First reading
Deuteronomy 26:4-10

The confession of faith of the chosen people.
Moses spoke to the people: ‘The priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it down before the altar of the Lord your God. And you shall make response before the Lord your God, “A wandering Aramean was my father. And he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number, and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous. And the Egyptians treated us harshly and humiliated us and laid on us hard labour. Then we cried to the Lord, the God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression. [Read more…]

MASS READINGS FOR 8TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
QUINQUAGESIMA (BCP)
First reading Sirach 27:4-7

‘Do not praise a man before you hear him reason.’
When a sieve is shaken, the refuse appears; so a person’s filth in his thoughts. The kiln tests the potter’s vessels; likewise the test of a person is in his reasoning. The fruit discloses the cultivation of a tree; so the expression of a thought discloses the cultivation of a person’s mind.
Do not praise a man before you hear him reason, for this is the test of people. [Read more…]