19 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2024

Saint Januarius, Bishop and Martyr (Optional Memorial)

Liturgical colour: Green/Red

Today’s Rosary: The Mysteries of Light

Entrance Antiphon   Cf. Sir 36:18

Give peace, O LORD, to those who wait

for you, that your prophets be found true.

Hear the prayers of your servant, and of

your people Israel.

Collect

Look upon us, O God, Creator and ruler of

all things, and, that we may feel the working

of your mercy, grant that we may serve you

with all our heart. Through our Lord Jesus

Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with

you and the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever.

FIRST READING   

A reading from the first Letter of Saint Paul to the Corinthians 15:1-11

So we preached and so you believed.I would remind you, brethren, in what terms I preached to you the gospel, which you received, in which you stand, by which you are saved, if you hold it fast – unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the Twelve. Then he appeared to more than five hundred brethren at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me. For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted…..

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