Saturday after Ash Wednesday Luke 5:27-32 “I have not come to call the just, but sinners to repentance.” Jesus saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the customs office. And he said to him, “Follow me.” And leaving behind everything, rising up, he followed him. And Levi made a great feast for him in […]
Friday after Ash Wednesday Matthew 9:14-15 “But the days will arrive when the groom will be taken away from them. And then they shall fast. “ Then the disciples of John drew near to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast frequently, but your disciples do not fast?” And Jesus said to them: “How
Thursday after Ash Wednesday Luke 9:22-25 “For how does it benefit a man, if he were to gain the whole world, yet lose himself.” Jesus said to his disciples, “The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and the leaders of the priests and the scribes, and be killed,
Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18 “And your Father, who sees in secret, will repay you. ” “Pay attention, lest you perform your justice before men, in order to be seen by them; otherwise you shall not have a reward with your Father, who is in heaven. Therefore, when you give alms, do not choose to sound a trumpet
Tuesday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time Mark 8:14-21 “How is it that you do not yet understand?” And they forgot to take bread. And they did not have any with them in the boat, except one loaf. And he instructed them, saying: “Consider and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of
Monday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time Mark 8:11-13 “Why does this generation seek a sign?” And the Pharisees went out and began to contend with him, seeking from him a sign from heaven, testing him. And sighing deeply in spirit, he said: “Why does this generation seek a sign? Amen, I say to
Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Matthew 5:17-37 “Do not think that I have come to loosen the law or the prophets. I have not come to loosen, but to fulfill.” Do not think that I have come to loosen the law or the prophets. I have not come to loosen, but to fulfill. Amen I
Saturday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time Memorial of Sts Cyril and Methodius Mark 8:1-10 “if I were to send them away fasting to their home, they might faint on the way.” In those days, again, when there was a great crowd, and they did not have anything to eat, calling together his disciples,
Friday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time Mark 7:31-37 “Ephphatha,”, “Be opened.” And again, departing from the borders of Tyre, he went by way of Sidon to the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the area of the Ten Cities. And they brought someone who was deaf and mute to him. And they
Thursday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time Mark 7:24-30 “Because of this saying, go; the demon has gone out of your daughter.” And rising up, he went from there to the area of Tyre and Sidon. And entering into a house, he intended no one to know about it, but he was not able
