Archive for January 2026

First Reading Sirach 15:15-20 (JB) A reading from the book of Ecclesiasticus He never commanded anyone to be godless. If you wish, you can keep the commandments, to behave faithfully is within your power. He has set fire and water before you; put out your hand to whichever you prefer. Man has life and death…

First Reading Isaiah 58:7-10 (JB) A reading from the prophet Isaiah Your light will shine like the dawn. Thus says the Lord: Share your bread with the hungry, and shelter the homeless poor, clothe the man you see to be naked and turn not from your own kin. Then will your light shine like the…

First Reading Zephaniah 2:3; 3:12-13 (JB) A reading from the prophet Zephaniah In your midst I will leave a humble and a lowly people. Seek the Lord all you, the humble of the earth, who obey his commands. Seek integrity, seek humility: you may perhaps find shelter on the day of the anger of the…

First Reading Isaiah 8:23 – 9:3 (JB) A reading from the prophet Isaiah In the Galilean country, the people have seen a great light. In days past the Lord humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in days to come he will confer glory on the Way of the Sea on…

First Reading Isaiah 49:3, 5-6 (JB) A reading from the prophet Isaiah I will make you the light of the nations so that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth. The Lord said to me, ‘You are my servant, Israel, in whom I shall be glorified’; I was honoured in the eyes…