Monday, December 16, 2013 Advent Weekday
First Reading: Numbers 24:2-7, 15-17 Psalm: Psalm 25:4-9 Gospel: Matthew 21:23-27 I ought to imagine to myself that there are no others in the world but God and myself. -- St. Alphonsus Liguori
Tuesday, December 17, 2013 Advent Weekday
First Reading: Genesis 49:2, 8-10 Psalm: Psalm 72:1-4, 7-8, 17 Gospel: Matthew 1:1-17 It is by the path of love, which is charity, that God draws near to man, and man to God. But where charity is not found, God cannot dwell. If, then, we possess charity, we possess God, for "God is Charity" (1 Jn 4:8) -- St. Albert the Great
Wednesday, December 18, 2013 Advent Weekday
First Reading: Jeremiah 23:5-8 Psalm: Psalm 72:1-2, 12-13, 18-19 Gospel: Matthew 1:18-25 Those who are led by the Holy Spirit have true ideas. That's why so many ignorant people are wiser than the learned. -- St. John Vianney
Thursday, December 19, 2013 Advent Weekday
First Reading: Judges 13:2-7, 24-25 Psalm: Psalm 71:3-6, 16-17 Gospel: Luke 1:5-25 Who is so strong as never to be overcome by temptation, except he who has the grace of the Lord for his helper? -- St. Augustine
Friday, December 20, 2013
Advent Weekday
First Reading: Isaiah 7:10-14 Psalm: Psalm 24:1-6 Gospel: Luke 1:26-38 Satisfaction consists in the cutting off of the causes of the sin. Thus, fasting is the proper antidote to lust; prayer to pride, to envy, anger and sloth; alms to covetousness. -- St. Richard of Chichester
Saturday, December 21, 2013 Advent Weekday
First Reading: Song of Solomon 2:8-14 or Zephaniah 3:14-18 Psalm: Psalm 33:2-3, 11-12, 20-21 Gospel: Luke 1:39-45 He who wishes to love God does not truly love Him if he has not an ardent and constant desire to suffer for His sake. -- St. Aloysius Gonzaga
Sunday, December 22, 2013 Fourth Sunday of Advent
First Reading: Isaiah 7:10-14 Psalm: Psalm 24:1-6 Second Reading: Romans 1:1-7 Gospel: Matthew 1:18-24 Instead of which things, thou didst feed thy people with the food of angels, and gavest them bread from heaven, prepared without labour; having in it all that is delicious, and the sweetness of every taste. For thy sustenance shewed thy sweetness to thy children, and serving every man's will, it was turned to what every man liked. -- Wis. xvi. 20,21
Monday, December 23, 2013 Advent Weekday
First Reading: Malachi 3:1-4, 23-24 Psalm: Psalm 25:4-5, 8-10, 14 Gospel: Luke 1:57-66 The highest perfection consists not in interior favors or in great raptures, but in the bringing of our wills so closely into conformity with the Will of God that, as soon as we realize that he wills anything, we desire it
ourselves with all our might. -- St. Teresa of Avila
Tuesday, December 24, 2013 Advent Weekday
First Reading: 2 Samuel 7:1-5, 8-12, 14, 16 Psalm: Psalm 89:2-5, 27, 29 Gospel: Luke 1:67-79 Give ear, ye islands, and hearken, ye people from afar. The Lord hath called me from the womb, from the bowels of my mother he hath been mindful of my name. And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword: in the shadow of his hand he hath protected me, and hath made me as a chosen arrow: in his quiver he hath hidden me. -- Isa. xlix. 1,2
Wednesday, December 25, 2013 The Nativity of the Lord - Christmas (Solemnity)
Midnight Isaiah 9:1-6 First Reading: Psalm 96:1-3, 11-13 Psalm: Titus 2:11-14 Second Reading: Luke 2:1-14 Gospel: Dawn Isaiah 62:11-12 First Reading: Psalm 97:1, 6, 11-12 Psalm: Titus 3:4-7 Second Reading: Luke 2:15-20 Gospel: Isaiah 52:7-10 During the Day Psalm 98:1-6 First Reading: Hebrews 1:1-6 Psalm: John 1:1-18 or 1:1-5, 9-14 Second Reading: Gospel: A light shall shine upon us this day: for the Lord is born to us: and He shall be called Wonderful, God, the Prince of Peace, the Father of the world to come: of whose reign there shall be no end.
-- Is. ix. 2, 6
Sunday, January 05, 2014 The Epiphany of the Lord (Solemnity)
First Reading: Isaiah 60:1-6 Psalm: Psalm 72:1-2, 7-8, 10-13
Second Reading: Ephesians 3:2-3, 5-6 Gospel: Matthew 2:1-12 How lovely are Thy tabernacles, O Lord of Hosts! My soul longeth and fainteth for the courts of the Lord. -- Psalm lxxxiii. 2,3