Daily Mass Readings

Read Our Latest Post – The Catholic Truths in “The Lord of the Rings” First Reading – 2 Kings 17:5-8, 13-15A, 18 Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, occupied the whole land and attacked Samaria, which he besieged for three years. In the ninth year of Hoshea, king of Israel the king …

Read Our Latest Post – The Catholic Truths in “The Lord of the Rings” First Reading – Isaiah 49:1-6 Hear me, O coastlands, listen, O distant peoples. The LORD called me from birth, from my mother’s womb he gave me my name. He made of me a sharp-edged sword and …

Read Our Latest Post – The Catholic Truths in “The Lord of the Rings” First Reading – 2 Chronicles 24:17-25 Like a fire there appeared the prophet Elijah whose words were as a flaming furnace. Their staff of bread he shattered, in his zeal he reduced them to straits; By …

Read Our Latest Post – The Catholic Truths in “The Lord of the Rings” First Reading – 2 Kings 11:1-4, 9-18, 20 When Athaliah, the mother of Ahaziah, saw that her son was dead, she began to kill off the whole royal family. But Jehosheba, daughter of King Jehoram and …

Read Our Latest Post – The Catholic Truths in “The Lord of the Rings” First Reading – Sirach 48:1-14 Like a fire there appeared the prophet Elijah whose words were as a flaming furnace. Their staff of bread he shattered, in his zeal he reduced them to straits; By the …

Read Our Latest Post – The Catholic Truths in “The Lord of the Rings” First Reading – 2 Kings 2:1, 6-14 When the LORD was about to take Elijah up to heaven in a whirlwind, he and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal. Elijah said to Elisha, “Please stay …

Read Our Latest Post – The Catholic Truths in “The Lord of the Rings” First Reading – 1 Kings 21:17-29 After the death of Naboth the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite: “Start down to meet Ahab, king of Israel, who rules in Samaria. He will be in the vineyard …

Read Our Latest Post – The Catholic Truths in “The Lord of the Rings” First Reading – 1 Kings 21:1-16 Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard in Jezreel next to the palace of Ahab, king of Samaria. Ahab said to Naboth, “Give me your vineyard to be my vegetable garden, …

Read Our Latest Post – The Catholic Truths in “The Lord of the Rings” First Reading – Ezekiel 17:22-24 Thus says the Lord GOD: I, too, will take from the crest of the cedar, from its topmost branches tear off a tender shoot, and plant it on a high and …

Read Our Latest Post – The Catholic Truths in “The Lord of the Rings” First Reading – 1 Kings 19:19-21 Elijah set out, and came upon Elisha, son of Shaphat, as he was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen; he was following the twelfth. Elijah went over to him and …