Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Sir 27:4-7/1 Cor 15:54-58/Lk 6:39-45
“Therefore, my beloved brothers, be firm, steadfast, always fully devoted to the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.”
1 Corinthians 15:58, NABRE
Monday
Sir 17:20-24/Mk 10:17-27
“Jesus answered him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone. You know the commandments: ‘You shall not kill; you shall not commit adultery; you shall not steal; you shall not bear false witness; you shall not defraud; honor your father and your mother.’”
Mark 10:18-19, NABRE
Tuesday
Sir 35:1-12/Mk 10:28-31
“To keep the law is to make many offerings;
whoever observes the commandments sacrifices a peace offering.”
Ben Sira 35:1-2, NABRE
Ash Wednesday
Jl 2:12-18/2 Cor 5:20—6:2/Mt 6:1-6, 16-18
“Yet even now—oracle of the Lord—
return to me with your whole heart,
with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”
Joel 2:12, NABRE
Thursday
Dt 30:15-20/Lk 9:22-25
“Then he said to them all, “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will save it. What does it profit them if they gain the whole world, but lose or forfeit themselves?”
Luke 9:23-25, NRSVCE
Friday
Is 58:1-9a/Mt 9:14-15
“Shout out, do not hold back!
Lift up your voice like a trumpet!
Announce to my people their rebellion,
to the house of Jacob their sins.”
Isaiah 58:1, NRSVCE
Saturday
Is 58:9b-14/Lk 5:27-32
“After this he went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax booth; and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he got up, left everything, and followed him.”
Luke 5:27-28, NRSVCE
