Liturgical Colour : Green
Psalm 14 : 2-3ab, 3cd-4ab, 5
Those who walk blamelessly and do what is right, who speak truth from their heart and control their words, who do no harm to their neighbours.
Those who cast no discredit on their companions, who look down on evildoers but highly esteem God’s servants.
Who do not lend money at interest and refuse a bribe against the innocent. Do this, and you will soon be shaken.
Liturgical Colour : White
Psalm 96 : 1 and 2b, 5-6, 10, 11-12
The Lord reigns; let the earth rejoice; let the distant islands be glad. Justice and right are His throne.
The mountains melt like wax before the Lord, the Lord of all the earth. The heavens proclaim His justice, all peoples see His glory.
You who love the Lord, hate evil, for He preserves the lives of His faithful, He delivers them from their foes.
He sheds light upon the upright, and gladness upon the just. Rejoice in the Lord, you who are blameless, and give praise to His holy Name.
Liturgical Colour : Green
Psalm 102 : 6-7, 8-9, 10-11, 12-13
The Lord restores justice and secures the rights of the oppressed. He has made known His ways to Moses and His deeds to the people of Israel.
The Lord is gracious and merciful, abounding in love and slow in anger; He will not always scold nor will He be angry forever.
He does not treat us according to our sins, nor does He punish us as we deserve. As the heavens are high above the earth, so great is His love for those fearing Him.
As far as the east is from the west, so far does He remove from us our sins. As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord pities those who fear Him.
Liturgical Colour : Green or White (Bishops and Saturday Mass of our Lady)
Tobit 13 : 2cdef, 6fghi, 6klmn
It is God who punishes and He who has mercy; who makes people go down to hell and rise up again. No one can escape His hand.
If you turn back to Him with all your heart and soul, and live justly before Him, then He will turn back to you and will no longer hide His face from you.
Liturgical Colour : White
Psalm 67 : 10-11, 20-21
Then You gave a rain of blessing to comfort Your weary children. Your people found a dwelling and in Your mercy, o God, You provided for the needy.
Blessed be the Lord, God our Saviour, who daily bears our burdens! Ours is a God who saves; our Lord lets us escape from death.
Liturgical Colour : Violet
Gradual
Psalm 90 : 11-12
Angelis suis Deus mandavit de Te, ut custodiant Te in omnibus viis Tuis.
Response : In manibus portabunt Te, ne umquam offendas ad lapidem pedem Tuum.
English translation
God had given His angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways.
Response : In their hands they shall bear you up, lest you dash your foot against a stone.
Tract
Psalm 90 : 1-7, 11-16
Qui habitat in adjutorio Altissimi, in protectione Dei caelincommorabitur.
Dicet Domino : Susceptor meus es Tu, et refugium meum : Deus meus, sperabo in eum.
Quoniam ipse liberavit me de laqueo venantium et a verbo aspero.
Scapulis suis obumbrabit Tibi, et sub pennis ejus sperabis.
Scuto circumdabit Te veritas ejus : non timebis a timore nocturno.
A sagitta volante per diem, a negotio perambulante in tenebris, a ruina et daemonio meridiano.
Cadent a latere tuo mille, et decem milia a dextris tuis : tibi autem non appropinquabit.
Quoniam Angelis suis mandavit de Te, ut custodiant te in omnibus viis tuis.
In manibus portabunt te, ne umquam offendas ad lapidem pedem tuum.
Super aspidem et basiliscum ambulabis, et conculcabis leonem et draconem.
Quoniam in me speravit, liberabo eum : protegam eum, quoniam cognovit nomen meum.
Invocabit me, et ego exaudiam eum : cum ipso sum in tribulatione.
Eripiam eum et glorificabo eum : longitudine dierum adimplebo eum, et ostendam illi salutare meum.
English translation
He who dwells in the aid of the Most High, shall abide under the protection of the God of heaven.
He shall say to the Lord, You are my Protector and my Refuge. My God, in Him I will trust.
For He had delivered me from the snare of the hunters, and from the sharp word.
He will overshadow you with His shoulders, and under His wings you shall trust.
His truth shall encompass you with a shield. You shall not be afraid of the terror of the night.
Of the arrow that flies in the day, of the business that walks about in the dark, of ruin and the noonday devil.
A thousand shall fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand, but it shall not come nigh to you.
For He had given His angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways.
In their hands they shall bear you up, lest you dash your foot against a stone.
You shall walk upon the asp and the basilisk, and you shall trample under your foot the lion and the dragon.
Because he had hoped in Me, I will deliver him, I will protect him, because he had known My Name.
He shall call upon Me, and I will hear him, I am with him in tribulation.
I will deliver him, and I will glorify him, I will fill him with the length of days, and I will show him My salvation.
Liturgical Colour : Green
Psalm 127 : 1-2, 3, 4-5
Blessed are you who fear the Lord and walk in His ways. You will eat the fruit of your toil; you will be blessed and favoured.
Your wife, like a vine, will bear fruits in your home; your children, like olive shoots will stand around your table.
Such are the blessings bestowed upon the man who fears the Lord. May the Lord bless you from Zion. May you see Jerusalem prosperous all the days of your life.
Liturgical Colour : Green or White (Saturday Mass of our Lady)
Hebrews 13 : 15-17, 20-21
Let us, then, continually offer through Jesus a sacrifice of praise to God, that is the fruit of lips celebrating His Name. Do not neglect good works and common life, for these are sacrifices pleasing to God. Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are concerned for your souls and are accountable for them. Let this be a joy for them rather than a burden, which would be of no advantage for you.
May God give you peace, He who brought back from among the dead Jesus our Lord, the Great Shepherd of the sheep, whose Blood seals the eternal covenant. He will train you in every good work, that you may do His will, for it is He who works in us what pleases Him, through Jesus Christ, to whom all glory be forever and ever. Amen!
Liturgical Colour : Green
Hebrews 10 : 19-25
So, my friends, we are assured of entering the Sanctuary by the Blood of Jesus who opened for us this new and living way passing through the curtain, that is, His Body. Because we have a High Priest in charge of the House of God, let us approach with a sincere heart, with full faith, interiorly cleansed from a bad conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
Let us hold fast to our hope without wavering, because He who promised is faithful. Let us consider how we may spur one another to love and good works. Do not abandon the assemblies as some of you do, but encourage one another, and all the more since the Day is drawing near.
Liturgical Colour : White
Psalm 95 : 1-2a, 2b-3, 7-8a, 10
Sing to the Lord a new song, sing to the Lord, all the earth! Sing to the Lord, bless His Name.
Proclaim His salvation day after day. Recall His glory among the nations, tell all the peoples His wonderful deeds.
Give to the Lord, you families of nations, give to the Lord glory and strength. Give to the Lord the glory due His Name.
Say among the nations, “The Lord reigns!” He will judge the peoples with justice.
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