Roman Catholic Readings For Monday, 22 November

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St. Philemon


Feastday: November 22

1st century

Martyr with Apphia. A Christian in the city of Colossae, Phrygia, and he was the master of the runaway slave Onesimus mentioned in St. Paul’s Letter to the Colossians. According to tradition, Philemon and his wife Apphia were stoned to death at Colossae by an anti-Christian mob

Daily Readings for Monday November 22, 2010


Reading 1, Rv 14:1-3, 4b-5

1 Next in my vision I saw Mount Zion, and standing on it the Lamb who had with him a hundred and forty-four thousand people, all with his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads.



2 I heard a sound coming out of heaven like the sound of the ocean or the roar of thunder; it was like the sound of harpists playing their harps.



3 There before the throne they were singing a new hymn in the presence of the four living creatures and the elders, a hymn that could be learnt only by the hundred and forty-four thousand who had been redeemed from the world.



4 These are the sons who have kept their virginity and not been defiled with women; they follow the Lamb wherever he goes; they, out of all people, have been redeemed to be the first-fruits for God and for the Lamb.



5 No lie was found in their mouths and no fault can be found in them.


Liturgical Year C


Psalm - Ps 24:1b-4b,5-6





1b A Psalm of David. The earth and all its fullness belong to the Lord: the whole world and all that dwells in it.

2 For he has founded it upon the seas, and he has prepared it upon the rivers.

3 Who will ascend to the mountain of the Lord? And who will stand in his holy place?

4b who has not received his soul in vain





Gospel, Lk 21:1-4

1 Looking up, he saw rich people putting their offerings into the treasury;



2 and he noticed a poverty-stricken widow putting in two small coins,



3 and he said, 'I tell you truly, this poor widow has put in more than any of them;



4 for these have all put in money they could spare, but she in her poverty has put in all she had to live on.'