Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

World Day of the Deaf

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch. 7:31-33
Mass: Nb 11:25-29; Resp Ps 19; Jm 5:1-6; Mk 9:38-43, 5, 47-48

Whoever is not against us is for us.

Feast of Saints Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 7:24-30 
Mass: Da 7:9-10, 13-14 or Rev 12:7-12ab; Resp Ps 138; Jn 1:47-51

In the sight of the angels I will sing your praises, Lord.

Saint Wenceslaus (907-935); Saint Lawrence Ruiz and Companions (Martyred in Japan, 1633-1637)

Friday of the Twenty-Fifth Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 7:19-23
Mass: Si 3:1-11; Resp Ps 144; Lk 9:18-22

There is an appointed time for everything, and a time for every thing under the heavens.

Saint Vincent de Paul (1581-1660)

Thursday of the Twenty-Fifth Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch. 7:10-18
Mass: Si 1:2-11; Resp Ps 90; Lk 9:7-9

Prosper the work of our hands for us! Prosper the work of our hands!

Saints Cosmas and Damian

Wednesday of the Twenty-Fifth Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 7:5-9
Mass: Pr 30:5-9; Resp Ps 119; Lk 9:1-6

Your word, O Lord, is a lamp for my feet.

Tuesday of the Twenty-Fifth Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 7:1-4 Humility
Mass: Pr 21:1-6, 10-13; Resp Ps 119; Lk 8:19-21

Guide me, Lord, in the way of your commands.

Monday of the Twenty-Fifth Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 6 Cherishing Silence in the Monastery
Mass: Pr 3:27-34; Resp Ps 15; Lk 8:16-18

To the humble the Lord shows kindness.

Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 5:14-19
Mass: Ws 2:12, 17-20; Resp Ps 54; Jm 3:16-4:3; Mk 9:30-37

The Son of Man is to be handed over to men and they will kill him, and three days after his death the Son of Man will rise.

Saturday of the Twenty-Fourth Week in Ordinary Time

Blessed Virgin Mary 

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 5:1-13 Obedience
Mass: 1 Co 15:35-37, 42-49; Resp Ps 56; Lk 8:4-15

Some seed fell on good soil, and when it grew, it produced fruit a hundredfold.

Feast of Saint Matthew

The International Day of Peace

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 4:63-78
Mass: Ep 4:1-7, 11-13; Resp Ps 19; Mt 9:9-13

Follow me.

Saints Andrew Kim Tae-gŏn and Paul Chŏng Ha-sang, and Companions (Korean martyrs, late 19th century)

Readings of the Day

RB: Ch. 4:44-62
Mass: 1 Co 15:1-11; Resp Ps 118; Lk 7:36-50

Hold fast to the word I preached to you.

Saint Januarius (d. 305)

Wednesday of the Twenty-Fourth Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 4:22-43
Mass: 1 Co 12:31-13:13; Resp Ps 33; Lk 7:31-35

Love is patient, love is kind.

Tuesday of the Twenty-Fourth Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 4:1-21 The Tools For Good Works
Mass: 1 Co 12:12-14, 27-31a; Resp Ps 100; Lk 7:11-17

Now the body is not a single part, but many.

There are many benefits to living in community. One aspect of communal life which I find particularly valuable is that there is always someone who can help, or has the specific gift needed to assist. If I need something mended, there is the expert mender; if I need help cooking a particular dish, there is the one with culinary skills; if I need help with artwork, there is the artist; there is a sister who serves as infirmarian to assist with health related matters. As St Paul tells the Corinthians, Christ's Body is made of individual parts, individual people, each one made in the image and likeness of God, each who has a gift or gifts for this or that. Communities are made of prophets, teachers, administrators, gardeners, artists, chefs, musicians, seamstresses, launderers, scholars, manual laborers, linguists, ones who see the big picture and those who pay attention to details, older ones and younger ones. Indeed, 'everyone has her own gift from God, one this and another that' (1 Co 7:7). Think about those who surround you in your community, family, classroom, or work team. What are the particular gifts that God has given each one of them? Today may be a good day to go to one or two of them and affirm their gifts and be grateful for their presence. 

You must honor everyone.

(RB 4:8)

Saint Robert Bellarmine (1542-1621)

Monday of the Twenty-Fourth Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 3:7-13
Mass: 1 Co 11:17-26, 33: Resp Ps 40; Lk 7:1-10

Say the word and let my servant be healed.

Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 3:1-6 Summoning the Community for Counsel
Mass: Is 50:4c-9a; Resp Ps 116; Jm 2:14-18; Mk 8:27-35

I will walk before the Lord, in the land of the living. (Resp Ps 116)

Our Lady of Sorrows

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 2:33-40
Mass: Heb 5:7-9; Resp Ps 31 or 1 Co 10:14-22; Resp Ps 116; Stabat Mater Sequence (Optional); Jn 19:25-27 or Lk 2:33-35

Mother Do Not Mourn For Me

Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 2:30-32
Mass: Nb 21:4-9; Resp Ps 78; Ph 2:6-11; Jn 3:13-17

We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you, because by your Cross you have redeemed the world.

Saint John Chrysostom (309-407)

Thursday of the Twenty-Third Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 2:23-39
Mass: 1 Co 8:1b-7; Resp Ps 139; Lk 6:27-38

Love builds up.

Wednesday of the Twenty-Third Week in Ordinary Time

The Most Holy Name of Mary

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 2:16-22
Mass: 1 Co 7:25-31; Resp Ps 45; Lk 6:20-26

Hail Mary, full of grace. 

Tuesday of the Twenty-Third Week in Ordinary Time

17th Anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center in New York

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 2:11-15
Mass: 1 Co 6:1-11; Resp Ps 149; Lk 6:12-19

Everyone in the crowd sought to touch him because power came forth from him and healed them all.

Monday of the Twenty-Third Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 2:1-10 Gifts Needed by an Abbess
Mass: 1 Co 5:1-8; Resp Ps 5; Lk 6:6-11

Stretch out your hand. 

Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 1:6-13
Mass: Is 35:4-7a; Resp Ps 146; Jm 2:1-5; Mk 7:31-37

Be opened!

Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 1:1-5 The Kinds of Monks
Mass: Mi 5:1-4a or Rm 8:28-30; Resp Ps 13; Mt 1:1-16, 18-23

The Maria Bambina

Friday of the Twenty-First Week in Ordinary Time

First Friday of the Month

Readings of the Day
RB: Prologue 45-50
Mass: 1 Co 4:1-5; Resp Ps 37; Lk 5:33-39

The Lord will bring light to what is hidden in darkness and manifest the motives of our hearts.

Thursday of the Twenty-First Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Prologue 39-44
Mass: 1 Co 3:18-23; Resp Ps 24; Lk 5:1-11

To the Lord belongs the earth and all that fills it.

Wednesday of the Twenty-First Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Prologue 33-38
Mass: 1 Co 3:1-9; Resp Ps 33; Lk 4:38-44

I shall liken anyone who hears my words and carries them out in deed to one who is wise enough to build on a rock.

(RB Prologue 33)

Tuesday of the Twenty-First Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Prologue 21-32
Mass: 1 Co 2:10b-16; Resp Ps 145; Lk 4:31-37

Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I cry to all the day long. O Lord, you are good and forgiving, full of mercy to all who call to you. 

(Entrance Antiphon, Mass)

Pope St Gregory the Great, Doctor of the Church (540-604)

Happy Labor Day

Readings of the Day
RB: Prologue 14-20
Mass: 1 Co 2:1-5; Resp Ps 119; Lk 4:16-30

But he passed through the midst of them and went away.

Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Prologue 8-13
Mass: Dt 4:1-2, 6-8; Resp Ps 15; Jm 1:17-18, 21b-22, 27; Mk 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

Be doers of the word and not hearers only. (Jm 1:22)

Blessed Virgin Mary; First Saturday of the Month

World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation 

Readings of the Day
RB: Prologue 1-7
Mass: 1 Co 1:26-31; Resp Ps 33; Mt 25:14-30

Our Lady of Solitude