Calendarium Romanum Forma Ordinaria
Sunday, August 23 : Letter to the Romans 11,33-36.
Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How inscrutable are his judgments and how unsearchable his ways! “For who has known the mind of the Lord or who has been his counselor?” “Or who has given him anything that he may be repaid?” For from him and through him and […]
Sunday, August 23 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 16,13-20.
Jesus went into the region of Caesarea Philippi and he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” They replied, “Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter said […]
Sunday, August 23 : Psalms 138(137),1-2a.2bc-3.6.8.
I will give thanks to you, O LORD, with all my heart, for you have heard the words of my mouth; in the presence of the angels I will sing your praise; I will worship at your holy temple. I will give thanks to your name, because of your kindness and your truth. When I […]
Sunday, August 23 : Book of Isaiah 22,19-23.
Thus says the LORD to Shebna, master of the palace: “I will thrust you from your office and pull you down from your station. On that day I will summon my servant Eliakim, son of Hilkiah; I will clothe him with your robe, and gird him with your sash, and give over to him your […]
Saturday, August 22 : Saint Pio of Pietralcina “Padre Pio”
Do not cease to do acts of humility and love towards God and human beings. For God speaks to the person who keeps his heart humble before him, and God enriches him with his gifts. If God has the sufferings of his Son in store for you and wants to let you touch with your […]
Saturday, August 22 : Psalms 85(84),9ab-10.11-12.13-14.
I will hear what God proclaims; the LORD –for he proclaims peace to his people. Near indeed is his salvation to those who fear him, glory dwelling in our land. Kindness and truth shall meet; justice and peace shall kiss. Truth shall spring out of the earth, and justice shall look down from heaven. The […]
Saturday, August 22 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 23,1-12.
Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his disciples, saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees have taken their seat on the chair of Moses. Therefore, do and observe all things whatsoever they tell you, but do not follow their example. For they preach but they do not practice. They tie up heavy burdens (hard to […]
Saturday, August 22 : Book of Ezekiel 43,1-7a.
The angel led me to the gate which faces the east, and there I saw the glory of the God of Israel coming from the east. I heard a sound like the roaring of many waters, and the earth shone with his glory. The vision was like that which I had seen when he came […]
Friday, August 21 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 22,34-40.
When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a scholar of the law, tested him by asking, “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He said to him, “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and […]
Friday, August 21 : Saint Augustine
There is not one who does not love something, but the question is, what to love. The psalms do not tell us not to love, but to choose the object of our love. But how can we choose unless we are first chosen? We cannot love unless someone has loved us first. Listen to the […]
Friday, August 21 : Psalms 107(106),2-3.4-5.6-7.8-9.
Let the redeemed of the LORD say, those whom he has redeemed from the hand of the foe and gathered from the lands, from the east and the west, from the north and the south. They went astray in the desert wilderness; the way to an inhabited city they did not find. Hungry and thirsty, […]
