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Monday in the Octave of Easter Mt 28:8-15 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/28?8 They approached, embraced his feet, and did him homage. Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid. Go tell my brothers to go to Galilee, and there they will see me.”
Holy Thursday -Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper Jn 13:1-15 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/john/13?1 So when he had washed their feet and put his garments back on and reclined at table again, he said to them, “Do you realize what I have done for you? You call me ‘teacher’ and ‘master,’ and rightly so, for indeed I am. If I, therefore, the master and teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash one another’s feet. I have given you a model to follow, so that as I have done for you, you should also do.”
Wednesday of Holy Week Mt 26:14-25 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/26?14 The Son of Man indeed goes, as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed. It would be better for that man if he had never been born.” Then Judas, his betrayer, said in reply, “Surely it is not I, Rabbi?” He answered, “You have said so.”
Tuesday of Holy Week Jn 13:21-33, 36-38 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/john/13?21 Reclining at table with his disciples, Jesus was deeply troubled and testified, "Amen, amen, I say to you, one of you will betray me." The disciples looked at one another, at a loss as to whom he meant.
Monday of Holy Week Jn 12:1-11 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/john/12?1 Then Judas the Iscariot, one of his disciples, and the one who would betray him, said, "Why was this oil not sold for three hundred days' wages and given to the poor?" He said this not because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief and held the money bag and used to steal the contributions.
Friday of the Fifth Week of Lent Jn 10:31-42 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/john/10?31 Many came to him and said, “John performed no sign, but everything John said about this man was true.” And many there began to believe in him.
Thursday of the Fifth Week of Lent Jn 8:51-59 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/john/8?51 Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, before Abraham came to be, I AM.”
Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Lent Jn 8:31-42 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/john/8?31 Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and am here; I did not come on my own, but he sent me."
Solemnity of Saint Joseph, Husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary Mt 1:16, 18-21, 24a https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/1?16 Jacob was the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary. Of her was born Jesus who is called the Christ.
Monday of the Fifth Week of Lent Jn 8:1-11 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/john/8?1 “Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.”
Friday of the Fourth Week of Lent Jn 7:1-2, 10, 25-30 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/john/7?1 So Jesus cried out in the temple area as he was teaching and said, "You know me and also know where I am from. Yet I did not come on my own, but the one who sent me, whom you do not know, is true. I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me."
Thursday of the Fourth Week of Lent Jn 5:31-47 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/john/5?31 "I do not accept human praise; moreover, I know that you do not have the love of God in you. I came in the name of my Father, but you do not accept me; yet if another comes in his own name, you will accept him."
Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Lent Jn 5:17-30 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/john/5?17 "I cannot do anything on my own; I judge as I hear, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will but the will of the one who sent me."
Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent Jn 5:1-16 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/john/5?1 When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been ill for a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be well?" The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; while I am on my way, someone else gets down there before me." Jesus said to him, "Rise, take up your mat, and walk." Immediately the man became well, took up his mat, and walked.
Monday of the Fourth Week of Lent Jn 4:43-54 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/john/4?43 Then he returned to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. Now there was a royal official whose son was ill in Capernaum. When he heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, who was near death. Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will not believe.”
Friday of the Third Week of Lent Mk 12:28-34 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/mark/12?28 One of the scribes came to Jesus and asked him, "Which is the first of all the commandments?" Jesus replied, "The first is this: Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is Lord alone! You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. The second is this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these."
Thursday of the Third Week of Lent Lk 11:14-23 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/luke/11?14 "Every kingdom divided against itself will be laid waste and house will fall against house. And if Satan is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that it is by Beelzebul that I drive out demons. If I, then, drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your own people drive them out?"
Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent Mt 5:17-19 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/5?17 Jesus said to his disciples: “Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill."
Tuesday of the Third Week of Lent Mt 18:21-35 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/18?21 Peter approached Jesus and asked him, “Lord, if my brother sins against me, how often must I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus answered, “I say to you, not seven times but seventy-seven times."
Monday of the Third Week of Lent Lk 4:24-30 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/luke/4?24 Jesus said to the people in the synagogue at Nazareth: “Amen, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own native place."
Friday of the Second Week of Lent Mt 21:33-43, 45-46 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/21?33 Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the Scriptures: The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; by the Lord has this been done, and it is wonderful in our eyes?
Thursday of the Second Week of Lent Lk 16:19-31 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/luke/16?19 Jesus said to the Pharisees: "There was a rich man who dressed in purple garments and fine linen and dined sumptuously each day. And lying at his door was a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who would gladly have eaten his fill of the scraps that fell from the rich man's table. Dogs even used to come and lick his sores."
Wednesday of the Second Week of Lent Mt 20:17-28 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/20?17 But Jesus summoned them and said, "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and the great ones make their authority over them felt. But it shall not be so among you. Rather, whoever wishes to be great among you shall be your servant; whoever wishes to be first among you shall be your slave. Just so, the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many."
Tuesday of the Second Week of Lent Mt 23:1-12 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/23?1 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 carry and lay them on people's shoulders, but they will not lift a finger to move them."
Monday of the Second Week in Lent Lk 6:36-38 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/luke/6?36 Jesus said to his disciples: "Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. Stop judging and you will not be judged. Stop condemning and you will not be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven."
Friday of the First Week of Lent Mt 5:20-26 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/5?20 Jesus said to his disciples: "I tell you, unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter into the Kingdom of heaven."
Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter Mt 16:13-19 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/16?13 "And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys to the Kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”
Wednesday of the First Week in Lent Lk 11:29-32 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/luke/11?29 While still more people gathered in the crowd, Jesus said to them, “This generation is an evil generation; it seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it, except the sign of Jonah. Just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will the Son of Man be to this generation."
Tuesday of the First Week of Lent Mt 6:7-15 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/6?7 Jesus said to his disciples: “In praying, do not babble like the pagans, who think that they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them. Your Father knows what you need before you ask him."
Monday of the First Week of Lent Mt 25:31-46 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/25?31 "Come, you who are blessed by my Father. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me, naked and you clothed me, ill and you cared for me, in prison and you visited me."
