Readings for Tues. 23rd of March: Forty-first Week After Pentecost: Great Fast  

  Isaiah 49:6-10 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition 6 he says: “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant     to raise up the tribes of Jacob     and to restore the preserved of Israel; I will give you as a light to the nations,     that my salvation may reach to the end of […]

Readings for Mon. 22nd of March: Forty-first Week After Pentecost: Great Fast

  Isaiah 48:17-49:4 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition 17 Thus says the Lord,     your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the Lord your God,     who teaches you to profit,     who leads you in the way you should go. 18 O that you had hearkened to my commandments!     Then your peace would have been like a river,     and your […]

Readings for Sun. 21st of March: Forty-first Sunday After Pentecost: 5th Sunday of the Great Fast: MARY OF EGYPT  

  Hebrews 9:11-14 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition 11 But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come,[a] then through the greater and more perfect tent[b] (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation) 12 he entered once for all into the Holy Place, taking[c] not the blood of goats and calves but […]

Readings for Sat. 20th of March: Fortieth Week After Pentecost: Great Fast: AKATHISTOS SATURDAY  

  Hebrews 9:24-28 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition 24 For Christ has entered, not into a sanctuary made with hands, a copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf. 25 Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the Holy Place yearly […]

Readings for Fri. 19th of March: Fortieth Week After Pentecost: Great Fast  

  Isaiah 45:11-17 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition 11 Thus says the Lord,     the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: “Will you question me[a] about my children,     or command me concerning the work of my hands? 12 I made the earth,     and created man upon it; it was my hands that stretched out the heavens,     and I commanded […]

Readings for Thurs. 18th of March: Fortieth Week After Pentecost: Great Fast

  Isaiah 42:5-16 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition 5 Thus says God, the Lord,     who created the heavens and stretched them out,     who spread forth the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people upon it     and spirit to those who walk in it: 6 “I am the Lord, I have called you in righteousness, […]

Readings for Wed. 17th of March: Fortieth Week After Pentecost: Great Fast

  Isaiah 41:4-14 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition 4 Who has performed and done this,     calling the generations from the beginning? I, the Lord, the first,     and with the last; I am He. 5 The coastlands have seen and are afraid,     the ends of the earth tremble;     they have drawn near and come. 6 Every one helps his neighbor, […]

Readings for Tues. 16th of March: Fortieth Week After Pentecost: Great Fast

  Isaiah 40:18-31 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition 18 To whom then will you liken God,     or what likeness compare with him? 19 The idol! a workman casts it,     and a goldsmith overlays it with gold,     and casts for it silver chains. 20 He who is impoverished[a] chooses for an offering     wood that will not rot; he seeks out […]

Readings for Mon. 15th of March: Fortieth Week After Pentecost: Great Fast

  Isaiah 37:33-38:6 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition 33 “Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city, or shoot an arrow there, or come before it with a shield, or cast up a siege mound against it. 34 By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and […]