Daily Gospel Reading and Reflection

Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary LK 1:39-56 And Mary said: “My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my spirit rejoices in God my Savior for he has looked with favor on his lowly servant. From this day all generations will call me blessed: the Almighty has done great things for me and holy is his Name."

Memorial of Saint Maximilian Mary Kolbe Jn 15:12-16 Jesus said to his disciples: "This is my commandment: love one another as I love you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends."

Memorial of Saint Clare Mt 19:27-29 " And everyone who has given up houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands for the sake of my name will receive a hundred times more, and will inherit eternal life.”

Feast of Saint Lawrence, Deacon and Martyr Jn 12:24-26 Jesus said to his disciples: "Amen, amen, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat; but if it dies, it produces much fruit."

Wednesday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 15: 21-28 Then Jesus said to her in reply, "O woman, great is your faith! Let it be done for you as you wish." And her daughter was healed from that hour.

Memorial of Saint Dominic Lk 9:57-62 As Jesus and his disciples were proceeding on their journey someone said to him, "I will follow you wherever you go."

Monday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 14:13-21 Taking the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he said the blessing, broke the loaves, and gave them to the disciples, who in turn gave them to the crowds. They all ate and were satisfied, and they picked up the fragments left over– twelve wicker baskets full.

Memorial of Saint John Vianney Mt 13:54-58 But Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his native place and in his own house." And he did not work many mighty deeds there because of their lack of faith.

Thursday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 13:47-53 " Thus it will be at the end of the age. The angels will go out and separate the wicked from the righteous and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth."

Wednesday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 13:44-46 Jesus said to his disciples: "The Kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in a field, which a person finds and hides again, and out of joy goes and sells all that he has and buys that field."

Memorial of Saint Alphonsus Liguori Mt 13:36-43 " Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. Whoever has ears ought to hear."

Memorial of Saint Ignatius of Loyola Lk 14:25-33 " Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple."

Thursday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 13:10-17 "But blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear. Amen, I say to you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it."

Friday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 13:18-23 " But the seed sown on rich soil is the one who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and yields a hundred or sixty or thirtyfold.”

Memorial of Saints Joachim and Anne, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary Mt 13:16-17 Jesus said to his disciples: "Blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear. Amen, I say to you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it."

Feast of Saint James, Apostle Mt 20:20-28 He replied, "My chalice you will indeed drink, but to sit at my right and at my left, this is not mine to give but is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father." When the ten heard this, they became indignant at the two brothers.

Monday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 12:38-42 Some of the scribes and Pharisees said to Jesus, "Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you." He said to them in reply, "An evil and unfaithful generation seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it except the sign of Jonah the prophet. Just as Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights, so will the Son of Man be in the he...

Friday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 12:1-8 " I say to you, something greater than the temple is here. If you knew what this meant, I desire mercy, not sacrifice, you would not have condemned these innocent men. For the Son of Man is Lord of the sabbath."

Thursday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 11:28-30 Jesus said: "Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for yourselves. For my yoke is easy, and my burden light."

Wednesday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 11:25-27 At that time Jesus exclaimed: "I give praise to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike."

Tuesday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 11:20-24 Jesus began to reproach the towns where most of his mighty deeds had been done, since they had not repented. "Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty deeds done in your midst had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would long ago have repented in sackcloth and ashes."

Monday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 10:34—11:1 "Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever does not take up his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it."

Memorial of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha Mt 10:16-23 Jesus said to his Apostles: "Behold, I am sending you like sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and simple as doves. But beware of men, for they will hand you over to courts and scourge you in their synagogues, and you will be led before governors and kings for my sake as a witness before them and the pagans."

Thursday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 10:7-15 " Whoever will not receive you or listen to your words— go outside that house or town and shake the dust from your feet. Amen, I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town."

Wednesday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time Mt 10:1-7 Jesus sent out these Twelve after instructing them thus, "Do not go into pagan territory or enter a Samaritan town. Go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. As you go, make this proclamation: 'The Kingdom of heaven is at hand.”