The Most Holy Trinity – Solemnity
Readings of the day

First Reading: Ez 34, 4b-6.8-9
Psalm: Dan 3, 52.53.54.55.56
Second Reading: 2 Cor 13, 11-13

Gospel: Jn 3, 16-18

God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him… Read more »

Sixth Sunday of Easter
Readings of the day

First Reading: Acts 8, 5-8.14-17
Psalm: 65 (66), 1-3a.4-5.6-7a.16.20
Second Reading: 1 Pt 3, 15-18

Gospel: Jn 14, 15-21

Jesus said to his disciples: If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you always, the Spirit of truth, which the world cannot accept, because it neither sees nor knows it… Read more »

The Fifth Sunday of Easter
Readings of the day

First Reading: Acts 6, 1-7
Psalm: 32 (33), 1-2.4-5.18-19
Second Reading: 1 Pt 2, 4-9

Gospel: Jn 14, 1-12

Jesus said to his disciples: “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You have faith in God; have faith also in me. In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places… Read more »

Third Sunday of Easter
Readings of the day

First Reading: Acts 2, 14.22-33
Psalm: 15 (16) 1-2a.5.7-8.9-10.11
Second Reading: 1 Pt 1, 17-21

Gospel: Lk 24, 13-35

That very day, the first day of the week, two of Jesus’ disciples were going to a village seven miles from Jerusalem called Emmaus, and they were conversing about all the things that had occurred… Read more »

Good Friday
Readings of the day

First Reading: Is 52, 13 – 53, 12
Psalm: 30 (31), 2.6.12-13.15-16.17. 25
Second Reading: Hebrews 4, 14-16; 5, 7-9

Gospel: Jn 18, 1 – 19, 42

The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ according to Saint John

Jesus went out with his disciples across the Kidron valley to where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered. Judas his betrayer also knew the place, because Jesus had often met there with his disciples. So Judas got a band of soldiers and guards from the chief priests and the Pharisees and went there with lanterns, torches, and weapons. Jesus, knowing everything that was going to happen to him, went out and said to them, “Whom are you looking for?” They answered him, “Jesus the Nazorean.” He said to them, “I AM.” Judas his betrayer was also with them. When he said to them, “I AM,” they turned away and fell to the ground. So he again asked them, “Whom are you looking for?” They said, “Jesus the Nazorean.” Jesus answered, “I told you that I AM… Read more »

Maundy Thursday
Mass of the Lord’s Supper
Readings of the day

First Reading: Ex 12, 1-8.11-14
Psalm: 115 (116), 12-13.15-16bc.17-18
Second Reading: 1 Cor 11, 23-26

Gospel: Jn 13, 1-15

Before the feast of Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to pass from this world to the Father. He loved his own in the world and he loved them to the end. The devil had already induced Judas, son of Simon the Iscariot, to hand him over… Read more »

Our Lady of Sorrows
Readings of the day

First Reading: Rom 8, 31b-39
Psalm: 17 

Gospel: Jn 19: 25-27

Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son.” Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother.”

And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.  Read more »

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