First Sunday of Advent
1st Reading – Isaiah 2:1-5
This is what Isaiah, son of Amoz, saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
In days to come, the mountain of the LORD’s house shall be established as the...
1st Reading – 2 Samuel 5:1-3
In those days, all the tribes of Israel came to David in Hebron and said:
“Here we are, your bone and your flesh.
In days past, when Saul was our king, it was you who led...
Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
1st Reading – 2 Maccabees 7:1-2, 9-14
It happened that seven brothers with their mother were arrested and tortured with whips and scourges by the king, to force...
Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time
1st Reading – Wisdom 11:22-12:2
Before the LORD the whole universe is as a grain from a balance or a drop of morning dew come down upon the earth.
But you have...
Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
1st Reading – Sirach 35:15BC-17, 20-22AB
The LORD is a God of justice, who knows no favorites.
Though not unduly partial toward the weak, yet he hears the cry of the...
Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time
1st Reading – Exodus 17:8-13
In those days, Amalek came and waged war against Israel.
Moses, therefore, said to Joshua, “Pick out certain men, and tomorrow go out...
Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
1st Reading – Habakkuk 1:2-3; 2:2-4
How long, O LORD? I cry for help but you do not listen! I cry out to you, “Violence!” but you do not intervene.
Why do you...
Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
1st Reading – Amos 8:4-7
Hear this, you who trample upon the needy and destroy the poor of the land!
“When will the new moon be over,” you ask, “that we may sell...
Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
1st Reading – Wisdom 9:13-18B
Who can know God’s counsel, or who can conceive what the LORD intends?
For the deliberations of mortals are timid, and unsure are...
Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Reading 1 | Jer 38:4-6, 8-10
In those days, the princes said to the king: “Jeremiah ought to be put to death; he is demoralizing the soldiers who are left in this...