Friday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time

Reading I 2 Kgs 11:1-4, 9-18, 20 When Athaliah, the mother of Ahaziah, saw that her son was dead, she began to kill off the whole royal family. But Jehosheba, daughter of King Jehoram and sister of Ahaziah, took Joash, his son, and spirited him away, along with his...

Thursday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time

Reading I Sir 48:1-14 Like a fire there appeared the prophet Elijah whose words were as a flaming furnace. Their staff of bread he shattered, in his zeal he reduced them to straits; By the Lord’s word he shut up the heavens and three times brought down fire. How...

Wednesday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time

Reading I 2 Kgs 2:1, 6-14 When the LORD was about to take Elijah up to heaven in a whirlwind, he and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal. Elijah said to Elisha, “Please stay here; the LORD has sent me on to the Jordan.” “As the LORD lives, and as you yourself live, I...

Tuesday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time

Reading I 1 Kgs 21:17-29 After the death of Naboth the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite: “Start down to meet Ahab, king of Israel, who rules in Samaria. He will be in the vineyard of Naboth, of which he has come to take possession. This is what you shall tell him,...

The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity

Reading I Prv 8:22-31             Thus says the wisdom of God:             “The LORD possessed me, the beginning of his ways,                         the forerunner of his prodigies of long ago;             from of old I was poured forth,                        ...