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Readings for Fri. 5th of March: Thirty-Eighth Week After Pentecost: Great Fast

  Isaiah 11:10-12:2 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition Return of the Remnant of Israel and Judah 10 In that day the root of Jesse shall stand as an ensign to the peoples; him shall the nations seek, and his dwellings shall be glorious. 11 In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time […]

Readings for Thurs. 4th  of March: Thirty-Eighth Week After Pentecost: Great Fast  

  Isaiah 11:10-12:2 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition Return of the Remnant of Israel and Judah 10 In that day the root of Jesse shall stand as an ensign to the peoples; him shall the nations seek, and his dwellings shall be glorious. 11 In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time […]

Readings for Wed. 3rd  of March: Thirty-Eighth Week After Pentecost: Great Fast

Readings for Wed. 3rd  of March: Thirty-Eighth Week After Pentecost: Great Fast Isaiah 10:12-20 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition 12 When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem he[a] will punish the arrogant boasting of the king of Assyria and his haughty pride. 13 For he says: “By the strength of my hand […]

Readings for Tues. 2nd  of March: Thirty-Eighth Week After Pentecost: Great Fast

  Isaiah 9:9-10:4 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition 9 and all the people will know,     E′phraim and the inhabitants of Samar′ia,     who say in pride and in arrogance of heart: 10 “The bricks have fallen,     but we will build with dressed stones; the sycamores have been cut down,     but we will put cedars in their place.” 11 So […]

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 […]