Saints Francisco & Jacinta Marto (Optional Memorial) - Liturgical Calendar 2023

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Francisco and Jacinta Marto</a></li> </ul> <h2><b>Daily Readings:</b></h2> <ul> <li> <a name="rd_0"></a><b>First Reading</b> <p> <i>Genesis 9:1-13</i><br /> <div> <span class="readings__verse">1</span><span class="readings__text">And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.</span> <span class="readings__verse">2</span><span class="readings__text">The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every bird of the air, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea; into your hand they are delivered.</span> <span class="readings__verse">3</span><span class="readings__text">Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.</span> <span class="readings__verse">4</span><span class="readings__text">Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.</span> <span class="readings__verse">5</span><span class="readings__text">For your lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning; of every beast I will require it and of man; of every man's brother I will require the life of man.</span> <span class="readings__verse">6</span><span class="readings__text">Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for God made man in his own image.</span> <span class="readings__verse">7</span><span class="readings__text">And you, be fruitful and multiply, bring forth abundantly on the earth and multiply in it."</span> <span class="readings__verse">8</span><span class="readings__text">Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him,</span> <span class="readings__verse">9</span><span class="readings__text">"Behold, I establish my covenant with you and your descendants after you,</span> <span class="readings__verse">10</span><span class="readings__text">and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark.</span> <span class="readings__verse">11</span><span class="readings__text">I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth."</span> <span class="readings__verse">12</span><span class="readings__text">And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations:</span> <span class="readings__verse">13</span><span class="readings__text">I set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.</span> </div> </p> </li> <li> <a name="rd_1"></a><b>Responsorial Psalm</b> <p> <i>Psalms 102:16-21, 29, 22-23</i><br /> <div> <span class="readings__verse">15</span><span class="readings__text">The nations will fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.</span> <span class="readings__verse">16</span><span class="readings__text">For the LORD will build up Zion, he will appear in his glory;</span> <span class="readings__verse">17</span><span class="readings__text">he will regard the prayer of the destitute, and will not despise their supplication.</span> <span class="readings__verse">18</span><span class="readings__text">Let this be recorded for a generation to come, so that a people yet unborn may praise the LORD:</span> <span class="readings__verse">19</span><span class="readings__text">that he looked down from his holy height, from heaven the LORD looked at the earth,</span> <span class="readings__verse">20</span><span class="readings__text">to hear the groans of the prisoners, to set free those who were doomed to die;</span> <span class="readings__verse">21</span><span class="readings__text">that men may declare in Zion the name of the LORD, and in Jerusalem his praise,</span> <span class="readings__verse">22</span><span class="readings__text">when peoples gather together, and kingdoms, to worship the LORD.</span> <span class="readings__verse">28</span><span class="readings__text">The children of thy servants shall dwell secure; their posterity shall be established before thee.</span> </div> </p> </li> <li> <a name="rd_2"></a><b>Gospel</b> <p> <i>Mark 8:27-33</i><br /> <div> <span class="readings__verse">27</span><span class="readings__text">And Jesus went on with his disciples, to the villages of Caesare'a Philip'pi; and on the way he asked his disciples, "Who do men say that I am?"</span> <span class="readings__verse">28</span><span class="readings__text">And they told him, "John the Baptist; and others say, Eli'jah; and others one of the prophets."</span> <span class="readings__verse">29</span><span class="readings__text">And he asked them, "But who do you say that I am?" 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