1st Reading: Romans 11:1-2, 11-12, 25-29 The paradoxical status of God’s people, when they reject Him I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not…
1st Reading: Romans 9:1-5 Paul would endure anything to win his fellow-Jews to Christ I am speaking the truth in Christ; I am not lying; my conscience confirms it by the Holy Spirit. I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off…
On Saint Colman, see below 1st Reading: Romans 8:31-39 Nothing can separate us from the love of God, in Christ Jesus What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not withhold his own Son, but gave him up for all of us,…
1st Reading: Ephesians 2:19-22 God has appointed apostles so that his people’s needs will be served So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the…
On Saint Otteran, see below 1st Reading: Romans 8:18-25 The future we hope for is already within us, like a seed waiting to flower I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory about to be revealed to us. For the creation waits with eager longing for the…
1st Reading: Romans 8:12-17 In the Spirit, we are God’s children; he is our “Abba — Father” So then, my brothers and sisters, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh — for if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put…
We come to God, who gives the blind new sight. We praise our creator for the gracious care we receive and ask for the strength to continue on our pilgrim journey to the Father’s house.
1st Reading: Jeremiah 31:7-9 God promises to lead back the remnant of Israel For thus says the Lord: Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob, and raise shouts for the chief of the nations; proclaim, give praise, and say, “Save, O Lord, your people, the remnant of Israel.” See, I am going to bring them from…
On Saint Anthony Mary Claret, see below. 1st Reading: Romans 8:1-11 God sent his Son to share his Spirit and bring our mortal selves to godlike life My beloved, There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set…
On Saint John of Capistrano, see below. 1st Reading: Romans 7:18-25 Who can free me from my moral crisis? Only God, through Jesus Christ For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot do it. For I do not do the…
1st Reading: Romans 6:19-23 Freed from sin and now serving God, and destined for eternal life My dearly beloved, I am speaking in human terms because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now present your members as slaves…
1st Reading: Romans 6:12-18 Be obedient to God and you will come from death to life Therefore, do not let sin exercise dominion in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions. No longer present your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought…
1st Reading: Romans 5:12, 17-21 Through Adam, sin and death came to us all; through Jesus Christ, grace far surpasses all sin Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death came through sin, and so death spread to all because all have sinned. But the free gift is not like…
Saints John de Brebeuf, Isaac Jogues and companions (see below) 1st Reading: Romans 4:20-25 Like Abraham’s faith, our faith will be credited to us by God No distrust made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God, being fully convinced that God was…
This year’s Mission Sunday theme is summed up in two words: ‘Abundant Life’. This theme brings to mind the scope of the mission of Christians, which is to give something to eat, somewhere to sleep and something to believe in to those without.
(The feast of Saint Luke, Evangelist, is not celebrated this year) 1st Reading: Isaiah 53:10-11 God’s faithful Servant bears the world’s sins and sorrow; but he will prosper in the end. Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him with pain. When you make his life an offering for sin, he shall…
Saint Ignatius of Antioch (see below) 1st Reading: Romans 4:13, 16-18 Hoping against hope, Abraham became the father of many nations, believing in the life-giving power of God For the promise that he would inherit the world did not come to Abraham or to his descendants through the law but through the righteousness of faith….
St Gall, St Hedwig and St Margaret Mary Alacoque (see below) 1st Reading: Romans 4:1-8 For the believer, faith is credited as justice. This is how Abraham was justified What then are we to say was gained by Abraham, our ancestor according to the flesh? For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something…
Saint Teresa of Avila (see below) 1st Reading: Romans 3:21-30 All have sinned, but are freely justified by faith in Jesus Christ But now, apart from law, the righteousness of God has been disclosed, and is attested by the law and the prophets, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who…
Saint Callistus, pope and martyr (see below) 1st Reading: Romans 2:1-11 “By judging others you convict yourself.” Jew and gentile will be judged by the same criteria Therefore you have no excuse, whoever you are, when you judge others; for in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, are doing the…
