Saturday of the Twenty-Sixth Week in Ordinary Time

Blessed Virgin Mary

First Saturday of the Month

Readings of the Day

RB: Ch 7:44-48

Mass: Jb 42:1-3, 5-6, 12-17; Resp Ps 119; Lk 10:17-24

Lord, let your face shine on me.

HOLY MARY,

PRAY FOR US.

Welcome to the first Saturday of the month and a day dedicated to the Virgin Mary, Mother of Our Lord. We need Mary's intercession. On a day like this we turn to two beautiful prayers from Mass, first the Collect, then the Prayer over the Offerings. In the Collect, we ask the Lord that "we may rejoice in unfailing health of mind and body, and, through the glorious intercession of Blessed Mary ever-Virgin, may we be set free from present sorrow and come to enjoy eternal happiness." In the Prayer Over the Offerings, we pray to the Lord, and ask "that, through the intercession of Blessed Mary, the Mother of your Son, no petition may go unanswered, no request made in vain." 

MARY, HEALTH OF THE SICK,

PRAY FOR US.

In her is found nothing austere, nothing to terrify: Everything about her is full of sweetness ... you find everything that belongs to her full of goodness and grace, overflowing with mercy and meekness.

(Bernard of Clairvaux)

© Gertrude Feick 2020

Saturday of the Twenty-Second Week in Ordinary Time

Blessed Virgin Mary
First Saturday of the Month

Readings of the Day
RB: Prologue 33-38
Mass: 1 Cor 4:6b-15; Resp Ps 145; Lk 6:1-5

The Lord is near to all who call upon Him.

Saturday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time

Saint Alphonsus Liguori, doctor, patron of confessors and moralists (1696-1787)
First Saturday of the Month

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 50 Those Working at a Distance or Traveling
Mass: Jer 26:11-16, 24; Resp Ps 69; Mt 14:1-12

Lord, in your great love, answer me.

Saturday of the Fifth Week of Lent

First Saturday of the Month
Saint Isidore of Seville, bishop (560-636)

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 53:1-15 Reception of Guests 
Mass: Ezk 37:21-28; Resp Ps (Jer 31); Jn 11:45-56

I will turn their mourning into joy.

Saturday of the First Week of Lent

Saints Perpetua and Felicity (-203), early Christian martyrs
First Saturday of the Month

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 30 The Manner of Reproving Children
Mass: Dt 26:16-19; Resp Ps 119; Mt 5:43-48

Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord.

Saturday before Epiphany

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

Readings of the Day
RB: Prol 21-33
Mass: 1 Jn 3:7-10; Resp Ps 98; Jn 1:35-42

Let the sea and what fills it resound, the world and those who dwell in it.

Saturday of the First Week of Advent

Saint Ambrose of Milan (340?-397)
First Saturday of the Month
Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day (December 7, 1941)

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 55:1-13 Clothing and Footwear
Mass: Is 30:19-21, 23-26; Resp Ps 147; Mt 9:35-10:1; 5a, 6-8

Great is the Lord and mighty in power: to his wisdom there is no limit.

The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (All Souls' Day)

First Saturday of the Month

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

Though I walk in the valley of darkness, I fear no evil, for you are with me.

Saturday of the Twenty-Sixth Week in Ordinary Time

Saint Francis Xavier Seelos (1819-1867), German by birth, Redemptorist Priest, missionary to the United States, died in New Orleans after contracting Yellow Fever
Blessed Virgin Mary
First Saturday of the Month

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 7:51-54
Mass: Baruch 4:5-12, 27-29; Resp Ps 69; Lk 10:17-24

Let the heavens and the earth praise the Lord, the seas and whatever moves in them.

Saturday of the Twenty-Second Week in Ordinary Time

Blessed Virgin Mary
First Saturday of the Month

Readings of the Day
RB: Prol 45-50
Mass: Col 1:21-23; Resp Ps 54; Lk 6:1-5

God himself is my help.

Saturday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time

Blessed Virgin Mary; First Saturday of the Month

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 52 The Oratory of the Monastery
Mass: Lev 25:1, 8-17; Resp Ps 67; Mt 14:1-12

The earth has yielded its fruits; God, our God, has blessed us.

Saturday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time

Saint Maria Goretti (1890-1902); Blessed Virgin Mary; First Saturday of the Month

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 29 Readmission of Those Who Leave the Monastery
Mass: Gn 27:1-5, 15-29; Resp Ps 135; Mt 9:14-17

Praise the Lord, for the Lord is good; sing praise to his name, which we love.

Saturday of the Second Week of Easter

First Saturday of the Month
The English Martyrs (16th-17th century)

Readings of the Day
RB: Prologue 14-20
Mass: Acts 6:1-7; Resp Ps 33; Jn 6:16-21

Lord, let your mercy be on us, as we place our trust in you.

Blessed Virgin Mary

Saturday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time
First Saturday of the Month

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 25 Punishment for More Serious Faults
Mass: Si 17:1-15; Resp Ps 103; Mk 10:13-16

Let the children come to me; do not prevent them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

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.

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.

Blessed Virgin Mary; First Saturday of the Month

Readings of the Day
RB: Ch 50 Those Working at a Distance or Traveling
Mass: Rev 22:1-7; Resp Ps 95 (1 Co 16:22b; see Rev 22:20c); Lk 21:34-36

Beware that your hearts do not become drowsy with carousing and drunkenness and the anxieties of daily life, and that day catch you by surprise like a trap.