Monthly Archives: February 2021

Readings for Sun. 28th of Feb.: Thirty-Eighth Sunday After Pentecost: Great Fast

Isaiah 8:13-9:7 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition 13 But the Lord of hosts, him you shall regard as holy; let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. 14 And he will become a sanctuary, and a stone of offense, and a rock of stumbling to both houses of Israel, a trap and a snare to the inhabitants […]

The Presence of God

“I say frequent prayer because purity and perfection in prayer is not within our reach, as St. Paul the Apostle indicates. The Spirit comes to help us in our weakness when we do not know how to pray (Rom. 8:26). Consequently, our only contribution toward perfection in prayer, the mother of all spiritual good, is […]

Readings for Sat. 27th of Feb.: Thirty-Eighth week After Pentecost: Great Fast: 2nd ALL SOULS SATURDAY

Hebrews 3:12-16 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition 12 Take care, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. 13 But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we […]

Readings for Fri. 26th of Feb.: Thirty-Eighth week After Pentecost: Great Fast

Genesis 5:32-6:8 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition 32 After Noah was five hundred years old, Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. The Wickedness of Mankind 6 When men began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God[a] saw that the daughters of men were fair; and […]

Readings for Thurs. 25th of Feb.: Thirty-Eighth week After Pentecost: Great Fast

Isaiah 6:1-12 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition A Vision of God in the Temple 6 [a]In the year that King Uzzi′ah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple. 2 Above him stood the seraphim; each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with […]

Readings for Wed. 24th of Feb.: Thirty-Eighth week After Pentecost: Great Fast

Genesis 4:16-26 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition 16 Then Cain went away from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod,[a] east of Eden. Beginnings of Civilization 17 Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch; and he built a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his […]

Readings for Tues. 23rd of Feb.: Thirty-Eighth week After Pentecost: Great Fast

Isaiah 5:7-16 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition 7 For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts     is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah     are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice,     but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness,     but behold, a cry! Social Injustice Denounced 8 Woe to those who join house to house,     who add field […]

Readings for Mon. 22nd of Feb.: Thirty-Eighth week After Pentecost: Great Fast

Isaiah 4:2-5:6 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition The Future Glory of the Survivors in Zion 2 In that day the branch of the Lord shall be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land shall be the pride and glory of the survivors of Israel. 3 And he who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be […]

Readings for Sun. 21st of Feb.: Thirty-Eighth Sunday After Pentecost: Great Fast: SUNDAY OF ORTHODOXY

Hebrews 11:24-26 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition 24 By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, 25 choosing rather to share ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. 26 He considered abuse suffered for the Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for […]