Catholic Mass Readings for Sunday, October 23rd, 2011

First Reading Ex 22:20-26 Thus says the LORD: “You shall not molest or oppress an alien, for you were once aliens yourselves in the land of Egypt. You shall not wrong any widow or orphan. If ever you wrong them and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry.

Daily Catholic Mass Readings for Tuesday 13 September 2011

1 Timothy 3: 1 – 13 1 The saying is sure: If any one aspires to the office of bishop, he desires a noble task. 2 Now a bishop must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, dignified, hospitable, an apt teacher, 3 no drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, and no lover of money. 4 He must manage his own household well, keeping his children submissive and respectful in every way; 5 for if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how can he care for God’s church?

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 Saturday 30 July 2011

Leviticus 25: 1, 8 – 17 1 The LORD said to Moses on Mount Sinai, 8 “And you shall count seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, so that the time of the seven weeks of years shall be to you forty-nine years.