Daily Catholic Mass Readings for Saturday 20 August 2011
Ruth 2: 1 – 3, 8 – 11; 4: 13 – 17 1 Now Na’omi had a kinsman of her husband’s, a man of wealth, of the family of Elim’elech, whose name was Bo’az. 2 And Ruth the Moabitess said to Na’omi, “Let me go to the field, and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall find favor.” And she said to her, “Go, my daughter.” 3 So she set forth and went and gleaned in the field after the reapers; and she happened to come to the part of the field belonging to Bo’az, who was of the family of Elim’elech. 8 Then Bo’az said to Ruth, “Now, listen, my daughter, do not go to glean in another field or leave this one, but keep close to my maidens
Daily Catholic Mass Readings for Friday 19 August 2011
Ruth 1: 1, 3 – 6, 14 – 16, 22 1 In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land, and a certain man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons. 3 But Elim’elech, the husband of Na’omi, died, and she was left with her two sons
Daily Catholic Mass Readings for Thursday 18 August 2011
Judges 11: 29 – 39 29 Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed through Gilead and Manas’seh, and passed on to Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed on to the Ammonites. 30 And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD, and said, “If thou wilt give the Ammonites into my hand, 31 then whoever comes forth from the doors of my house to meet me, when I return victorious from the Ammonites, shall be the LORD’s, and I will offer him up for a burnt offering.” 32 So Jephthah crossed over to the Ammonites to fight against them; and the LORD gave them into his hand. 33 And he smote them from Aro’er to the neighborhood of Minnith, twenty cities, and as far as Abel-keramim, with a very great slaughter.
Daily Catholic Mass Readings for Wednesday 17 August 2011
Judges 9: 6 – 15 6 And all the citizens of Shechem came together, and all Beth-millo, and they went and made Abim’elech king, by the oak of the pillar at Shechem.
Daily Catholic Mass Readings for Tuesday 16 August 2011
Judges 6: 11 – 24 11 Now the angel of the LORD came and sat under the oak at Ophrah, which belonged to Jo’ash the Abiez’rite, as his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press, to hide it from the Mid’ianites. 12 And the angel of the LORD appeared to him and said to him, “The LORD is with you, you mighty man of valor.” 13 And Gideon said to him, “Pray, sir, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this befallen us