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.