Daily mass readings : Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent Reading 1 : Ez 47:1-9, 12 The angel brought me, Ezekiel,back to the entrance of the temple of the LORD,and I saw water flowing outfrom beneath the threshold of the temple toward the east,for the façade of the temple was toward the east;the water…

Daily mass readings: Monday of the Fourth Week of Lent Reading 1 : Is 65:17-21 Thus says the LORD:Lo, I am about to create new heavensand a new earth;The things of the past shall not be rememberedor come to mind.Instead, there shall always be rejoicing and happinessin what I create;For I create Jerusalem to be…

St. Bernardine of Siena In the year 1400, a young man came to the door of the largest hospital in Siena. A plague was raging through the city so horrible that as many as twenty people died each day just in the hospital alone. And many of the people who died were those who were…

Daily mass readings: 4th Sunday of Lent Reading I : 2 Chr 36:14-16, 19-23 In those days, all the princes of Judah, the priests, and the peopleadded infidelity to infidelity,practicing all the abominations of the nationsand polluting the LORD’s templewhich he had consecrated in Jerusalem. Early and often did the LORD, the God of their…

Daily mass readings : Saturday of the Third Week of Lent Reading 1 : Hos 6:1-6 “Come, let us return to the LORD,it is he who has rent, but he will heal us;he has struck us, but he will bind our wounds.He will revive us after two days;on the third day he will raise us…

Daily mass readings: Friday of the Third Week of Lent Reading 1 : Hos 14:2-10 Thus says the LORD:Return, O Israel, to the LORD, your God;you have collapsed through your guilt.Take with you words,and return to the LORD;Say to him, “Forgive all iniquity,and receive what is good, that we may renderas offerings the bullocks from…

Daily mass readings: Thursday of the Third Week of Lent Reading 1 : Jer 7:23-28 Thus says the LORD:This is what I commanded my people:Listen to my voice;then I will be your God and you shall be my people.Walk in all the ways that I command you,so that you may prosper. But they obeyed not,…