Memorial of Saint Cecilia, Virgin and Martyr Brian Schoonover November 22, 2019 Daily Readings Reading 1 1 Mc 4:36-37, 52-59 Judas and his brothers said,"Now that our enemies have been crushed,let us go up to purify the sanctuary and rededicate it."So the whole army assembled, and went up to Mount...
Memorial of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Brian Schoonover November 21, 2019 Daily Readings Reading 1 1 Mc 2:15-29 The officers of the king in charge of enforcing the apostasycame to the city of Modein to organize the sacrifices.Many of Israel joined them,but Mattathias and his sons gathered in a...
Wednesday of the Thirty-third Week in Ordinary Time Brian Schoonover November 20, 2019 Daily Readings Reading 1 2 Mc 7:1, 20-31 It happened that seven brothers with their mother were arrestedand tortured with whips and scourges by the king,to force them to eat pork in violation of God's law.Most admirable...
Tuesday of the Thirty-third Week in Ordinary Time Brian Schoonover November 19, 2019 Daily Readings Reading 1 2 Mc 6:18-31 Eleazar, one of the foremost scribes, a man of advanced age and noble appearance, was being forced to open his mouth to eat pork. But preferring a glorious death to a life of...
Monday of the Thirty-third Week in Ordinary Time Brian Schoonover November 18, 2019 Daily Readings Reading 1 1 Mc 1:10-15, 41-43, 54-57, 62-63 there sprang a sinful offshoot, Antiochus Epiphanes,son of King Antiochus, once a hostage at Rome.He became king in the year one hundred and thirty sevenof the...
Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time Brian Schoonover November 17, 2019 Daily Readings Reading 1 Mal 3:19-20a Lo, the day is coming, blazing like an oven, when all the proud and all evildoers will be stubble, and the day that is coming will set them on fire, leaving them neither...
Saturday of the Thirty-second Week in Ordinary Time Brian Schoonover November 16, 2019 Daily Readings Reading 1 Wis 18:14-16; 19:6-9 When peaceful stillness compassed everythingand the night in its swift course was half spent,Your all-powerful word, from heaven's royal thronebounded, a fierce warrior, into...
Friday of the Thirty-second Week in Ordinary Time Brian Schoonover November 15, 2019 Daily Readings Reading 1 Wis 13:1-9 All men were by nature foolish who were in ignorance of God,and who from the good things seen did not succeed in knowing him who is,and from studying the works did not discern the...
Thursday of the Thirty-second Week in Ordinary Time Brian Schoonover November 14, 2019 Daily Readings Reading 1 Wis 7:22b–8:1 In Wisdom is a spiritintelligent, holy, unique,Manifold, subtle, agile,clear, unstained, certain,Not baneful, loving the good, keen,unhampered, beneficent, kindly,Firm, secure,...
Memorial of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, Virgin Brian Schoonover November 13, 2019 Daily Readings Reading 1 Wis 6:1-11 Hear, O kings, and understand;learn, you magistrates of the earth's expanse!Hearken, you who are in power over the multitudeand lord it over throngs of peoples!Because authority was...
