Universal Roman Catholic Faith and Traditions

Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke, Chapter 1, Verses 39 - 56 First Reading, Zephaniah 3: 14 - 18 Responsorial Psalm: Isaiah  12: 2 - 6 Feast of the Visitation of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary Holy Gospel: 39 Mary then set out for a town in the Hills of Judah. 40 She entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. 41 When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leapt in her womb. Elizabeth was filled with holy spirit, and 42 giving a loud cry, said, “You are most blessed among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb! 43 How is it that the mother of my Lord comes to me? 44 The moment your greeting sounded in my ears, the baby within me suddenly leapt for joy. 45 Blessed are you who be­lieved that the Lord’s word would come true!” 46 And Mary said: “My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord, 47 my spirit exults in God my savior! 48 He has looked upon his servant in her lowliness, and people forever will call me blessed. 49 The Mighty One has done gre

Holy Gospel according to Saint John, Chapter 16, Verses 20 - 23 First Reading, Acts of the Apostles by Saint Paul Chapter 18, Verses 9 -18 Responsorial Psalm: Psalms  47: 2 -7 Holy Gospel: 20 Truly, I say to you, you will weep and mourn while the world rejoices. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn to joy. 21 A woman in childbirth is in distress because her time is at hand. But after the child is born, she no longer remembers her suffering because of such great joy: a human being is born into the world. 22 You feel sorrowful now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice. And no one will take your joy from you. 23 When that day comes you will not ask me anything. Truly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in my Name, he will give you. First Reading : 9 One night, in a vision, the Lord said to Paul, “Do not be afraid, but continue speaking and do not be silent, 10 for many people in this city are mine. I am with you, so no one will harm you.” 1

Holy Gospel according to Saint John, Chapter 16, Verses 16 - 20 First Reading, Acts of the Apostles by Saint Paul Chapter 18, Verses 1 - 8 Responsorial Psalm: Psalms  98: 1 - 4 Holy Gospel: 16 A little while and you will see me no more; and then a little while, and you will see me.” 17 Some of the disciples wondered, “What does he mean by: ‘A little while and you will not see me, and then a little while and you will see me’? And why did he say: ‘I go to the Father’?” 18And they said to one another, “What does he mean by ‘a little while’? We don’t understand.” 19 Jesus knew that they wanted to question him; so he said to them, “You are puzzled be­cause I told you that in a little while you will see me no more, and then a little while later you will see me. 20 Truly, I say to you, you will weep and mourn while the world rejoices. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn to joy First Reading: 1 After this, Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. 2 There he found a Jew named Aquila,

Holy Gospel according to Saint John, Chapter 16, Verses 12 - 15 First Reading, Acts of the Apostles by Saint Paul Chapter 17, Verses 15, 22 - 18:1 Responsorial Psalm: Psalms  148: 1-2, 11-12, 13-14 Holy Gospel: 12 I still have many things to tell you, but you cannot bear them now. 13 When he, the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into the whole truth. He has nothing to say of himself but he will speak of what he hears, and he will tell you of the things to come. 14 He will take what is mine and make it known to you; in doing this, he will glorify me. 15 All that the Father has is mine; because of this I have just told you, that the Spirit will take what is mine and make it known to you.” First Reading: 15 Paul was taken as far as Athens by his escort, who then returned to Beroea with instructions for Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible. 22 Then Paul stood up in the Areopagus hall and said, “Athenian citizens, I note that in every way you are very religious. 23 A

Holy Gospel according to Saint John, Chapter 16, Verses 5 - 11 First Reading, Acts of the Apostles by Saint Paul Chapter 16, Verses 22 - 34 Responsorial Psalm: Psalms  138: 1-3, 7-8 Saint Augustine of Canterbury, Bishop Holy Gospel: 5 But now I am going to the One who sent me and none of you asks me where I am going; 6 instead you are overcome with grief because of what I have said. 7 Indeed believe me: It is better for you that I go away, because as long as I do not leave, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go away, it is to send him to you, 8 and when he comes, he will vindicate the truth in face of the world with regard to sin, to the way of righteousness, and to the Judgment. 9 What has been the sin? They did not believe in me. 10 What is the way of righteousness? I am on the way to the Father, meanwhile you will not see me. 11 What Judgment? The prince of this world has himself been condemned. First Reading: 22 You feel sorrowful now, but I will see you again, and your hear

Holy Gospel according to Saint John, Chapter 15, Verses 26 - 16: 4 First Reading, Acts of the Apostles by Saint Paul Chapter 16, Verses 11 - 15 Responsorial Psalm: Psalms  149: 1-6, 9 Holy Gospel: 26 From the Father, I will send you the Spirit of truth. When this Helper has come from the Father, he will be my witness, 27 and you, too, will be my witnesses for you have been with me from the beginning. 16.1 I tell you all this to keep you from stumbling and falling away. 2 They will put you out of the Jewish communities. Still more, the hour is coming when anyone who kills you will claim to be serving God; 3 they will do this because they have not known the Father or me. 4 I tell you all these things now so that when the time comes you may remember that I told you. First Reading: 11 So we put out to sea from Troas and sailed straight across to Samo­thrace Island, and the next day to Neapolis. 12 From there we went inland to Philippi, the leading city of the district of Maced

Holy Gospel according to Saint John, Chapter 14, Verses 15-21 First Reading, Acts of the Apostles by Saint Paul Chapter 8, Verses 5-8, 14-17 Responsorial Psalm: Psalms  66: 1-3, 4-5, 6-7, 16, 20 Second Reading: 1 Peter 3: 15-18 Sixth Sunday of Easter Holy Gospel: 15 If you love me, you will keep my com­mandments; 16 and I will ask the Father and he will give you another Helper to be with you forever, 17 that Spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him for he is with you and will be in you. 18 I will not leave you orphans, I am coming to you. 19 A little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me because I live and you will also live. 20 On that day you will know that I am in my Father and you in me, and I in you. 21 Whoever keeps my commandments is the one who loves me. If he loves me, he will also be loved by my Father; I too shall love him and show myself clearly to him.” First Reading: 5 Philip went down

Holy Gospel according to Saint John, Chapter 15, Verses 18-21 First Reading, Acts of the Apostles by Saint Paul Chapter 16, Verses 1-10 Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 100: 1-2, 3, 5 Holy Gospel: 18 If the world hates you, remember that the world hated me before you. 19 This would not be so if you belonged to the world, because the world loves its own. But you are not of the world since I have chosen you from the world; because of this the world hates you. 20 Remember what I told you: the servant is not greater than his master; if they persecuted me, they will persecute you, too. If they kept my word, they keep yours as well. 21 All this they will do to you for the sake of my name because they do not know the One who sent me. First Reading: 1 Paul traveled on to Derbe and then to Lystra. A disciple named Timothy lived there, whose mother was a believer of Jewish origin but whose father was a Greek. 2 As the believers at Lystra and Iconium spoke well of him, Paul wanted Timothy to

Holy Gospel according to Saint John, Chapter 15, Verses 12-17 First Reading, Acts of the Apostles by Saint Paul Chapter 15, Verses 22-31 Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 57: 8-9, 10, 12 Holy Gospel: 12 This is my commandment: love one another as I have loved you. 13 There is no greater love than this, to give one’s life for one’s friends; 14 and you are my friends if you do what I command you. 15 I shall not call you servants any more, because servants do not know what their mas­ter is about. Instead I have called you friends, since I have made known to you everything I learned from my Father. 16 You did not choose me; it was I who chose you and sent you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last. And everything you ask the Father in my name, he will give you. 17 This is my command, that you love one another. First Reading: 22 Then the apostles and elders together with the whole Church decided to choose representatives from among them to send to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. These were Jud

Holy Gospel according to Saint John, Chapter 15, Verses 9-11 First Reading, Acts of the Apostles by Saint Paul Chapter 15, Verses 7-21 Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 96: 1, 2, 3, 10 Saint Rita of Cascia, Religious Holy Gospel: 9 As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; remain in my love. 10 You will remain in my love if you keep my commandments, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. 11 I have told you all this, that my own joy may be in you and your joy may be complete. First Reading: 7 As the discussions became heated, Peter stood up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that from the beginning God chose me among you so that non-Jews could hear the Good News from me and believe. 8 God, who can read hearts, put himself on their side by giving the Holy Spirit to them just as he did to us. 9 He made no distinction between us and them and cleansed their hearts through faith. 10 So why do you want to put God to the test? Why do you lay on th

Holy Gospel according to Saint John, Chapter 15, Verses 1-8 First Reading, Acts of the Apostles by Saint Paul Chapter 15, Verses 1-6 Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 122: 1-5 Saint Christopher Magallanes, Priest and Companions, Martyrs Holy Gospel: 1 I am the true vine and my Father is the vine­grower. 2 If any of my branches doesn’t bear fruit, he breaks it off; and he prunes every branch that does bear fruit, that it may bear even more fruit. 3 You are already made clean by the word I have spoken to you; 4 live in me as I live in you. The branch cannot bear fruit by itself but has to remain part of the vine; so neither can you if you don’t remain in me. 5 I am the vine and you are the branches. As long as you remain in me and I in you, you bear much fruit; but apart from me you can do nothing. 6 Whoever does not remain in me is thrown away as they do with branches and they wither. Then they are gathered and thrown into the fire and burned. 7 If you remain in me and my words in you, you may

Holy Gospel according to Saint John, Chapter 14, Verses 27 - 31 First Reading, Acts of the Apostles by Saint Paul Chapter 14, Verses 19-28 Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 145: 10-13, 21 Memorial of Saint Bernardine of Siena, OFM Priest Holy Gospel: 27 Peace be with you; I give you my peace. Not as the world gives peace do I give it to you. Do not be troubled; do not be afraid. 28 You heard me say: ‘I am going away, but I am coming to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I go to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. 29 I have told you this now before it takes place, so that when it does happen you may believe. 30 It is very little what I may still tell you, for the prince of this world is at hand, although there is nothing in me that he can claim. 31 But see, the world must know that I love the Father and that I do what the Father has taught me to do. Come now, let us go. First Reading: 19 Then some Jews arrived from Antioch and Iconium and turned the people against them. Th

Holy Gospel according to Saint John, Chapter 14, Verses 21 - 26 First Reading, Acts of the Apostles by Saint Paul Chapter 14, Verses 5 - 18 Responsorial Psalm: Psalms  115: 1-4, 15-16 Memorial of Saint Crispin of Viterbo, Religious Holy Gospel: 21 Whoever keeps my commandments is the one who loves me. If he loves me, he will also be loved by my Father; I too shall love him and show myself clearly to him.” 22 Judas – not the Iscariot – asked ­Jesus, “Lord, how can it be that you will show yourself clearly to us and not to the world?” 23 Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word and my Father will love him; and we will come to him and make a room in his home. 24 But if anyone does not love me, he will not keep my words, and these words that you hear are not mine but the Father’s who sent me. 25 I told you all this while I was still with you. 26 From now on the Helper, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and remind you of all

Holy Gospel according to Saint John, Chapter 14, Verses 1 - 12 First Reading, Acts of the Apostles by Saint Paul Chapter 6, Verses 1 - 7 Responsorial Psalm: Psalms  33: 1-2, 4-5, 18-19 Second Reading: 1 Peter 2:4-9 Fifth Sunday of Easter Holy Gospel: 1 “Do not be troubled; trust in God and trust in me. 2 In my Father’s house there are many rooms. Otherwise I would not have told you that I go to prepare a place for you. 3 After I have gone and prepared a place for you, I shall come again and take you to me, so that where I am, you also may be. 4 Yet you know the way where I am going.” 5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going; how can we know the way?” 6 Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth and the life; no one comes to the Father but through me. 7 If you know me, you will know the Father also; indeed you know him and you have seen him.” 8 Philip asked him,“Lord, show us the Father and that is enough.” 9 Jesus said to him, “What! I have been with you s

Holy Gospel according to Saint John, Chapter 14, Verses 7 - 14 First Reading, Acts of the Apostles by Saint Paul Chapter 13, Verses 44 - 52 Responsorial Psalm: Psalms  98: 1 - 4 Memorial of St. Paschal Baylon, Religious,(OFM) Ordo Fratrum Minorum Holy Gospel: 7 If you know me, you will know the Father also; indeed you know him and you have seen him.” 8 Philip asked him,“Lord, show us the Father and that is enough.” 9 Jesus said to him, “What! I have been with you so long and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever sees me sees the Father; how can you say: ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? All that I say to you, I do not say of my­self. The Father who dwells in me is doing his own work. 11 Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; at least believe it on the evidence of these works that I do. 12 Truly, I say to you, the one who believes in me will do the same works that I do; and he will even do gre

Holy Gospel according to Saint John, Chapter 14, Verses 1 - 6 First Reading, Acts of the Apostles by Saint Paul Chapter 13, Verses 26 - 33 Responsorial Psalm: Psalms  2: 6-11 Memorial of St. Margaret of Cortona Holy Gospel: 1 “Do not be troubled; trust in God and trust in me. 2 In my Father’s house there are many rooms. Otherwise I would not have told you that I go to prepare a place for you. 3 After I have gone and prepared a place for you, I shall come again and take you to me, so that where I am, you also may be. 4 Yet you know the way where I am going.” 5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going; how can we know the way?” 6 Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth and the life; no one comes to the Father but through me. First Reading: 26 Brothers, children and descendants of Abraham, and you also who fear God, it is to you that this message of salvation has been sent. 27 It is a fact that the inhabitants of Jerusalem and their leaders did not rec­­ogn

Holy Gospel according to Saint John, Chapter 13, Verses 16 - 20. First Reading, Acts of the Apostles by Saint Paul Chapter 13, Verses 13 - 25 Responsorial Psalm: Psalms  89: 2-3, 21-22, 25, 27 Memorial of Saint Isidore the Farmer Gospel: 16 Truly, I say to you, the servant is not greater than his master, nor is the messenger greater than he who sent him. 17 Understand this, and blessed are you if you put it into practice. 18 I am not speaking of you all, because I know the ones I have chosen and the Scripture has to be fulfilled that says, The one who shared my table has risen against me. 19 I tell you this now before it happens, so that when it does happen, you may know that I am He. 20 Truly, I say to you, whoever welcomes the one I send, welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me, wel­comes the One who sent me.” First Reading: 13 From Paphos, Paul and his companions set sail and came to Perga in Pam­phylia. There John left them and returned to Jerusalem 14 while they went

Holy Gospel according to Saint John, Chapter 15, Verses 9 - 17. First Reading, Acts of the Apostles by Saint Paul Chapter 1, Verses 15 - 17, 20 - 26 Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 113: 1-8 Feast of Saint Matthias, Apostle. Gospel: 9 As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; remain in my love. 10 You will remain in my love if you keep my commandments, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. 11 I have told you all this, that my own joy may be in you and your joy may be complete. 12 This is my commandment: love one another as I have loved you. 13 There is no greater love than this, to give one’s life for one’s friends; 14 and you are my friends if you do what I command you. 15 I shall not call you servants any more, be­cause servants do not know what their mas­ter is about. Instead I have called you friends, since I have made known to you everything I learned from my Father. 16 You did not choose me; it was I who chose you and sent you to go and bear fruit,