Daily Catholic Mass Readings for Thursday 17 March 2011

Esther C:12, 14-16, 23-25 12 Queen Esther, seized with mortal anguish, likewise had recourse to the Lord. 14 Then she prayed to the Lord, the God of Israel, saying: “My Lord, our King, you alone are God. Help me, who am alone and have no help but you, 15 for I am taking my life in my hand

Daily Catholic Mass Readings for Saturday 12 March 2011

Isaiah 58: 9 – 14 9 Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer; you shall cry, and he will say, Here I am. “If you take away from the midst of you the yoke, the pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness, 10 if you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday. 11 And the LORD will guide you continually, and satisfy your desire with good things, and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.

Daily Catholic Mass Readings for Monday 07 March 2011

Tobit 1: 3; 2: 1 – 8 3 I, Tobit, walked in the ways of truth and righteousness all the days of my life, and I performed many acts of charity to my brethren and countrymen who went with me into the land of the Assyrians, to Nineveh. 2:1 When I arrived home and my wife Anna and my son Tobias were restored to me, at the feast of Pentecost, which is the sacred festival of the seven weeks, a good dinner was prepared for me and I sat down to eat

Daily Catholic Mass Readings for Wednesday 02 March 2011

Sirach 36: 1, 4 – 5, 10 – 17 1 Have mercy upon us, O Lord, the God of all, and look upon us, 4 As in us thou hast been sanctified before them, so in them be thou magnified before us; 5 and let them know thee, as we have known that there is not God but thee, O Lord. 10 Crush the heads of the rulers of the enemy, who say, “There is no one but ourselves.” 11 Gather all the tribes of Jacob, and give them their inheritance, as at the beginning.