Thursday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 22 Sleeping Arrangements for the Community
Mass: Si 5:1-8; Resp Ps 1; Mk 9:41-50

Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.

Wednesday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 21 The Deans of the Monastery
Mass: Si 4:11-19; Resp Ps 119; Mk 9:38-40

O Lord, great peace have they who love your law.

Tuesday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 20 Reverence in Prayer 
Mass: Si 2:1-11; Resp Ps 37; Mk 9:30-37

Whoever receives one child such as this in my name, receives me; and whoever receives me, receives not me but the One who sent me. 

Monday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 19 Our Approach to Prayer
Mass: Si 1:1-10; Resp Ps 93; Mk 9:14-29

The sand of the seashore, the drops of rain, the days of eternity; who can number these?

Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 18:20-25
Mass: 1 S 26:2, 7-9, 12-13, 22-23; Resp Ps 103; 1 Co 15:45-49; Lk 6:27-38

I give you a new commandment, says the Lord: love one another as I have loved you.

Saint Polycarp, bishop and martyr (2nd century)

Saturday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 18:12-19
Mass: Heb 11:1-7; Resp Ps 145; Mk 9:2-13

Whoever wishes to come after me, must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me, says the Lord.

Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter the Apostle

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 18:7-12
Mass: 1 Pt 5:1-4; Resp Ps 23; Mt 16:13-19

You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.

Saint Peter Damian, Bishop, Doctor (1007-1072)

Thursday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 18:1-6 The Order for Reciting the Psalms
Mass: Gn 9:1-13; Resp Ps 102; Mk 8:27-33

From heaven the Lord looks down on the earth.

Wednesday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 17 The Number of Psalms to be Sung at the Hours
Mass: Gn 8:6-13, 20-22; Resp Ps 116; Mk 8:22-26

I see people looking like trees and walking.

Tuesday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 16 The Hours of the Work of God During the Day
Mass: GN 6:5-8, 7:1-5, 10; Resp Ps 29; Mk 8:14-21

The waters of the flood came upon the earth.

Monday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 15 When the Alleluia Should Be Said
Mass: Gn 4:1-15, 25; Resp Ps 50; Mk 8:11-13

Am I my brother's keeper?

Sunday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time

In other years: The Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order (13th-14th century)

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 14 The Celebrations of Vigils on Feasts of Saints
Mass: Jr 17:5-8; Resp Ps 1; 1 Co 15:12, 16-20; Lk 6:17, 20-26

He is like a tree planted beside the waters that stretches its roots to the stream.

Saturday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time

Blessed Virgin Mary

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 13:12-14
Mass: Gn 3:9-24; Resp Ps 90; Mk 8:1-10

Then the Lord said to the serpent: On your belly shall you crawl, and dirt shall you eat all the days of your life.

Friday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 13:1-11 Lauds on Ordinary Days
Mass: Gn 3:1-8; Resp Ps 32; Mk 7:31-37

So they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves.

Saints Cyril, monk, and Methodius, bishop (9th century)

Thursday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time
Happy Valentine's Day

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 12 The Celebration of Solemn Lauds
Mass: Gn 2:18-25; Resp Ps 128; Mk 7:24-30

Humbly welcome the word that has been planted in you and is able to save your souls.

Wednesday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 11 Vigils or Night Office on Sunday
Mass: Gn 2:4b-9, 15-17; Resp Ps 104; Mk 7:14-23

A stream was welling up out of the earth and was watering all the surface of the earth.

Tuesday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time

Blessed Humbeline (d. 1135), abbess, sister of Bernard of Clairvaux

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 10 The Night Office in Summertime
Mass: Gn 1:20-2:4a; Resp Ps 8; Mk 7:1-13

See, I give you every seed-bearing plant all over the earth to be your food.

Our Lady of Lourdes

Monday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time
World Day of the Sick

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 9 The Number of Psalms at the Night Office
Mass: Gn 1:1-19; Resp Ps 104; Mk 6:53-56

God called the dome 'the sky'.

Sunday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time

In other years: Saint Scholastica (480-547), twin sister of Saint Benedict

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 8 The Divine Office at Night
Mass: Is 6:1-2a, 3-8; Resp Ps 138; Resp 1Co 15:1-11; Lk 5:1-11

For astonishment at the catch of fish they had made seized him and all those with him, and likewise James and John.

Blessed Virgin Mary

Saturday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 7:62-70
Mass: Heb 13:15-17, 20-21; Resp Ps 23; Mk 6:30-34

Through Jesus, let us continually offer God a sacrifice of praise.

Saint Josephine Bakhita (1869-1947); Saint Jerome Emiliani (1486-1537)

Friday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time
World Day of Prayer and Reflection Against Human Trafficking

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 7:60-61
Mass: Heb 13:1-8; Resp Ps 27; Mk 6:14-29

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Thursday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 7:59
Mass: Heb 12:18-19, 21-24; Resp Ps 48; Mk 6:7-13

O God, we ponder your mercy within your temple.

Saint Paul Miki and Companions, martyrs (1564/6-1597)

Wednesday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 7:56-58
Mass: Heb 12:4-7, 11-15; Resp Ps 103; Mk 6:1-6

Strive for peace with everyone, and for that holiness without which no one will see the Lord.

Saint Agatha, 3rd century martyr

Tuesday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 7:55
Mass: Heb 12:1-5; Resp Ps 22; Mk 5:21-43

Do not be afraid.

Monday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 7:51-54
Mass: Heb 11:32-40; Resp Ps 31; Mk 5:1-20

Let your hearts take comfort, all who hope in the Lord.

Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 7:49-50
Mass: Jr 1:4-5, 17-17; Resp Ps 71; 1 Co 12:31-13:13; Lk 4:21-30

But the greatest of these is love.

Feast of the Presentation of the Lord

First Saturday of the Month

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 7:44-48
Mass: Ml 3:1-4; Resp Ps 24; Heb 2:14-18; Lk 2:22-40

He took him into his arms and blessed God.

Friday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time

First Friday of the Month

Readings of the Day

RB: Ch 7:35-43
Mass: Heb 10:32-39; Resp Ps 37; Mk 4:26-34

But once it is sown, it springs up and becomes the largest of plants so that the bird of the sky can dwell in its shade.