Category: Word of the Lord

3rd Sunday of Easter

On the Road to Emmaus – Luke 24:13—35 That very day, the first day of the week, two of Jesus’ disciples were going to a village seven miles from Jerusalem called Emmaus, and they were conversing about all the things that had occurred. And it happened that while they were

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2nd Sunday of Easter

Jesus Appears to His Disciples – John 20:19—31  On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked, where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, “Peace be with you.” When he had

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Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord

The Empty Tomb of Jesus – John 20:1—9  On the first day of the week, Mary of Magdala came to the tomb early in the morning, while it was still dark, and saw the stone removed from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and to the

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Easter Vigil of the Resurrection of the Lord

Jesus has Risen – Matthew 28:1—10  After the sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb. And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, approached, rolled back the stone,

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Celebration of the Passion of the Lord

The Passion of Jesus – John 18:1—19:42  Jesus went out with his disciples across the Kidron valley to where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered. Judas his betrayer also knew the place, because Jesus had often met there with his disciples. So Judas got a

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Mass of the Lord’s Supper

Jesus Washed His Disciples’ Feet – John 13:1—15  Before the feast of Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to pass from this world to the Father. He loved his own in the world and he loved them to the end. The devil had already induced Judas, son of

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Chrism Mass (Gospel)

Jesus Fulfilled the Scripture – Luke 4:16—21  Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had grown up, and went according to his custom into the synagogue on the sabbath day. He stood up to read and was handed a scroll of the prophet Isaiah. He unrolled the scroll and found the

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Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord

The Passion of Jesus – Matthew 26:14—27:66  One of the Twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said, “What are you willing to give me if I hand him over to you?” They paid him thirty pieces of silver, and from that time on he

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5th Sunday of Lent

Jesus Raises Lazarus from the Dead – John 11:1—45  Now a man was ill, Lazarus from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. Mary was the one who had anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and dried his feet with her hair; it was her brother Lazarus who

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4th Sunday of Lent | Laetare Sunday

Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind – John 9:1—41  As Jesus passed by he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “Neither he nor his parents sinned; it is so that the

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