Daily mass readings: Thursday after Ash Wednesday Reading 1 : Dt 30:15-20 Moses said to the people:“Today I have set before youlife and prosperity, death and doom.If you obey the commandments of the LORD, your God,which I enjoin on you today,loving him, and walking in his ways,and keeping his commandments, statutes and decrees,you will live…

Mass readings : Ash Wednesday If the blessing and distribution of ashes take place outside Mass, it is appropriate that the Liturgy of the Word precede it, using texts assigned to the Mass of Ash Wednesday. Reading 1 : Jl 2:12-18 Even now, says the LORD,return to me with your whole heart,with fasting, and weeping, and…

Daily mass readings : Tuesday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time Reading 1 : Jas 1:12-18 Blessed is he who perseveres in temptation,for when he has been proven he will receive the crown of lifethat he promised to those who love him.No one experiencing temptation should say,“I am being tempted by God”;for God is…

Daily mass readings : Monday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time Reading 1 : Jas 1:1-11 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,to the twelve tribes in the dispersion, greetings. Consider it all joy, my brothers and sisters,when you encounter various trials,for you know that the testing of your faith…

Daily mass readings : Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Reading I : Lv 13:1-2, 44-46 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,“If someone has on his skin a scab or pustule or blotchwhich appears to be the sore of leprosy,he shall be brought to Aaron, the priest,or to one of the priests among his descendants.If…

Daily mass readings :Memorial of Saint Scholastica, Virgin Reading 1 : 1 Kgs 12:26-32; 13:33-34 Jeroboam thought to himself:“The kingdom will return to David’s house.If now this people go up to offer sacrificesin the temple of the LORD in Jerusalem,the hearts of this people will return to their master,Rehoboam, king of Judah,and they will kill…

Daily mass readings : Friday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time Reading 1 : 1 kgs 11:29-32; 12:19 Jeroboam left Jerusalem,and the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite met him on the road.The two were alone in the area,and the prophet was wearing a new cloak.Ahijah took off his new cloak,tore it into twelve pieces, and…