—The Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C

Reading I Habakkuk 1:2-3; 2:2-4How long, O LORD? I cry for help but you do not listen! I cry out to you, “Violence!” but you do not intervene. Why do you let me see ruin; why must I look at misery? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and clamorous discord. Then the […]

—The Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time- Year C

The Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time—Year C Reading I Amos 6:1a, 4-7Thus says the LORD the God of hosts: Woe to the complacent in Zion! Lying upon beds of ivory, stretched comfortably on their couches, they eat lambs taken from the flock, and calves from the stall! Improvising to the music of the harp, like […]

—The Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time- Year C

The Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time—Year C Reading I Amos 8:4-7Hear this, you who trample upon the needy and destroy the poor of the land! “When will the new moon be over,” you ask, “that we may sell our grain, and the sabbath, that we may display the wheat? We will diminish the ephah, add […]

—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 […]