Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Is 35:4-7a/Jas 2:1-5/Mk 7:31-37
“Listen, my beloved brothers and sisters. Has not God chosen the poor in the world to be rich in faith and to be heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?”
James 2:5, NRSVCE
Monday
1 Cor 5:1-8/Lk 6:6-11
“Then Jesus said to them, “I ask you, is it lawful to do good or to do harm on the sabbath, to save life or to destroy it?” After looking around at all of them, he said to him, “Stretch out your hand.” He did so, and his hand was restored. But they were filled with fury and discussed with one another what they might do to Jesus.”
Luke 6:9-11, NRSVCE
Tuesday
1 Cor 6:1-11/Lk 6:12-19
“Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! Fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, sodomites, thieves, the greedy, drunkards, revilers, robbers—none of these will inherit the kingdom of God. And this is what some of you used to be. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.”
1 Corinthians 6:9-11, NRSVCE
Wednesday
1 Cor 7:25-31/Lk 6:20-26
“Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you, revile you, and defame you on account of the Son of Man. Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, for surely your reward is great in heaven; for that is what their ancestors did to the prophets.”
Luke 6:22-23, NRSVCE
Thursday
1 Cor 8:1b-7, 11-13/Lk 6:27-38
“If anyone supposes he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know. But if one loves God, one is known by him.”
1 Corinthians 8:2-3, NABRE
Friday
1 Cor 9:16-19, 22b-27/Lk 6:39-42
“ How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me remove that splinter in your eye,’ when you do not even notice the wooden beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! Remove the wooden beam from your eye first; then you will see clearly to remove the splinter in your brother’s eye.”
Luke 6:42, NABRE
Saturday: The Exultation of the Holy Cross
Nm 21:4b-9/Phil 2:6-11/Jn 3:13-17
“he humbled himself,
becoming obedient to death,
even death on a cross”
Philippians 2:8, NABRE
