Daily Readings for September 9, 2026
Second Day within the Octave of the Nativity of the BVM (September 9) — From Dom Guéranger
Liturgy of the Hours
– Divine Office 9.9.26 | Wednesday Morning Prayer | Lauds
– Divine Office 9.9.26 | Wednesday Evening Prayer | Vespers
ORDINARY ROMAN CALENDAR (O.R.C)
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– Blessed in God’s Eyes – Wednesday, September 9, 2026
Saint Charles de Foucauld (1858-1916)
hermit and missionary in the Sahara
8 days at Ephraim, Spiritual writings of Charles de Foucauld
Blessed are those who empty themselves of everything, and are filled by me!
“Blessed are those who possess poverty of spirit; who not only reject material goods—which is the first step—but rise much higher and completely empty their souls of every attachment, every taste, every desire, and every pursuit that does not have Me as its goal… This poverty of spirit creates a complete void within the soul, emptying it of the love of material things, of love for one’s neighbor, and of self-love; it drives everything—absolutely everything—out, leaving only a space entirely empty, which I fill completely… Then, I restore to them, divinized, that love for material creatures which they had cast out of their souls to make room entirely for Me… They have driven these loves from their souls; I alone occupy their souls—emptied of all else and filled with Me. Yet in Me, and for My sake, they will begin to love all these things again—no longer for themselves, nor for the sake of the things themselves, but for Me: this is charity rightly ordered. They will love all creatures for My sake… Blessed are those who are so poor in spirit, so empty of all else, so full of Me!…”
“Blessed are those who hunger! Those who hunger for justice, for the reign of justice on earth, for My reign on earth, for My glory; who hunger to see Me glorified by every soul; who hunger to see My will perfectly accomplished by every being!… Therefore, always cherish this great hunger for justice—to see justice perfectly fulfilled, both by yourself and by all mankind; a hunger to see the will of God perfectly done by you and by all mankind;” …the hunger for your perfect sanctification and for perfect holiness in all men… It is this hunger that presses upon My own Heart!… Cherish this hunger more and more—not for your own sake, nor for the sake of men, but for the sake of God, out of love for God… Blessed, then, shall you be! For you will be perfectly united to My own Heart!…
1962 Missal
Readings & Reflection
Epistle to the Galatians 5,25-26.6,1-10.
Brethren, if we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not be made desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another. Brethren, and if a man be overtaken in any fault, you, who are spiritual, instruct such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear ye one another’s burdens: and so you shall fulfil the law of Christ. For if any man think himself to be some thing, whereas he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. But let every one prove his own work: and so he shall have glory in himself only and not in another. For every one shall bear his own burden. And let him that is instructed in the word communicate to him that instructeth him, in all good things. Be not deceived: God is not mocked. For what things a man shall sow, those also shall he reap. For he that soweth in his flesh of the flesh also shall reap corruption. But he that soweth in the spirit of the spirit shall reap life everlasting. And in doing good, let us not fail. For in due time we shall reap, not failing. Therefore, whilst we have time, let us work good to all men, but especially to those who are of the household of the faith.
Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 7,11-16.
And it came to pass afterwards that Jesus went into a city that is called Naim: and there went with him his disciples and a great multitude. And when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold a dead man was carried out, the only son of his mother: and she was a widow. And a great multitude of the city was with her. Whom when the Lord had seen, being moved with mercy towards her, he said to her: Weep not. And he came near and touched the bier. And they that carried it stood still. And he said: Young man, I say to thee, arise. And he that was dead sat up and begun to speak. And he gave him to his mother. And there came a fear upon them all: and they glorified God saying: A great prophet is risen up among us: and, God hath visited his people.
Saint Athanasius (295-373)
Bishop of Alexandria, Doctor of the Church
On the Incarnation of the Word, 8 (trans. Breviary 02/05)
“Those who had diseases were pressing upon him to touch him”
The Word of God, incorporeal, incorruptible and immaterial, came down to our world. Not that he had been far from it before, since no part of creation was ever without him. Together with his Father he filled all things. But he came to us full of love for us and showed himself to us openly. He took pity on our race and our weakness and was moved by the corruption that had got the better of us.
He could not allow death to rule over us any longer. Had death prevailed, creation would have perished and the Father’s work in forming man would have been in vain… Therefore he took to himself a nature which was no different from ours. He built himself a temple, a body that is, in the womb of the Virgin, and so made himself an instrument in which to dwell and make himself known. In this way he took from us a body like our own and, since all are subject to the corruption of death, he surrendered his body to death for us all and led it to the Father lovingly for our sake.
https://en.peripsum.org/TRA/gospel/2026-09-01
– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS SEP 09, 2026
Feast / Saint of the Day
St. Peter Claver (9 September): Love of God and Love of Neighbor
Daily Readings for September 8, 2026
– The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (September 8) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year
Liturgy of the Hours
– Divine Office 9.8.26 | Tuesday Morning Prayer | Lauds
– Divine Office 9.8.26 | Tuesday Evening Prayer | Vespers
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– Mary, Born for God’s Promise – Tuesday, September 8, 2026
St Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)
Benedictine abbess and Doctor of the Church
Prayers of Hildegard von Bingen, O virga ac diadema
O Virgin Mary, precious joy without end
O Virgin, O Diadem and purple mantle of the King,
Sealed Fountain, Flower that grows and blossoms
So differently from Adam, the father of mankind.
Savior of the human race,
You who brought forth the new Light,
Gather also the members of your Son into heavenly harmony.
O Glorious Mother of the holy Remedy
Through your immaculate Son, you have soothed the bitter wounds of death
That Eve brought forth to the torment of souls.
You have vanquished death and built the house of life.
Intercede for us with your Son, O Star of the Sea!
O Mediatrix, Dispenser of life, Jewel of our feasts,
You are the most precious of joys that shall have no end.
Pray for us, sweet Virgin Mary.
1962 Missal
Readings & Reflection
Book of Proverbs 8,22-35.
The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways, before he made any thing from the beginning. I was set up from eternity, and of old, before the earth was made. The depths were not as yet, and I was already conceived, neither had the fountains of waters as yet sprung out. The mountains, with their huge bulk, had not as yet been established: before the hills, I was brought forth: He had not yet made the earth, nor the rivers, nor the poles of the world. When he prepared the heavens, I was present: when with a certain law, and compass, he enclosed the depths:
When he established the sky above, and poised the fountains of waters: When he compassed the sea with its bounds, and set a law to the waters that they should not pass their limits: when he balanced the foundations of the earth; I was with him forming all things: and was delighted every day, playing before him at all times; Playing in the world: and my delights were to be with the children of men. Now, therefore, ye children, hear me: blessed are they that keep my ways. Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not. Blessed is the man that heareth me, and that watcheth daily at my gates, and waiteth at the posts of my doors.
He that shall find me, shall find life, and shall have salvation from the Lord.
Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 1,1-16.
The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham: Abraham begot Isaac. And Isaac begot Jacob. And Jacob begot Judas and his brethren. And Judas begot Phares and Zara of Thamar. And Phares begot Esron. And Esron begot Aram. And Aram begot Aminadab. And Aminadab begot Naasson. And Naasson begot Salmon. And Salmon begot Booz of Rahab. And Booz begot Obed of Ruth. And Obed begot Jesse. And Jesse begot David the king. And David the king begot Solomon, of her that had been the wife of Urias. And Solomon begot Roboam. And Roboam begot Abia. And Abia begot Asa. And Asa begot Josaphat. And Josaphat begot Joram. And Joram begot Ozias.
And Ozias begot Joatham. And Joatham begot Achaz. And Achaz begot Ezechias. And Ezechias begot Manasses. And Manasses begot Amon. And Amon begot Josias. And Josias begot Jechonias and his brethren in the transmigration of Babylon. And after the transmigration of Babylon, Jechonias begot Salathiel. And Salathiel begot Zorobabel. And Zorobabel begot Abiud. And Abiud begot Eliacim. And Eliacim begot Azor. And Azor begot Sadoc. And Sadoc begot Achim. And Achim begot Eliud. And Eliud begot Eleazar. And Eleazar begot Mathan. And Mathan begot Jacob. And Jacob begot Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.
Isaac of Stella (?-c.1171)
Cistercian monk
Sermon 51 ; PL 194, 1862 (trans. breviary 2nd Saturday of Advent)
“Looking around at those seated in the circle, Jesus said: ‘Here are my mother and my brothers’ ” (Mk 3:34)
Rightly indeed does the Virgin Mary, who truly conceived the first born of all, hold first place in the congregation of the just. For Christ is “the firstborn of many brethren” (Rm 8:29) … And so, in the divinely inspired scriptures, what is said in general of the Virgin Mother the Church is said individually of the Virgin Mary; and what is said in the particular case of the Virgin Mother Mary is rightly understood of the Virgin Mother Church universally; and when mention is made of either, it is to be understood almost indifferently and conjointly of both.
Every faithful soul, spouse of the Word of God, mother, daughter and sister of Christ, is understood to be a virgin with her own form of fertility. This is said of the whole Church, more particularly of Mary, and individually of the faithful soul, by the Wisdom itself of God, the Father’s Word.
Therefore, the text continues: “I shall abide in the inheritance of the Lord” (Sir 24:12). The inheritance of the Lord universally is the Church, more particularly Mary, and individually every faithful soul. Christ abode for nine months in the tent of Mary’s womb; he abides until the consummation of the ages in the tent of the Church’s faith; he will abide for ever and ever in the knowledge and love of the faithful soul.
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TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS SEP 08, 2026 – The Meaning of the Word
The feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary originated in the East, where it is mentioned very early, and was later observed at Rome by the time of Pope Sergius I. As Eve came forth from the side of Adam, Mary came forth bright and immaculate from the heart of the Eternal Word, prepared by God to be one day His living tabernacle and altar. Her birth is the dawn before the rising of the Sun of Justice, the mystic rod from the root of Jesse, the stream springing from Paradise, and the symbolical fleece stretched upon the dry earth to receive the miraculous dew. She is the new Eve, the life and Mother of all the living, born for those to whom the first Eve had become the mother of sin and death.
St. Hadrian, also known as St. Adrian was an officer in the Roman army. From persecuting Christians, he was so moved by their constancy that he embraced the Faith and suffered martyrdom toward the end of the third century. His commemoration honors the triumph of grace over hardness of heart and the courage of those who give witness to Christ unto death.
Feast / Saint of the Day
– The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin (8 September): Butler’s Lives of the Saints
Daily Readings for September 7, 2026
Liturgy of the Hours
– Divine Office 9.7.26 | Monday Morning Prayer | Lauds
– Divine Office 9.7.26 | Monday Evening Prayer | Vespers
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– Mercy That Restores – Monday, September 7, 2026
Saint Ambrose (c.340-397)
Bishop of Milan and Doctor of the Church
Commentary on Saint Luke’s Gospel, V, 39 (SC 45, p.197 rev.)
“There was a man there whose right hand was withered”
The same hand that Adam stretched out to pluck the fruit of the forbidden tree was filled by the Lord with the sap of good deeds so that, dried up by sin, it might be healed by its good deeds. On this occasion Christ took to task those enemies of his who, by their false interpretations, violated the commands of the Law. They considered that people should even set aside good deeds on the Sabbath day, whereas the Law was foreshadowing in the present the outlines of the future when, without any doubt at all, it will be evil that will no longer be working, not good…
You heard, then, the Lord’s words: “Stretch out your hand.” Here is the cure for us all. And as for you who believe your hands are clean, beware lest avarice and sacrilege paralyse it. Keep on stretching it out: stretch it out towards the poor man who is begging you; stretch it out to assist a neighbor, to bring help to a widow, to rescue from injustice someone you see to be subjected to undeserved humiliation; stretch it out towards God for your sins. This is how our hands are stretched out; this is how they heal.
1962 Missal
Readings & Reflection
Epistle to the Galatians 5,25-26.6,1-10.
Brethren, if we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
Let us not be made desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another. Brethren, and if a man be overtaken in any fault, you, who are spiritual, instruct such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear ye one another’s burdens: and so you shall fulfil the law of Christ. For if any man think himself to be some thing, whereas he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. But let every one prove his own work: and so he shall have glory in himself only and not in another. For every one shall bear his own burden.
And let him that is instructed in the word communicate to him that instructeth him, in all good things. Be not deceived: God is not mocked. For what things a man shall sow, those also shall he reap. For he that soweth in his flesh of the flesh also shall reap corruption. But he that soweth in the spirit of the spirit shall reap life everlasting. And in doing good, let us not fail. For in due time we shall reap, not failing. Therefore, whilst we have time, let us work good to all men, but especially to those who are of the household of the faith.
Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 7,11-16.
And it came to pass afterwards that Jesus went into a city that is called Naim: and there went with him his disciples and a great multitude. And when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold a dead man was carried out, the only son of his mother: and she was a widow. And a great multitude of the city was with her. Whom when the Lord had seen, being moved with mercy towards her, he said to her: Weep not. And he came near and touched the bier. And they that carried it stood still. And he said: Young man, I say to thee, arise. And he that was dead sat up and begun to speak. And he gave him to his mother. And there came a fear upon them all: and they glorified God saying: A great prophet is risen up among us: and, God hath visited his people.
Saint Augustine (354-430)
Bishop of Hippo (North Africa) and Doctor of the Church
Sermon 98
“The hour is coming when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God”
“Awake, you sleeper, rise from the dead and Christ will give you light!” (Eph 5,14)… We often say of those who are manifestly dead that they are sleeping; and indeed they are all sleeping for the One who is able to awaken them. For you a dead person is truly dead: you may well slap and shake him…, he will not wake up. But for Christ, the man he commanded to “Rise up!” was merely sleeping and he rose up immediately (Lk 7,14). It is easy enough to waken a sleeper from his bed but Christ awakens a dead man from his tomb with even greater ease…
“By now there will be a stench; he has been dead for four days” (Jn 11,39). But the Lord, for whom all things are done with ease, is coming… No bonds hold secure before the Savior’s voice. The powers over the dwellings of the dead tremble and Lazarus is restored to life… For Christ’s life-giving will even this death of four days is merely a sleep.
But reflect over the nature of this resurrection. Lazarus, coming alive out of the tomb, was as yet unable to walk. So the Lord commanded his disciples: “Untie him and let him go”. Christ raised him up; they set him free from his bonds. The true majesty of the God who brings the dead back to life emerges in this narrative. The Word of life (1Jn 1,1) exhorts those who are bound by their evil habits… Having been strongly admonished these sinners return to themselves, begin to reconsider their lives and feel the weight of the chains of their evil habits. Ashamed, they make up their minds to change their lives. From then on they are raised from death and brought back to life since they condemn their former way of living. However, even though they are alive once more, they cannot walk as yet…; their bonds have to be untied. This is the ministry our Lord entrusted to his disciples when he said: “Whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven” (Mt 18,18).
https://en.peripsum.org/TRA/gospel/2026-09-07
– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS SEP 07, 2026
Feast / Saint of the Day
– St. Regina, Virgen & Martyr (7 September): Butler’s Lives of the Saints
Daily Readings for September 6, 2026
- The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year
Liturgy of the Hours
– Divine Office 9.6.26 | Sunday Morning Prayer | Lauds
– Divine Office 9.6.26 | Sunday Evening Prayer | Vespers II
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– Love That Corrects – Sunday, September 6, 2026
– Keith Nester – unpacking The Mass – 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Timer Year A
Saint Ephrem (c.306-373)
deacon in Syria, Doctor of the Church
Unpublished hymn (quoted in André Louf, “Teach us to pray”, 1972)
“There am I in the midst of them”
Someone who celebrates alone in the heart of the wilderness,
is a great assembly.
If two together celebrate among the rocks,
thousands and tens of thousands are present there.
If three are gathered together,
a fourth is among them.
If there are six or seven together,
twelve thousand thousand are assembled.
If they range themselves in rank,
they fill the firmament with prayer!
If they be crucified on the rock, marked with a cross of light,
the Church is constituted.
When they come together,
the Spirit hovers over their heads,
When they end their prayer
the Lord rises to serve his servants (Lk 12:37; Jn 13:4).
1962 Missal
Readings & Reflection
Epistle to the Galatians 5,25-26.6,1-10.
Brethren, if we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
Let us not be made desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another. Brethren, and if a man be overtaken in any fault, you, who are spiritual, instruct such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear ye one another’s burdens: and so you shall fulfil the law of Christ. For if any man think himself to be some thing, whereas he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. But let every one prove his own work: and so he shall have glory in himself only and not in another. For every one shall bear his own burden.
And let him that is instructed in the word communicate to him that instructeth him, in all good things. Be not deceived: God is not mocked. For what things a man shall sow, those also shall he reap. For he that soweth in his flesh of the flesh also shall reap corruption. But he that soweth in the spirit of the spirit shall reap life everlasting. And in doing good, let us not fail. For in due time we shall reap, not failing. Therefore, whilst we have time, let us work good to all men, but especially to those who are of the household of the faith.
Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 7,11-16.
And it came to pass afterwards that Jesus went into a city that is called Naim: and there went with him his disciples and a great multitude. And when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold a dead man was carried out, the only son of his mother: and she was a widow. And a great multitude of the city was with her.
Whom when the Lord had seen, being moved with mercy towards her, he said to her: Weep not. And he came near and touched the bier. And they that carried it stood still. And he said: Young man, I say to thee, arise. And he that was dead sat up and begun to speak. And he gave him to his mother. And there came a fear upon them all: and they glorified God saying: A great prophet is risen up among us: and, God hath visited his people.
Saint Gregory the Great (c.540-604)
Pope, Doctor of the Church
Book XIV, Moralia: Exposition of the book of Job
The hope of our resurrection!
He rose again on the third day, what then is to come after in His body, i.e. in the Church, He makes appear; for He shewed in example, what He promised in reward, that as believers knew and owned that He had Himself risen again, so they might hope for the rewards of the resurrection in themselves at the end of the world. Lo, we, through the death of the flesh, remain in the dust until the end of the world, but He on the third day budded into life from the dryness of death, that by the very renewal of His flesh by itself He might shew the power of His Divine Nature…. Already indeed the body of the Lord lives after death, but our bodies are kept back from the glory of the resurrection until the end of the world. Whence he carefully introduced this same delay, by saying, And that I shall rise at the last [novissimo] day from the earth.
Therefore we have a hope of our own resurrection, by considering the glory of our Head. But lest anyone say perhaps merely in the secret thought of his heart, that it was in this way that He rose again from the dead, viz. that being God and Man in one and the same Person, the death, which He underwent in His Human Nature, He overcame by His Divine Nature, while we, who are mere men, are not able to rise from the curse of death; it happened rightly that, in the season of His resurrection, the bodies of many of the Saints arose at the same time, that both in Himself He might shew us an example, and by the resurrection of others who were like to ourselves in respect of a mere human nature, He might give us a sure confirmation.
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– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS SEP 06, 2026
Daily Readings for September 1, 2026
– St. Laurence Justinian (September 5) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year
Liturgy of the Hours
– Divine Office 9.5.26 | Saturday Morning Prayer | Lauds
– Divine Office 9.5.26 | Saturday Evening Prayer | Vespers I
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– Mercy Is Greater Than Rules – Saturday, September 5, 2026
Saint Augustine (354-430)
Bishop of Hippo (North Africa) and Doctor of the Church
On the literal meaning of Genesis, IV, 13-14
Enter into the rest of the Lord
“God looked at everything he had made: that it was good … And he rested on the seventh day from all the work he had undertaken,” (Gen 1:31-2,2). We see that God’s works are good and we shall see his rest after all our own works, if they are good. It was as a sign of this rest that he ordained the observance of the Sabbath to the Hebrews. However, they practiced it in so material a way that they accused our Lord when they saw him working out our salvation on that particular day. This earned them the pointed reply: “My Father is at work until now and so I work,” (Jn 5:17), not just in upholding all creation together with him but, even more, in working out our salvation.
But when grace was revealed, the faithful were relieved of their Sabbath observance, which comprised the rest of a single day. Now, by grace, Christians observe a perpetual Sabbath, if the good things they do are done in hope of the coming rest and they do not glory in their good works as though they were their own and not something they had received. By doing this, and by receiving and considering the sacrament of baptism as a Sabbath, that is to say as the Lord’s rest in the tomb (Rom 6:4), they rest from their former works, walk the ways of a new life and acknowledge that God acts in them – God, who both acts in them in that he rules over his creatures as they require, and who rests in that he possesses within himself everlasting repose.
God was not worn out by creating nor rested in ceasing to create but, through the language of Holy Scripture, he wanted to stir up in us a desire for his rest … He wanted to make this day holy … as though, even for him who is unwearied in working, rest is of more value than action. This is indeed what the Gospel teaches us when the Savior tells us that Mary, when she sat and remained in rest at his feet to hear his word, had chosen a part better than that of Martha, even though the latter was busy with the good work of serving (Lk 10:39f.).
1962 Missal
Readings & Reflection
Book of Sirach 44,16-23.45,3-15.
Henoch pleased God, and was translated into paradise, that he may give repentance to the nations. Noe was found perfect, just, and in the time of wrath he was made a reconciliation. Therefore was there a remnant left to the earth, when the flood came. The covenants of the world were made with him, that all flesh should no more be destroyed with the flood. Abraham was the great father of a multitude of nations, and there was not found the like to him in glory, who kept the law of the most High, and was in covenant with him. In his flesh he established the covenant, and in temptation he was found faithful. Therefore by an oath he gave him glory in his posterity, that he should increase as the dust of the earth, And that he would exalt his seed as the stars, and they should inherit from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth. He glorified him in the sight of kings, and gave him commandments in the sight of his people, and shewed him his glory. He sanctified him in his faith, and meekness, and chose him out of all flesh. For he heard him, and his voice, and brought him into a cloud. And he gave him commandments before his face, and a law of life and instruction, that he might teach Jacob his covenant, and Israel his judgments. He exalted Aaron his brother, and like to himself of the tribe of Levi: He made an everlasting covenant with him, and gave him the priesthood of the nation, and made him blessed in glory, And he girded him about with a glorious girdle, and clothed him with a robe of glory, and crowned him with majestic attire. He put upon him a garment to the feet, and breeches, and an ephod, and he compassed him with many little bells of gold all round about, That as he went there might be a sound, and a noise made that might be heard in the temple, for a memorial to the children of his people. He gave him a holy robe of gold, and blue, and purple, a woven work of a wise man, endued with judgment and truth: Of twisted scarlet the work of an artist, with precious stones cut and set in gold, and graven by the work of a lapidary for a memorial, according to the number of the tribes of Israel. And a crown of gold upon his mitre wherein was engraved Holiness, an ornament of honour: a work of power, and delightful to the eyes for its beauty. Before him there were none so beautiful, even from the beginning.
Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 25,14-23.
At that time, Jesus spoke to His disciples this parable: For even as a man going into a far country called his servants and delivered to them his goods; And to one he gave five talents, and to another two, and to another one, to every one according to his proper ability: and immediately he took his journey. And he that had received the five talents went his way and traded with the same and gained other five. And in like manner he that had received the two gained other two. But he that had received the one, going his way, digged into the earth and hid his lord’s money. But after a long time the lord of those servants came and reckoned with them. And he that had received the five talents coming, brought other five talents, saying: Lord, thou didst deliver to me five talents. Behold I have gained other five over and above. His lord said to him: Well done, good and faithful servant, because thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will place thee over many things. Enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
And he also that had received the two talents came and said: Lord, thou deliveredst two talents to me. Behold I have gained other two. His lord said to him: Well done, good and faithful servant: because thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will place thee over many things. Enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS SEP 05, 2026
Saint Pio of Pietralcina “Padre Pio” (1887-1968)
Capuchin
TN in Letters 4, 875,878
“After a long time the master of those servants came back”
“Brothers, up till now we have done nothing at all: so let us begin today.” It was to himself that Saint Francis addressed this counsel; let us humbly make it our own. How true it is that we have done nothing – or very little – as yet! One year follows another without our asking ourselves what we could have made of them. Hasn’t there been anything to change, to add or take away from our way of behaving? How carelessly we have lived, as though the day were never going to come when the eternal Judge would call us to himself and we would have to give an account of our deeds and of what we have done with our time.
Don’t let us waste our time. We ought not to put off for tomorrow what we could do today. The grave overflows with good intentions and, in any case, who can say whether tomorrow we shall still be alive? Let us listen to the voice of our conscience; it is the voice of the prophet: “Oh that today you would hear his voice: Harden not your heart,” (Ps 95[94]: 7-8).
All we have is the present moment: so let us keep a watch over it and live it as though it were a treasure entrusted to us. Time doesn’t belong to us; don’t let us waste it.
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Feast / Saint of the Day
– St. Laurence Justinian, 1st Patriarch of Venice (5 September): Butler’s Lives of the Saints
Daily Readings for September 4, 2026
Liturgy of the Hours
– Divine Office 9.4.26 | Friday Morning Pray | Lauds
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– New Wine for a New Heart – Friday, September 4, 2026
Saint Paschasius Radbertus (?-c.849)
Benedictine monk
Commentary on Matthew’s Gospel, 10,22
“The two shall be made into one. This is a great foreshadowing; I mean that it refers to Christ and the church.” (Eph 5:31)
A strange and extraordinary union occurred when “the Word became flesh” in the Virgin’s womb and thus “made his dwelling among us” (Jn 1:14). Just as all the elect were raised in Christ when he rose, so was this wedding celebrated in him, and the Church was united with the Spouse through the bonds of marriage when the man-God received the fullness of the gifts of the Holy Spirit and when the divinity came to dwell in his body… Christ became man through the Holy Spirit, and in his quality as Spouse he came out of the womb of the Virgin, who was his nuptial chamber. But when the Church is born again of water in that same Spirit, she becomes one body in Christ, so much so that the two “become as one,” (Mt 19:5), which in reference to Christ and the Church “is a great foreshadowing.” (Eph 5:31).
This marriage continues from the beginning of the Incarnation of Christ until the moment when Christ will come again and all the rites of nuptial union will be fulfilled. Then those who are ready and who, as is necessary, will have fulfilled the conditions for such a great union, will be filled with respect and will enter with him into the eternal wedding hall(Mt 25:10). While she is waiting, Christ’s promised Spouse advances and every day keeps her covenant with him in faith and affection until he returns again.
1962 Missal
Readings & Reflection
Epistle to the Galatians 5,16-24.
I, Paul, say then: Walk in the spirit: and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the spirit: and the spirit against the flesh: For these are contrary one to another: so that you do not the things that you would. But if you are led by the spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are manifest: which are fornication, uncleanness, immodesty, luxury, Idolatry, witchcrafts, enmities, contentions, emulations, wraths, quarrels, dissensions, sects, Envies, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like. Of the which I foretell you, as I have foretold to you, that they who do such things shall not obtain the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is, charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness, longanimity, Mildness, faith, modesty, continency, chastity. Against such there is no law. And they that are Christ’s have crucified their flesh, with the vices and concupiscences.
Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 6,24-33.
And opening his mouth, Jesus taught his disciples, saying: No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and love the other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than the meat: and the body more than the raiment? Behold the birds of the air, for they neither sow, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns: and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not you of much more value than they? And which of you by taking thought, can add to his stature one cubit? And for raiment why are you solicitous? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they labour not, neither do they spin. But I say to you, that not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed as one of these. And if the grass of the field, which is to day, and to morrow is cast into the oven, God doth so clothe: how much more you, O ye of little faith? Be not solicitous therefore, saying: What shall we eat: or what shall we drink, or wherewith shall we be clothed? For after all these things do the heathens seek. For your Father knoweth that you have need of all these things. Seek ye therefore first the kingdom of God, and his justice, and all these things shall be added unto you.
Saint John Chrysostom (c.345-407)
priest at Antioch then Bishop of Constantinople, Doctor of the Church
Homilies on Saint Matthew’s gospel, no. 21, 1 ; PG 57, 294-296
“You cannot serve God and mammon”
See what benefits Jesus Christ promises and how beneficial his commands are to us since they set us free from such great evils. The misery caused you by riches, he says to us, is not just that of arming thieves against you and filling your mind with impenetrable gloom. The great wound they inflict is to snatch you away from the blessed service of Jesus Christ to make you slaves of a piece of senseless, soulless metal.
“You cannot serve both God and money.” My brethren, let us shudder at the thought that we are forcing Jesus Christ to speak to us about money as though it were an alternative divinity to God ! But surely, you will say, didn’t the patriarchs of old find it possible to serve God and money at the same time? Certainly not. But how, then, was it that Abraham and Job set such store by their wealth? I reply that there’s no question here of invoking those who possessed riches but those who were possessed by them. Job was a rich man; he made use of money without being its slave; he was its master, not its worshipper. He considered his wealth as though it had been another’s and saw himself as its administrator, not its proprietor. (…) That was why he was not the least bothered when he lost it.
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Daily Readings for September 3, 2026
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– Called to Follow – Thursday, September 3, 2026
Saint Augustine (354-430)
Bishop of Hippo (North Africa) and Doctor of the Church
Sermon 43, 5-6 ; CCL 41, 510-511 (©Friends of Henry Ashworth)
“Do not be afraid; from now on it is men you will catch”
How great was Christ’s courtesy! This Peter who spoke these words was once a fisherman and in our day a public speaker deserves high praise if he is able to converse with a fisherman! Addressing the first Christians the apostle Paul says: “Brothers and sisters, remember what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise according to human standards; not many of you were influential or of noble birth. But God chose what the world regards as weak in order to disconcert the strong; God chose what the world regards as foolish in order to abash the wise; God chose what the world regards as common and contemptible, of no account whatever, in order to overthrow the existing order” (1Cor 1:26-28).
If Christ had first chosen a man skilled in public speaking, such a man might well have said: “I have been chosen on account of my eloquence.” If he had chosen a senator, the senator might have said: “I have been chosen because of my rank” If his first choice had been an emperor, the emperor surely might have said: “I have been chosen for the sake of the power I have at my disposal.” Let these worthies keep quiet and defer to others; let them hold their peace for a while. I am not saying they should be passed over or despised; I am simply asking all those who can find any grounds for pride in what they are to give way to others just a little.
Christ says: Give me this fisherman, this man without education or experience, this man to whom no senator would deign to speak, not even if he were buying fish. Yes, give me him; once I have taken possession of him, it will be obvious that it is I who am at work in him. Although I mean to include senators, orators, and emperors among my recruits… I shall still be surer of the fisherman. The senator can always take pride in what he is; so can the orator and the emperor, but the fisherman can glory in nothing except Christ alone. Any of these other men may come and take lessons from me in the importance of humility for salvation, but let the fisherman come first.
1962 Missal
Readings & Reflection
First Epistle to the Thessalonians 2,2-8.
Brethren, having suffered many things before and been shamefully treated, (as you know) at Philippi, we had confidence in our God, to speak unto you the gospel of God in much carefulness.
For our exhortation was not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deceit. But as we were approved by God that the gospel should be committed to us: even so we speak, not as pleasing men but God, who proveth our hearts. For neither have we used at any time the speech of flattery, as you know: nor taken an occasion of covetousness (God is witness): Nor sought we glory of men, neither of you, nor of others. Whereas we might have been burdensome to you, as the apostles of Christ: but we became little ones in the midst of you, as if a nurse should cherish her children: So desirous of you, we would gladly impart unto you not only the gospel of God but also our own souls: because you were become most dear unto us.
Holy Gospel according to Saint John 21,15-17.
When therefore they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter: Simon, son of John, lovest thou me more than these? He saith to him: Yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. He saith to him: Feed my lambs. He saith to him again: Simon, son of John, lovest thou me? He saith to him: yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. He saith to him: Feed my lambs. He said to him the third time: Simon, son of John, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he had said to him the third time: Lovest thou me? And he said to him: Lord, thou knowest all things: thou knowest that I love thee. He said to him: Feed my sheep.
Saint Augustine (354-430)
Bishop of Hippo (North Africa) and Doctor of the Church
Sermons on Saint John’s Gospel, no.123
“Tend my sheep”
The Lord asks Peter what he already knew, and that not just once but a second and a third time, whether Peter loved him. And each time he has the same answer, that he is loved, while just as often he gives Peter the same charge to feed His sheep. To the threefold denial there is now appended a threefold confession of love. His tongue is not to yield a feebler service to love than it did to fear, and the testimony of his word must be just as open in the presence of life as it was before the threat of death. If it was the sign of fear to deny the Shepherd then let it be the office of love to feed the Lord’s flock .
Those who have this as their purpose in feeding the flock of Christ, that they may have them as their own and not as Christ’s, are convicted of loving themselves and not Christ. They are motivated either by the desire of boasting, or of wielding power, or of acquiring gain, and not from the love of obeying, serving, and pleasing God. The thrice repeated saying of Christ condemns those, therefore, of whom the apostle complains that they seek their own interests, not the things that are Jesus Christ’s (Phil 2:21). For what do the words mean: “Do you love me? Feed my sheep”? It is as though he said, “If you love me, do not think of feeding yourself but feed my sheep as mine, and not as your own; seek my glory in them, and not your own; my dominion, and not yours; my gain, and not yours… So let us not love ourselves, but him; and in feeding his sheep, let us be seeking the things which are his, not the things which are our own.
– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS SEP 03, 2026
Feast / Saint of the Day
St. Pius X and His Example for Us
Daily Readings for September 2, 2026
Liturgy of the Hours
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– The Healing Presence of Jesus – Wednesday, September 2, 2026
William of Saint-Thierry (c.1085-1148)
Benedictine, then a Cistercian monk
Meditations IV, 10-11 (trans. ©Cistercian Publications, Inc. 1970)
“Jesus left and went to a deserted place”
Lead me away, meanwhile, my refuge and my strength, into the heart of the desert as once you led your servant Moses; lead me where the bush burns, yet is not burnt up, where the holy soul that… is all aflame with the I fullness of the fire of your Holy Spirit, and, burning like the seraphim, is not consumed but cleansed…
The soul attains to the holy place where none may stand or take another step, except he be bare-footed—having loosed the shoe-strings of all fleshly hindrances… This is the place where He Who Is, who cannot be seen as he is, is notwithstanding heard to say, “I Am Who Am,” the place where, for the time, the soul must cover her face so that she does not see the face of God, and yet in humble obedience must use her ears to hear what the Lord God will say concerning her.
Hide me then in the day of evil, O Lord, in the secret place of your tabernacle, in the hidden recesses of your face, “far from the strife of tongues” (Ps 26[27],5; 30[31],21); for your yoke is easy and the burden you have laid on me is light (Mt 11,30). And when you show me the difference between your service and the service of the world, gently and tenderly you ask me if it is not better to serve you, the living God, than to serve strange gods (Cf 2 Chron 12,8). And I, for my part, adore the hand that lays the load, I kiss the yoke, and I embrace the burden; and it is very sweet to me to sweat beneath its weight. For masters other than you have long possessed me… I acknowledge your yoke, and your light burden that lifts me up and does not crush me down.
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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 19,12-26.
Jesus said therefore: a certain nobleman went into a far country, to receive for himself a kingdom and to return. And calling his ten servants, he gave them ten pounds and said to them: Trade till I come. But his citizens hated him and they sent an embassage after him, saying: We will not have this man to reign over us. And it came to pass that he returned, having received the kingdom: and he commanded his servants to be called, to whom he had given the money, that he might know how much every man had gained by trading, And the first came saying: Lord, thy pound hath gained ten pounds. And he said to him: Well done, thou good servant, because thou hast been faithful in a little, thou shalt have power over ten cities. And the second came, saying: Lord, thy pound hath gained five pounds. And he said to him: Be thou also over five cities. And another came, saying: Lord, behold here is thy pound, which I have kept laid up in a napkin. For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up what thou didst not lay down: and thou reapest that which thou didst not sow. He saith to him: Out of thy own mouth I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up what I laid not down and reaping that which I did not sow. And why then didst thou not give my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have exacted it with usury? And he said to them that stood by: Take the pound away from him and give it to him that hath ten pounds. And they said to him: Lord, he hath ten pounds. But I say to you that to every one that hath shall be given, and he shall abound: and from him that hath not, even that which he hath shall be taken from him.
Saint Gertrude of Helfta (1256-1301)
Benedictine nun
Exercises, 7, Prime (trans. cf. Thomas Alder Pope; SC 127, p. 265 rev.)
“He had the servants called”
O beloved Truth, O calmest equity of my God, how shall I dare to appear in your presence, bowed down as I am beneath the load of my iniquity…, the crushing weight of all my negligence? I have not been faithful, nor have I traded with the talent you entrusted me, the priceless treasure of Christian faith and the spiritual life. I ought to have committed your money to the bankers of your charity so that I might draw abundant interest of perfection from it and so give you back what belongs to you with interest. And not only have I spent your precious talent, my time, but I have wasted it, squandered it utterly away. Where shall I go? Who shall I turn to? “From your presence, where shall I flee?” (Ps 139[138],7).
O Truth, you have justice and equity as your inseparable judges… Woe to me if, when I come before you, I lack an advocate to plead my cause. O Love, come forward on my behalf; answer for me; sue for my pardon. If you plead my cause, I know I still have hope of life.
I know what I will do: “The cup of salvation I will take up” (Ps 116[115],13). I will lay it upon the empty scale of Truth’s balance. So I shall supply all that is lacking and outweigh all my sins. That cup will raise up again all my ruins; with that cup I shall worthily overbalance all my unworthiness.
O beloved Truth, I could not, dare not stand before you without my Jesus; but with him, my Jesus, I will come with joy and gladness. Then sit on your judgement seat, O Truth…: “I fear no evil” (Ps 23[22],4).
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Feast / Saint of the Day
– St. Stephen King of Hungary (2 September) ~ Dom Prosper Guéranger
Daily Readings for September 1, 2026
St. Giles (September 1) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year
Liturgy of the Hours
– Divine Office 8.31.26 | Tuesday Morning Prayer | Lauds
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– When Jesus Speaks with Authority – Tuesday, September 1, 2026
Saint John Cassian (around 360-435) – founder of monasteries
Of Principalities, Conference 8: 25 Translated by C.S. Gibson. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Vol. 11.
May the fear and charity of God keep us from the devil
No one can be called the Father of spirits but God alone, who makes them out of nothing whenever He pleases, while men can only be termed the fathers of our flesh. So then the devil also in as much as he was created a spirit or an angel and good, had no one as his Father but God his Maker. But when he had become puffed up by pride and had said in his heart: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High, (Isaiah 14:14) he became a liar, and abode not in the truth; (John 8:44) but brought forth a lie from his own storehouse of wickedness and so became not only a liar, but also the father of the actual lie, by which when he promised Divinity to man and said You shall be as gods, (Genesis 3:5) he abode not in the truth, but from the beginning became a murderer, both by bringing Adam into a state of mortality, and by slaying Abel by the hand of his brother at his suggestion.
… Wherefore let us pray the Lord that both His fear and His love, which cannot fail, may continue steadfast in us, and make us wise in all things, and ever shield us unharmed, from the darts of the devil. For with these guards it is impossible for anyone to fall into the snares of death. But there is this difference between the perfect and imperfect, that in the case of the former love is steadfast, and so to speak riper and lasts more abidingly and so makes them persevere in holiness more steadfastly and more easily, while in the case of the latter its position is weaker and it more easily grows cold, and so quickly and more frequently allows them to be entangled in the snares of sin.
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Readings & Reflection
Epistle to the Galatians 5,16-24.
I, Paul, say then: Walk in the spirit: and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the spirit: and the spirit against the flesh: For these are contrary one to another: so that you do not the things that you would. But if you are led by the spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are manifest: which are fornication, uncleanness, immodesty, luxury, Idolatry, witchcrafts, enmities, contentions, emulations, wraths, quarrels, dissensions, sects, Envies, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like. Of the which I foretell you, as I have foretold to you, that they who do such things shall not obtain the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is, charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness, longanimity, Mildness, faith, modesty, continency, chastity. Against such there is no law.
And they that are Christ’s have crucified their flesh, with the vices and concupiscences.
Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 6,24-33.
And opening his mouth, Jesus taught his disciples, saying: No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and love the other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than the meat: and the body more than the raiment? Behold the birds of the air, for they neither sow, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns: and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not you of much more value than they? And which of you by taking thought, can add to his stature one cubit? And for raiment why are you solicitous? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they labour not, neither do they spin. But I say to you, that not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed as one of these. And if the grass of the field, which is to day, and to morrow is cast into the oven, God doth so clothe: how much more you, O ye of little faith? Be not solicitous therefore, saying: What shall we eat: or what shall we drink, or wherewith shall we be clothed? For after all these things do the heathens seek. For your Father knoweth that you have need of all these things. Seek ye therefore first the kingdom of God, and his justice, and all these things shall be added unto you.
Saint Gregory the Great (c.540-604) – Pope, Doctor of the Church
Morals on Job, 34
“No servant can serve two masters”
To want to place one’s hope and trust in passing things is to want to set one’s foundations in running water! Everything passes, God abides. To be attached to what is transitory is to cut oneself off from what endures. For who, carried away by the angry whirling of a rapid, can stand firm in that roiling flood? So if you want to avoid being carried away by the current then flee from all that flows away. Otherwise, the object of our love will make us end up doing exactly what we wanted to avoid. Whoever attaches himself to transitory things will surely be dragged along to wherever the things he is clinging to are drifting.
So the first thing we must do is to keep ourselves from loving material goods; the second is not to put our trust in such of those goods as are entrusted for our use and not our enjoyment. The soul who is attached to goods that only pass away very soon loses its own stability. The current of this present life carries off whoever it bears, and it is a foolish delusion, for whoever this current carries, to try to stand upright in it.
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– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS SEP 01, 2026
Feast / Saint of the Day
Saint Giles & The Twelve Holy Brothers (1 September) | Anti-social for Christ
