NOTE: According to the traditional calendar, today is the Feast of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary. Zeph 3:14-18 Reading for the Feast of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary Sing aloud, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel! Rejoice and exult with all your heart, O daughter of Jerusalem! The Lord has […]
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Download PDF Mt 8:18-22 ‘When Jesus saw the crowd all about him he gave orders to leave for the other side. One of the scribes then came up and said to him, ‘Master, I will follow you wherever you go. ‘Jesus said, ‘Foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the
Download PDF Wis 1:13-15,2:23-24 For God did not make Death, he takes no pleasure in destroying the living. To exist – for this he created all things; the creatures of the world have health in them, in them is no fatal poison, and Hades has no power over the world: for uprightness is immortal. For
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Download PDF Mt 16:13-19 When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi he put this question to his disciples, ‘Who do people say the Son of man is?’ And they said, ‘Some say John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.’ ‘But you,’ he said, ‘who do you say
Download PDF 2 Tim 2:22b-26 Reading from the memorial of St. Irenaeus of Lyon My son: concentrate on uprightness, faith, love and peace, in union with all those who call on the Lord with a pure heart. Avoid these foolish and undisciplined speculations, understanding that they only give rise to quarrels; and a servant of
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Download PDF Mt 19:16-22 Reading for the memorial of Saint Emma of Gurk At that time someone came up to Jesus, saying, “Teacher, what good deed must I do, to have eternal life?” And he said to him, “Why do you ask me about what is good? One there is who is good. If you
Ps 119:33-37.40 Teach me, Yahweh,the way of your precepts,and I will observe them. Give me understandingand I will observe your Law,and keep it wholeheartedly. Guide me in the way of your commandments,for my delight is there. Bend my heart to your instructions,not to selfish gain. Avert my eyes from pointless images,by your word give me
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2 Kgs 19:9b-11,14-21,31-35a,36 Sennacherib again sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, ‘Tell Hezekiah king of Judah this, “Do not let your God on whom you are relying deceive you with the promise: Jerusalem will not fall into the king of Assyria’s clutches. You have learnt by now what the kings of Assyria have done to all
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Solemnity of the Nativity of John the Baptist Isa 49:1-6 Coasts and islands, listen to me, pay attention, distant peoples. Yahweh called me when I was in the womb, before my birth he had pronounced my name. He made my mouth like a sharp sword, he hid me in the shadow of his hand. He
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Download PDF 2 Cor 5:14-17 ‘For the love of Christ overwhelms us when we consider that if one man died for all, then all have died; his purpose in dying for all humanity was that those who live should live not any more for themselves, but for him who died and was raised to life.
