Wednesday of the Thirty-third Week in Ordinary Time
Reading 1 2 Maccabees 7:1, 20-31 It happened that seven brothers with their mother were arrested and tortured with whips and scourges by the king, to force them to eat…
Tuesday of the Thirty-third Week in Ordinary Time
Reading I 2 Maccabees 6:18-31 Eleazar, one of the foremost scribes, a man of advanced age and noble appearance, was being forced to open his mouth to eat pork. But…
Memorial of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, Religious
Readings for the Memorial of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, Religious Reading 1 1 Maccabees 1:10-15, 41-43, 54-57, 62-63 [From the descendants of Alexander’s officers] there sprang a sinful offshoot, Antiochus…
Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Reading 1 Malachi 3:19-20a Lo, the day is coming, blazing like an oven, when all the proud and all evildoers will be stubble, and the day that is coming will…
Saturday of the Thirty-second Week in Ordinary Time
Reading I Wisdom 18:14-16; 19:6-9 When peaceful stillness compassed everything and the night in its swift course was half spent, Your all-powerful word, from heaven’s royal throne bounded, a fierce…
Friday of the Thirty-second Week in Ordinary Time
Reading 1 Wisdom 13:1-9 All men were by nature foolish who were in ignorance of God, and who from the good things seen did not succeed in knowing him who…
Memorial of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, Virgin
Readings for the Memorial of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, Virgin [In the Dioceses of the United States] Reading 1 Wisdom 7:22b–8:1 In Wisdom is a spirit intelligent, holy, unique, Manifold,…
Memorial of Saint Josaphat, Bishop and Martyr
Readings for the Memorial of Saint Josaphat, Bishop and Martyr Reading 1 Wisdom 6:1-11 Hear, O kings, and understand; learn, you magistrates of the earth’s expanse! Hearken, you who are…
Memorial of Saint Martin of Tours, Bishop
Readings for the Memorial of Saint Martin of Tours, Bishop Reading 1 Wisdom 2:23–3:9 God formed man to be imperishable; the image of his own nature he made them. But…
Memorial of Saint Leo the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church
Readings for the Memorial of Saint Leo the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church Reading 1 Wisdom 1:1-7 Love justice, you who judge the earth; think of the Lord…
Wednesday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time
Reading 1 1 COR 3:1-9 Brothers and sisters, I could not talk to you as spiritual people, but as fleshly people, as infants in Christ. I fed you milk, not…
Tuesday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time
Reading 1 1 COR 2:10B-16 Brothers and sisters: The Spirit scrutinizes everything, even the depths of God. Among men, who knows what pertains to the man except his spirit that…