Saturday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time Father Alex Yeung, LC Mark 6:30-34 The apostles gathered together with Jesus and reported all they had done and taught. He said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while.” People were coming and going in great numbers, and they... Read More
Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Luke 5:1-11 While the crowd was pressing in on Jesus and listening to the word of God, he was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret. He saw two boats there alongside the lake; the fishermen had disembarked and were washing their nets. Getting into one of the... Read More
Monday of the Fifth Week of Ordinary Time Mark 6:53-56 After making the crossing, they came to land at Gennesaret and tied up there. As they were leaving the boat, people immediately recognized him. They scurried about the surrounding country and began to bring in the sick on mats to wherever they heard he... Read More
Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Ordinary Time Mark 7:1-13 Now when the Pharisees with some scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him, they observed that some of his disciples ate their meals with unclean, that is, unwashed, hands. [For the Pharisees and, in fact, all Jews, do not eat without carefully... Read More
Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Ordinary Time Mark 7:14-23 He summoned the crowd again and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand. Nothing that enters one from outside can defile that person; but the things that come out from within are what defile.” When he got home away from the... Read More
Memorial of Saints Cyril, Monk, and Methodius, Bishop Mark 7:24-30 Jesus went to the district of Tyre. He entered a house and wanted no one to know about it, but he could not escape notice. Soon a woman whose daughter had an unclean spirit heard about him. She came and fell at his feet. The woman was... Read More
Friday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time Mark 7:31-37 Jesus left the district of Tyre and went by way of Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, into the district of the Decapolis. And people brought to him a deaf man who had a speech impediment and begged him to lay his hand on him. He took... Read More
Saturday of the Fifth Week of Ordinary Time Mark 8:1-10 In those days when there again was a great crowd without anything to eat, he summoned the disciples and said, “My heart is moved with pity for the crowd, because they have been with me now for three days and have nothing to eat. If... Read More
Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time Father Steven Reilly, LC Luke 6:17, 20-26 Jesus came down with his apostles and stood on a stretch of level ground, with a great crowd of his disciples and a large number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon. And... Read More
Monday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time Mark 8:11-13 The Pharisees came and began to argue with him, asking him for a sign from heaven, to test him. And he sighed deeply in his spirit and said, “Why does this generation ask for a sign? Truly I tell you, no sign will be... Read More
Tuesday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time Mark 8: 14-21 Now the disciples had forgotten to bring any bread; and they had only one loaf with them in the boat. And he cautioned them, saying, “Watch out–beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod.” They said to one another,... Read More
Wednesday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time Father Scott Reilly, LC Mark 8:22-26 When Jesus and his disciples arrived at Bethsaida, they brought to him a blind man and begged him to touch him. Jesus took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village. Putting spittle on his eyes... Read More
Thursday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time Mark 8:27-33 Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” And they answered him, “John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.”... Read More
Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter, apostle Father Alex Yeung, LC Matthew 16:13-19 When Jesus went into the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” They replied, “Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”... Read More
Memorial of Saint Polycarp, Bishop and Martyr Mark 9: 2-13 Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain apart, by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no one on earth could bleach them. And... Read More
Seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time Luke 6:27-38 Jesus said to his disciples, “But to you who hear I say, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. To the person who strikes you on one cheek, offer the other one as well,... Read More
Monday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time Father Edward Hopkins, LC Mark 9:14-29 As Jesus came down the mountain with Peter, James, and John and approaching the other disciples, they saw a large crowd around them and scribes arguing with them. Immediately on seeing him, the whole crowd was utterly amazed.... Read More
Tuesday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time Father Edward Hopkins, LC Mark 9:30-37 Jesus and his disciples left from there and began a journey through Galilee, but he did not wish anyone to know about it. He was teaching his disciples and telling them, “The Son of Man is to be handed over... Read More
Wednesday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time Father Edward Hopkins, LC Mark 9:38-40 John said to Jesus, “Teacher, we saw someone driving out demons in your name, and we tried to prevent him because he does not follow us.” Jesus replied, “Do not prevent him. There is no one who performs a mighty... Read More
Thursday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time Father Edward Hopkins, LC Mark 9:41-50 Jesus said to his disciples: “Anyone who gives you a cup of water to drink because you bear the name of Christ will by no means lose their reward. If any of you put a stumbling block before one of... Read More