Daily Catholic Mass Readings for Saturday 24 September 2011
Zechariah 2: 5 – 9, 14 – 15 5 For I will be to her a wall of fire round about, says the LORD, and I will be the glory within her.’” 6 Ho! ho! Flee from the land of the north, says the LORD; for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heavens, says the LORD. 7 Ho! Escape to Zion, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon. 8 For thus said the LORD of hosts, after his glory sent me to the nations who plundered you, for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye: 9 “Behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they shall become plunder for those who served them
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 Sunday 14 August 2011
Isaiah 56: 1, 6 – 7 1 Thus says the LORD: “Keep justice, and do righteousness, for soon my salvation will come, and my deliverance be revealed. 6 “And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD, to minister to him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be his servants, every one who keeps the sabbath, and does not profane it, and holds fast my covenant — 7 these I will bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples. Psalms 67: 2 – 3, 5 – 6, 8 2 that thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving power among all nations.
Daily Catholic Mass Readings for Friday 22 July 2011
Exodus 20: 1 – 17 1 And God spoke all these words, saying, 2 “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.