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

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

Gospel: Mt 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-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings of the day

First Reading: Is 35:4-7a
Psalm: 145(146):7,8-9a,9bc,10
Second Reading: James 2:1-5

Gospel: Mk 7:31-37

In those days, Jesus returned from the region of Tyre, and went by way of Sidon towards the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis. They brought to him a deaf man who had an impediment in his speech; and they begged him to lay his hand on him. He took him aside in private, away from the crowd, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat and touched his tongue. Then looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, “Ephphatha,” that is, “Be opened.” And immediately his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly. 

Then Jesus ordered them to tell no one; but the more he ordered them, the more zealously they proclaimed it. They were astounded beyond measure, saying, “He has done everything well; he even makes the deaf to hear and the mute to speak.” Read more »

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Assumption of the Virgin Mary into Heaven – Solemnity
Readings of the day

First Reading: Rev 11, 19a, 12: 1-6a. 10ab
Psalm: 44, 10bc.11-12ab.16
Second Reading: 1 Kor 15, 20-26

Gospel: Lk 1, 39-56

Mary set out in those days and traveled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah,
where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth… 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: Eph 4, 30–5:2

Gospel: Jn 6, 41-51

In those days, the Jews began to complain about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” They were saying, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? … Read more »

Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings of the day

First Reading: Ez 16, 2-4,12-15
Psalm: 77(78), 3,4bc,23-24,25,54
Second Reading: Efes 4, 17,20-24

Gospel: Jn 6, 24-35

In those days, when the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they themselves got into the boats and went to Capernaum looking for Jesus. When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?” 

Jesus answered them, “Very truly, I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves. Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you… Read more »

Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings of the day

First Reading: 2 Kings 4, 42-44
Psalm: 144(145), 10-11,15-16,17-18
Second Reading: Eph 4, 1-6

Gospel: Jn 6, 1-15

In those days, Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, also called the Sea of Tiberias. A large crowd kept following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing for the sick. Jesus went up the mountain and sat down there with his disciples. Now the Passover, the festival of the Jews, was near. 

When he looked up and saw a large crowd coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread for these people to eat?” He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he was going to do. Philip answered him, “Six months’ wages would not buy enough bread for each of them to get a little.” One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him, “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish… Read more »

Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings of the day

First Reading: Jer 23, 1-6
Psalm: 22 (23), 1-3a.3b-4.5.6
Second Reading: Ephes 2, 13-18

Gospel: Mk 6, 30-34

In those days, the apostles gathered around Jesus, and told him all that they had done and taught. He said to them, “Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while.” For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat. And they went away in the boat to a deserted place by themselves. Now many saw them going and recognised them, and they hurried there on foot from all the towns and arrived ahead of them. 

As he went ashore, he saw a great crowd; and he had compassion for them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many things.  Read more »

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Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings of the day

First Reading: Amos 7, 12-15
Psalm: 84 (85), 9ab-10. 11-12. 13-14
Second Reading: Ephes 1, 3-14

Gospel: Mk 6, 7-13

In those days, Jesus called the twelve and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits. He ordered them to take nothing for their journey except a staff; no bread, no bag, no money in their belts; but to wear sandals and not to put on two tunics. 

He said to them, “Wherever you enter a house, stay there until you leave the place. If any place will not welcome you and they refuse to hear you, as you leave, shake off the dust that is on your feet as a testimony against them.” 

So they went out and proclaimed that all should repent. They cast out many demons, and anointed with oil many who were sick and cured them.  Read more »

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Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings of the day

First Reading: Ezek 2, 2-5
Psalm: 122(123), 1-2a,2bcd,3-4
Second Reading: 2 Cor 12, 7-10

Gospel: Mk 6, 1-6

In those days Jesus came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him. On the sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astounded. They said, “Where did this man get all this? … Read more »

Saints Peter and Paul, apostles – Solemnity
Readings of the day

First Reading: Acts 12, 1-11
Psalm: 33, 2-9
Second Reading: Tim 4, 6-8. 17-18

Gospel: Mt 16, 13-19

Jesus went into the region of Caesarea Philippi and he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” They replied, “Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter said in reply, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”

Jesus said to him in reply, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah… Read more »