MASS READINGS: Gospel Matthew 5:20-26 Jesus said to his disciples: "I tell you, unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes...

"The task of evangelizing all people constitutes the essential mission of the Church. It is a task and mission which the vast and profound changes of present-day society make all the more urgent. Evangelizing is in fact the grace and vocation proper to the Church, her deepest identity. She exists in order to evangelize." ~ Saint Paul VI, Pope

MASS READINGS Gospel Matthew 5:17-19 Jesus said to his disciples: “Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I...

READINGS Reading 1 2 Corinthians 1:18-22 Brothers and sisters: As God...

Gospel John 19:25-34 Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, ...

The fresco of Pentecost in the church Dreifaltigkeitskirche by August Müller (1923). MASS READINGS Reading 1 Genesis 11:1-9 The whole...

MASS READINGS: Gospel John 21:20-25 Peter turned and saw the disciple following whom Jesus loved, the one who had also reclined upon his...

MASS READING: Gospel John 21:15-19 After Jesus had revealed himself to his disciples and eaten breakfast with them, he said to Simon...

MASS READINGS: Gospel John 17:20-26 Lifting up his eyes to heaven, Jesus prayed saying: I pray not only for these, but also for those who...

MASS READINGS: Reading 1 Acts 20:28-38 At Miletus, Paul spoke to the presbyters of the Church of Ephesus: “Keep watch over yourselves and...

READINGS Gospel John 17:1-11a...

Gospel John 16:29-33 The disciples said to Jesus, "Now you are talking plainly, and not in any figure of speech. Now we realize that you...

POPE'S PRAYER INTENTIONS FOR JUNE Pray for migrants fleeing wars or hunger, forced journeys full of danger and violence, to find...

MASS READINGS Responsorial Psalm Psalm 97:1-2, 6-7, 9 The Lord is king, the most high over all the earth The LORD is king; let the earth...

MASS READINGS: Gospel Luke 1:39-56 Mary set out and traveled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah, where she entered the house...

MASS READING: Gospel John 16:20-23 Jesus said to his disciples: “Amen, amen, I say to you, you will weep and mourn, while the world...

Betty Leffler (left), and Catherine (right) On this sacred morning of May 29, 2025, the Solemnity of the Ascension of Our Lord, we mourn...

"When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead." (Rev. 1: 17) As Christians we strive to have a close, even personal, relationship...

MASS READINGS: Reading I Acts 1:1-11 In the first book, Theophilus, I dealt with all that Jesus did and taught until the day he was taken...

MASS READINGS: Gospel John 16:12-15 Jesus said to his disciples: "I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now. But when he...