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Prayers & Devotions

August 2015
Year B - Weekdays I

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Pope's Intentions

Universal:  Volunteers
That volunteers may give themselves generously to the service of the needy.

Evangelization: Outreach to the marginalized
That setting aside our very selves we may learn to be neighbors to those who find themselves on the margins of human life and society.

1 Saint Alphonsus Liguori

Leviticus 25:1, 8-17
Matthew 14:1-12

White

2 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Exodus 16:2-4. 12-15
Ephesians 4:17, 20-24
John 6:24-35

[Saint Eusebius of Vercelli; Saint Peter Julian Eymard]

Green

3

Numbers 11:4b-15
Matthew 14:13-21

Green

4 Saint John Mary Vianney

Numbers 12:1-13
Matthew 14:22-36 or 15:1-2, 10-14

White

5 The Dedication of the Basilica of Saint Mary Major*

Numbers 13:1-2, 25-14:1, 26, 29a, 34-35
Matthew 15:21-28

Green/*White

6 The Transfiguration of the Lord

Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14
2 Peter 1:16-19
Mark 9:2-10

White

7 Saint Sixtus II & Companions*; Saint Cajetan**

First Friday
Abstinence

Deuteronomy 4:32-40
Matthew 16:24-28

Green/*Red/**White

8 Saint Dominic

Deuteronomy 6:4-13
Matthew 17:14-20

White

9 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time

1 Kings 19:4-8
Ephesians 4:30-5:2
John 6:41-51

[Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross]

Green

10 Saint Lawrence

2 Corinthians 9:6-10
John 12:24-26

Red

11 Saint Clare; Blessed John Henry Newman*

Deuteronomy 31:1-8
Matthew 18:1-5, 10, 12-14

White/*White

12 Saint Jane Frances de Chantel*

Deuteronomy 34:1-12
Matthew 18:1-20

Green/*White

13 Saint Pontian & Saint Hippolytus*

Joshua 3:7-10a, 11, 13-17
Matthew 18:21-19:1

Green/*Red

14 Saint Maximillian Mary Kolbe

Joshua 24:1-13
Matthew 19:3-12

Abstinence

Red

15 The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Vigil: 1 Chronicles 15:3-4, 15-16; 16:1-2
1 Corinthians 15:54b-57
Luke 11:27-28

Day: Revelation 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab
1 Corinthians 15;20-27
Luke 1:39-56

Holy Day of Obligation (not a holy day this year in the US)

White

16 20th Sunday in Ordinary TIme

Proverb 9:1-6
Ephesians 5:15-20
John 6:51-58

[Saint Stephen of Hungary]

Green

17

Judges 2:11-19
Matthew 19:16-22

Green

18

Judges 6:11-24a
Matthew 19:23-30

Green

19 Saint John Eudes*

Judges 9:6-15
Matthew 20:1-16

Green/*White

20 Saint Bernard

Judges 11:29-39a
Matthew 22:1-14

White

21 St Pius X

Ruth 1:1, 3-6, 14b-16, 22
Matthew 22:34-40

Abstinence

White

22 The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Ruth 2:1-3, 8-11, 4:13-17
Matthew 23:1-12

White

23 21st Sunday in Ordinary TIme

Joshua 24:1-2a, 15-17, 18b
Ephesians 5:21-32 or 5:2a, 25-32
John 6:60-69

[Saint Rose of Lima]

Green

24Saint Bartholomew

Revelation 21:9b-14
John 1:45-51

Red

25 Saint Louis of France*; Saint Joseph Calasanz*

1 Thessalonians 2:1-8
Matthew 23:23-26

Green/*White

26 Our Lady of Czestochowa

1 Thessalonians 2:9-13
Matthew 23:27-32

Green

27 Saint Monica

1 Thessalonians 3:7-13
Matthew 24:42-51

White

28 St Augustine

1 Thessalonians 4:1-8
Matthew 25:1-13

Abstinence

White

29 The Martyrdom of St John the Baptist

1 Thessalonians 4:9-11
Mark 6:17-29

Red

30 22nd Sunday in Ordinary TIme

Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-8
James 1:17-18, 21b-22, 27
Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

Saint Margaret Ward (England)

Green

31

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
Luke 4:16-30

Green

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