Divine Office | Ordinary Time | Week Thirteen | Tuesday
OFFICE OF READINGS: SECOND READING | From a homily on the Gospels by Saint Gregory the Great, pope (540 – 604 AD) | My Lord and my God
DIDACHE (c. 80-90)
Of Fast-Days and Prayer
8. Do not keep the same fast-days as the hypocrites. Mondays and Thursdays are their days for fasting, so yours should be Wednesdays and Fridays.
Your prayers, too, should be different from theirs. Pray as the Lord enjoined in His Gospel, thus: Our Father, who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, As in heaven, so on earth; Give us this day our daily bread, And forgive us our debt as we forgive our debtors, And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from the Evil One, For thine is the power and the glory for ever and ever.
Divine Office | Ordinary Time | Week Seven | Friday
OFFICE OF READINGS: SECOND READING | From a commentary on Ecclesiastes by Saint Gregory of Agrigentum, bishop (Sixth Century) |
Exult, my soul, in the Lord
Divine Office | Easter | Week Three | Saturday
OFFICE OF READINGS: SECOND READING | From a commentary on the gospel of John by Saint Cyril of Alexandria, bishop (~375-444 AD) | Christ Gave His Own Body for the Life of All Men
Divine Office | Easter | Week Three | Monday
OFFICE OF READINGS: SECOND READING | From the commentary on the first letter of Peter by Saint Bede the Venerable, priest (672 – 735 AD) | A chosen race, a royal priesthood
Divine Office | Easter | Week Three | Sunday
OFFICE OF READINGS: SECOND READING | From the first apology in defense of the Christians by Saint Justin, martyr (100-165 AD) | The celebration of the eucharist
Divine Office | Lent | Holy Week | Thursday
OFFICE OF READINGS: SECOND READING | From an Easter homily by Saint Melito of Sardis, Bishop (d. 180 AD) | The lamb that was slain has delivered us from death and given us life
Divine Office | Easter | Octave | Friday
OFFICE OF READINGS: SECOND READING | From the Jerusalem Catecheses (~350 AD) | The Anointing with the Holy Spirit
Divine Office | Easter | Octave | Thursday
OFFICE OF READINGS: SECOND READING | From the Jerusalem Catecheses (___ AD) | Baptism is a Symbol of Christ’s Passion
Divine Office | Lent | Holy Week | Friday
OFFICE OF READINGS: SECOND READING | From the Catecheses by Saint John Chrysostom, Bishop (344 – 407 AD) | The power of Christ’s blood