,4-5,6
Second Reading: Hebrews 2:9-11

Gospel: Mark 10:2-16

Some Pharisees came, and to test him they asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her.” But Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote this commandment for you. But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ 

For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh… Read more »

Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings of the day

First Reading: Numbers 11:25-29
Psalm: 18(19):8,10,12-13,14
Second Reading: James 5:1-6

Gospel: Mark 9:38-43,45,47-48

In those days, John said to Jesus, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not stop him; for no one who does a deed of power in my name will be able soon afterward to speak evil of me.  … Read more »

Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings of the day

First Reading: Wisdom 2:12,17-20
Psalm: 53 (54):3-4,5,6,8
Second Reading: James 3:16 – 4:3

Gospel: Mark 9:30-37

In those days, Jesus and his disciples went on from there and passed through Galilee. He did not want anyone to know it; for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, “The Son of Man is to be betrayed into human hands, and they will kill him, and three days after being killed, he will rise again.” But they did not understand what he was saying and were afraid to ask him. 

Then they came to Capernaum; and when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you arguing about on the way?” But they were silent, for on the way they had argued with one another who was the greatest. 

He sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, “Whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all.” Then he took a little child and put it among them; and taking it in his arms, he said to them, “Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the one who sent me.” Read more »

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Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings of the day

First Reading: Isaiah 50:5-9a
Psalm: 114(116):1-2,3-4,5-6,8-9
Second Reading: James 2:14-18

Gospel: Mark 8:27-35

Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” And they answered him, “John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.” He asked them, “But who do you say that I am?”

Peter answered him, “You are the Messiah.” And he sternly ordered them not to tell anyone about him. Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. He said all this quite openly… Read more »

The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Solemnity
Readings of the day

First Reading: Micah 5:1-4a
Psalm: 12:6
Second Reading: Romans 8:28-30

Gospel: Matthew 1:1-16,18-23

An account of the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Aram, and Aram the father of Aminadab, and Aminadab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon, and Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse… Read more »

Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings of the day

First Reading: Joshua 24:1-2a,15-17,18b
Psalm: 33(34):2-3,16-23
Second Reading: Ephesians 5:21-32

Gospel: John 6:60-69

In those days, Jesus spoke about the bread of life. Many of his disciples heard him and said, “This teaching is difficult; who can accept it?” But Jesus, being aware that his disciples were complaining about it, said to them, “Does this offend you? Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh is useless… Read more »

Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings of the day

First Reading: Proverbs 9:1-6
Psalm: 33(34):2-3,10-11,12-13,14-15
Second Reading: Ephesians 5:15-20

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 »

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings of the day

First Reading: 1 Kings 19:4-8
Psalm: 33(34):2-3,4-5,6-7,8-9
Second Reading: Ephesians 4:30–5:2

Gospel: John 6:41-51

The Jews murmured about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven,” and they said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph? Do we not know his father and mother? Then how can he say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?” Jesus answered and said to them, “Stop murmuring among yourselves. No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw him, and I will raise him on the last day. It is written in the prophets: ‘They shall all be taught by God.’

Everyone who listens to my Father and learns from him comes to me. Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father. Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life. 

Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, but they died; this is the bread that comes down from heaven so that one may eat it and not die. 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.” Read more »

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