Calendarium Romanum Forma Ordinaria
Sunday, August 2 : Saint Romanos Melodios
Seeing that day was speeding on towards its setting, the apostles of the Redeemer hastened to find him, calling: “Lord, day is almost over and all these people are faint with hunger but, as you know, this is a desert place. Send them away before nightfall so that they can buy bread in the villages. […]
Sunday, August 2 : Letter to the Romans 8,35.37-39.
What will separate us from the love of Christ? Will anguish, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or the sword? No, in all these things we conquer overwhelmingly through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor present things, nor future […]
Sunday, August 2 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 14,13-21.
When Jesus heard of the death of John the Baptist, he withdrew in a boat to a deserted place by himself. The crowds heard of this and followed him on foot from their towns. When he disembarked and saw the vast crowd, his heart was moved with pity for them, and he cured their sick. […]
Sunday, August 2 : Psalms 145(144),8-9.15-16.17-18.
The LORD is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and of great kindness. The LORD is good to all and compassionate toward all his works. The eyes of all look hopefully to you, and you give them their food in due season; You open your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing. The […]
Sunday, August 2 : Book of Isaiah 55,1-3.
Thus says the LORD: All you who are thirsty, come to the water! You who have no money, come, receive grain and eat; come, without paying and without cost, drink wine and milk! Why spend your money for what is not bread; your wages for what fails to satisfy? Heed me, and you shall eat […]
Saturday, August 1 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 14,1-12.
Herod the tetrarch heard of the reputation of Jesus and said to his servants, “This man is John the Baptist. He has been raised from the dead; that is why mighty powers are at work in him.” Now Herod had arrested John, bound (him), and put him in prison on account of Herodias, the wife […]
Saturday, August 1 : Saint John Damascene
“No one has ever seen God. The only Son who is at the Father’s side, has revealed hom” (Jn 1:18). Divinity is inexpressible and incomprehensible: “No one knows the Father except the Son, and no one knows the Son except the Father” (cf. Mt 11:27) and, similarly, the Holy Spirit knows what is of God… […]
Saturday, August 1 : Psalms 69(68),15-16.30-31.33-34.
Rescue me out of the mire; may I not sink! May I be rescued from my foes, and from the watery depths. Let not the flood-waters overwhelm me, nor the abyss swallow me up, nor the pit close its mouth over me. I am afflicted and in pain; let your saving help, O God, protect […]
Saturday, August 1 : Book of Jeremiah 26,11-16.24.
The priests and prophets said to the princes and to all the people, “This man deserves death; he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears.” Jeremiah gave this answer to the princes and all the people: “It was the LORD who sent me to prophesy against this house and […]
Friday, July 31 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 13,54-58.
Jesus came to his native place and taught the people in their synagogue. They were astonished and said, “Where did this man get such wisdom and mighty deeds? Is he not the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother named Mary and his brothers James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas? Are not his sisters all with us? […]
Friday, July 31 : Saint Hilary
So long as I enjoy that breath of life granted to me by you, Holy Father, Almighty God, I will proclaim you as God eternal, but also as Father eternal. Never will I set myself up as judge of your almighty power and mysteries; never will I set my limited understanding before the true appreciation […]
