Saint John Bosco (1815-1888)

Thursday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 7:34
Mass: Heb 10:19-25; Resp Ps 24; Mk 4:21-25

We must consider how to rouse one another to love and good works.

Wednesday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 7:31-33
Mass: Heb 10:11-18; Resp Ps 110; Mk 4:1-20

Those sown on rich soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit thirty and sixty and a hundredfold.

Tuesday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 7:24-30
Mass: Heb 10:1-10; Resp Ps 40; Mk 3:31-35

Look towards God and be radiant; let your faces not be abashed.

Saint Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Church (1225-1274)

Monday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 7:19-23
Mass: Heb 9:15, 24-28; Resp Ps 98; Mk 3:22-30

Sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous deeds. 

Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 7:10-18
Mass: Ne 8:2-4a, 5-6, 8-10; Resp Ps 19; 1 Co 12:12-30; Lk 1:1-4; 4:14-21

You are Christ's body, and individually parts of it.

Saints Alberic, Robert, and Stephen, Abbots of Citeaux, Founders of the Cisterician Order

Saints Timothy and Titus, collaborators with Saint Paul

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 7:5-9
Mass: 2 Tm 1:1-8 or Tt 1:1-5; Resp Ps 96; Lk 10:1-9 or Mk 3:20-21

Proclaim God's marvelous deeds to all the nations.

Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul the Apostle

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 7:1-4 Humility
Mass: Ac 22:3-16 or Ac 9:1-22; Resp Ps 117 (Mk 16:15); Mk 16:15-18

A light from the sky suddenly flashed around him.

Saint Francis de Sales, Bishop, Doctor of the Church (1567-1622)

Thursday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time
International Day of Education

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 6 Restraint of Speech
Mass: Heb 7:25-8:6; Resp Ps 40; Mk 3:7-12

Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will.

Wednesday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time

Saint Marianne Cope (1838-1918); Saint Vincent, deacon, martyr (-304)

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 5:14-19
Mass: Heb 7:1-3, 15-17; Resp Ps 110; Mk 3:1-6

Yours is princely power in the day of your birth, in holy splendor; before the daystar, like the dew, I have begotten you.

Tuesday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time

Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 5:1-13 Obedience
Mass: Heb 6:10-20; Resp Ps 111; Mk 2:23-28

With you, O Lord, is the fountain of life, and in your light, we see light.

Saint Agnes, martyr (d. ca.304)

Monday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 4:63-78
Mass: Heb 5:1-10; Resp Ps 110; Mk 2:18-22

The word of God is living and effective, able to discern reflections and thoughts of the heart.

Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 4:44-62
Mass: Is 62:1-5; Resp Ps 96; 1 Co 12:4-11; Jn 2:1-11

Fill the jars with water.

Saturday of the First Week in Ordinary Time

Blessed Virgin Mary

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 4:22-43
Mass: Heb 4:12-16; Resp Ps 19; Mk 2:13-17

Blessed is the womb of the Virgin Mary, which bore the Son of the eternal Father.

Friday of the First Week in Ordinary Time

Beginning of the Octave of Prayer for Christian Unity

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch RB 4:1-21 The Tools for Good Works
Mass: Heb 4:1-5, 11; Resp Ps 78; Mk 2:1-12

Do not forget the works of the Lord.

Saint Antony, Abbot (251-356)

Thursday of the First Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 3:7-13
Mass: Heb 3:7-14; Resp Ps 95; Mk 1:40-45

If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

Wednesday of the First Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 3:1-6 Calling the Community for Counsel
Mass; Heb 2:14-18; Resp Ps 105; Mk 1:29-39

He left and went off to a deserted place, where he prayed.

Tuesday of the First Week in Ordinary Time

Saints Maur and Placid, disciples of St Benedict

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 2:33-40
Mass: Heb 2:5-12; Resp Ps 8; Mk 1:21-28

Receive the word of God, not as the word of men, but as it truly is, the word of God.

Monday of the First Week of Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 2:30-32
Mass: Heb 1:1-6; Resp Ps 97; Mk 1:14-20

Let all his angels worship him.

The Baptism of the Lord

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 2:23-29
Mass: Is 42:1-4, 6-7; Resp Ps 29; Ac 10:34-38 or, in Year C, Is 40:1-5, 9-11; Resp Ps 104; Tt 2:11-14; 3:4-7; Lk 3:15-16, 21-22

Comfort, give comfort to my people, says your God.

Saturday after Epiphany

St Aelred of Rievaulx (1110-1167)

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 2:16-22
Mass: 1 Jn 5:14-21; Resp Ps 149; Jn 3:22-30

He must increase; I must decrease.

Friday after Epiphany

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 2:11-15
Mass: 1 Jn 5:5-13; Resp Ps 147; Lk 5:12-16

He would withdraw to deserted places to pray.

Thursday after Epiphany

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 2:1-10 The Qualities of the Abbess
Mass: 1 Jn 4:19-5:4; Resp Ps 72; Lk 4:14-22

In this way we know that we love the children of God when we love God and obey his commandments.

Wednesday after Epiphany

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 1:6-13
Mass: 1 Jn 4:11-18; Resp Ps 72; Mk 6:45-52

A people who walked in darkness has seen a great light; for those dwelling in a land of deep  gloom, a light has shone.

Tuesday after Epiphany

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 1:1-5 The Kinds of Monks
Mass: 1 Jn 4:7-10; Resp Ps 72; Mk 6:34-44

Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God.

Saint Raymond of Peñafort (1175-1275)

Monday after Epiphany

Readings of the Day
RB: Prologue 45-50
Mass: 1 Jn 3:22-4:6; Resp Ps 2; Mt 4:12-17, 23-25

We should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another just as he commanded us.

The Epiphany of the Lord

Readings of the Day
RB: Prologue 39-44
Mass: Is 60:1-6; Resp Ps 72; Ep 3:2-3a, 5-6; Mt 2:1-12

All from Sheba shall come bearing gold and frankincense, and proclaiming the praises of the Lord.

Saint John Neumann (1811-1860); First Saturday of the Month

Saturday before Epiphany

Readings of the Day
RB: Prologue 33-38
Mass: 1 Jn 3:11-21; Resp Ps 100; Jn 1:43-51

Children, let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth.

Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774-1821); First Friday of the Month

Friday before Epiphany

Readings of the Day
RB: Prologue 21-32
Mass: 1 Jn 3:7-10; Resp Ps 98; Jn 1:35-42

Behold a wise woman who has built her house. She feared the Lord and walked in the right path.

Thursday before Epiphany

The Most Holy Name of Jesus

Readings of the Day
RB: Prologue 14-20
Mass: 1 Jn 2:29-3:6; Resp Ps 98; Jn 1:29-34

See what love the Father has bestowed on us that we may be called children of God.

Saint Basil the Great (330-379) and Saint Gregory Nazianzen (330-389)

Readings of the Day
RB: Prologue 8-13
Mass: 1 Jn 2:22-28; Resp Ps 98; Jn 1:19-28

All the ends of the earth have seen the saving power of God.

Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God

52nd World Day of Peace

Readings of the Day
RB: Prologue 1-7
Mass: Nb 6:22-27; Resp Ps 67; Ga 4:4-7; Lk 2:16-21

Hail, Holy Mother, who gave birth to the King who rules heaven and earth forever.