The call of Levi reveals how the Lord invites all of us, without fancy language or fanfare, to follow and offer our lives to him.
Mass Readings – Saturday after Ash Wednesday (#222)
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St. John of God, pray for us!
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Daily Mass: Christ calls us to follow him. Catholic Inspiration
Daily Mass: God welcomes our humble and contrite hearts. Catholic Inspiration
Psalm 51 powerfully presents an invitation for us to repent of our sins and humble our hearts, encouraging us to return to the Lord.
Mass Readings – Friday after Ash Wednesday (#221)
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St. Perpetua & St. Felicity, pray for us!
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Daily Mass: We choose life in the Lord. Catholic Inspiration
Moses sets before the people life and death, blessing and curse…urging them to choose life!
Mass Readings – Thursday after Ash Wednesday (#220)
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Ash Wednesday: The gifts of alms, prayer, and fasting. Catholic Inspiration
As we embark on this holy season of Lent, we consider how we will apply in our lives today the Lord’s insights about the classical spiritual practices of almsgiving, prayer, and fasting.
Mass Readings – Ash Wednesday (#219)
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May this Lent be a time profound grace and blessing for us all as we draw close to Christ and one another.
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Daily Mass: We detach from possessions to draw near to the Lord. Catholic Inspiration
The Lord reveals the powerful way that possessions can dominate our lives, inviting us to detach from “stuff” so we can draw near to Christ.
Mass Readings – Monday of the 8th Week of the Year (#347)
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St. Katharine Drexel, pray for us!
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Study, Pray, Serve: 1st Sunday of Lent
Let’s examine some of the main themes that we find in the Mass readings for the 1st Sunday of Lent.
1st Reading – Deuteronomy 26:4-10
- Moses recalls God’s mighty works that freed the people from slavery in Egypt.
- Inspired by this memory they now bring forth the firstfruits of their produce to honor the Lord in the Promised Land.
Psalm – 91:1-2,10-15
- “Be with me, Lord, when I am in trouble.”
- We place our trust in God, who sustains us when we are in distress.
2nd Reading – Romans 10:8-13
- If we confess with the mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in our heart that God raised him, we will be saved.
- This salvation in Christ is available to all, there is no distinction between Jew and Greek.
Gospel – Luke 4:1-13
- Jesus, filled with the Holy Spirit, is led by the Spirit into the desert for forty days to be tempted by the devil.
- The Lord responds to the devil’s temptations, quoting Scripture until the devil departs for a time.
Mass Readings – 1st Sunday of Lent (#24)
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8th Sunday of the Year: We know the tree by its fruit. Catholic Inspiration
The Lord offers a rich spiritual insight to help us discern human hearts by the fruitfulness of our lives.
Mass Readings – 8th Sunday of the Year (#84)
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Daily Mass: We bless our children with faith and life. Catholic Inspiration
Jesus commands that the children come to him for a blessing, inspiring us to engage our kids with time, attention, and good example.
Mass Readings – Saturday of the 7th Week of the Year (#346)
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Daily Mass, We root out the destructive power of sin. Catholic Inspiration
Jesus teaches about the destructive consequences of sin, inviting us to turn away from it corrosive power.
Mass Readings, Thursday of the 7th Week of the Year, No. 344
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St. Gregory of Narek, pray for us!
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Daily Mass: We are either for or against the Lord. Catholic Inspiration
Christ corrects the apostle John, reminding him that no one can do a mighty deed in the Lord’s name and at the same time speak ill of him. In the end, we are either for or against Jesus.
Mass Readings – Wednesday of the 7th Week of the Year (#343)
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Catholic Inspiration – Podcast Archives of Homilies & Talks- Daily Mass: Jesus Christ is the great I AM
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