Universal Roman Catholic Faith and Traditions

First Reading: Second Chronicles 36: 14-17, 19-23 Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 137: 1-2, 3, 4-5, 6 Second Reading: Ephesians 2: 4-10 Holy Gospel: John 3: 14-21 Holy Gospel: 14 As Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 so that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. 16 Yes, God so loved the world that he gave his only Son that whoever believes in him may not be lost, but may have eternal life. 17 God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world; instead, through him the world is to be saved. 18 Whoever believes in him will not be condemned. He who does not believe is already condemned, because he has not believed in the Name of the only Son of God. 19 This is how the Judgment is made: Light has come into the world and people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. 20 For whoever does wrong hates the light and doesn’t come to the light for fear that his deeds will be sho...

First Reading: Daniel 3: 25, 34-43 Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 25: 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 Holy Gospel: Matthew 18: 21-35 Holy Gospel: 21 Then Peter asked him, “Lord, how many times must I forgive the offenses of my brother or sister? Seven times?” 22 Jesus answered, “No, not seven times, but seventy-seven times. 23 This story throws light on the kingdom of heaven. A king decided to settle the accounts of his servants. 24 Among the first was one who owed him ten thousand gold ingots. 25 As the man could not repay the debt, the king commanded that he be sold as a slave with his wife, children and all his goods in payment. 26 The official threw himself at the feet of the king and said, ‘Give me time, and I will pay you back everything.’ 27 The king took pity on him and not only set him free but even canceled his debt. 28 This official then left the king’s presence and he met one of his companions who owed him a hundred pieces of silver. He grabbed him by the ...

First Reading: Second Kings 5: 1-15 Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 42: 2, 3; 43: 3, 4 Holy Gospel: Luke 4: 24-30 Holy Gospel: 24 Jesus added, “No prophet is honored in his own country. 25 Truly, I say to you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heavens withheld rain for three years and six months and a great famine came over the whole land. 26 Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow of Zarephath, in the country of Sidon. 27 There were also many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha, the prophet, and no one was healed except Naaman, the Syrian.” 28 On hearing these words, the whole assembly became indignant. 29 They rose up and brought him out of the town, 30 to the edge of the hill on which Nazareth is built, intending to throw him down the cliff. But he passed through their midst and went his way. First Reading:  1 Naaman was the army commander of the king of Aram. This man was highly regarded and en...

First Reading: Exodus 20: 1-17 Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 19: 8, 9, 10, 11 Second Reading: First Corinthians 1: 22-25 Holy Gospel: John 2: 13-25 Holy Gospel: 13 As the Passover of the Jews was at hand, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 In the Temple court he found merchants selling oxen, sheep and doves, and money-changers seated at their tables. 15 Making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the Temple court, together with the oxen and sheep. He knocked over the tables of the money-changers, scattering the coins, 16 and ordered the people selling doves, “Take all this away and stop turning my Father’s house into a marketplace!” 17 His disciples recalled the words of Scripture: Zeal for your House devours me as a fire. 18 The Jews then questioned Jesus, “Where are the miraculous signs which give you the right to do this?” 19 And Jesus said, “Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up.” 20 The Jews then replied, “The building of th...

First Reading: Micah 7: 14-15, 18-20 Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 103: 1-2, 3-4, 9-10, 11-12 Holy Gospel: Luke 15: 1-3, 11-32 Holy Gospel: 1 Meanwhile tax collectors and sinners were seeking the company of Jesus, all of them eager to hear what he had to say. 2 But the Pharisees and the scribes frowned at this, muttering. “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.” 3 So Jesus told them this parable: 11 Jesus continued, “There was a man with two sons. 12 The younger said to his father: ‘Give me my share of the estate.’ So the father divided his property between them. 13 Some days later, the younger son gathered all his belongings and started off for a distant land where he squandered his wealth in loose living. 14 Having spent everything, he was hard pressed when a severe famine broke out in that land. 15 So he hired himself out to a well to do citizen of that place and was sent to work on a pig farm. 16 So famished was he that he longed to ...