Liturgical Readings for : Sunday, 11th August, 2024 The Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B The living bread come down from heaven is the flesh of Christ given up for the life of the world.The sacrifice of Christ on the Cross gives life.In the strength of the bread of the Eucharist we can find the food for our pilgrim journey to the kingdom. FIRST…
Liturgical Readings for : Saturday, 10th August, 2024 10-08 – St Laurence, deacon and martyr FIRST READING A reading from the second letter of St Paul to the Corinthians 9.6-10 God loves a cheerful giver. Thin sowing means thin reaping; the more you sow, the more you reap. Each one should give what he has decided in his…
Liturgical Readings for : Friday, 9th August, 2024 08-09 St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein) FIRST READING A reading from the book of the Prophet Hosea 2:16-17, 21-22.Hosea’s love was a human example of God’s ever-faithful love. She will return my love. That is why I am going to lure her and lead…
Liturgical Readings for : Thursday, 8th August, 2024 Thursday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time, Cycle 2Memorial of St Dominic, religious, priest FIRST READING A reading from the book of the Prophet Jeremiah 31:31-34 I will make a new covenant and never call their sin to mind. See, the days are coming – it is the Lord who speaks– when I will…
Liturgical Readings for : Wednesday, 7th August, 2024 Wednesday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time, Cycle 2 Optional memorials of Ss Sixtus II, pope and Companions, martyrs and St Cajetan, priest FIRST READING A reading from the book of the Prophet Jeremiah 31.:1-7I have loved you with an everlasting love. I will be the God of all the clans of Israel: – they shall be my…
Liturgical Readings for : Tuesday, 6th August, 2024 FIRST READING A reading from the book of the Prophet Daniel 7:9-10.13-14His robe was white as snow. As I watched:Thrones were set in place and one of great age took his seat. His robe was white as snow, the hair of his head as pure as wool.His throne…
Liturgical Readings for : Monday, 5th August, 2024 Monday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time, Cycle 2 Optional memorial of the Dedication of the Basilica of St Mary Major, Rome,(The first Church in the West named in honour of the Mother of God) FIRST READING A reading from the book of the Prophet Jeremiah …
Liturgical Readings for : Sunday, 4th August, 2024 Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle BLike the manna in the desert, bread in plenty for the crowds is seen as a sign of the coming of the kingdom and of the heavenly banquet in the end times. The actions of Jesus in the desert are described in the same way…
Liturgical Readings for : Saturday, 3rd August, 2024 Saturday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time FIRST READING A reading from the book of the Prophet Jeremiah 26:11-16, 24The Lord himself sent me to say all the things you have heard. The priests and prophets then addressed the officials and all the people,‘This man deserves…
Liturgical Readings for : Friday, 2nd August, 2024 Friday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time Optional memorials of Ss Eusebius of Vercelli, bishopand Peter Julian Eymard, priest FIRST READING A reading from the book of the Prophet Jeremiah 26:1-9.The people were all crowding round in the Temple of the Lord. At the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim…
