Wednesday of the Third Week of Easter 2020

~Today is also the Memorial of St. Catherine of Siena.~

Collect:
O God, who set Saint Catherine of Siena on fire with divine love in her contemplation of the Lord's Passion and her service for your Church, grant, through her intercession, that your people, participating in the mystery of Christ, may ever exult in the revelation of his glory. Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Readings of the Day:
Acts 8:1B-8
Psalm 66
John 6:35-40

Tuesday of the Third Week of Easter 2020

Collect:
O God, who open wide the gates of the heavenly Kingdom to those reborn of water and the Holy Spirit. pour out on your servants an increase of the grace you have bestowed, that, having been purged of all sins, they may lack nothing that in your kindness you have promised. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Readings of the Day:
Acts 7:51-8:1B
Psalm 31
John 6:30-35

Monday of the Third Week of Easter 2020

Collect:
Grant, we pray, almighty God, that putting off our old self with all of its ways, we may live as Christ did, for through the healing paschal remedies you have conformed us to his nature. Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Readings of the Day:
Acts 6:8-15
Psalm 119
John 6:22-29

Third Sunday of Easter 2020

Collect:
May your people exult for ever, O God, in renewed youthfulness of spirit, so that, rejoicing now in the restored glory of our adoption, we may look forward in confident hope to the rejoicing of the day of resurrection. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Readings of the Day:
Acts 2:14, 22-33
Psalm 16
1 Peter 1:17-21
Luke 24:13-35

Saturday of the Second Week of Easter 2020

~Today is also the Feast of St. Mark.~

Collect:
O God, who raised up Saint Mark, your Evangelist, and endowed him with the grace to preach the Gospel, grant, we pray, that we may so profit from his teaching as to follow faithfully in the footsteps of Christ. Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Readings of the Day:
1 Peter 5:5B-14
Psalm 89
Mark 16:15-20

Friday of the Second Week of Lent 2020

Collect:
O God, hope and light of the sincere, we humbly entreat you to dispose our hearts to offer you worthy prayer and ever to extol you by dutiful proclamation of your praise. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Readings of the Day:
Acts 5:34-42
Psalm 27
John 6:1-15

Thursday of the Second Week of Easter 2020

Collect:
O God, who for the salvation of the world brought about the paschal sacrifice, be favorable to the supplications of your people, so that Christ our High Priest, interceding on our behalf, may by his likeness to ourselves bring us reconciliation, and by his equality with you free us from our sins. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Readings of the Day:
Acts 5:27-33
Psalm 34
John 3:31-36

Wednesday of the Second Week of Easter 2020

Collect:
As we recall year by year the mysteries by which, through the restoration of its original dignity, human nature has received the hope of rising again, we earnestly beseech your mercy, Lord, that what we celebrate in faith we may possess in undending love. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Readings of the Day:
Acts 5:17-26
Psalm 34
John 3:16-21

Tuesday of the Second Week of Easter 2020

Collect:
Enable us, we pray, almighty God, to proclaim the power of the risen Lord, that we, who have received the pledge of his gift, may come to possess all he gives when it is fully revealed. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.


Readings of the Day:
Acts 4:32-37
Psalm 93
John 3:7B-15

Monday of the Second Week of Easter 2020

Collect:
Grant, we pray, almighty God, that we, who have been renewed by paschal remedies, transcending the likeness of our earthly parentage, may be transformed in the image of our heavenly  maker. Through Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Readings of the Day:
Acts 4:23-31
Psalm 2
John 3:1-8

Divine Mercy Sunday 2020

~Today we celebrate Divine Mercy Sunday. A link has been added about this special feast.~

Collect:

God of everlasting mercy, who in the very recurrence of the paschal feast kindle the faith of the people you have made your own, increase, we pray, the grace you have bestowed, that all may grasp and rightly understand in what font they have been washed, by whose Spirit they have been reborn, by whose Blood they have been redeemed. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Readings of the Day:

Acts 2:42-47

Psalm 118

1 Peter 1:3-9

John 20:19-31

Saturday of the Octave of Easter 2020

Collect:
O God, who by the abundance of your grace give increase to the peoples who believe in you, look with favor on those you have chosen and clothe with blessed immortality those reborn through the Sacrament of Baptism. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen.

Readings of the Day:
Acts 4:13-21
Psalm 118
Mark 16:9-15

Friday of the Octave of Easter 2020

Collect:
Almighty ever-living God, who gave us the Paschal Mystery in the covenant you established for reconciling the human race, so dispose our minds, we pray, that what we celebrate by professing the faith we may express in deeds. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Readings of the Day:
Acts 4:1-12
Psalm 118
John 21:1-14

Thursday of the Octave of Easter 2020

Collect:
"O God, who have united the many nations in confessing your name, grant that those reborn in the font of Baptism may be one in the faith of their hearts and the homage of their deeds. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who live and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Readings:
Acts 3:11-26
Psalm 8
Luke 24:35-48

Wednesday of the Octave of Easter 2020

Collect:
O God, who gladden us year by year with the solemnity of the Lord's Resurrection, graciously grant that, by celebrating these present festivities, we may merit through them to reach eternal joys. Through our Lord, Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen.

Readings of the Day:
Acts 3:1-10
Psalm 105
Luke 24:13-35

Tuesday of the Octave of Easter 2020

Collect:
O God, who have bestowed on us paschal remedies, endow your people with heavenly gifts, so that, possessed of perfect freedom, they may rejoice in heaven over what gladdens then now on earth. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen.

Readings of the Day:
Acts 2:36-41
Psalm 33
John 20:11-18

Monday of the Octave of Easter 2020

Collect:

"Grant, Almighty God, that we may withstand the trials of this world with invincible firmness of purpose, just as you did not allow your Martyr Pope Saint Martin the First to be daunted by threats or broken by suffering. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen."

Readings of the Day:

Acts 2:14, 22-33

Psalm 16

Matthew 28:8-15

EASTER SUNDAY 2020

Collect:

O God, who on this day, through your Only Begotten Son, have conquered death and unlocked for us the path to eternity, grant, we pray, that we who keep the solemnity of the Lord's Resurrection may, through the renewal brought by your Spirit, rise up in the light of life. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Easter Sequence:

Christians, to the Paschal Victim

Offer your thankful praises!

A Lamb the sheep redeems;

Christ, who only is sinless,

Reconciles sinners to the Father.

Death and life have contended in that combat stupendous:

The Prince of life, who died, reigns immortal.

Speak, Mary, declaring

What you saw, wayfaring.

“The tomb of Christ, who is living,

The glory of Jesus’ resurrection;

bright angels attesting,

The shroud and napkin resting.

Yes, Christ my hope is arisen;

to Galilee he goes before you.”

Christ indeed from death is risen, our new life obtaining.

Have mercy, victor King, ever reigning!

Amen. Alleluia.

Readings of the Day:

Acts 10:34, 37-43

Psalm 118

Colossians 3:1-4

1 Corinthians 5:6-8

Easter Sequence

John 20:1-9

HOLY SATURDAY 2020

"We wait in darkness for the coming of the LIGHT..."

Collect:

O God, who make this most sacred night radiant with the glory of the Lord's Resurrection, stir up in your Church a spirit of adoption, so that, renewed in body and mind, we may render you undivided service. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Readings of the Easter Vigil:

Genesis 1:1-2:2

Psalm 104

Genesis 22:1-18

Psalm 16

Exodus 14:15-15:1

Exodus 15

Isaiah 54:5-14

Psalm 30

Isaiah 55:1-11

Isaiah 12

Baruch 3:9-15, 32-4:14

Psalm 19

Ezekiel 36:16-28

Psalm 42

Romans 6:3-11

Psalm 118

Matthew 28:1-10

GOOD FRIDAY 2020

Collect:

Remember your mercies, O Lord, and with your eternal protection sanctify your servants for whom Christ your Son, by the shedding of his Blood, established the Paschal Mystery. Who lives and reigns for ever and ever. Amen.

Readings for the Passion of Our Lord:

Isaiah 52:13-53:12

Psalm 31

Hebrews 4:14-16, 5:7-9

John 18:1-19:42

HOLY THURSDAY 2020

Collect:

O God, who have called us to participate in this most sacred Supper, in which your Only Begotten Son, when about to hand himself over to death, entrusted to the Church a sacrifice new for all eternity, the banquet of his love, grant, we pray, that we may draw from so great a mystery, the fullness of charity and of life. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Readings for the Chrism Mass:

Isaiah 61:1-3, 6, 8-9

Psalm 89

Revelations 1:5-8

Luke 4:16-21

Readings for the Evening Mass of the Lord's Supper:

Exodus 12:1-8, 11-14

Psalm 116

1 Corinthians 11:23-26

John 13:1-15

Wednesday of Holy Week 2020

Collect:

O God, by whose wondrous grace we are enriched with every blessing, grant us so to pass from former ways to newness of life, that we may be made ready for the glory of the heavenly Kingdom. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Readings of the Day:

Isaiah 50:4-9

Psalm 69

Matthew 26:14-25

Tuesday of Holy Week 2020

Collect:

Almighty ever-living God, grant us so to celebrate the mysteries of the Lord's Passion that we may merit to receive your pardon. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Readings of the Day:

Isaiah 49:1-6

Psalm 71

John 13:21-33, 36-38

Monday of Holy Week 2020

Collect:

Grant, we pray, almighty God, that, though in our weakness we fail, we may be revived through the Passion of your Only Begotten Son. Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Readings of the Day:

Isaiah 42:1-7

Psalm 27

John 12:1-11

Palm Sunday 2020

Today we celebrate Christ's Procession into Jerusalem which begins our celebration of HOLY WEEK. Let us sing together,

"Hosanna, Hosanna in the Highest! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord."

Special links have been added about Holy Week and about Palm Sunday.

Collect:

Almighty ever-living God, who as an example of humility for the human race to follow caused our Savior to take flesh and submit to the Cross, graciously grant that we may heed his lesson of patient suffering and so merit a share in his Resurrection. Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Readings of the Day:

Matthew 21:1-11 (Palm Processional Gospel)

Isaiah 50:4-7

Psalm 22

Philippians 2:6-11

Matthew 26:14-27:66

Saturday of the Fifth Week of Lent 2020

Collect:

O God, who have made all those reborn in Christ a chosen race and a royal priesthood, grant us, we pray, the grace to will and to do what you command, that the people called to eternal life may be one in the faith of their hearts and the homage of their deeds. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Readings of the Day:

Ezekiel 37:21-28

Jeremiah 31

John 11:45-56

Friday of the Fifth Week of Lent 2020

Collect:

Pardon the offenses of your peoples, we pray, O Lord, and in your goodness set us free from the bonds of the sins we have committed in our weakness. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Readings of the Day:

Jeremiah 20:10-13

Psalm 18

John  10:31-42

Thursday of the FIfth Week of Lent 2020

Collect:

Be near, O Lord, to those who plead before you, and look kindly on those who place their hope in your mercy, that, cleansed from the stain of their sins, they may persevere in holy living and be made full heirs of your promise. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. 

Readings of the Day:

Genesis 17:3-9

Psalm 105

John 8:51-59

Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Lent 2020

Collect:

Enlighten, O God of compassion, the hearts of your children, sanctified by penance, and in your kindness grant those you stir to a sense of devotion a gracious hearing when they cry out to you. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Readings of the Day:

Daniel 3:14-20, 91-92, 95

Daniel 3:52-56

John 8:31-42