Feast of Saint Andrew, one of the Twelve, Patron Saint of Scotland, Romania, Greece, Russia, Ukraine, and Poland; and the Patron Saint of Fishermen!

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 49 The Observance of Lent
Mass: Rm 10:9-18; Resp Ps 19; Mt 4:18-22

If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Thursday of the Thirty-Fourth, or Last, Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 48:22-25
Mass: Rev 18:1-2, 21-23; 19:1-3, 9a; Resp Ps 100 (Rev 19:9a); Lk 21:20-28

Stand erect and raise your heads because your redemption is at hand. 

Wednesday of the Thirty-Fourth, or Last, Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 48:10-21
Mass: Rev 15:1-4; Resp Ps 98; Lk 21:12-19

Let the rivers clap their hands, and the mountains shout with them for joy.

Tuesday of the Thirty-Fourth, or Last, Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: 48:1-9 The Daily Manual Labor
Mass: Rev 14:14-19; Resp Ps 96; Lk 21:5-11

Let the plains be joyful and all that is in them! Then all the trees of the forest exult.

Monday of the Thirty-Fourth, or Last, Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 47 Announcing the Hours for the Work of God
Mass: Rev 14:1-3, 4b-5; Resp Ps 24; Lk 21:1-4

The Lord's are the earth and its fullness.

Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 46 Faults Committed Elsewhere
Mass: Da 7:13-14; Resp Ps 93; Rev 1:5-8; Jn 18:33b-37

Behold, he is coming amid the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him.

Saint Andrew Dũng-Lac and Companions (Vietnamese, Spanish, French martyrs of 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries)

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 45 Mistakes in the Oratory
Mass: Rev 11:4-12; Resp Ps 144; Lk 20:27-40

May we never boast, except in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. For the word of the Cross is the power of God to us who have been saved.

Blessed Miguel Agustín Pro (1891-1927); Pope Saint Clement I (fourth Bishop of Rome after Peter, Linus, and Cletus; end of 1st century); Saint Columbanus (540-615)

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 44 The Reconciliation of Those Excommunicated
Mass: Rev 10:8-11; Resp Ps 119; Lk 19:45-48

My house shall be a house of prayer.

Thanksgiving Day; Saint Cecilia (early Christian martyr)

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 43:13-19
Mass: 
For Thanksgiving Day: Si 50:22-24; 1 Co 1:3-9; Lk 17:11-19
For Ferial Day: Rev 5:1-10; Resp Ps 149; Lk 19:41-44

And now, bless the God of all, who has done wondrous things on earth.

The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

World Day of Cloistered Life, or Pro Orantibus Day - the Day for Those Who Pray

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 43:1-12 Tardiness at the Work of God or at Table
Mass: 
For Feast: Si 24:17-21; Resp Ps (Is 61:10/Lk 1:46-48, 49-50, 53-54); Lk 1:26-38
For Ferial Day: Rev 4:1-11; Resp Ps 150; Lk 19:11-28

I bud forth delights like a vine, my blossoms become fruit fair and rich.

Tuesday of the Thirty-Third Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 42 The Great Silence After Compline
Mass: Rev 3:1-6, 14-22; Resp Ps 15; Lk 19:1-10

Behold, I stand at the door and knock.

Saint Mechtilde of Hackeborn (1241-1298)

Monday of the Thirty-Third Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day:
RB: Ch 41 The Times for Community Meals
Mass: Rev 1:1-4; 2:1-5; Resp Ps 1; Lk 18:35-43

To be near God is my happiness, to place my hope in God the Lord.

Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

World Day of the Poor
In other years: The Dedication of the Basilicas of Saints Peter and Paul

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 40 The Proper Amount of Drink
Mass: Da 12:1-3; Resp Ps 16; Heb 10:11-14, 18; Mk 13:24-32

Learn a lesson from the fig tree. When its branch becomes tender and sprouts leaves, you know that summer is near.

Saint Elizabeth of Hungary (1207-1231); Saint Hilda of Whitby (614-680)

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 39 The Proper Amount of Food  
Mass: 3 Jn 5-8; Resp Ps 112; Lk 18:1-8

Pray always without becoming weary.

Saint Gertrude the Great of Helfta (1256-1301); Saint Margaret of Scotland (1045-1093)

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 38 The Weekly Reader
Mass: 
For Solemnity of St Gertrude: Sg 8:1-4 or 6-7; Resp Ps 23; Ep 3:14-19; Jn 15:1-8
For Ferial Day: 2 Jn 4-9; Resp Ps 119; Lk 17:26-37

Set me as a seal on your heart; as a seal on your arm.

Saint Albert the Great, Doctor of the Church (1206-1280)

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 37 Care for the Elderly and the Young
Mass: Phm 7-20; Resp Ps 146; Lk 17:20-25

Refresh my heart in Christ

Wednesday of the Thirty-Second Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 36 Care of the Sick
Mass: Tt 3:1-7; Resp Ps 23; Lk 17:11-19

In all circumstances, give thanks, for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus.

Feast of All Saints of the Benedictine Family; Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850-1917)

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 35:12-18

Mass:
For Feast: Is 61:9-11; Resp Ps 88; Jn 15:1-8
For Ferial Day: Tt 2:1-8, 11-14; Resp Ps 37; Lk17:7-10

Listen carefully to the master's instructions, and attend to them with the of your heart.

Saint Josaphat (1580-1623)

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 35:1-11
Mass: Tt 1:1-9; Resp Ps 24; Lk 17:1-6

Whoever loses his life for my sake, will find it in eternity, says the Lord.

Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

Remembrance Day/Armistice Day (Poppy Day)
100th Anniversary of the End of World War I

In other years: St Martin of Tours (316-397)

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 34 Distribution of Goods According to Need
Mass: 1 K 17:10-16; Resp Ps 146; Heb 9:24-28; Mk 12:38-44

They have all contributed from their surplus wealth, but she, from her poverty, has contributed all she had, her whole livelihood.

Pope Saint Leo the Great, Doctor of the Church (d. 461)

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 33 Personal Possessions in the Monastery
Mass: Ph 4:10-19; Resp Ps 112; Lk 16:9-15

I have the strength for everything through him who empowers me.

Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 32 The Tools and Goods of the Monastery
Mass: Ezk 47:1-2, 8-9, 12; Resp Ps 46; 1 Co 3:9c-11, 16-17; Jn 2:13-22

The waters of the river gladden the city of God, the holy dwelling of the Most High!

Thursday of the Thirty-First Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 31:13-19
Mass: Ph 3:3-8a; Resp Ps 105; Lk 15:1-10

Let hearts rejoice who search for the Lord.

Wednesday of the Thirty-First Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 31:1-12 The Qualities of the Cellarer
Mass: Ph 2:12-18; Resp Ps 27; Lk 14:25-33

Everyone of you who does not renounce all his possessions cannot be my disciple.

Tuesday of the Thirty-First Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 30 The Correction of Young Children
Mass: Ph 2:5-11; Resp Ps 22; Lk 14:15-24

Have among yourselves the same attitude that is also yours in Christ Jesus.

Monday of the Thirty-First Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 29 The Readmission of Any Who Leave the Monastery
Mass: Ph 2:1-4; Resp Ps 131; Lk 14:12-14

Do not invite your friends or your brothers or sisters or your relatives or your wealthy neighbors. 

Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time

National Vocations Week

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 28 The Treatment of Those Who Relapse
Mass: Dt 6:2-6; Resp Ps 18; Heb 7:23-28; Mk 12:28b-34

He is the One and there is no other than he.

Saint Martin de Porres (1579-1639); Blessed Virgin Mary; First Saturday of the Month

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 27 The Abbess's Concern for the Excommunicated
Mass: Ph 1:18b-26; Resp Ps 42; Lk 14:1, 7-11

Life is Christ

The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (All Souls' Day); First Friday of the Month

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 26 Unauthorized Association with the Excommunicated
Mass: Ws 3:1-9; Resp Ps 23; Rm 5:5-11 or Rm 6:3-9; Jn 6:37-40

This is the will of my Father, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him may have eternal life, and I shall raise him on the last day.

Solemnity of All Saints

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 25 Serious Faults
Mass: Rev 7:2-4, 9-14; Resp Ps 24;  1 Jn 3:1-3; Mt 5:1-12a

After this I had a vision of a great multitude, which no one could count, from every nation, race, people, and tongue. They stood before the throne and before the Lamb, wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands.