27th Sunday in Ordinary Time – 2 Timothy 1:6-8, 13-14 – Second Reading

2 Timothy 1:6-8, 13-14 Beloved, I remind you, to stir into flamethe gift of God that you have through the imposition of my hands.For God did not give us a spirit of cowardicebut rather of power and love and self-control.So do not be ashamed of your testimony to our Lord,nor of me, a prisoner for …

27th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Hababkkuk 1:2-3; 2:2-4 – First Reading

Hababkkuk 1:2-3; 2:2-4 How long, O LORD? I cry for helpbut you do not listen!I cry out to you, "Violence!"but you do not intervene.Why do you let me see ruin;why must I look at misery?Destruction and violence are before me;there is strife, and clamorous discord.Then the LORD answered me and said:Write down the vision clearly …

20th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Jeremiah 38:4-6, 8-10 (First Reading)

1st Reading – Jeremiah 38:4-6, 8-10 The king’s leading men spoke to the king. ‘Let Jeremiah be put to death: he is unquestionably disheartening the remaining soldiers in the city, and all the people too, by talking like this. The fellow does not have the welfare of this people at heart so much as its …