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2015 Dec 13 SUN: 3rd Sunday of Advent==============================================A reading from the book of the prophet ZephaniahZep 3: 14-18a==============================================[14] Sing aloud, O daughter of Zion;shout, O Israel!Rejoice and exult with all your heart,O daughter of Jerusalem![15] The LORD has taken away the judgments against you,he has cast out your enemies.The King of Israel, the LORD, is in your midst;you shall fear evil no more.[16] On that day it shall be said to Jerusalem:"Do not fear, O Zion;let not your hands grow weak.[17] The LORD, your God, is in your midst,a warrior who gives victory;he will rejoice over you with gladness,he will renew you in his love;he will exult over you with loud singing[18] as on a day of festival.The Word of the Lord==============================================From IsaiahIs 12: 2-3. 4. 5-6 (6)==============================================Cry out with joy and gladness: for among you is the great and Holy One of Israel.[2] "Behold, God is my salvati

Daily Scripture Readings of the Roman Catholic Liturgical Calendar

Daily Scripture Readings of the Roman Catholic Liturgical Calendar

Daily Scripture Readings of the Roman Catholic Liturgical Calendar

Daily Scripture Readings of the Roman Catholic Liturgical Calendar

Daily Scripture Readings of the Roman Catholic Liturgical Calendar

Daily Scripture Readings of the Roman Catholic Liturgical Calendar

Daily Scripture Readings of the Roman Catholic Liturgical Calendar

Today is Saturday November 20, 2015Memorial of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary A Reading from First Macabees 1 Mc 6:1-13 King Antiochus was going through the upper provinces when he heard that Elymais in Persia was a city famed for its wealth in silver and gold. Its temple was very rich, containing golden shields, breastplates, and weapons left there by Alexander, the son of Philip, the Macedonian king who first reigned over the Greeks. So he came and tried to take the city and plunder it, but he could not, because his plan became known to the men of the city and they withstood him in battle. So he fled and in great grief departed from there to return to Babylon. Then some one came to him in Persia and reported that the armies which had gone into the land of Judah had been routed; that Lysias had gone first with a strong force, but had turned and fled before the Jews; that the Jews had grown strong from the arms, supplies, and abundant spoils which they had taken from the armies they had cut down

Today is Friday November 20, 2015Friday of the Thirty-third Week in Ordinary Time A Reading from First Macabees 1 Mc 4:36-37, 52-59 Then said Judas and his brothers, "Behold, our enemies are crushed; let us go up to cleanse the sanctuary and dedicate it." So all the army assembled and they went up to Mount Zion. Early in the morning on the twenty-fifth day of the ninth month, which is the month of Chislev, in the one hundred and forty-eighth year, they rose and offered sacrifice, as the law directs, on the new altar of burnt offering which they had built. At the very season and on the very day that the Gentiles had profaned it, it was dedicated with songs and harps and lutes and cymbals. All the people fell on their faces and worshiped and blessed Heaven, who had prospered them. So they celebrated the dedication of the altar for eight days, and offered burnt offerings with gladness; they offered a sacrifice of deliverance and praise. They decorated the front of the temple with golden crowns and small shields;

Today is Thursday Nobember 19, 2015Thursday of the Thirty-third Week in Ordinary Time A Reading from First Macabees 1 Mc 2:15-29 Then the king's officers who were enforcing the apostasy came to the city of Modein to make them offer sacrifice. Many from Israel came to them; and Mattathias and his sons were assembled. Then the king's officers spoke to Mattathias as follows: "You are a leader, honored and great in this city, and supported by sons and brothers. Now be the first to come and do what the king commands, as all the Gentiles and the men of Judah and those that are left in Jerusalem have done. Then you and your sons will be numbered among the friends of the king, and you and your sons will be honored with silver and gold and many gifts." But Mattathias answered and said in a loud voice: "Even if all the nations that live under the rule of the king obey him, and have chosen to do his commandments, departing each one from the religion of his fathers, yet I and my sons and my brothers will live by the cove

Today is Wednesday November 18, 2015Wednesday of the Thirty-third Week in Ordinary Time A Reading from Second Macabees 2 Mc 7:1, 20-31 It happened also that seven brothers and their mother were arrested and were being compelled by the king, under torture with whips and cords, to partake of unlawful swine's flesh. The mother was especially admirable and worthy of honorable memory. Though she saw her seven sons perish within a single day, she bore it with good courage because of her hope in the Lord. She encouraged each of them in the language of their fathers. Filled with a noble spirit, she fired her woman's reasoning with a man's courage, and said to them, "I do not know how you came into being in my womb. It was not I who gave you life and breath, nor I who set in order the elements within each of you. Therefore the Creator of the world, who shaped the beginning of man and devised the origin of all things, will in his mercy give life and breath back to you again, since you now forget yourselves for the sake

Today is Tuesday November 17, 2015Memorial of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, Religious A Reading from Second Macabees 2 Mc 6:18-31 Eleazar, one of the scribes in high position, a man now advanced in age and of noble presence, was being forced to open his mouth to eat swine's flesh. But he, welcoming death with honor rather than life with pollution, went up to the the rack of his own accord, spitting out the flesh, as men ought to go who have the courage to refuse things that it is not right to taste, even for the natural love of life. Those who were in charge of that unlawful sacrifice took the man aside, because of their long acquaintance with him, and privately urged him to bring meat of his own providing, proper for him to use, and pretend that he was eating the flesh of the sacrificial meal which had been commanded by the king, so that by doing this he might be saved from death, and be treated kindly on account of his old friendship with them. But making a high resolve, worthy of his years and the dignity o

Today is Monday November 16, 2015Monday of the Thirty-Third Week in Ordinary Time A Reading from First Macabees 1 Mc 1:10-15, 41-43, 54-57, 62-63 From them came forth a sinful root, Antiochus Epiphanes, son of Antiochus the king; he had been a hostage in Rome. He began to reign in the one hundred and thirty-seventh year of the kingdom of the Greeks. In those days lawless men came forth from Israel, and misled many, saying, "Let us go and make a covenant with the Gentiles round about us, for since we separated from them many evils have come upon us." This proposal pleased them, and some of the people eagerly went to the king. He authorized them to observe the ordinances of the Gentiles. So they built a gymnasium in Jerusalem, according to Gentile custom, and removed the marks of circumcision, and abandoned the holy covenant. They joined with the Gentiles and sold themselves to do evil. Then the king wrote to his whole kingdom that all should be one people, and that each should give up his customs. All the Gent

Today is Sunday November 15, 2015Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time A Reading from Daniel Dn 12:1-3 "At that time shall arise Michael, the great prince who has charge of your people. And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never has been since there was a nation till that time; but at that time your people shall be delivered, every one whose name shall be found written in the book. [2] And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. [3] And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever. The Word of the Lord. ==================== From Psalm 16 Ps 16:5, 8, 9-10, 11 R. (1) You are my inheritance, O Lord! O LORD, my allotted portion and my cup,you it is who hold fast my lot.I set the LORD ever before me;with him at my right hand I shall not be disturbed. R. You are my inheritance, O Lord! Therefore my heart is glad and my

Today is Saturday October 31st, 2015 - Saturday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time A reading from the letter of Paul to the RomansRomans 11: 1 – 2, 11 – 12, 25 – 291 I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the scripture says of Eli’jah, how he pleads with God against Israel? 11 So I ask, have they stumbled so as to fall? By no means! But through their trespass salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous. 12 Now if their trespass means riches for the world, and if their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion mean! 25 Lest you be wise in your own conceits, I want you to understand this mystery, brethren: a hardening has come upon part of Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles come in, 26 and so all Israel will be saved; as it is written, “The Deliverer will come from Zi

Today is Friday October 30, 2015 - Friday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time A reading from the letter of Paul to the RomansRomans 9: 1 – 51 I am speaking the truth in Christ, I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit, 2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. 3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen by race. 4 They are Israelites, and to them belong the sonship, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises; 5 to them belong the patriarchs, and of their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ. God who is over all be blessed for ever. Amen.The word of the LordFrom Psalm 147Psalms 147: 12 – 15, 19 – 20R: Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem! 12 Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem! Praise your God, O Zion! 13 For he strengthens the bars of your gates; he blesses your sons within you. Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem! 14 He makes peace in your borders; he fills you with the fine

Today is Thursday October 29th, 2015 - Thursday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time A Reading from the letter of Paul to the RomansRomans 8: 31 – 3931 What then shall we say to this? If God is for us, who is against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, will he not also give us all things with him? 33 Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies; 34 who is to condemn? Is it Christ Jesus, who died, yes, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us? 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, “For thy sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor

Today is Wednesday October 28th, 2015 - Feast of Saints Simon and Jude, Apostles A reading from the letter of Paul to the EphesiansEphesians 2: 19 – 2219 So then you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 20 built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, 21 in whom the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord; 22 in whom you also are built into it for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.The word of the Lord From Psalm 19Psalms 19: 2 – 5R: Their voice goes out through all the earth.2 Day to day pours forth speech, and night to night declares knowledge. 3 There is no speech, nor are there words; their voice is not heard;R: Their voice goes out through all the earth. 4 yet their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun, 5 which comes forth like a bridegroom leaving his

Today is Tuesday, October 27th 2015, Tuesday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary TimeA reading from the letter of Paul to the Romans Romans 8: 18 – 2518 I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. 19 For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God; 20 for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of him who subjected it in hope; 21 because the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain the glorious liberty of the children of God. 22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning in travail together until now; 23 and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. 24 For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? 25 But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience