—Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross- Year C

Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross—Year C Reading I Numbers 21:4b-9With their patience worn out by the journey, the people complained against God and Moses, “Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in this desert, where there is no food or water? We are disgusted with this wretched food!” In […]
—Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C

Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time—Year C Reading I Wisdom 9:13-18aWho can know God’s counsel, or who can conceive what the LORD intends? For the deliberations of mortals are timid, and unsure are our plans. For the corruptible body burdens the soul and the earthen shelter weighs down the mind that has many concerns. And scarce […]
—Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C

Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time—Year C Reading I Sirach 3:17-18, 20, 28-29My child, conduct your affairs with humility, and you will be loved more than a giver of gifts. Humble yourself the more, the greater you are, and you will find favor with God. What is too sublime for you, seek not, into things beyond […]
—Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C

Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time—Year C Reading I Isaiah 66:18-21Thus says the LORD: I know their works and their thoughts, and I come to gather nations of every language; they shall come and see my glory. I will set a sign among them; from them I will send fugitives to the nations: to Tarshish, Put […]
—Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C

Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time—Year C Reading I Jeremiah 38:4-6, 8-10In those days, the princes said to the king: “Jeremiah ought to be put to death; he is demoralizing the soldiers who are left in this city, and all the people, by speaking such things to them; he is not interested in the welfare of […]
—Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time—Year C Reading I Wisdom 18:6-9The night of the Passover was known beforehand to our fathers, that, with sure knowledge of the oaths in which they put their faith, they might have courage. Your people awaited the salvation of the just and the destruction of their foes. For when you punished […]
—Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C

Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time—Year C Reading I Ecclesiastes 1:2; 2:21-23Vanity of vanities, says Qoheleth, vanity of vanities! All things are vanity! Here is one who has labored with wisdom and knowledge and skill, and yet to another who has not labored over it, he must leave property. This also is vanity and a great […]
—Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C

Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time—Year C Reading I Genesis 18:20-32In those days, the LORD said: “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great, and their sin so grave, that I must go down and see whether or not their actions fully correspond to the cry against them that comes to me. I mean to […]
—Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C

Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time—Year C Reading I Genesis 18:1-10aThe LORD appeared to Abraham by the terebinth of Mamre, as he sat in the entrance of his tent, while the day was growing hot. Looking up, Abraham saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he ran from the entrance of the tent to […]
—Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C

Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time—Year C Reading I Deuteronomy 30:10-14Moses said to the people: “If only you would heed the voice of the LORD, your God, and keep his commandments and statutes that are written in this book of the law, when you return to the LORD, your God, with all your heart and all […]