Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time
Jos 24:1-2a, 15-17, 18b/Eph 5:21-32 or 5:2a, 25-32/Jn 6:60-69
“Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ.”
Ephesians 5:21, NRSVCE
Monday
2 Thes 1:1-5, 11-12/Mt 23:13-22
“We must always give thanks to God for you, brothers and sisters, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.”
2 Thessalonians 1:3, NRSVCE
Tuesday
2 Thes 2:1-3a, 14-17/Mt 23:23-26
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. It is these you ought to have practiced without neglecting the others. ”
Matthew 23:23, NRSVCE
Wednesday
2 Thes 3:6-10, 16-18/Mt 23:27-32
“Now we command you, beloved, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from believers who are living in idleness and not according to the tradition that they received from us.”
2 Thessalonians 3:6, NRSVCE
Thursday
1 Cor 1:1-9/Mk 6:17-29
“I give thanks to my God always on your account for the grace of God bestowed on you in Christ Jesus, that in him you were enriched in every way, with all discourse and all knowledge, as the testimony to Christ was confirmed among you”
1 Corinthians 1:4-6, NABRE
Friday
1 Cor 1:17-25/Mt 25:1-13
“But he said in reply, ‘Amen, I say to you, I do not know you.’ Therefore, stay awake, for you know neither the day nor the hour.”
Matthew 25:12-13, NABRE
Saturday
1 Cor 1:26-31/Mt 25:14-30
“Consider your own calling, brothers. Not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. Rather, God chose the foolish of the world to shame the wise, and God chose the weak of the world to shame the strong”
1 Corinthians 1:26-27, NABRE
