Sunday Mass Readings

THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT | Sunday Mass Readings - December 11, 2022  (Year A) "Those whom the Lord has ransomed will return and enter Zion singing, crowned with everlasting joy." - Isaiah 35:10 This third week of Advent, the Church invites us to rejoice and wait.  "God has entered history in order to free us from the slavery of sin," Pope Francis wrote, "Joy is the fruit of this interventi...

SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT | Sunday Mass Readings - December 4, 2022  (Year A) "A voice of one crying out in the desert, Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths." - Mt. 3:3 The prophet Isaiah and St. John the Baptist are two important role models for us in this Second Sunday of Advent, who in their own way prepared the way for the Lord's coming. As successors of John through our bap...

FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT | Sunday Mass Readings - November 27, 2022  (Year A) Start right. End right. Today, the Church commences a new Liturgical Year with the First Sunday of Advent opening the Advent Season. May this time be a prayer and path of penance so we may truly welcome the message of Jesus, the Word-made-flesh. Let us entrust our "new year" to the God of Love and strive to grow in de...

SOLEMNITY OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, KING OF THE UNIVERSE | Sunday Mass Readings - November 20, 2022  (Year C) Jesus Christ is the King of kings: come, let us adore him. Today's Solemnity of Christ the King establishes the titles for Christ's royalty over men: 1) Christ is God, the Creator of the universe and hence wields a supreme power over all things; "All things were created by Him"; 2) Ch...

THIRTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME | Sunday Mass Readings - November 13, 2022  (Year C) “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be powerful earthquakes, famines, and plagues from place to place; and awesome sights and mighty signs will come from the sky." - Luke 21:10-11 These prophetic words of our Lord may refer to more grand and universal events to come,...

THIRTY-SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME | Sunday Mass Readings - November 6, 2022  (Year C) “The children of this age marry and remarry; but those who are deemed worthy to attain to the coming age and to the resurrection of the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. They can no longer die, for they are like angels; and they are the children of God because they are the ones who will rise....

THIRTY-FIRST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME | Sunday Mass Readings - October 30, 2022  (Year C) Prison Awareness Sunday Without a doubt, God wants us all in  heaven. Neither can we doubt that he is sending out calls to us when we wander foolishly off the right road. Unfortunately for ourselves, we can refuse to listen to these calls. We can turn a deaf ear to God's offer of mercy and grace. If...

THIRTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME | Sunday Mass Readings - October 23 , 2022  (Year C) World Mission Sunday The prayer of the humble "pierces the clouds" and does not go unanswered. We can exalt ourselves in the eyes of our fellow men and women, but the eyes of God penetrate the heart and the mind and know our true feelings and dispositions. Only the humble pleases God. Let us pray for the gr...

TWENTY-NINTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME | Sunday Mass Readings - October 16 , 2022  (Year C) Almighty ever-living God, grant that we may always conform our will to yours and serve your majesty in sincerity of heart. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Listen, pray and meditate on this week's Sunday Mass r...

TWENTY-EIGHTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME | Sunday Mass Readings - October 9, 2022  (Year C) Lord, I do thank You for the countless blessings that You have bestowed upon me throughout my life. I thank You for the ways in which You have graced me, led me and healed me. Help me to see clearly all that You have done and continue to do for me. As I see these blessings, help me to daily express my gra...

TWENTY-SEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME | Sunday Mass Readings - October 2, 2022  (Year C) "The Lord is good to those who hope in him, to the soul that seeks him." - Lam. 3:25 What do you need to thank God for today? It is easy to forget God and his providence when our earthly affairs are going well. Too many of us also forget God and fail to give Him the thanks and the credit for our well-bei...

TWENTY-SIXTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME | Sunday Mass Readings - Sept. 25, 2022  (Year C) "There was a rich man who dressed in purple garments and fine linen and dined sumptuously each day. And lying at his door was a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who would gladly have eaten his fill of the scraps that fell from the rich man's table." - Luke 16:19-31 What is most important in your...

TWENTY-FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME | Sunday Mass Readings - Sept. 18, 2022  (Year C) "No servant can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon." - Luke 16:13 What occupies your heart?  Christ warns his followers not just to be enslaved by worldly possessions but of their unjust acquisition...

TWENTY-FOURTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME | Sunday Mass Readings - Sept. 11, 2022  (Year C) "I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need of repentance." - Luke 15:7 God's mercy is everlasting and our Lord Jesus has incarnated this unfathomable fount by saving us from our sins through His death on the cross. He ha...

TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME | Sunday Mass Readings - Sept. 4, 2022  (Year C) "Jesus turned and addressed them, 'Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.'" - Luke 14:27 The essential condition for true discipleship, demanded by Christ, was, and still is, total dedication, total commitment of oneself to Him. There can be no such person as a half-Chr...

TWENTY-SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME | Sunday Mass Readings - August 28, 2022  (Year C) "Take my yoke upon you, says the Lord, and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart." - Mt 11:29ab Jesus is the model of true humility and by His life, He has shown us how things work in the Kingdom of God. His practical advice not to sit uninvited in places of honor or to exalt ourselves before o...

TWENTY-FIRST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME | Sunday Mass Readings - August 21, 2022  (Year C)  “Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I tell you, will attempt to enter but will not be strong enough." - Luke 13:24 The Christian life demands that we strive not only to know Jesus, but also to live like He did. This is not easy especially when we are confronted by our human weaknesses...

TWENTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME | Sunday Mass Readings - August 14, 2022  (Year C) "My sheep hear my voice, says the Lord; I know them, and they follow me." - John 10:27 God wants no human being lost eternally. He detests sin but he still loves the sinner. He is always ready to grant a full pardon for each and every sin a man commits, if only the sinner has the humility to say "mea culpa."...

NINETEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME | Sunday Mass Readings - August 7, 2022  (Year C) "Jesus said to his disciples: 'Do not be afraid any longer, little flock, for your Father is pleased to give you the kingdom. Sell your belongings and give alms. Provide money bags for yourselves that do not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven that no thief can reach nor moth destroy. For where your...

EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME | Sunday Mass Readings - July 31, 2022  (Year C) "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." - Mt 5:3 What riches occupy your heart today? Where are you storing up your treasures? Eternity has no room for worldly possessions. It is not even the quantity of this world's goods which you possess that will be your undoing, but the qual...

SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME | Sunday Mass Readings - July 24, 2022  (Year C) "When you pray, say: Father..." - Luke 11:1 We have received a Spirit of adoption, through which we cry, Abba, Father and so we have the courage to pray the beautiful prayer Christ himself taught us as the model of all prayers. Listen, pray and meditate on this week's Sunday Mass readings, brought to you by t...

SIXTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME | Sunday Mass Readings - July 17, 2022  (Year C) "Behold, I stand at the door and knock, says the Lord. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door to me, I will enter his house and dine with him, and he with me." - Rev 3:20 Take time to pause and sit at the Lord's feet just as Mary of Bethany did in today's Gospel. Friends take time out to listen and be with...

FIFTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME | Sunday Mass Readings - July 10, 2022  (Year C) "Your words, Lord, are Spirit and life; you have the words of everlasting life." - John 6:63c-68c In today's parable of the Good Samaritan, Jesus explains to his disciples who their neighbor is and how they should love them. As disciples of Christ, we too are called to share God's love and compassion, never dis...

FOURTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME | Sunday Mass Readings - July 3, 2022  (Year C) "Behold, I am sending you like lambs among wolves. Carry no money bag, no sack, no sandals; and greet no one along the way. Into whatever house you enter, first say, 'Peace to this household." - Luke 10:3-5 As Jesus conferred His mission on the seventy-two disciples in today's Gospel, He too does to us. His com...

THIRTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME | Sunday Mass Readings - June 19, 2022  (Year C) "Speak, Lord, your servant is listening ; you have the words of everlasting life." - 1 Sm 3:9; Jn 6:68c On this Sunday, Jesus invites us once again to follow Him unreservedly, being led by the Spirit. In His will is our freedom, let us trust Him. Listen, pray and meditate on this week's Sunday Mass readings, b...