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daily reflections
MAy 2021
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may 2021
Saturday, May 1, 2021
St. Joseph the Worker
1st Reading: Acts 13.44-52
Gospel: John 14.7-14
Saturday, May 8, 2021
Blessed Catherine of St. Augustine
1st Reading: Acts 16.1-10
Gospel: John 15.18-21
Sunday, May 2, 2021
5th Sunday of Easter
1st Reading: Acts 9.26-31
2nd Reading: 1 John 3.18-24
Gospel: John 15.1-8
Sunday, May 9, 2021
6th Sunday of Easter
1st Reading: Acts 10.25-26, 34-35, 44-48
2nd Reading: 1 John 4.7-10
Gospel: John 15.9-17
Monday, May 3, 2021
St. Philip + St. James
1st Reading: 1 Corinthians 15.1-8
Gospel: John 14.6-14
Monday, May 10, 2021
St. John of Avila
1st Reading: Acts 16.11-15
Gospel: John 15.26 – 16.4a
Tuesday, May 4, 2021
Blessed Marie-Léonie Paradis
1st Reading: Acts 14.19-28
Gospel: John 14.27-31a
Tuesday, May 11, 2021
6th week of Easter
1st Reading: Acts 16.22-34
Gospel: John 16.5-11
Wednesday, May 5, 2021
5th week of Easter
1st Reading: Acts 15.1-6
Gospel: John 15.1-8
Wednesday, May 12, 2021
St. Nereus + St. Achilleus
1st Reading: Acts 17.15, 22 - 18.1
Gospel: John 16.12-15
Thursday, May 6, 2021
St. François de Montmorency-Laval
1st Reading: 2 Timothy 4.1-5
Gospel: John 10.11-16
Thursday, May 13, 2021
Our Lady of Fatima
1st Reading: Acts 18.1-8
Gospel: John 16.16-20
Friday, May 7, 2021
5th week of Easter
1st Reading: Acts 15.22-31
Gospel: John 15.12-17
Friday, May 14, 2021
St. Matthias
1st Reading: Acts 1.15-17, 20-26
Gospel: John 15.9-17
Saturday, May 15, 2021
6th week of Easter
1st Reading: Acts 18.23-28
Gospel: John 16.23b-28
Monday, May 24, 2021
The Blessed Virgin Mary,
Mother of the Church
1st Reading: Gen 3.9-15, 20 or Acts 1.12-14
Gospel: Jn 19.25-27
Tuesday, May 25, 2021
St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi
1st Reading: Sirach 35.1-15
Gospel: Mark 10.28-31
Wednesday, May 26, 2021
St. Philip Neri
1st Reading: Sirach 36.1-2, 5-6, 13-22
Gospel: Mark 10.32-45
Thursday, May 27, 2021
St. Augustine of Canterbury
1st Reading: Sirach 42.15-25
Gospel: Mark 10.46-52
Friday, May 28, 2021
8th week of Easter
1st Reading: Sirach 44.1, 8-13++
Gospel: Mark 11.11-25
Saturday, May 29, 2021
St. Paul VI
1st Reading: Sirach 51.12-20
Gospel: Mark 11.27-33
Sunday, May 30, 2021
The Most Holy Trinity
1st Reading: Deuteronomy 4.32-34, 39-40
2nd Reading: Romans 8.14-17
Gospel: Matthew 28.16-20
Monday, May 31, 2021
The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
1st Reading: Zephaniah 3.14-18 or Romans 12.9-16
Gospel: Luke 1.39-56
Sunday, May 16, 2021
Ascension of Lord
1st Reading: Acts 1.1-11;
2nd Reading: Eph 1.17-23 or Eph 4.1-13 (or shorter);
Gospel: Mark 16.15-20
Monday, May 17, 2021
7th week of Easter
1st Reading: Acts 19.1-8
Gospel: John 16.29-33
Tuesday, May 18, 2021
St. John I
1st Reading: Acts 20.17-27
Gospel: John 17.1-11a
Wednesday, May 19, 2021
7th week of Easter
1st Reading: Acts 20.28-38
Gospel: John 17.11b-19
Thursday, May 20, 2021
St. Bernadine of Siena
1st Reading: Acts 22.30; 23.6-11
Gospel: John 17.20-26
Friday, May 21, 2021
St. Eugène de Mazenod
1st Reading: Acts 24.27; 25.13b-21++
Gospel: John 21.15-19
Saturday, May 22, 2021
St. Rita of Cassia
1st Reading: Acts 28.16-20, 30-31
Gospel: John 21.20-25
Sunday, May 23, 2021
Pentecost Sunday
1st Reading: Acts 2.1-11
2nd Reading: 1 Corinthians 12.3b-7, 12-13 or
Galatians 5.16-25
Gospel: John 20.19-23 or John 15.26-27; 16.12-15
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