Daily Readings for July, 2026 – Updated Daily

Daily Readings for Sunday July 26, 2026

– Ninth Sunday after Pentecost — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year

Liturgy of the Hours

– Divine Office | Sunday Lauds | July 26, 2026

– =Divine Office | Sunday Vespers II | July 26, 2026

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– The Greatest Treasure – Sunday, July 26, 2026

– Keith Nester – Unpacking the Mass – 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A

Saint John Henry Newman (1801-1890)

Cardinal, founder of the Oratory in England, theologian, Doctor of the Church
Sermon « The Invisible World » PPS, vol. 4, no.13
The parables of the Kingdom

Such is the hidden kingdom of God; and, as it is now hidden, so in due season it shall be revealed. Men think that they are lords of the world, and may do as they will… At present, “all things,” to appearance, “continue as they were from the beginning of the creation;” and scoffers ask, “Where is the promise of His coming?” (2Pt 3,4) but at the appointed time there will be a “manifestation of the sons of God,” and the hidden saints “shall shine out as the sun in the kingdom of their Father” (Rm 8,19; Mt 13,43).

When the Angels appeared to the shepherds, it was a sudden appearance… The night had before that seemed just like any other night; as the evening on which Jacob saw the vision seemed like any other evening (Gen 28,11). They were keeping watch over their sheep; they were watching the night as it passed. The stars moved on,—it was midnight. They had no idea of such a thing when the Angel appeared. Such are the power and virtue hidden in things which are seen, and at God’s will they are manifested…

1962 Missal
Readings & Reflection

First Epistle to the Corinthians 10,6-13.
Now these things were done in a figure of us, that we should not covet evil things, as they also coveted.
Neither become ye idolaters, as some of them, as it is written: The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them that committed fornication: and there fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them tempted and perished by the serpent.
Neither do you murmur, as some of them murmured and were destroyed by the destroyer.
Now all these things happened to them in figure: and they are written for our correction, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
Wherefore, he that thinketh himself to stand, let him take heed lest he fall.
Let no temptation take hold on you, but such as is human. And God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that which you are able: but will make also with temptation issue, that you may be able to bear it.

Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 19,41-47.
And when he drew near, seeing the city, he wept over it, saying:
If thou also hadst known, and that in this thy day, the things that are to thy peace: but now they are hidden from thy eyes.
For the days shall come upon thee: and thy enemies shall cast a trench about thee and compass thee round and straiten thee on every side,
And beat thee flat to the ground, and thy children who are in thee. And they shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone: because thou hast not known the time of thy visitation.
And entering into the temple, he began to cast out them that sold therein and them that bought.
Saying to them: It is written: My house is the house of prayer. But you have made it a den of thieves.
And he was teaching daily in the temple. And the chief priests and the scribes and the rulers of the people sought to destroy him.

Isaac the Syrian (7th century)
monk near Mosul
Ascetical discourses, 1st series, no. 60 (trad. DDB 1981, p. 323)
Weeping with Christ

Do not despise sinners because we are all guilty. If you rise up against him for love of God, weep for him, rather. Why despise him? Despise his sins and pray for him if you would be like Christ, who was not angered at sinners but prayed for them (cf. Lk 23:24). Don’t you see how he wept over Jerusalem? For we too have been played around with by the devil more than once. Why despise someone just like ourselves, who has been a plaything of the devil who taunts us all? You who are merely a man, why despise the sinner? Is it because he is not righteous like you? But where is your righteousness so long as you have no love? Why did you not weep over him? To the contrary, you persecute him. It is because of their ignorance that some people are annoyed with others – those who think they have discernment into the works of sinners.

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Ninth Sunday After Pentecost Sermon. – Padre Peregrino

-“For the idea of making idols was the beginning of fornication, and the invention of them was the corruption of life.”—Wisdom 14:12. But Mary is the compass to lead us to Christ against all diabolical disorientation.

Feast / Saint of the Day

St. Ann, the Grandmother of Our Lord (26 July): Always Hold off till the End

Daily Readings for Saturday July 25, 2026

St. James the Great (July 25) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year

Liturgy of the Hours

– Divine Office | Saturday Lauds | July 25, 2026, Feast of St. James

– Divine Office | Saturday Vespers I | July 25, 2026

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– Greatness Through Service – Saturday, July 25, 2026

Benedict XVI

pope from 2005 to 2013
General Audience, 21 June 2006 – Copyright © Libreria Editrice Vaticana
“My cup you will indeed drink”

This James belongs, together with Peter and John, to the group of the three privileged disciples whom Jesus admitted to important moments in his life. Since it is very hot today, I want to be brief and to mention here only two of these occasions. James was able to take part, together with Peter and John, in Jesus’ Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane and in the event of Jesus’ Transfiguration. Thus, it is a question of situations very different from each other: in one case, James, together with the other two Apostles, experiences the Lord’s glory and sees him talking to Moses and Elijah, he sees the divine splendour shining out in Jesus. On the other occasion, he finds himself face to face with suffering and humiliation, he sees with his own eyes how the Son of God humbles himself, making himself obedient unto death. The latter experience was certainly an opportunity for him to grow in faith, to adjust the unilateral, triumphalist interpretation of the former experience: he had to discern that the Messiah, whom the Jewish people were awaiting as a victor, was in fact not only surrounded by honour and glory, but also by suffering and weakness. Christ’s glory was fulfilled precisely on the Cross, in his sharing in our sufferings.

This growth in faith was brought to completion by the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, so that James, when the moment of supreme witness came, would not draw back. Early in the first century, in the 40s, King Herod Agrippa, the grandson of Herod the Great, as Luke tells us, “laid violent hands upon some who belonged to the Church. He had James, the brother of John, killed by the sword” (Ac 12: 1-2)… Consequently, we can learn much from St James: promptness in accepting the Lord’s call even when he asks us to leave the “boat” of our human securities (Mt 4:21), enthusiasm in following him on the paths that he indicates to us over and above any deceptive presumption of our own, readiness to witness to him with courage, if necessary to the point of making the supreme sacrifice of life. Thus James the Greater stands before us as an eloquent example of generous adherence to Christ. He, who initially had requested, through his mother, to be seated with his brother next to the Master in his Kingdom, was precisely the first to drink the chalice of the passion and to share martyrdom with the Apostles.

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Readings & Reflection

First Epistle to the Corinthians 4,9-15.
Brethren, We are made a spectacle to the world, and to angels, and to men.
We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ: we are weak, but you are strong: you are honourable, but we without honour.
Even unto this hour we both hunger and thirst and are naked and are buffeted and have no fixed abode.
And we labour, working with our own hands. We are reviled: and we bless. We are persecuted: and we suffer it.
We are blasphemed: and we entreat. We are made as the refuse of this world, the offscouring of all, even until now.
I write not these things to confound you: but I admonish you as my dearest children.
For if you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, by the gospel, I have begotten you.

Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 20,20-23.
The mother of the sons of Zebedee came with her sons, adoring and asking something of Jesus.
Who said to her: What wilt thou? She saith to him: say that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left, in thy kingdom.
And Jesus answering, said: You know not what you ask. Can you drink the chalice that I shall drink? They say to him: We can.
He saith to them: My chalice indeed you shall drink; but to sit on my right or left hand is not mine to give to you, but to them for whom it is prepared by my Father.

Saint Gregory the Great (c.540-604)

Pope, Doctor of the Church
Homilies on the Gospel, no.35 (trans. ©Cistercian studies, 123)
“My cup you will indeed drink”

We are celebrating today the heavenly birthday of a martyr. We must not consider ourselves altogether strangers to his virtue of patience. If with the Lord’s help we are striving to observe the virtue of patience, though we are living in a time of peace for the Church, yet we are holding the palm of martyrdom. There are in truth two kinds of martyrdom: one in the heart, the other in heart and action at the same time. And so we can be martyrs, even if we are not slain by anyone’s sword. To die at the hands of a persecutor is unmistakably martyrdom; to bear insults, to love one who hates us, is martyrdom in our secret thought.

Truth, who asked the sons of Zebedee: “Are you able to drink the cup that I am to drink?” testifies that there are two kinds of martyrdom, one in our secret actions, the other in public. When they immediately answered: “We are able,” the Lord replied: “You will indeed drink my cup”. What do we understand by his cup except his passion, of which he said elsewhere: “Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me”? (Mt 26,39) But the sons of Zebedee, James, that is, and John, did not both die as martyrs; yet each heard that he would drink of the cup. John did not end his life in martyrdom, yet was a martyr, because he sustained in his heart the suffering he did not undergo in his body. We too, following his example, can be martyrs without a sword, if we truly guard patience in our minds.

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– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS JUL 25, 2026

Feast / Saint of the Day

– St. James the Greater (25 July): Thunderstruck

Daily Readings for Friday July 24, 2026

– St. Christina of Bolsena (July 24) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year

Liturgy of the Hours

– Friday Lauds | July 24, 2026 | Divine Office

– Friday Vespers | July 24, 2026 | Divine Office

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– Bearing Lasting Fruit – Friday, July 24, 2026

Saint John Chrysostom (c.345-407)

priest at Antioch then Bishop of Constantinople, Doctor of the Church
Homily 44 on Saint Matthew, 3-4
“Anyone who has ears to hear, let them hear”

Now these things Christ said in the parable of the sower, manifesting that he discoursed to all without grudging. For as the sower makes no distinction in the land submitted to him, but simply and indifferently casts his seed; so Christ himself too makes no distinction between rich and poor, wise and unwise, slothful and diligent, brave and cowardly; but he discourses to all, fulfilling his allotted role even though he foreknows the end result. Thus it is to be in his power to say: “What ought I to have done, that I have not done?” (Is 5:4)…

But he speaks this parable as though anointing his disciples and to teach them that, even though there are more lost ones than there are those who receive the word, yet they should not despair. For this was the case even with their Lord and he, who fully foreknew that this was how it would be, neverthless did not desist from sowing.

But how can it be reasonable, someone says, to sow among the thorns, on the rock, along the wayside? So far as the seeds and the earth are concerned it cannot be reasonable at all! But as regards people’s souls and their instruction, it is extremely praiseworthy. For a farmer could indeed be reasonably blamed for doing such a thing, it being impossible for rock to become earth, or the wayside not to be a wayside, or thorns, thorns. But where rational beings are concerned it is not so. There is such a thing as rocky ground being changed and becoming rich land; and the wayside being no longer trampled on, nor lying open to all that pass by, but becoming a fertile field; and thorns being destroyed and the seed securely flourishing. For had it been impossible then this Sower would not have sown. And if the transformation did not take place in all, that is no fault of the Sower but of those who were unwilling to be changed, his task having been accomplished. And if they betrayed what they received from him then he, who demonstrates such love to them, is blameless.

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Readings & Reflection

Epistle to the Romans 8,12-17.
Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh to live according to the flesh.
For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die: but if by the Spirit you mortify the deeds of the flesh, you shall live.
For whosoever are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
For you have not received the spirit of bondage again in fear: but you have received the spirit of adoption of sons, whereby we cry: Abba (Father).
For the Spirit himself giveth testimony to our spirit that we are the sons of God.
And if sons, heirs also; heirs indeed of God and joint heirs with Christ: yet so, if we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified with him.

Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 16,1-9.
And he said also to his disciples: There was a certain rich man who had a steward: and the same was accused unto him, that he had wasted his goods.
And he called him and said to him: How is it that I hear this of thee? Give an account of thy stewardship: for now thou canst be steward no longer.
And the steward said within himself: What shall I do, because my lord taketh away from me the stewardship? To dig I am not able; to beg I am ashamed.
I know what I will do, that when I shall be removed from the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.
Therefore, calling together every one of his lord’s debtors, he said to the first: How much dost thou owe my lord?
But he said: An hundred barrels of oil. And he said to him: Take thy bill and sit down quickly and write fifty.
Then he said to another: And how much dost thou owe? Who said: An hundred quarters of wheat. He said to him: Take thy bill and write eighty.
And the lord commended the unjust steward, forasmuch as he had done wisely: for the children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light.
And I say to you: Make unto you friends of the mammon of iniquity: that when you shall fail, they may receive you into everlasting dwellings.

Saint Gregory Nazianzen (330-390)

Bishop and Doctor of the Church
Homily 14, On love for the poor, § 23-25 ; PG 35, 887
“The person who is trustworthy in very small matters is also trustworthy in great ones”

You should know where your own existence comes from, breath, intellect, and what is most precious of all: knowledge of God; from where comes hope of the kingdom of heaven and of beholding the glory that, at present, you see only dimly as in a mirror but that, tomorrow, you will see in all its purity and brilliance (1 Cor 13:12). From whence does it come that you are a child of God, inheritor along with Christ (Rm 8:16-17) and, dare I say it, that you yourself are a god ? Where does all this come from, and through whom ?

Again, to speak only of things of lesser importance, those that are obvious: who granted you sight of the beauty of the heavens, the movement of the sun, the cycle of the moon, the countless stars and, in it all, the harmony and order governing them ? (…) Who gave you the rain, the cultivation of the land, food, art, laws, cities, a civilized life, close relationships with people like yourself ?

Isn’t it from He who, before all else and in return for all His gifts, requires of you to love humankind ? (…) When He, our God and Lord, is not ashamed to be called our Father, are we going to deny our brethren ? No, my brothers and friends, do not let us be dishonest stewards of the good things confided to us.

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– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS JUL 24, 2026

Feast / Saint of the Day
– St. Christina the Astonishing (24 July): Someone Who Came Back from the Other Side

Daily Readings for Thursday July 23, 2026

– St. Apollinaris (July 23) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year

Liturgy of the Hours

– Thursday Lauds | July 23, 2026 | Divine Office

– Thursday Vespers | July 23, 2026 | Divine Office

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– Hearts That Truly Hear – Thursday, July 23, 2026

St Bridget of Sweden (v. 1303-1373)

mother of family, then religious, co-patron of Europe
Prayer attributed to St Bridget
Blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear!

Blessed are you, Jesus Christ my Lord, who predicted your death before its time; who, at the Last Supper, wonderfully consecrated with material bread your body which redeems us; who gave it out of love to the apostles in memory of your most precious Passion; you who, by washing their feet with your most holy and noble hands, humbly gave them a model of humility….

Eternal praise to you, Jesus Christ my Lord, for this hour when you suffered on the cross, for us sinners, the greatest bitterness and the most extreme anguish; for the very acute sufferings of your wounds severely affected your soul and cruelly pierced your sacred heart; finally your heart burst, you gave up your spirit and, bowing your head, you humbly placed yourself in the hands of God your Father, and then your body experienced the cold of death…

Blessed are you, Jesus Christ my Lord, who for our salvation hast allowed your side and your heart to be pierced by the spear, and who has caused streams of your precious blood to flow from your side to redeem us.

Glory to you, Jesus Christ my Lord, because you wanted your blessed body to be taken down from the cross by your friends and laid in the arms of your most sorrowful mother; and because you allowed her to wrap him in cloths, that he be placed in the tomb and guarded by soldiers.

Eternal honor to you, Jesus Christ my Lord, who rose from the dead on the third day; who manifested yourself alive to the witnesses of your choice; who, after forty days, ascended into heaven in the sight of many, and established there with honor your friends whom you had delivered from hell.

Jubilation and eternal praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ, who sent the Holy Spirit into the hearts of your disciples and developed in them an infinite love of God.

Blessed are you, worthy of praise and glory forever, Jesus my Lord, who sits enthroned in your heavenly kingdom in the glory of your divinity, living bodily with your most holy members which you took from the flesh of the Virgin. And so you will come on the day of judgment to judge the souls of all, living and dead. You who live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit for ever and ever. Amen.

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Readings & Reflection

First Epistle of Saint Peter 5,1-11.
Dearly beloved, The ancients therefore that are among you, I beseech, who am myself also an ancient, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ: as also a partaker of that glory which is to be revealed in time to come :
Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking care of it, not by constraint but willingly, according to God: not for filthy lucre’s sake but voluntarily:
Neither as lording it over the clergy but being made a pattern of the flock from the heart.
And when the prince of pastors shall appear, you shall receive a never fading crown of glory.
In like manner, ye young men, be subject to the ancients. And do you all insinuate humility one to another: for God resisteth the proud, but to the humble he giveth grace.
Be you humbled therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in the time of visitation:
Casting all your care upon him, for he hath care of you.
Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour.
Whom resist ye, strong in faith: knowing that the same affliction befalls, your brethren who are in the world.
But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little, will himself perfect you and confirm you and establish you.
To him be glory and empire, for ever and ever. Amen.

Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 22,24-30.
And there was also a strife amongst them, which of them should seem to be the greater.
And he said to them: The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them; and they that have power over them are called beneficent.
But you not so: but he that is the greater among you, let him become as the younger: and he that is the leader, as he that serveth.
For which is greater, he that sitteth at table or he that serveth? Is not he that sitteth at table? But I am in the midst of you, as he that serveth.
And you are they who have continued with me in my temptations:
And I dispose to you, as my Father hath disposed to me, a kingdom;
That you may eat and drink at my table, in my kingdom: and may sit upon thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Saint Gregory Nazianzen (330-390)

Bishop and Doctor of the Church
Homily no.45, for Easter; PG 36, 633 (trans. breviary 1st Tuesday of Advent)
“Behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved”

The Son of God himself, who is before all ages, the invisible, the incomprehensible, the bodiless, the beginning from the beginning, light from the light, source of life and immortality, image of the archetype, immovable seal, unchangeable image, the Father’s definition and Word, he it is who came to his own image (Gn 1,27) and took to himself flesh for the sake of our flesh. Then he united himself with an intelligent soul for my soul’s sake, purifying like by like. He took to himself all that is human, except sin… He who enriches others becomes poor. He took to himself the poverty of my flesh so that I might obtain the riches of his godhead (2 Cor 8,9). He who is full empties himself. He emptied himself of his godhead for a brief time so that I might share in his fulness.

What is this wealth of goodness ? What is this mystery that touches me ? I received the divine image and I did not keep it. He receives my flesh to save the image and grant immortality to the flesh. This, his second communion with us, is far more marvellous than the first… It was necessary that holiness be conferred on man through the humanity God took to himself. In this way, conquering the tyrant by force, he freed us and led us back to himself through his Son, the mediator. The Son brought this about to the honour of the Father to whom, in all things, he is seen to defer.

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– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS JUL 23, 2026

Feast / Saint of the Day
St. Apollinaris (23 July): Give God Your Life

Daily Readings for Wednesday July 22, 2026

– St. Mary Magdalene (July 22) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year

Liturgy of the Hours

– Wednesday Lauds | July 22, 2026 | Divine Office

– Wednesday Vespers | July 22, 2026 | Divine Office

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Book of hours of Sinai (9th century)
Stichera of the Resurrection
Through your resurrection, you have raised our souls

Lord, although You appeared before the tribunal when You were judged by Pilate, You did not abandon the throne upon which You sit with the Father; having risen from the dead, You liberated the world from the bondage of the Enemy in order to save our souls.

Lord, when You were nailed to the cross and stretched out Your two hands, You abolished by Your power the dominion of death; and, having descended into the realm of the dead, You delivered the souls held therein; through Your resurrection, You raised up our souls as well and enlightened them.

Lord, although You were laid in the tomb like a corpse, it was as a sleeping King that the soldiers guarded You—as if over a treasure of life that they had sealed; yet You rose again and bestowed incorruptibility upon our souls.

Lord, in proclaiming Your Resurrection, Your angel struck fear into the guards, yet he addressed the women with these words: “Why do you seek the Living One among the dead? He has risen—for He is God—and He has given life to the universe!”

– Called by Name – Wednesday, July 22, 2026

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Readings & Reflection

Song of Songs 3,2-5.8,6-7.
I will rise, and will go about the city: in the streets and the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, and I found him not.
The watchmen who keep the city, found me: Have you seen him, whom my soul loveth?
When I had a little passed by them, I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him: and I will not let him go, till I bring him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that bore me.
I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes and the harts of the fields, that you stir not up, nor awake my beloved, till she please.
Put me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thy arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy as hard as hell, the lamps thereof are fire and flames.
Many waters cannot quench charity, neither can the floods drown it: if a man should give all the substance of his house for love, he shall despise it as nothing.

Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 7,36-50.
And one of the Pharisees desired Jesus to eat with him. And Jesus went into the house of the Pharisee and sat down to meat.
And behold a woman that was in the city, a sinner, when she knew that he sat at meat in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster box of ointment.
And standing behind at his feet. she began to wash his feet with tears and wiped them with the hairs of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment.
And the Pharisee, who had invited him, seeing it, spoke within himself, saying: This man, if he were if a prophet, would know surely who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him, that she is a sinner.
And Jesus answering, said to him: Simon, I have somewhat to say to thee. But he said: Master, say it.
A certain creditor had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence and the other fifty.
And whereas they had not wherewith to pay, he forgave them both. Which therefore of the two loveth him most?
Simon answering, said: I suppose that he to whom he forgave most. And he said to him: Thou hast judged rightly.
And turning to the woman, he said unto Simon: Dost thou see this woman? I entered into thy house: thou gavest me no water for my feet. But she with tears hath washed my feet; and with her hairs hath wiped them.
Thou gavest me no kiss. But she, since she cane in, hath not ceased to kiss my feet.
My head with oil thou didst not anoint. But she with ointment hath anointed my feet.
Wherefore, I say to thee: Many sins are forgiven her, because she hath loved much. But to whom less is forgiven, he loveth less.
And he said to her: Thy sins are forgiven thee.
And they that sat at meat with him began to say within themselves: Who is this that forgiveth sins also?
And he said to the woman: Thy faith hath made thee safe. Go in peace.

Saint Gertrude of Helfta (1256-1301)

Benedictine nun
The Herald of Divine Love, Book III, ch. 30 (SC 143. Trans. © Margaret Winkworth, 1993)
The divine Heart attracted by our humility

Sometimes when meditating she began to see her interior deformities and to be so displeased with herself that with anxiety she would wonder how she could ever be pleasing to God, who would see so many stains in her, for where she saw only one stain the penetrating eyes of the divinity would see an infinite number.

She was reassured about this by the divine reply: “Love makes pleasing.” By this she understood that if on earth human love has such power that sometimes it makes the deformed pleasing, for love’s sake, to those who love them, and even at times so pleasing that the lovers, through the power of love, want to resemble their loved ones, how then be distrustful of God, who is Love itself? Cannot he, through the power of love, make pleasing those whom he loves?

Another time, when she was downcast at the memory of her former sins to such an extent that she desired only to hide herself completely, the Lord deigned to incline with such gracious condescension toward her that the whole court of heaven seemed to be trying to restrain him as if in astonishment. The Lord responded thus: “Nothing can restrain me from following her when she so powerfully attracts my heart by the cords of her humility.”

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– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS JUL 22, 2026

Feast / Saint of the Day

– St. Mary Magdalene (22 July): Do not Worry About the Past

Daily Readings for Tuesday July 21, 2026

Also view Readings for July at
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– St. Praxedes (July 21) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year

Liturgy of the Hours

– Tuesday Lauds | July 21, 2026 | Divine Office

– Tuesday Vespers | July 21, 2026 | Divine Office

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– Belonging to Christ – Tuesday, July 21, 2026

Saint Gertrude of Helfta (1256-1301)

Benedictine nun
The Herald; Book IV ‘The fruit of good will’
Do the will of the Holy Spirit

Gertrude listened attentively to the Epistle (2 Cor 6:1–10) in order to choose from among the virtues enumerated therein, those most useful to imitate and to teach to others. And as she received no spiritual illumination on this matter, she said to the Lord: “Teach me, O my most sweet Beloved, which of these virtues are those through which I may serve You in a manner that is particularly pleasing to You—since, alas! I cannot each day apply myself to every single one through extraordinary effort.”

The Lord replied: “Note well that, amidst the other virtues, these words are inserted: ‘in the Holy Spirit’ (cf. 2 Cor 6:6); and because the Spirit is good will, strive above all else to possess a good will. In this way, you shall possess the radiance and the specific perfection of all the virtues; for the will alone gains more than anything that could be accomplished or acquired through outward acts. He whose entire will seeks to surpass the praise of every creature—to give Me thanks, to love Me, to share in My sorrows, and to practice every virtue in the most perfect manner possible—that man, undoubtedly, shall be amply rewarded by My divine generosity with the recompense for countless deeds that no human being could ever have accomplished through their own works.”

Then the Holy Spirit—the Paraclete—stepping forward into the midst and standing directly before the soul, began to flood with the marvelous radiance of His divine splendor in the center of the soul (…) where the soul could behold, laid bare, the enormity of its own wretchedness. Thus, through the power of this divine light, that soul—now utterly stripped of all wretchedness—was granted the blessedness of being immersed in the living fountain of the light that never fades.

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Readings & Reflection

Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 5,13-19.
At that time, Jesus said to His disciples: You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt lose its savor, wherewith shall it be salted? It is good for nothing any more but to be cast out, and to be trodden on by men.
You are the light of the world. A city seated on a mountain cannot be hid.
Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but upon a candlestick, that it may shine to all that are in the house.
So let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
Do not think that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
For amen I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot, or one tittle shall not pass of the law, till all be fulfilled.
He therefore that shall break one of these least commandments, and shall so teach men shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven. But he that shall do and teach, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible
Saint Augustine (354-430)

Bishop of Hippo (North Africa) and Doctor of the Church
Treatise on the Psalms, 149
“I have come, not to abolish, but to fulfil”

Brethren, let us “sing to the Lord a new song.” (Ps 149:1) To the old man, the old song; to the new man, a new song. The Old Testament is an old song, the New Testament a new song. The first covenant concerns mostly temporal and earthly promises. People who remain attached to the things of the earth still sing an old song. In order to sing the new song, a person must love eternal things. That love is both new and eternal; it is always new, because it never grows old.

But if we think about it, this love is very old. How could it be new? My brethren, was eternal life born yesterday? Eternal life is Christ and, as God, he was not born yesterday. For “In the beginning was the Word (…) and the Word was God. He was present to God in the beginning. Through him all things came into being, and apart from him nothing came to be.” (Jn 1:1 f.) If he made what is old, what is he other than eternal, co-eternal with the Father? It is we who, by sin, have fallen into senescence (…). Human beings have become old as a consequence of sin. It is by God’s grace that we are renewed. All who are thus renewed in Christ sing a new song for they are beginning to be established in eternal life.

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– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS JUL 21, 2026

Feast / Saint of the Day
St. Lawrence Brindisi (21 July): You Just Never Know – Sensus Fidelium

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– St. Jerome Emiliani (July 20) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year

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– A Heart That Responds – Monday, July 20, 2026

Saint Cyril of Jerusalem (313-350)

Bishop of Jerusalem, Doctor of the Church
Catechesis no.20/2nd mystagogy (SC 126, p.111f. rev.) (Trans. Edward Yarnold OP)

The sign of Jonah

You were conducted by the hand to the holy pool of sacred baptism, just as Christ was conveyed from the cross to the sepulchre close at hand [in this Church of the Holy Sepulchre]. Each person was asked if he believed in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. You made the confession that brings salvation, and submerged yourselves three times in the water and emerged: by this symbolic gesture you were secretly re-enacting the burial of Christ three days in the tomb. For just as our Savior spent three days and nights in the bosom of the earth, so you upon first emerging were representing Christ… You saw nothing when immersed as if it were night, but you emerged as if to the light of day. In one and the same action you died and were born; ,the water of salvation became both tomb and mother for you…

What a strange and astonishing situation! We did not really die, we were not really buried, we did not really hang from a cross and rise again. Our imitation was symbolic, but our salvation a reality. Christ truly hung from a cross, was truly buried, and truly rose again. All this he did gratuitously for us, so that we might share his sufferings by imitating them, and gain salvation in actuality. What transcendent kindness! Christ endured nails in his innocent hands and feet, and suffered pain; and by letting me participate in the pain without anguish or sweat, he freely bestows salvation on me…

We know well that not merely does baptism cleanse sins and bestow on us the gift of the Holy Spirit – it is also the sign of Christ’s suffering. This is why, as we heard just now, Paul cried out: “Are you unaware that we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were indeed buried with him through baptism into death”… So in order that we may realise that Christ endured all his sufferings for us and our salvation actually and not in make-believe, and that we share in his pains, Paul cried out the literal truth: “If we have grown into union with him through a death like his, we shall also be united with him in the resurrection,” (Rom 6,3-5).

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Readings & Reflection

Book of Isaiah 58,7-11.
Deal thy bread to the hungry, and bring the needy and the harbourless into thy house: when thou shalt see one naked, cover him, and despise not thy own flesh. Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thy health shall speedily arise, and thy justice shall go before thy face, and the glory of the Lord shall gather thee up. Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall hear: thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou wilt take away the chain out of the midst of thee, and cease to stretch out the finger, and to speak that which profiteth not.
When thou shalt pour out thy soul to the hungry, and shalt satisfy the afflicted soul, then shall thy light rise up in darkness, and thy darkness shall be as the noonday. And the Lord will give thee rest continually, and will fill thy soul with brightness, and deliver thy bones, and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a fountain of water whose waters shall not fail.

Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 19,13-21.
Then were little children presented to him, that he should impose hands upon them and pray. And the disciples rebuked them. But Jesus said to them: Suffer the little children, and forbid them not to come to me: for the kingdom of heaven is for such.
And when he had imposed hands upon them, he departed from thence. And behold one came and said to him: Good master, what good shall I do that I may have life everlasting? Who said to him: Why askest thou me concerning good? One is good, God. But if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. He said to him: Which? And Jesus said: Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness. Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. The young man saith to him: All these have I kept from my youth, what is yet wanting to me?
Jesus saith to him: If thou wilt be perfect, go sell what thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.

Saint Clement of Alexandria (150- c.215)

theologian
Homily “How can the rich be saved?”
“Happy the poor in spirit” (Mt 5:3)

We should not reject those goods that may potentially be of use to our neighbor. It is in the nature of possessions to be possessed and that of goods to spread good. God intended them for man’s well being. Our goods lie in our hands like tools, instruments that we can put to good use so long as we know how to wield them… Nature has made a servant of wealth, not a mistress. So we shouldn’t decry it since it is neither good not bad in itself but completely neutral. We ourselves are alone responsible for the use, good or bad, which we make of it. Our minds, our consciences are entirely set free from disposing as they choose of the goods entrusted to them. What we should destroy are not our goods but the covetousness that perverts their use. When we have acquired integrity then we shall know how to use them with integrity. Those goods we are told to get rid of we should understand to be the unregulated desires of the soul (…) You gain nothing from depriving yourself of your money if you remain rich in unregulated desires (…)

See how the Lord conceived of the use of external goods: we need to detach ourselves, not from the money that enables us to live, but from the forces that cause us to use it badly, namely sicknesses of the soul (…) We need to purify our souls, that is to say, make them poor and naked and, in that state, listen to the Lord’s call: “Come, follow me.” He is the way along which the pure of heart walk (…) Here is a man who thinks of his fortune, his gold, silver, houses, as graces from God, and he shows Him his thanks by succoring the poor from his own resources. He knows well that he possesses these goods more for the sake of his brothers than for himself; he remains stronger than his wealth and is far from becoming its slave; he does not lock it up in his heart (…) And if, one day, his money is about to disappear, he accepts his ruin with just as joyful a heart as in the days of his prosperity. Now this man, I say, God declares blessed and calls “poor in spirit” (Mt 5:3); he is a certain heir of the Kingdom of heaven, which will be closed to those who could not look beyond their own wealth.

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– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS JUL 20, 2026

Feast / Saint of the Day
– St. Jerome Emiliani (20 July): Souls Need to Be Taken Care Of

Daily Readings for Sunday July 19, 2026

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– Eighth Sunday after Pentecost — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year

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– Growing with Grace – Sunday, July 19, 2026

– Keith Nester – Unpacking The Mass -16th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A

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Readings & Reflection

Epistle to the Romans 8,12-17.
Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die: but if by the Spirit you mortify the deeds of the flesh, you shall live. For whosoever are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For you have not received the spirit of bondage again in fear: but you have received the spirit of adoption of sons, whereby we cry: Abba (Father). For the Spirit himself giveth testimony to our spirit that we are the sons of God.
And if sons, heirs also; heirs indeed of God and joint heirs with Christ: yet so, if we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified with him.

Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 16,1-9.
And he said also to his disciples: There was a certain rich man who had a steward: and the same was accused unto him, that he had wasted his goods.
And he called him and said to him: How is it that I hear this of thee? Give an account of thy stewardship: for now thou canst be steward no longer. And the steward said within himself: What shall I do, because my lord taketh away from me the stewardship? To dig I am not able; to beg I am ashamed. I know what I will do, that when I shall be removed from the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses. Therefore, calling together every one of his lord’s debtors, he said to the first: How much dost thou owe my lord? But he said: An hundred barrels of oil. And he said to him: Take thy bill and sit down quickly and write fifty. Then he said to another: And how much dost thou owe? Who said: An hundred quarters of wheat. He said to him: Take thy bill and write eighty. And the lord commended the unjust steward, forasmuch as he had done wisely: for the children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light.
And I say to you: Make unto you friends of the mammon of iniquity: that when you shall fail, they may receive you into everlasting dwellings.

Saint Gregory Nazianzen (330-390)

Bishop and Doctor of the Church
Homily 14, on love for the poor, 24-26 ; PG 35, 890-891 (trans. breviary 1st Monday in Lent)
“Make friends for yourselves with dishonest wealth, so that… you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings”: come to the aid of the poor

Brethren and friends, let us by no means be wicked stewards of God’s gift to us. If we are we will have to listen to Saint Peter saying: “Be ashamed, you who hold back what belongs to another, take as an example the justice of God and no one will be poor. While others suffer poverty, let us not labor to hoard and pile up money, for if we do, holy Amos will threaten us sharply in these words: “Hear this, you who say: ‘When will the new moon be over that we may sell; and the Sabbath, that we may open up our treasures?’” (8:5)…

Let us imitate the first and most important law of God, “who sends his rain on the just and on sinners and makes the sun shine on every person equally” (Mt 5:45). God opens up the earth, the springs, the streams and the woods to all who live in the world. He gives the air to the birds, the water to the fish, and the basic needs of life abundantly to all, without restriction or limitation or preference. These basic goods are common to all, provided by God generously and with nothing lacking. He has done this so that creatures of the same nature may receive equal gifts and that he may show us how rich is his kindness… So imitate this divine mercy.

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– Padre Peregrino – 8th Sunday After Pentecost Sermon

– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS JUL 19, 2026

Feast / Saint of the Day
– St. Vincent de Paul (19 July): Accept the Suffering

Daily Readings for Saturday July 18, 2026

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– St. Camillus of Lellis (July 18) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year

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– The Gentle Savior – Saturday, July 18, 2026

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Readings & Reflection

First Epistle of Saint John 3,13-18.
Wonder not, brethren, if the world hate you.
We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not abideth in death. Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer. And you know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in himself. In this we have known the charity of God, because he hath laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. He that hath the substance of this world and shall see his brother in need and shall shut up his bowels from him: how doth the charity of God abide in him? My little children, let us not love in word nor in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

Holy Gospel according to Saint John 15,12-16.
This is my commandment, that you love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends, if you do the things that I command you. I will not now call you servants: for the servant knoweth not what his lord doth. But I have called you friends. because all things, whatsoever I have heard of my Father, I have made known to you. You have not chosen me: but I have chosen you; and have appointed you, that you should go and should bring forth fruit; and your fruit should remain: that whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

Saint Gregory the Great (c.540-604)

Pope, Doctor of the Church
Homilies on the Gospels, no. 27 ; PL 76, 1204 (©Cistercian studies series; no.123)

“This is my commandment: love one another as I love you”

Since all of our Lord’s sacred utterances contain commandments, why does he say about love as if it were a special commandment: “This is my commandment, that you love one another?” It is because every commandment is about love, and they all add up to one commandment because whatever is commanded is founded on love alone. As a tree’s many branches come from one root, so do many virtues come forth from love alone. The branch which is our good works has no sap unless it remains attached to the root of love. Our Lord’s commandments are then both many and one: many through the variety of the works, one in their root which is love.

Our Lord himself instructs us to love our friends in him, and our enemies for his sake. That person truly possesses love who loves his friend in God and his enemy for God’s sake.

There are some people who love their neighbors, drawn by blood relationship or by natural affection, and Scripture does not oppose this kind of love. But what we give freely and naturally is one thing, and the obedience we owe to the Lord’s commandments out of love is another. Those I’ve mentioned indisputably love their neighbors… but their love does not come from spiritual but from natural motives. Therefore when the Lord said: “This is my commandment, that you love one another”, he added immediately: “Just as I have loved you,” meaning, “You must love for the same reason that I have loved you.”

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– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS JUL 18, 2026

Feast / Saint of the Day
– St. Camillus de Lellis (18 July): The Past Doesn’t Matter

Daily Readings for Friday July 17, 2026

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St. Alexius of Rome (July 17) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year – InPrincipio Podcast

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– Mercy Above Ritual – Friday, July 17, 2026

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Readings & Reflection

Epistle to the Romans 6,19-23.
I speak an human thing, because of the infirmity of your flesh. For as you have yielded your members to serve uncleanness and iniquity, unto iniquity: so now yield your members to serve justice, unto sanctification. For when you were the servants of sin, you were free men to justice. What fruit therefore had you then in those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of them is death. But now being made free from sin and become servants to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end life everlasting. For the wages of sin is death. But the grace of God, life everlasting in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 7,15-21.
Beware of false prophets, who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. By their fruits you shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, and the evil tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can an evil tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit, shall be cut down, and shall be cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them. Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven: but he that doth the will of my Father who is in heaven, he shall enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Saint Cyril of Jerusalem (313-350)

Bishop of Jerusalem, Doctor of the Church
Catechetical Lecture 4:1
Divine grace, a sober mind, and eyes that see!

Vice mimics virtue, and the tares strive to be thought wheat, growing like the wheat in appearance, but being detected by good judges from the taste. The devil also transfigures himself into an angel of light 2 Corinthians 11:14; not that he may reascend to where he was, for having made his heart hard as an anvil , he has henceforth a will that cannot repent; but in order that he may envelope those who are living an Angelic life in a mist of blindness, and a pestilent condition of unbelief. Many wolves are going about in sheeps’ clothing , their clothing being that of sheep, not so their claws and teeth: but clad in their soft skin, and deceiving the innocent by their appearance, they shed upon them from their fangs the destructive poison of ungodliness.

We have need therefore of divine grace, and of a sober mind, and of eyes that see, lest from eating tares as wheat we suffer harm from ignorance, and lest from taking the wolf to be a sheep we become his prey, and from supposing the destroying Devil to be a beneficent Angel we be devoured: for, as the Scripture says, he goes about as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. 1 Peter 5:8 This is the cause of the Church’s admonitions, the cause of the present instructions, and of the lessons which are read.

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TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS JUL 17, 2026 2 – The Meaning of the Word

Feast / Saint of the Day
– St. Alexius (17 July): Be Detached

Daily Readings for Thursday July 16, 2026

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– Rest for the Weary – Thursday, July 16, 2026

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Saint John-Mary Vianney (1786-1859)
priest, curé of Ars
Sermon for the 4th Sunday after Pentecost

A good tree can not bear bad fruit

Could Jesus Christ, my brothers, give us more clear and more certain evidence to make us known and distinguish good Christians from the bad, than by telling us that we will know them, not in their words, but to their works. “A good tree,” he tells us, “cannot bear bad fruits, like a bad tree cannot bear good ones. “(Mt 7,18) Yes, my brothers, a Christian who has only a false devotion, an affected virtue and who is only external, despite all the precautions he will take to counterfeit himself, will soon let the disturbances of his heart appear from time to time, either in his words, or in his actions. No, my brothers, there is nothing so common that these virtues be ‟apparent”, that is to say a hypocrisy. (…) We will see at the last judgment that most Christians have only had a religion of whim or mood, that is to say, inclinations, and that very few have only sought God in what they have done.

We first say that a Christian who wants to work sincerely in his salvation, must not be content to do good works; But he still has to know who he does them for and how he should do them. Secondly, we say that it is not enough to appear virtuous in the eyes of the world, but that it is still necessary to be in the heart. If, now, my brothers, you ask me how we can know that a virtue is true and that it will lead us to heaven, my brothers, here it is: listen to it well, gravel it well in your heart; so that each action you will do, you can know if it will be rewarded in heaven. I say that for an action to please God, it must have three conditions: the first, that it is interior and perfect; the second, humble and without return to oneself; the third, both constant and persistent: if in everything you do, you will find these conditions, you are sure to work for the heavens.

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Feast / Saint of the Day
– Our Lady of Mt. Carmel (16 July): Special Graces

Daily Readings for Wednesday July 15, 2026

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Saint Henry, Holy Roman Emperor (July 15) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year

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– Humble Hearts Receive – Wednesday, July 15, 2026

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Readings & Reflection

Book of Sirach 31,8-11.
Blessed is the rich man that is found without blemish: and that hath not gone after gold, nor put his trust in money nor in treasures. Who is he, and we will praise him? for he hath done wonderful things in his life. Who hath been tried thereby, and made perfect, he shall have glory everlasting. He that could have transgressed, and hath not transgressed: and could do evil things, and hath not done them: Therefore are his goods established in the Lord, and all the church of the saints shall declare his alms.

Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 12,35-40.
Jesus said to his disciples: Let your loins be girt and lamps burning in your hands. And you yourselves like to men who wait for their lord, when he shall return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open to him immediately. Blessed are those servants whom the Lord, when he cometh, shall find watching. Amen I say to you that he will gird himself and make them sit down to meat and passing will minister unto them. And if he shall come in the second watch or come in the third watch and find them so, blessed are those servants.
But this know ye, that if the householder did know at what hour the thief would come, he would surely watch and would not suffer his house to be broken open. Be you then also ready: for at what hour you think not the Son of man will come.

Saint John Chrysostom (c.345-407) – priest at Antioch then Bishop of Constantinople, Doctor of the Church
Sermon 77 on St Matthew

“Stand ready”

“At an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come.” Jesus says this to them so that the disciples would stay awake and always be ready. If he tells them he will come when they are not expecting him this is because he wants to make them practice virtue zealously, without relaxing. It is as though he were saying to them: “If people knew when they were going to die, they would be completely ready for the day”… But the end of our life is a secret hidden from us all…

This is why the Lord expects two qualities of his steward: that he should be faithful, lest he attribute to himself anything that belongs to his master, and that he should be wise, so that he might suitably administer everything put in his charge. So we ought to have these two qualities if we are to be ready at the Master’s coming… Because this is what happens due to our not knowing the day we shall meet him: we say to ourselves: “My master is delayed in coming.” The faithful and wise steward has no such thoughts. Wretch! using the excuse that your Master is late, do you imagine he won’t come at all? His coming is certain. Then why don’t you stay on your guard? No, the Lord is not slow in coming; this lateness is purely in the imagination of the wicked servant.

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– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS JUL 15, 2026

Feast / Saint of the Day
– St. Henry II, Emperor (15 July): Pious Rulers

Daily Readings for Tuesday July 14, 2026

– St. Bonaventure (July 14) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year

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– Stand Firm in Faith – Tuesday, July 14, 2026

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Readings & Reflection

Second Epistle to Timothy 4,1-8.
Dearly beloved, I charge thee, before God and Jesus Christ, who shall judge the living and the dead, by His coming, and his kingdom : Preach the word: be instant in season, out of season: reprove, entreat, rebuke in all patience and doctrine. For there shall be a time when they will not endure sound doctrine but, according to their own desires, they will heap to themselves teachers having itching ears: And will indeed turn away their hearing from the truth, but will be turned unto fables. But be thou vigilant, labour in all things, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil thy ministry. Be sober. For I am even now ready to be sacrificed: and the time of my dissolution is at hand. I have fought a good fight: I have finished my course: I have kept the faith. As to the rest, there is laid up for me a crown of justice which the Lord the just judge will render to me in that day: and not only to me, but to them also that love his coming. Make haste to come to me quickly.
Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 5,13-19.
At that time, Jesus said to His disciples: You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt lose its savor, wherewith shall it be salted? It is good for nothing any more but to be cast out, and to be trodden on by men. You are the light of the world. A city seated on a mountain cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but upon a candlestick, that it may shine to all that are in the house. So let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven. Do not think that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For amen I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot, or one tittle shall not pass of the law, till all be fulfilled. He therefore that shall break one of these least commandments, and shall so teach men shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven. But he that shall do and teach, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

Saint Irenaeus of Lyons (c.130-c.208)

Bishop, theologian and martyr
Against the heresies, 4, 14
« All those who are named as mine »

It was not because he needed our help that the Father has commanded us to follow the Word: it was to ensure our salvation. For to follow the Savior is to have part in his salvation just as to follow the light is to have part in the light. When people stand in the light it is not they who cause the light to shine but they are the ones who are illuminated and made radiant by the light. Far from contributing anything in the least to the light, it is they who gain from it and are illuminated by it.

The same applies to service offered to God: it does not give God anything since God has no need of people’s service. But to those who serve and follow him, God promises life, an imperishable existence and eternal glory… If God, who is good and merciful, asks for our service, it is to be able to grant his blessings to those who persevere in his service. For if God has no need of anything, yet man needs communion with God. The glory of man is perseverance in the service of God.

That is why our Lord said to his apostles: “It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you” (Jn 15,16)… And again he said: “I wish that where I am they also may be with me, that they may see my glory” (Jn 17,24)… Of these, God said in Isaiah: “From the East I will bring back your descendants, from the West I will gather you… Bring back my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth: everyone who is named as mine, whom I created for my glory” (Is 43,5-7).

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Feast / Saint of the Day
– St. Bonaventure (14 July): Return to Sanctity

Daily Readings for Monday July 13, 2026

– Pope St. Anacletus I (July 13) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year

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– Faith Above All – Monday, July 13, 2026

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Epistle to the Romans 6,19-23.
I speak an human thing, because of the infirmity of your flesh. For as you have yielded your members to serve uncleanness and iniquity, unto iniquity: so now yield your members to serve justice, unto sanctification. For when you were the servants of sin, you were free men to justice. What fruit therefore had you then in those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of them is death.
But now being made free from sin and become servants to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end life everlasting.
For the wages of sin is death. But the grace of God, life everlasting in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622) – Bishop of Geneva and Doctor of the Church

Introduction to the devout life, I, ch. 3 (Breviary)
“Every tree is known by its own fruit”

At the creation God commanded the plants to bear fruit :each “according to its kind” (Gn 1:11) and he likewise commands Christians, the living branches of the vine, to bear fruit by practising devotion according to their state in life. The practice of devotion must differ for the gentleman ‘the artisan, the servant and the prince, for widow, young girl or wife. Further, it must be adapted to their muscular strength, circumstances and duties… Is the solitary life of a Carthusian suited to a bishop? Should those who are married practise the poverty of a Capuchin? If workmen spent as much time in church as religious, if religious were exposed to the same pastoral calls as a bishop, such devotion would be ridiculous and cause intolerable disorder. Yet this foolish mistake is often made…

True devotion never causes harm, but rather perfects everything we do… “The bee sucks honey from the flowers without injuring them,” wrote Aristotle, leaving them as whole and fresh as when it found them. Devotion goes further, not only is it unharmful to any state of life, it adorns and beautifies it… It makes the care of family peaceful, the love of husband and wife more sincere, the service of one’s king more faithful, and every task more pleasant and a joy.

It is not only erroneous, but a heresy, to hold that life in the army, the workshop, the court, or the home is incompatible with devotion… Wherever we find ourselves we not only may, but should seek perfection.

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Feast / Saint of the Day
– St. Teresa of the Andes (13 July): Blossom Where You Are Planted

Daily Readings for Sunday July 12, 2026

– Seventh Sunday after Pentecost — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year

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– The Seed That Bears Fruit – Sunday, July 12, 2026

– Keith Nester – Unpacking The Mass – 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A

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Epistle to the Romans 6,19-23.
I speak an human thing, because of the infirmity of your flesh. For as you have yielded your members to serve uncleanness and iniquity, unto iniquity: so now yield your members to serve justice, unto sanctification. For when you were the servants of sin, you were free men to justice. What fruit therefore had you then in those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of them is death.
But now being made free from sin and become servants to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end life everlasting. For the wages of sin is death. But the grace of God, life everlasting in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Saint Augustine (354-430) – Bishop of Hippo (North Africa) and Doctor of the Church

Commentary on the Lord’s Sermon on the Mount, ch. 24, §80-81 (trans. ©The Fathers of the Church, 1951)
“By their fruits you will know them”

We should inquire as to the kind of fruit the Lord wishes us to recognize, so that we may be able to distinguish the tree. Many persons reckon as fruits certain things which are indeed the suitable clothing of sheep, for instance, fastings, prayers, and almsgivings. Such people are deceived by wolves, for, if these things could not be done also by hypocrites, the Lord would not have previously said: “Take heed not to practice your righteousness before men, in order to be seen by them” (Mt 6,1)… Many persons bestow much upon the poor, not through mercy, but for the sake of display; many persons pray-or, rather, they seem to pray-without directing their attention toward God, but seeking to please men; and many persons fast and display a wonderful degree of self-denial before those who think such things difficult and praiseworthy… These are not the fruits by which a tree can be recognized in accordance with the Lord’s admonition. When these things are truly done with a good intention, they are rightly called the clothing of sheep…

The Apostle Paul tells us what are the known fruits by which we may recognize a bad tree. He says: “Now the works of the flesh are manifest: they are immorality, uncleanness, licentiousness, idolatry, witchcraft, enmity, contention, jealousy, animosity, quarrels, heresies, faction, envy, drunkenness, carousings, and such like things” (Gal 5,19-21)… And the same Apostle goes on to tell us also what are the fruits by which we may recognize a good tree, for he says: “But the fruit of the spirit is: charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, modesty, continence” (vv. 22-23).

So, also, the word ‘joy’ is likewise used in its proper sense here, for evil men are not said to rejoice, but to enjoy pleasure… It is in this proper sense that the good use the word when they say: “Rejoicing is not for the wicked, says the Lord” (Is 57,21 cf. Vg.)… The same applies to the true faith. In wicked and deceitful men there are also certain semblances of the other virtues… that may thoroughly deceive anyone who does not keep clear and single the eye through which one is able to recognize those virtues.

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Feast / Saint of the Day
– St. John Gualbert (12 July): Forgiveness is Key

Daily Readings for Saturday July 11, 2026

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– Pope St. Pius I (July 11) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year

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– Fearlessly Belong to Christ – Saturday, July 11, 2026

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Book of Sirach 24,9-12.
And have stood in all the earth: and in every people,
And in every nation I have had the chief rule: And by my power I have trodden under my feet the hearts of all the high and low: and in all these I sought rest, and I shall abide in the inheritance of the Lord. Then the creator of all things commanded, and said to me: and he that made me, rested in my tabernacle,

Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 11,27-28.
And it came to pass, as Jesus spoke these things, a certain woman from the crowd, lifting up her voice, said to him: Blessed is the womb that bore thee and the paps that gave thee suck. But he said: Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it.

Sermon attributed to Saint Augustine (354-430) – Bishop of Hippo (North Africa) and Doctor of the Church

Cf. Discourse on Ps 139,15; Treatises on St John’s Gospel, no.57
“Take care how you hear”

“Everyone should be quick to hear, slow to speak” (Jas 1,19). Yes, brethren, I tell you frankly… I who frequently address you at your own request: it is undiluted joy for me when I take my place in the audience; my happiness is unalloyed when I listen rather than speak. Then it is that I savour the word in all confidence; my satisfaction is unthreatened by vainglory. When you sit on the solid rock of truth, how can you fear the precipice of pride? “I will give ear,” says the psalmist, “and you will fill me with joy and gladness” (cf Ps 50,10). So I am never more delighted than when I am listening: our position as hearers is what keeps us in an attitude of humility.

To the contrary, if we speak, … we need to have a certain restraint. Even if I don’t give in to pride, I’m always afraid I might do. If I listen, on the other hand, no one can take my joy away from me (Jn 16,22) since no one witnesses it. This is truly the joy of the bridegroom, of whom Saint John says: “he stands and listens” (Jn 3,29). He stands because he listens. The first man, too, was standing because he was listening to God; as soon as he listened to the serpent, he fell. The friend of the bridegroom, then, is “overcome with joy at the Bridegroom’s voice”. What makes him joyful is not his own voice as preacher and prophet but the voice of the Bridegroom himself.

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– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS JUL 11, 2026

Feast / Saint of the Day

– Pope St. Pius I (11 July): Our Faith Rests on Solid Foundations

Daily Readings for Friday June 10, 2026

– The Seven Holy Brothers and Sts. Rufina and Secunda (July 10) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year

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– Faithful in the Midst of Trials – Friday, July 10, 2026

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Book of Proverbs 31,10-31.
Who shall find a valiant woman? far, and from the uttermost coasts is the price of her. The heart of her husband trusteth in her, and he shall have no need of spoils. She will render him good, and not evil all the days of her life. She hath sought wool and flax, and hath wrought by the counsel of her hands. She is like the merchant’s ship, she bringeth her bread from afar. And she hath risen in the night, and given a prey to her household, and victuals to her maidens. She hath considered a field, and bought it: with the fruit of her hands she hath planted a vineyard. She hath girded her loins with strength, and hath strengthened her arm. She hath tasted, and seen that her traffic is good: her lamp shall not be put out in the night. She hath put out her hand to strong things, and her fingers have taken hold of the spindle. She hath opened her hand to the needy, and stretched out her hands to the poor.
She shall not fear for her house in the cold of snow: for all her domestics are clothed with double garments. She hath made for herself clothing of tapestry: fine linen, and purple, is her covering.
Her husband is honourable in the gates, when he sitteth among the senators of the land. She made fine linen, and sold it, and delivered a girdle to the Chanaanite. Strength and beauty are her clothing, and she shall laugh in the latter day. She hath opened her mouth to wisdom, and the law of clemency is on her tongue. She hath looked well on the paths of her house, and hath not eaten her bread idle. Her children rose up, and called her blessed: her husband, and he praised her. Many daughters have gathered together riches: thou hast surpassed them all. Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: the woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands: and let her works praise her in the gates.

Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 12,46-50.
As he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold his mother and his brethren stood without, seeking to speak to him. And one said unto him: Behold thy mother and thy brethren stand without, seeking thee. But he answering him that told him, said: Who is my mother, and who are my brethren? And stretching forth his hand towards his disciples, he said: Behold my mother and my brethren. For whosoever shall do the will of my Father, that is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.

Saint Raphael Arnaiz Baron (1911-1938) – Spanish Trappist monk

Spiritual writings 10/04/1938 (trans. Mairin Mitchell, 1964)
“Whoever does the will of my heavenly Father is my brother, and sister, and mother”

To love what God loves is the logical thing for the one who is truly his lover; outside that wish there are no desires of our own – or if there should be one, this is in conformity with his will; if this should not be so, then our will would not be united with his. But if our will is really at one with his love, we shall want nothing that he does not want, we shall love nothing that he does not love, and having given ourselves up completely to his will, we shall not mind whatever he may send us, wherever he may place us. And about everything that he may want of us, we shall not only feel unconcerned, we shall feel pleased.

I don’t know whether there’s any error in what I am saying. I submit myself to the one who understands about this. I only say what I feel, and that is, that I truly have no other wish than to love him, and everything else I commend to him. May his will be done! Every day I become happier in my complete abandonment into his hands.

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– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS JUL 10, 2026

Feast / Saint of the Day
Seven Holy Brothers (10 July): Have the Faith of the Early Martyrs – Sensus Fidelium

Daily Readings for Thursday July 9, 2026

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– Practice for the Time after Pentecost — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year

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– Freely Give What You Have Received – Thursday, July 9, 2026

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Epistle to the Romans 6,3-11.
Know you not that all we who are baptized in Christ Jesus are baptized in his death? For we are buried together with him by baptism into death: that, as Christ is risen from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also may walk in newness of life.
For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection. Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin may be destroyed, to the end that we may serve sin no longer. For he that is dead is justified from sin.
Now, if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall live also together with Christ. Knowing that Christ, rising again from the dead, dieth now no more. Death shall no more have dominion over him.
For in that he died to sin, he died once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. So do you also reckon that you are dead to sin, but alive unto God, in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Holy Gospel according to Saint Mark 8,1-9.
In those days again, when there was great multitude and they had nothing to eat; calling his disciples together, he saith to them: I have compassion on the multitude, for behold they have now been with me three days and have nothing to eat. And if I shall send them away fasting to their home, they will faint in the way: for some of them came from afar off.
And his disciples answered him: From whence can any one fill them here with bread in the wilderness?
And he asked them: How many loaves have ye? Who said: Seven. And he commanded the people to sit down on the ground. And taking the seven loaves, giving thanks, he broke and gave to his disciples for to set before them. And they set them before the people. And they had a few little fishes: and he blessed them and commanded them to be set before them. And they did eat and were filled: and they took up that which was left of the fragments, seven baskets. And they that had eaten were about four thousand. And he sent them away.

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– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS JUL 09, 2026

Feast / Saint of the Day

– St. Veronica Guliani (9 July): What’s the 1 Thing You Need to Change?

Daily Readings for Wednesday July 8, 2026

– St. Elizabeth of Portugal (July 8) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year

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– Sent to Proclaim the Kingdom – Wednesday, July 8, 2026

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Book of Proverbs 31,10-31.
Who shall find a valiant woman? far, and from the uttermost coasts is the price of her. The heart of her husband trusteth in her, and he shall have no need of spoils. She will render him good, and not evil all the days of her life. She hath sought wool and flax, and hath wrought by the counsel of her hands.
She is like the merchant’s ship, she bringeth her bread from afar. And she hath risen in the night, and given a prey to her household, and victuals to her maidens. She hath considered a field, and bought it: with the fruit of her hands she hath planted a vineyard. She hath girded her loins with strength, and hath strengthened her arm. She hath tasted, and seen that her traffic is good: her lamp shall not be put out in the night. She hath put out her hand to strong things, and her fingers have taken hold of the spindle. She hath opened her hand to the needy, and stretched out her hands to the poor. She shall not fear for her house in the cold of snow: for all her domestics are clothed with double garments. She hath made for herself clothing of tapestry: fine linen, and purple, is her covering. Her husband is honourable in the gates, when he sitteth among the senators of the land.
She made fine linen, and sold it, and delivered a girdle to the Chanaanite. Strength and beauty are her clothing, and she shall laugh in the latter day.
She hath opened her mouth to wisdom, and the law of clemency is on her tongue. She hath looked well on the paths of her house, and hath not eaten her bread idle. Her children rose up, and called her blessed: her husband, and he praised her. Many daughters have gathered together riches: thou hast surpassed them all. Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: the woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands: and let her works praise her in the gates.

Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 13,44-52.
Jesus said in parables: The kingdom of heaven is like unto a treasure hidden in a field. Which a man having found, hid it, and for joy thereof goeth, and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.
Again the kingdom of heaven is like to a merchant seeking good pearls. Who when he had found one pearl of great price, went his way, and sold all that he had, and bought it. Again the kingdom of heaven is like to a net cast into the sea, and gathering together of all kinds of fishes. Which, when it was filled, they drew out, and sitting by the shore, they chose out the good into vessels, but the bad they cast forth. So shall it be at the end of the world. The angels shall go out, and shall separate the wicked from among the just. And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Have ye understood all these things? They say to him: Yes. He said unto them: Therefore every scribe instructed in the kingdom of heaven, is like to a man that is a householder, who bringeth forth out of his treasure new things and old.

Saint Maximus the Confessor (c.580-662) – monk and theologian

Centuries on love, 4, 69f. (Philokalia, trans. G.E.H. Palmer et al.)
“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field”

Some of the brethren think that they are excluded from the Holy Spirit’s gifts of grace. Because they neglect to practise the commandments they do not know that he who has an unadulterated faith in Christ has within him the sum total of all the divine gifts. Since through our laziness we are far from having an active love for Him – a love which shows us the divine treasures within us — we naturally think that we are excluded from these gifts.

If, as St Paul says: “Christ dwells in our hearts through faith” (Eph 3:17), and “all the treasures of wisdom and spiritual knowledge are hidden in Him” (Col 2:3), then all the treasures of wisdom and spiritual knowledge are hidden in our hearts. They are revealed to the heart in proportion to our purification by means of the commandments. This is the treasure hidden in the field of your heart, which you have not yet found because of your laziness. Had you found it, you would have sold everything and bought that field. But now you have abandoned that field and give all your attention to the land nearby, where there is nothing but thorns and thistles. It is for this reason that the Savior says: “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God” (Mt 5:8): for He is hidden in the hearts of those who believe in Him. They shall see Him and the riches that are in Him when they have purified themselves through love and self-control. And the greater their purity, the more they will see.

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– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS JUL 08, 2026

Feast / Saint of the Day
St. Elizabeth of Portugal (8 July): God is on the Side of Virtue – Sensus Fidelium

Daily Readings for July 7, 2026

– Saints Cyril and Methodius (July 7) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year

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– The Harvest Is Plentiful – Tuesday, July 7, 2026

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Epistle to the Hebrews 7,23-27.
The others were made many priests, because by reason of death they were not suffered to continue:
But this, for that he continueth for ever, hath an everlasting priesthood: Whereby he is able also to save for ever them that come to God by him; always living to make intercession for us. For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens: Who needeth not daily (as the other priests) to offer sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did once, in offering himself.

Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 10,1-9.
And after these things, the Lord appointed also other seventy-two. And he sent them two and two before his face into every city and place whither he himself was to come. And he said to them: The harvest indeed is great, but the labourers are few. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest that he send labourers into his harvest. Go: Behold I send you as lambs among wolves. Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way.
Into whatever house you enter, first say: Peace be to this house. And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon him: but if not, it shall return to you. And in the same house, remain, eating and drinking such things as they have: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Remove not from house to house. And into what city soever you enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you. And heal the sick that are therein and say to them: The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.

Saint Charles de Foucauld (1858-1916) – hermit and missionary in the Sahara

Letter to Joseph Hours, 3 May 1912
“He began to send them out”

To be an apostle? How? Through those whom God makes available. Priests have their superiors who tell them what they are to do. Laypeople should be apostles towards all those they reach: relations and friends but not them alone; charity is not restricted, it embraces all those embraced by the Heart of Jesus.

By what means? By the best possible, taking into account those to whom they address themselves. But with all those with whom they are in relation, without exception with goodness, kindness, brotherly love, the example of virtue, and with the humility and gentleness that is always so attractive and so Christian. With some people without ever saying a word to them about God or religion, being patient as God is patient, good as God is good, by being a tender, prayerful brother. With yet others, speaking to them about God in the degree they are able to bear it. As soon as they have started thinking about seeking out the truth then through the study of religion, putting them into contact with a carefully chosen priest who is able to do them good. Above all, see a brother in every person.

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Feast / Saint of the Day
Ss. Cyril & Methodius (7 July): Language of Charity Converts People

Daily Readings for Monday July 6, 2026

– The Octave of Saints Peter and Paul (July 6) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year

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– Faith That Reaches Him – Monday, July 6, 2026

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Readings & Reflection

Epistle to the Romans 6,3-11.
Know you not that all we who are baptized in Christ Jesus are baptized in his death? For we are buried together with him by baptism into death: that, as Christ is risen from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also may walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection. Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin may be destroyed, to the end that we may serve sin no longer. For he that is dead is justified from sin.
Now, if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall live also together with Christ. Knowing that Christ, rising again from the dead, dieth now no more. Death shall no more have dominion over him.
For in that he died to sin, he died once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. So do you also reckon that you are dead to sin, but alive unto God, in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Saint Ambrose (c.340-397) – Bishop of Milan and Doctor of the Church

Commentary on the Gospel of Saint Luke, VI, 73-88 (cf. SC 45, p. 254f. rev.)
“If I send them away hungry to their homes, they will collapse on the way”

Lord Jesus, how well I know you have no wish to allow these people here with me to remain hungry but to feed them with the food you distribute, and so, strengthened with your food, they will have no fear of collapsing from hunger. I know, too, that you have no wish to send us away hungry, either… As you have said: you do not want them to collapse on the way, meaning to collapse in the byways of this life, before reaching the end of the road, before coming to the Father and understanding that you come from the Father…

Our Lord takes pity, then, so that none may collapse along the way… Just as he makes it rain on the just as well as the unjust (Mt 5:45) so he feeds the just as well as the unjust. Was it not thanks to the strength of the food that the holy prophet Elijah, when he was collapsing on the way, was able to walk for forty days? (1Kgs 19:8). It was an angel who gave that food to him but, in your case, it is Christ himself who feeds you. If you preserve the food you have received in this way then you will walk, not forty days and forty nights… but for forty years, from your departure from the borders of Egypt to your arrival in the land of plenty, the land where milk and honey flow (Ex 3:8)…

And so Christ shares out the foodstuffs and, there is no question, he wants to give it to all. He withholds it from no one for he provides for everyone. Nevertheless, when he breaks the loaves and gives them to the disciples, unless you hold out your hands to receive your portion, you will collapse along the way… This bread that Jesus breaks is the mystery of the Word of God: it increases as it is distributed. With only a few words Jesus has provided abundant nourishment for all peoples. He has given us his words as bread and, while we are tasting them, they increase in our mouths… Even as the crowds are eating, the pieces increase and become more numerous to such an extent that, in the end, the leftovers are even more plentiful than the loaves that were shared.

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– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS JUL 06, 2026

Feast / Saint of the Day
St. Maria Goretti (6 July): Charity Conquers the Fools Gold of Lust

Daily Readings for Sunday July 5, 2026

– Sixth Sunday after Pentecost — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year

Liturgy of the Hours

– Lauds, Sunday Morning Catholic Prayer | July 5, 2026 | Divine Office

Vespers II, Sunday Evening Catholic Prayer | July 5, 2026 | Divine Office – Sing the Hours

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– 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A – Unpacking the Mass – Keith Nester

– Rest for the Weary – Sunday, July 5, 2026

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Sixth Sunday After Pentecost. – Padre Peregrino

-Traditional Latin Mass sermons by Fr. David Nix. Today I preach on St. Mark 8:1-9.
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Epistle to the Romans 6,3-11.
Know you not that all we who are baptized in Christ Jesus are baptized in his death? For we are buried together with him by baptism into death: that, as Christ is risen from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also may walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection. Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin may be destroyed, to the end that we may serve sin no longer. For he that is dead is justified from sin.
Now, if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall live also together with Christ. Knowing that Christ, rising again from the dead, dieth now no more. Death shall no more have dominion over him.
For in that he died to sin, he died once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. So do you also reckon that you are dead to sin, but alive unto God, in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Saint Bede the Venerable (c.673-735) -monk, Doctor of the Church

Homilies on Mark, Book II, ch. 8, cf. PL 92 (quoted by Saint Thomas Aquinas in the Catena Aurea, vol.4)
“I have compassion for the crowd (…)”

In this account of the miracle we must consider in one and the same Redeemer the separate operation of his divinity and of his humanity. And the error of Eutyches, who dared to teach that in Christ there is but one operation, must be wholly driven out from Christian lands. Who cannot see
that the Lord, in having compassion on the multitude lest they faint from want of food or from the weariness of the long journey home, was moved by the compassion of human pity, but that feeding four thousand people from seven loaves and a few fish is a work of divine power?

“And they collected seven baskets full of fragments.” That multitude who had just eaten and been filled did not carry away with them the remains of the loaves but left them to be gathered into baskets by the disciples, as before. And taken literally, this event teaches us to be content with what is necessary and never to look for anything more than that. Then the evangelist makes known to us the number of those who were satisfied: “Now those who ate were about four thousand, and he dismissed them.” Here let us consider that our Lord Jesus Christ does not wish to send anyone away hungry since, to the contrary, he wants to give to everyone the nourishment of his grace.

In a figurative sense there is this difference between this second miracle and the first multiplication of the five loaves and two fish: the first prefigures the letter of the Old Testament, which was as though full of the spiritual grace of the New, whereas the second represents the truth and grace of the New Testament fully communicated to the faithful. The multitude who, according to Saint Matthew’s testimony, wait three days for the healing of their sick (Mt 15), represent the elect in the faith of the holy Trinity who beg for the forgiveness of their sins with persevering prayer, or those who are converted to the Lord through their thoughts, words, and deeds.

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TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS JUL 05, 2026
The Meaning of the Word

These are the Traditional Latin Mass Propers for the Sixth Sunday after Pentecost.

The Epistle from St. Paul to the Romans teaches that those baptized into Christ have been buried with Him into death and are called to live a new life in Him. In the Gospel, Our Lord has compassion on the multitude, multiplies the seven loaves and a few fishes, and feeds about four thousand people in the desert.

Feast / Saint of the Day
St. Anthony Mary Zaccaria (5 July): Adoration is the Key – Sensus Fidelium

Daily Readings for Saturday July 4, 2026

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– Sixth day within the Octave of Saints Peter and Paul (July 4) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year

Liturgy of the Hours

– Lauds, Catholic Morning Prayer | July 4, 2026 | Divine Office

– Vespers I, Catholic Evening Prayer | July 4, 2026 | Divine Office

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– New Wine, New Hearts – Saturday, July 4, 2026

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1962 Missal
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Saint Bernard (1091-1153) – Cistercian monk and doctor of the Church

“Blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it.”

Mary was very discreet; we have proof of this in the gospel. Where do you see her having been talkative or full of presumption? Once she stood at the door wishing to speak to her son, but she did not use her maternal authority either to interrupt his preaching or to enter the house where he preached (Mk 3,31).

If I remember correctly, the evangelists only allow Mary’s words to be heard four times. First, when she addressed the angel – and this was only in answer to him. Secondly, during her visit to Elizabeth when, having been praised by her cousin, Mary wanted to praise the Lord even more. Third, when she complained to her son, then aged twelve, that his father and she herself had searched for him anxiously. Fourth, at the wedding of Cana when she intervened with her son and the servants.

On all other occasions Mary showed herself slow to speak, quick to listen, for she “kept all these things, reflecting on them in her heart,” (Lk 2,19.51). No, nowhere will you find that she spoke out, not even about the mystery of the Incarnation. Woe to those of us who are full of air! Woe to those of us who pour out our souls like leaky containers!

How many times Mary heard her son, not only speaking in parables to the crowd, but in private, revealing to the disciples the secrets of the Kingdom of Heaven. She saw him working miracles, then hanging on the cross, dying, risen and ascending to heaven. How many times could we say that on any of those occasions the Virgin’s voice was heard?… The greater Mary is, the more she humbles herself, not just in all things but more than all.

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– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS JUL 04, 2026

Feast / Saint of the Day
– St. Odo, Archbishop of Canterbury (4 July): Butler’s Lives of the Saints

Daily Readings for Friday July 3, 2026

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– Pope St. Leo II (July 3) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year

Liturgy of the Hours

– Lauds, Catholic Morning Prayer | July 3, 2026 | Divine Office

– Vespers, Catholic Evening Prayer | July 3, 2026 | Divine Office

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– From Doubt to Faith – Friday, July 3, 2026

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Second Epistle to Timothy 3,14-17.4,1-5.
But continue thou in those things which thou hast learned and which have been committed to thee. Knowing of whom thou hast learned them: And because from thy infancy thou hast known the holy scriptures which can instruct thee to salvation by the faith which is in Christ Jesus. All scripture, inspired of God, is profitable to teach, to reprove, to correct, to instruct in justice: That the man of God may be perfect, furnished to every good work. I charge thee, before God and Jesus Christ, who shall judge the living and the dead, by his coming and his kingdom: Preach the word: be instant in season, out of season: reprove, entreat, rebuke in all patience and doctrine. For there shall be a time when they will not endure sound doctrine but, according to their own desires, they will heap to themselves teachers having itching ears: And will indeed turn away their hearing from the truth, but will be turned unto fables. But be thou vigilant, labour in all things, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil thy ministry. Be sober.

Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 10,28-32.
And fear ye not them that kill the body, and are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him that can destroy both soul and body in hell. Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and not one of them shall fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: better are you than many sparrows. Every one therefore that shall confess me before men, I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven.

Saint John Eudes (1601-1680) – priest, preacher, founder of religious institutes

The Kingdom of Jesus, 2nd part., 30.
“Even the hairs of your head have all been counted. Do not be afraid”

In several places in Holy Scripture our most loving Savior assures us he is in constant care and watchfulness on our account; that he himself carries, and will always carry us in his breast, his heart, his inmost being…

Let us take great care not to place our trust on the power or favor of our friends, nor on our goods, nor our mind, our knowledge, our strength, nor on our good desires and resolutions, nor our prayers, nor even on the trust we feel ourselves to have in God, nor on human means nor any created thing but only on God’s mercy, It’s not that we shouldn’t employ the above mentioned things and contribute, on our part, all we can to overcome vice, to practise virtue, to carry out and fulfil the business God has set to hand and to perform the obligations attached to our situation in life. But we have to renounce any support and confidence we might have in such things and rely on the pure goodness of our Lord. In such a way that we are to take as much care and to work on our part as though we did not expect anything from God and, nevertheless, not rely on our own care and work either, as though we were not doing anything at all, but expecting everything from God’s mercy alone.

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TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS JUL 03, 2026
The Meaning of the Word

St. Irenaeus, Bishop and Martyr, was one of the great defenders of Catholic truth in the second century and a faithful guardian of apostolic teaching. As Bishop of Lyons, he was especially concerned with the errors of the Gnostics, who claimed access to secret knowledge and confused many Christians. With patience, careful investigation, and a pastoral desire to win back his opponents, St. Irenaeus exposed their errors and contrasted them with the teaching of the Apostles and Sacred Scripture. His writings became a foundation for later theology, helped bring an end to Gnostic influence, and in 2022 Pope Francis named him a Doctor of the Church.

Feast / Saint of the Day
St. Ignatius of Loyola (31 July): All for the Greater Glory of God!

Daily Readings for Thursday July 2, 2026

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– The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (July 2) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year

Liturgy of the Hours

– Lauds, Catholic Morning Prayer | July 2, 2026 | Divine Office

– Vespers, Catholic Evening Prayer | July 2, 2026 | Divine Office

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– When Truth Is Rejected – Thursday, July 2, 2026

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Readings & Reflection

Song of Songs 2,8-14.
The voice of my beloved, behold he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping over the hills. My beloved is like a roe, or a young hart. Behold he standeth behind our wall, looking through the windows, looking through the lattices. Behold my beloved speaketh to me: Arise, make haste, my love, my dove, my beautiful one, and come. For winter is now past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers have appeared in our land, the time of pruning is come: the voice of the turtle is heard in our land:
The fig tree hath put forth her green figs: the vines in flower yield their sweet smell. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come: My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hollow places of the wall, shew me thy face, let thy voice sound in my ears: for thy voice is sweet, and thy face comely.

Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 1,39-47.
And Mary rising up in those days, went into the hill country with haste into a city of Juda. And she entered into the house of Zachary and saluted Elizabeth. And it came to pass that when Elizabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the infant leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost. And she cried out with a loud voice and said: Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb. And whence is this to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For behold as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy. And blessed art thou that hast believed, because those things shall be accomplished that were spoken to thee by the Lord. And Mary said: My soul doth magnify the Lord. And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.

Saint Charles de Foucauld (1858-1916)

hermit and missionary in the Sahara
Reflections on the Feasts of the liturgical year
“Mary set out in haste”

Mary, my mother, today is both one of your feasts and one of the feasts of Jesus: like the Purification, which is above all the Presentation of Jesus, the Visitation is one of your own sweetest feasts but, still more, one of the feasts of Our Lord since it is he who acts in you and through you. The Visitation is “the love of Christ impelling you” (2 Cor 5:14); it is Jesus who, no sooner has he entered within you, thirsts to make yet more saints and holy ones. In the Annunciation he made himself known and gave himself to you, he wonderfully sanctified you. But that was not enough for him: in his love for us he immediately wants to make himself known and give himself to others through you, he wants to make others holy, and so he has himself carried by you to the home of John the Baptist (…).

What the blessed Virgin will do in the Visitation is not visit her cousin so that they may console and edify each other with the story of God’s marvellous deeds in them; still less is it a visit to provide material charity to help her cousin during the final months of her pregnancy and in childbirth. It is far more than that! She sets out to sanctify Saint John, to announce the good news (…) not by her words but by silently carrying Jesus to him (…).

This is what religious men and women dedicated to contemplation do in mission countries (…). O my mother, make us faithful to our mission, our most beautiful mission, that we may faithfully bear our divine Jesus amongst these poor souls who are immersed in “the shadow of death” (Lk 1:79).

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– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS JUL 02, 2026

Feast / Saint of the Day
– Feast of the Visitation (2 July): It’s All True

Daily Readings for July 1 2026

The Most Precious Blood of Jesus (July 1) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year – InPrincipio Podcast

Liturgy of the Hours

– Lauds, Catholic Morning Prayer | July 1, 2026 | Divine Office

– Sing the Hours uploaded: Vespers, Catholic Evening Prayer | July 1, 2026 | Divine Office

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– When Jesus Disrupts Comfort – Wednesday, July 1, 2026

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Epistle to the Hebrews 9,11-15.
But Christ, being come an high Priest of the good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hand, that is, not of this creation: Neither by the blood of goats or of calves, but by his own blood, entered once into the Holies, having obtained eternal redemption. For if the blood of goats and of oxen, and the ashes of an heifer, being sprinkled, sanctify such as are defiled, to the cleansing of the flesh: How much more shall the blood of Christ, who by the Holy Ghost offered himself unspotted unto God, cleanse our conscience from dead works, to serve the living God? And therefore he is the mediator of the new testament: that by means of his death for the redemption of those transgressions which were under the former testament, they that are called may receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

Holy Gospel according to Saint John 19,30-35.
Jesus therefore, when he had taken the vinegar, said: It is consummated. And bowing his head, he gave up the ghost. Then the Jews (because it was the parasceve), that the bodies might not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day (for that was a great sabbath day), besought Pilate that their legs might be broken: and that they might be taken away.
The soldiers therefore came: and they broke the legs of the first, and of the other that was crucified with him. But after they were come to Jesus, when they saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. But one of the soldiers with a spear opened his side: and immediately there came out blood and water. And he that saw it hath given testimony: and his testimony is true. And he knoweth that he saith true: that you also may believe.

Saint Bonaventure (1221-1274) – Franciscan, Doctor of the Church – The Mystical Vine, §8-9

“ When they saw that Jesus was already dead…, one of the soldiers thrust his lance into his side, and immediately blood and water flowed out ” (Jn 19,33-34)

They have not only pierced his hands and his feet (Ps 22[21],17) but his side as well, and have opened up the inmost part of his most holy heart, already wounded by the lance of love. Oh how good and how pleasant it is to dwell in this heart! (cf Ps 133[132],2). O my good Jesus, your heart is a true treasure, a pearl of great price which we found when we dug in the field of your body (cf Mt 13,44-45). Would anyone toss it aside? Rather will I give all I have in exchange, I will give up all my thoughts and desires to buy it, tossing all my preoccupations into the heart of my Lord Jesus and, undoubtedly, that heart will sustain me.

In this temple, in this Holy of Holies, before this Ark of the Covenant (1Kgs 6,19), I will adore and praise the name of the Lord, saying with David: “I have found courage to make this prayer to the Lord” (2Sam 7,27). As for me, I have found the heart of Jesus my King, my brother and my loving friend. And shall I not pray? Certainly I will pray. For his heart is with me – I will affirm it confidently – and even more than this: because Christ is truly beside me, how could he who is my leader and head (Col 1,18) not be on my side?… This spiritual heart is indeed my heart; it belongs to me. In truth, I hold my heart with Jesus. What is there surprising about this? A long time ago “the community of believers” were of “one heart” (Acts 4,32).

And so, sweetest Jesus, since I have discovered this heart that is both yours and mine, I will make my prayer to you who are my God. Accept my prayers in that sanctuary in which you answer us or, rather, draw me wholly into your heart… You can enable me to pass through the eye of this needle when you have made me lay down the weight of the burden I carry on my shoulders (cf Mt 19,24; 11,28). Jesus, fairest of every human beauty, wash me yet more from my iniquity and cleanse me of my sin (Pss 45[44],3; 51[50],4) that, made pure by you, I can draw close to you, most pure; that I may merit “to dwell all the days of my life” in your heart and always see and accomplish your will (Ps 27[26],4 Vulg.).

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– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS JUL 01, 2026

Feast / Saint of the Day
Most Precious Blood (1 July): His Blood Saves

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