Tuesday of the First Week of Lent

Readings for the Optional Memorial of Saint Polycarp, bishop and martyr Reading I Is 55:10-11 Thus says the LORD: Just as from the heavens     the rain and snow come down And do not return there     till they have watered the earth,     making it fertile and fruitful, Giving seed to the one who … [Read more…]

Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter, Apostle

Reading I 1 Pt 5:1-4 Beloved: I exhort the presbyters among you, as a fellow presbyter and witness to the sufferings of Christ and one who has a share in the glory to be revealed. Tend the flock of God in your midst, overseeing not by constraint but willingly, as God would have it, not … [Read more…]

First Sunday of Lent

Reading I Gn 9:8-15 God said to Noah and to his sons with him:  “See, I am now establishing my covenant with you  and your descendants after you  and with every living creature that was with you:  all the birds, and the various tame and wild animals  that were with you and came out of … [Read more…]

Saturday after Ash Wednesday

Reading I Is 58:9b-14 Thus says the LORD: If you remove from your midst oppression,     false accusation and malicious speech; If you bestow your bread on the hungry     and satisfy the afflicted; Then light shall rise for you in the darkness,     and the gloom shall become for you like midday; Then the … [Read more…]

Friday after Ash Wednesday

Reading I Is 58:1-9a Thus says the Lord GOD: Cry out full-throated and unsparingly,     lift up your voice like a trumpet blast;  Tell my people their wickedness,     and the house of Jacob their sins.  They seek me day after day,     and desire to know my ways, Like a nation that has done … [Read more…]

Thursday after Ash Wednesday

Reading I Dt 30:15-20 Moses said to the people: “Today I have set before you life and prosperity, death and doom. If you obey the commandments of the LORD, your God, which I enjoin on you today, loving him, and walking in his ways, and keeping his commandments, statutes and decrees, you will live and … [Read more…]

Ash Wednesday

Reading I Jl 2:12-18 Even now, says the LORD,     return to me with your whole heart,     with fasting, and weeping, and mourning; Rend your hearts, not your garments,     and return to the LORD, your God. For gracious and merciful is he,     slow to anger, rich in kindness,     and relenting in … [Read more…]

Tuesday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time

Reading I Gn 6:5-8; 7:1-5, 10 When the LORD saw how great was man’s wickedness on earth, and how no desire that his heart conceived was ever anything but evil, he regretted that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was grieved. So the LORD said: “I will wipe out from the … [Read more…]

Monday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time

Reading I Gn 4:1-15, 25 The man had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have produced a man with the help of the LORD.” Next she bore his brother Abel. Abel became a keeper of flocks, and Cain a tiller of the soil. In the course of time … [Read more…]

Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Reading I Lv 13:1-2, 44-46 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “If someone has on his skin a scab or pustule or blotch which appears to be the sore of leprosy, he shall be brought to Aaron, the priest, or to one of the priests among his descendants. If the man is leprous and … [Read more…]