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 […]

Readings for Sun. 14th of March: Fortieth Sunday After Pentecost: 4th Sunday of the Great Fast: JOHN CLIMACUS

  Hebrews 6:13-20 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition The Certainty of God’s Promise 13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself, 14 saying, “Surely I will bless you and multiply you.” 15 And thus Abraham,[a] having patiently endured, obtained the promise. 16 Men indeed swear by a greater […]

Readings for Sat. 13th of March: Thirty-ninth Week After Pentecost: Great Fast: 4th ALL SOULS SATURDAY

  Hebrews 6:9-12 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition 9 Though we speak thus, yet in your case, beloved, we feel sure of better things that belong to salvation. 10 For God is not so unjust as to overlook your work and the love which you showed for his sake in serving the saints, as you still do. 11 And we […]

Readings for Fri. 12th of March: Thirty-ninth Week After Pentecost: Great Fast

  Isaiah 29:13-23 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition 13 And the Lord said: “Because this people draw near with their mouth     and honor me with their lips,     while their hearts are far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men learned by rote; 14 therefore, behold, I will again     do marvelous things with […]

Readings for Thurs. 11th of March: Thirty-ninth Week After Pentecost: Great Fast

  Isaiah 28:14-22 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition 14 Therefore hear the word of the Lord, you scoffers,     who rule this people in Jerusalem! 15 Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death,     and with Sheol we have an agreement; when the overwhelming scourge passes through     it will not come to us; for we have […]

Readings for Wed. 10th of March: Thirty-ninth Week After Pentecost: Great Fast

  Isaiah 26:21-27:9 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition 21 For behold, the Lord is coming forth out of his place     to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity, and the earth will disclose the blood shed upon her,     and will no more cover her slain. Israel’s Redemption 27 In that day the Lord with his hard and great and […]

Readings for Tues. 9th of March: Thirty-ninth Week After Pentecost: Great Fast

  Isaiah 25:1-9 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition Praise for Deliverance from Oppression 25 O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things,     plans formed of old, faithful and sure. 2 For thou hast made the city a heap,     the fortified city a ruin; the palace […]

Readings for Mon. 8th of March: Thirty-ninth Week After Pentecost: Great Fast  

  Isaiah 14:24-32 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition An Oracle concerning Assyria 24 The Lord of hosts has sworn: “As I have planned,     so shall it be, and as I have purposed,     so shall it stand, 25 that I will break the Assyrian in my land,     and upon my mountains trample him under foot; and his yoke shall depart […]