The Sunday Gospel Archive

Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Luke 21:5-19 The Book of Malachi is the source of this weekend’s first reading. Malachi was not a proper name for a person in ancient Israel. Rather, […]

Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Luke 20:27-38 This weekend, observed as the Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, the Church presents as the first reading a section from the Second Book […]

Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time Luke 19:1-10 The Book of Wisdom provides this weekend’s first reading. As the natural environment has absorbed more and more public interest, the pope and […]

Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Luke 18:9-14 The Book of Sirach, one of those books classified by scholars collectively as the Wisdom literature, provides this weekend’s first Scriptural reading.  The […]

Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time Luke 18:1-8 The Book of Exodus is the source of this weekend’s first reading. As might be assumed from the book’s name, Exodus is a […]

Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time Luke 17:11-19 The Second Book of Kings furnishes this weekend’s first Scriptural reading at Mass. The two books of Kings were once a single volume, but […]

Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Luke 17:5-10 The first reading for this weekend comes from the Book of Habakkuk. Little is known about this prophet. It is known that the author […]

Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Luke 16:19-31 The Book of Amos is the source of this weekend’s first reading. The book itself states that it was written during the reign […]

Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time Luke 14:25-33 The Book of Wisdom provides this weekend’s liturgy with its first scriptural reading. This book was written, according to scholars, in Alexandria by […]

Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time Luke 14:1, 7-14 “In the first reading, Sirach, the name of this book, derives from the name of the author, mentioned in the book. The […]