Wednesday 16 September 2026 (other days)
Saints Cornelius, Pope, and Cyprian, Bishop, Martyrs
on Wednesday of week 24 in Ordinary Time
on Wednesday of week 24 in Ordinary Time
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Liturgical Colour: Red. Year: A(II).
These are the readings for the feria
| First reading |
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| 1 Corinthians 12:31-13:13 |
‘Faith, hope, and love abide; but the greatest is love.’
Brothers and Sisters: Earnestly desire the higher gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way. If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
| Responsorial Psalm |
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| Ps 33(32):2-3. 4-5. 12, 22. ℟12b |
Blessed the people the Lord has chosen as his heritage.
Give thanks to the Lord upon the harp;
with a ten-stringed lute sing him songs.
O sing him a song that is new;
play skilfully, with shouts of joy.
Blessed the people the Lord has chosen as his heritage.
For the word of the Lord is upright,
and all his works to be trusted.
The Lord loves justice and right,
and his merciful love fills the earth.
Blessed the people the Lord has chosen as his heritage.
Blessed the nation whose God is the Lord,
the people he has chosen as his heritage.
May your merciful love be upon us,
as we hope in you, O Lord.
Blessed the people the Lord has chosen as his heritage.
| Gospel Acclamation |
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| Cf. John 6:63c, 68c |
Alleluia, alleluia.
Your words, O Lord, are spirit and life;
you have the words of eternal life.
Alleluia.
| Gospel | Luke 7:31-35 |
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‘We played the flute, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not weep.’
At that time: Jesus said, ‘To what then shall I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like? They are like children sitting in the market-place and calling to one another,
“We played the flute for you, and you did not dance;
we sang a dirge, and you did not weep.”
‘For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, “He has a demon.” The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, “Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!” Yet wisdom is justified by all her children.’
These are the readings for the memorial
| First reading |
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| 2 Corinthians 4:7-15 |
‘He who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence.’
Brothers and Sisters: We have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. For we who live are always being given over to death for the sake of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. So death is at work in us, but life in you.
Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, ‘I believed, and so I spoke’, we also believe, and so we also speak, knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence. For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.
| Responsorial Psalm |
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| Ps 126(125):1-2b. 2c-3. 4-5. 6. ℟5 |
Those who are sowing in tears will sing when they reap.
When the Lord brought back the exiles of Sion,
we thought we were dreaming.
Then was our mouth filled with laughter;
on our tongues, songs of joy.
Those who are sowing in tears will sing when they reap.
Then they said among the nations,
‘What great deeds the Lord worked for them!’
What great deeds the Lord worked for us!
Indeed, we were glad.
Those who are sowing in tears will sing when they reap.
Bring back our exiles, O Lord,
as streams in the Negeb.
Those who are sowing in tears
will sing when they reap.
Those who are sowing in tears will sing when they reap.
They go out, they go out, full of tears,
bearing seed for the sowing;
they come back, they come back with a song,
bearing their sheaves.
Those who are sowing in tears will sing when they reap.
| Gospel Acclamation | 2Co1:3-4 |
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Alleluia, alleluia!
Blessed be God, a gentle Father
and the God of all consolation,
who comforts us in all our sorrows.
Alleluia!
| Gospel | John 17:11b-19 |
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‘May they be one, even as we are one.’
At that time: Jesus lifted up his eyes to heaven, and praying said, ‘Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one. While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be consecrated in truth.’
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Dates
Today
(Automatic)Tue 15 September
Our Lady of SorrowsWed 16 September
Saints Cornelius, Pope, and Cyprian, Bishop, MartyrsThu 17 September
Thursday of week 24 in Ordinary Timeor Saint Robert Bellarmine, Bishop, Doctor
or Saint Hildegard of Bingen, Virgin, Doctor