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Thursday after Ash Wednesday
2+ hour, 36+ min ago (573+ words) Reading 1 Deuteronomy 30:15-20 Moses said to the people:Today I have set before youlife 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…...
Monday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (649+ words) Reading 1 James 1:1-11 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,to the twelve tribes in the dispersion, greetings.Consider it all joy, my brothers and sisters,when you encounter various trials,for you know that the testing…...
Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (1234+ words) Reading 1 Sirach 15:15-20 If you choose you can keep the commandments, they will save you;if you trust in God, you too shall live;he has set before you fire and waterto whichever you choose, stretch forth your hand.Before man…...
Memorial of Saints Cyril, Monk, and Methodius, Bishop
5+ day, 2+ hour ago (708+ words) Readings for the Memorial of Saints Cyril, Monk, and Methodius, Bishop Reading 1 1 Kings 12:26-32; 13:33-34 Jeroboam thought to himself:"The kingdom will return to David's house.If now this people go up to offer sacrificesin the temple of the LORD in Jerusalem,…...
Friday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time
6+ day, 5+ hour ago (534+ words) Reading 1 1 Kings 11:29-32; 12:19 Jeroboam left Jerusalem,and the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite met him on the road.The two were alone in the area,and the prophet was wearing a new cloak.Ahijah took off his new cloak,tore it into…...
Thursday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time
1+ week, 5+ hour ago (667+ words) Reading 1 1 Kings 11:4-13 When Solomon was old his wives had turned his heart to strange gods,and his heart was not entirely with the LORD, his God,as the heart of his father David had been.By adoring Astarte, the goddess…...
Wednesday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time
1+ week, 1+ day ago (711+ words) Reading 1 1 Kings 10:1-10 The queen of Sheba, having heard of Solomon's fame,came to test him with subtle questions.She arrived in Jerusalem with a very numerous retinue,and with camels bearing spices,a large amount of gold, and precious stones....
Memorial of Saint Scholastica, Virgin
1+ week, 2+ day ago (751+ words) Readings for the Memorial of Saint Scholastica, Virgin Reading 1 1 Kings 8:22-23, 27-30 Solomon stood before the altar of the LORDin the presence of the whole community of Israel,and stretching forth his hands toward heaven,he said, "LORD, God of Israel,there…...
Monday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time
1+ week, 3+ day ago (631+ words) Reading I 1 Kings 8:1-7, 9-13 The elders of Israel and all the leaders of the tribes,the princes in the ancestral houses of the children of Israel,came to King Solomon in Jerusalem,to bring up the ark of the LORD's covenantfrom…...
Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
1+ week, 4+ day ago (633+ words) Reading 1 Isaiah 58:7-10 Thus says the LORD:Share your bread with the hungry,shelter the oppressed and the homeless;clothe the naked when you see them,and do not turn your back on your own.Then your light shall break forth…...