Thursday of the First Week of Ordinary Time

Reading I Heb 3:7-14 The Holy Spirit says:     Oh, that today you would hear his voice,         “Harden not your hearts as at the rebellion         in the day of testing in the desert,     where your ancestors tested and tried me         and saw my works for forty years.    … [Read more…]

Wednesday of the First Week in Ordinary Time

Reading I Heb 2:14-18 Since the children share in blood and Flesh, Jesus likewise shared in them, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the Devil, and free those who through fear of death had been subject to slavery all their life. Surely he did not … [Read more…]

Tuesday of the First Week in Ordinary Time

Reading I Heb 2:5-12 It was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, of which we are speaking. Instead, someone has testified somewhere:     What is man that you are mindful of him,         or the son of man that you care for him?     You made him for a little … [Read more…]

Monday of the First Week in Ordinary Time

Reading I Heb 1:1-6 Brothers and sisters: In times past, God spoke in partial and various ways  to our ancestors through the prophets;  in these last days, he spoke to us through the Son,      whom he made heir of all things and through whom he created the universe,     who is the refulgence … [Read more…]

The Baptism of the Lord

Reading I Is 42:1-4, 6-7 Thus says the LORD: Here is my servant whom I uphold, my chosen one with whom I am pleased, upon whom I have put my spirit; he shall bring forth justice to the nations, not crying out, not shouting, not making his voice heard in the street. a bruised reed … [Read more…]

Saturday after Epiphany

Reading I 1 Jn 5:14-21 Beloved: We have this confidence in him that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.  And if we know that he hears us in regard to whatever we ask, we know that what we have asked him for is ours.  If anyone sees his brother sinning, … [Read more…]

Friday after Epiphany

Reading I 1 Jn 5:5-13 Beloved: Who indeed is the victor over the world but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? This is the one who came through water and Blood, Jesus Christ, not by water alone, but by water and Blood.  The Spirit is the one who testifies, and … [Read more…]

Thursday after Epiphany

Reading I 1 Jn 4:19–5:4 Beloved, we love God because he first loved us.  If anyone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he is a liar; for whoever does not love a brother whom he has seen  cannot love God whom he has not seen.  This is the commandment we have from him: … [Read more…]

Wednesday after Epiphany

Readings for the Optional Memorial of Saint André Bessette, religious [In the Dioceses of the United States] Reading I 1 Jn 4:11-18 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also must love one another.  No one has ever seen God.  Yet, if we love one another, God remains in us, and his love is brought … [Read more…]

Memorial of Saint John Neumann, Bishop

Readings for the [In the Dioceses of the United States] Reading I 1 Jn 4:7-10 Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God; everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God. Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is love. In this way the love of God … [Read more…]