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 Tuesday 06 September 2011

Colossians 2: 6 – 15 6 As therefore you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so live in him, 7 rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. 8 See to it that no one makes a prey of you by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the universe, and not according to Christ

Daily Catholic Mass Readings for Saturday 03 September 2011

Colossians 1: 21 – 23 21 And you, who once were estranged and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, 22 he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and irreproachable before him, 23 provided that you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which has been preached to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister. Psalms 54: 3 – 4, 6, 8 3 For insolent men have risen against me, ruthless men seek my life; they do not set God before them. 4 Behold, God is my helper; the Lord is the upholder of my life

Daily Catholic Mass Readings for Friday 02 September 2011

Colossians 1: 15 – 20 15 He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation; 16 for in him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or authorities — all things were created through him and for him. 17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18 He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that in everything he might be pre-eminent