Sunday: The Exaltation of the Holy Cross
Nm 21:4b-9/Phil 2:6-11/Jn 3:13-17
“Accordingly Moses made a bronze serpent and mounted it on a pole, and whenever the serpent bit someone, the person looked at the bronze serpent and recovered.”
Numbers 21:9, NABRE
Monday: Our Lady of Sorrows
1 Tm 2:1-8 /Jn 19:25-27 or Lk 2:33-35
“Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son.” Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother.” And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.”
John 19:25-27, NABRE
Tuesday
1 Tm 3:1-13/Lk 7:11-17
“This saying is trustworthy: whoever aspires to the office of bishop desires a noble task. Therefore, a bishop must be irreproachable, married only once, temperate, self-controlled, decent, hospitable, able to teach, not a drunkard, not aggressive, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money.”
1 Timothy 3:1-3, NABRE
Wednesday
1 Tm 3:14-16/Lk 7:31-35
“For John the Baptist came neither eating food nor drinking wine, and you said, ‘He is possessed by a demon.’ The Son of Man came eating and drinking and you said, ‘Look, he is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ But wisdom is vindicated by all her children.””
Luke 7:33-35, NABRE
Thursday
1 Tm 4:12-16/Lk 7:36-50
“Let no one despise your youth, but set the believers an example in speech and conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.”
1 Timothy 4:12, NRSVCE
Friday
1 Tm 6:2c-12/Lk 8:1-3
“Soon afterwards he went on through cities and villages, proclaiming and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God. The twelve were with him”
Luke 8:1, NRSVCE
Saturday
1 Tm 6:13-16/Lk 8:4-15
“In the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, I charge you to keep the commandment without spot or blame until the manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
1 Timothy 6:13-14, NRSVCE