Sunday Readings & Builders' Messages

Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time FIRST READING -2 Kings 4:42-44 42 A man came from Baal-shalishah bringing to Elisha, the man of God,...

Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time FIRST READING -Amos 7: 12-15 12 Amaziah, priest of Bethel, said to Amos, “Off with you, visionary, flee...

Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time FIRST READING -Ezekiel 2:2-5 2 As the Lord spoke to me, spirit entered into me and set me on my feet,...

Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time FIRST READING - Wisdom 1:13-15; 2:23-24 13 God did not make death, nor does he rejoice in the...

Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time FIRST READING - Job 38:1, 8-11 1 The Lord addressed Job out of the storm and said: 8 Who shut within...

Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time FIRST READING - Ezekiel 17:22-24 22 Thus says the Lord God:I, too, will take from the crest of the...

Corpus Christi FIRST READING - Exodus 24:3-8 3 When Moses came to the people and related all the words and ordinances of the Lord, they...

PENTECOST SUNDAY FIRST READING - Acts 2: 1-11 1 When the time for Pentecost was fulfilled, they were all in one place together. 2 And...

SOLEMNITY OF THE ASCENSION OF THE LORD FIRST READING - Acts 1:1-11 1 In the first book, Theophilus, I dealt with all that Jesus did and...

SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER FIRST READING - Acts 10: 25-26, 34-35, 44-48 25 When Peter entered, Cornelius met him and, falling at his feet,...

FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER FIRST READING - Acts 9: 26-31 26 When Saul arrived in Jerusalem he tried to join the disciples, but they were all...

FOURTH SUNDAY OF EASTER FIRST READING - Acts 4: 8-12 8 Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said: “Leaders of the people and elders: 9 If...

THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER FIRST READING - Acts 3: 13-15, 17-19 13 Peter said to the people: “The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the...

SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER FIRST READING - Acts 4: 32-35 32 The community of believers was of one heart and mind, and no one claimed that...

EASTER SUNDAY FIRST READING - Acts 10: 34, 37-43 34 Peter proceeded to speak and said, 37 “You know what has happened all over Judea,...

TWENTY-FOURTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME FIRST READING - Sirach 27: 30- 28:7 30 Wrath and anger are hateful things, yet the sinner hugs them...

TWENTY-SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME FIRST READING - Jeremiah 20: 7-9 7 You duped me, O Lord, and I let myself be duped; you were too...

TWENTY-FIRST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME FIRST READING - Isaiah 22: 15, 19-23 15 Thus says the Lord to Shebna, master of the palace: 19 “I...

TWENTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME FIRST READING - Isaiah 56: 1, 6-7 1 Thus says the Lord: Observe what is right, do what is just; for my...

Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time FIRST READING - Wisdom 12: 13, 16-19 13 There is no god besides you who have the care of all, that you...