Tuesday, First Week of Lent

St. Matthew 6. 7-15: "Pray then in this way: 'Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name'".
The Lord's Prayer "is truly the summary of the whole gospel" (Tertullian).
CCC# 2761-2764.

Monday, First Week of Lent

St. Matthew 25. 31-46: "When the Son of Man comes in his glory, he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates sheep from goats, and he will put the sheep at his right hand and the goats at his left".
The Final Judgement. 
CCC# 1041.

First Sunday of Lent (Year B)

St. Mark 1. 12-15: "He was in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan".
"Alas! My soul also was beautiful, when it received thy grace in baptism; but I have disfigured it since by my sins" (St. Alphonsus Liguori).

Saturday after Ash Wednesday

St. Luke 5. 27-32: "I have come to call not the righteous but sinners to repentance".
The supreme proof of his love will be the sacrifice of his own life "for the forgiveness of sins".
CCC# 545.

Friday after Ash Wednesday

St. Matthew 9.14-15: "The wedding guests cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them, can they?"
"Christ loved the Church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her".
"As head he calls himself the bridegroom, as body, he calls himself bride" (St. Augustine).
CCC# 796.  

Thursday after Ash Wednesday

St. Luke 9. 22-25: "If any want to become my followers let them deny themselves take up their cross daily and follow me".
"What does it profit a man to gain the whole world , but lose or forfeit themselves".
CCC#1435.

Ash Wednesday

Joel 2.12-18: "Even now," says the Lord, "return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping and with morning; rend your hearts and not your clothing".
"Repent and believe in the Gospel" (Formula for the reception of ashes).
CCC# 1434-1439.

Tuesday, Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)

St. Mark 9.30-37: "Whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all".
We are truly "slaves of Christ".
CCC# 876

Monday, Seventh Week in Ordinary Time (Year A)

St. Mark 9.14-29: "I believe; help my unbelief".
God really wants to help us.
CCC#: 2610.

Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)

St. Mark 2.1-12: "I say to you stand up...And he stood up"
Isaiah 43.18-25: "I, I am He who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins".

Saturday, Sixth Week in Ordinary Time (Year A)

St. Mark 9.2-13: "And he was transfigured before them".
"You Truly are the splendor of the Father" (St. Thomas Aquinas).
CCC#: 554-556.

Wednesday, Sixth Week in Ordinary Time (Year A)

St. Mark 8.22-26: "Jesus laid his hands on his eyes again, and he saw everything clearly".
"Having received the gift of love, let us die to sin and live for God" (St. Fulgentius).
CCC#: 1394.

Memorial of Sts. Cyril and Methodius (February 14)

"Do you still not perceive or understand? Are your hearts hardened?"
Collect: "Grant that our hearts may grasp the words of your teaching, and perfect us as a people of one accord in true faith and right confession".
Sts. Cyril and Methodius are co-patrons of Europe.

Monday, Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)

St. Mark 8.11-13: No sign will be given to this generation
God seeks to give us so much, he loves to bless us.
CCC# 548.

Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)

St. Mark 1.40-45: The healing of a man with leprosy
'If you choose, you can make me clean'...'I do choose. Be made clean!'.
St. John Chrysostom: "Even if we have thousands of acts of great virtue to our credit...it is by mercy that we shall be saved.
CCC# 1443

Memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes (February 11)

(World day of prayer for the sick)
"Grant, that we, who keep the Memorial of the Immaculate Mother of God, may, with the help of her intercession, rise up from our infirmities".
Lumen Gentium 67.
CCC# 490-493.

Friday, Fifth Week in Ordinary Time

St. Mark 7.31-37
"Jesus sighed and said to the man 'Ephphata'. And immediately his ears were opened".
From the Rite of Baptism: "May he soon touch your ears to receive his word, and your mouth to proclaim his faith, to the praise and glory of God the Father."
CCC#549

Thursday, Fifth Week in Ordinary Time (Year A)

St. Mark 7.24-30. 
"Even the dogs under the table eat the childrens' crumbs".
Humility in prayer.
St. Augustine: "Man is a beggar before God".
CCC #2557.

Tuesday, Fifth Week in Ordinary Time (Year A)

St. Mark 7.1-13

Memorial of St. Paul Miki and his Companions

February 5th

Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B)

Job 7.1-4,6-7; St. Mark 1.29-39

Saturday, Fourth Week in Ordinary Time (Year A)

St. Mark 6.30-34

Friday, Fourth Week in Ordinary Time (Year A)

St. Mark 6. 14-29

Feast of the Presentation of the Lord

St. Luke 2. 22-40