Feast of Saint Thomas the Apostle

First Friday of the Month

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 26 Unauthorized Association with the Excommunicated
Mass: Eph 2: 19-22; Resp Ps 117; Jn 20:24-29

Glorify the Lord, all you peoples!

Friday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time

Saint Boniface, Apostle of Germany, martyr (675?-754)
First Friday of the Month
World Environment Day

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 7:51-54
Mass: 2 Tm 3:10-17; Resp Ps 119; Mk 12;35-37

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

Friday of the First Week of Lent

First Friday of the Month

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 29 Readmission of Those Who Leave the Monastery
Mass: Ezk 18: 21-28; Resp Ps 130; Mt 5:20-26

I trust in the Lord; my soul trusts in his word.

Friday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time

Saint Mel (d. 488)
First Friday of the Month

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 7:59
Mass: Sir 47:2-11; Resp Ps 18; Mk 6:14-29

The Lord live! And blessed be my Rock!

Friday before Epiphany

The Most Holy Name of Jesus
First Friday of the Month

Readings of the Day
RB: Prol 14-20
Mass: 1 Jn 2:29-3:6; Resp Ps 98; Jn1:29-34

O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name through all the earth.

Friday of the First Week of Advent

Saint Nicholas (d. middle of 4th century)
First Friday of the Month

Readings of the Day
RB: 54 The Reception of Letters or Gifts
Mass: Is 29:17-24; Resp Ps 27; Mt 9:27-31

The Lord is my light and my salvation.

Solemnity of All Saints

First Friday of the Month

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

The Lord's are the earth and its fullness; the world and those who dwell in it.

Friday of the Twenty-Sixth Week in Ordinary Time

Saint Francis of Assisi (1181-1226)
First Friday of the Month

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 7:49-50
Mass: Baruch 1:15-22; Resp Ps 79; Lk 10:13-16

For the glory of your name, O Lord, deliver us.

Friday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time

Saint Elizabeth of Portugal (1271-1336); Saint Antony Mary Zaccaria (1502-1539)
First Friday of the Month

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 28 Those Who Refuse to Amend After Frequent Reproofs
Mass: Gn 23:1-4, 19; 24:1-8, 62-67; Resp Ps 106; Mt 9:9-13

Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good.

Friday of the Seventh Week of Easter

First Friday of the Month

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 7:56-58
Mass: Acts 25:13b-21; Resp Ps 103; Jn 21:15-19

Bless the Lord, all you his angels, you mighty in strength, who do his bidding.

Feast of Saints Philip and James

First Friday of the Month

Readings of the Day
RB: Prologue 8-13
Mass: 1 Cor 15:1-8; Resp Ps 19; Jn 14:6-14

The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims his handiwork.

Friday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time

First Friday of the Month

Readings of the Day

RB: Ch 23 Faults Which Deserve Excommunication; Ch 24 Different Degrees of Severity in Punishment

Mass: Si 6:5-17; Resp Ps 119; Mk 10:1-12

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

Reflecting on the first line from today's passage from the Book of Sirach, 'A kind mouth multiplies friends and appeases enemies, and gracious lips prompt friendly greetings', I pray with the following intercessions:

O God, be merciful to me, a sinner. 

For words and deeds of impatience and anger:

-pardon us, O Lord!

For words and deeds of selfish grasping:

-pardon us, O Lord!

For words and deeds of unkindness:

-pardon us, O Lord!

For those sins of which we are most ashamed:

-pardon us, O Lord

(Magnificat, Prayer for the Morning, Intercessions, March 1, 2019)

In order to pray well, we need to have the heart of a child.

(Pope Francis, Twitter, March 1, 2019)

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.

Saint Ambrose (337-397); First Friday of the Month

Friday of the First Week of Advent
National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 55:1-14 Clothing and Footwear for the Community
Mass: Is 29:17-24; Resp Ps 27: Mt 9:27-31

The Lord is my light and my salvation.