Liturgical years B - Starts on 27 Nov, 2011 and ends on Dec 1, 2012
The Church provides a three-year circle for Sunday readings starting with the season of Advent, four weeks before Christmas day. Each liturgical year, the Church centers on one of the synoptic Gospels (Year A – Matthew, Year B – Mark, Year C – Luke). John is read in each year in the major seasons of Christmas, Lent, and Easter. Therefore, this year, each theme of Sunday and festival's readings is based on the the Gospel of Mark.
Description | Gospel | Theme |
First Sunday of Advent Year B | Mark 13:33-37 | Stay awake because you don’t know when the time will come |
Second Sunday of Advent Year B | Mark 1:1-8 | Prepare the way for the Lord, make his paths straight - John the Baptist |
Third Sunday of Advent Year B | John 1:6-8.19-28 | Baptism with water - Baptism with the fire of Holy Spirit |
Fourth Sunday of Advent Year B | Luke 1:26-38 | The Incarnation - Hail Mary full of grace, the Lord is with Thee |
Nativity of Our Lord - Birth of Jesus | Luke 2:15-20 | The shepherds found Mary and Joseph and baby Jesus |
Mother of God – Theotokos – Mary’s Solemnity | Luke 2:16-21 | Mary treasured these things and pondered them in her heart |
Epiphany of the Lord | Matthew 2:1-12 | Three wise men saw his star and came to pay homage to the King |
Second Sunday in ordinary time B | John 1:35-42 | We have found the Messiah |
Third Sunday in ordinary time | Mark 1:14-20 | Repent and believe the Good News |
Fourth Sunday in ordinary time | Mark 1:21-28 | He taught with authority in the Synagogues |
5th Sunday in ordinary time | Mark 1:29-39 | He cured many who suffered from diseases |
6th Sunday in ordinary time | Mark 1:40-45 | Of course I want to cure you |
7th Sunday in ordinary time | Mark 2:1-12 | Get up, pick up your mat and walk |
8th Sunday in ordinary time | Mark 2:18-22 | New wine, fresh skins |
First Sunday of Lent | Mark 1:12-15 | Jesus was tempted by Satan |
Second Sunday of Lent | Mark 9:2-10 | The transfiguration - This is my Son, my beloved. |
Third Sunday of Lent | John 2:13-25 | Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up |
Fourth Sunday of Lent | John 3:14-21 | God loved the world so much |
Fifth Sunday of Lent | John 12:20-30 | Unless a wheat grain falls to the ground and dies |
Passion (Palm)Sunday | Mark 11:1-10 | Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord |
Easter Sunday | John 20:1-9 | He must rise from the dead |
2nd Sunday of Easter – Divine Mercy Sunday | John 20:19-31 | If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained |
Third Sunday of Easter | St Luke 24: 35 - 48 | Thus it is written, that the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day |
Fourth Sunday of Easter | John 10: 11 - 18 | The Lord is my Shepherd |
Fifth Sunday of Easter | John 15:1-8 | I am the true vine |
Sixth Sunday of Easter | John 15:9-17 | Love one another as I have loved you |
The Ascension of the Lord | Mark 16:15-20 | Go into all the world and proclaim the good news to the whole creation |
Pentecost Sunday | John 15:26-27 16:12-15 | The Spirit of truth who comes from the Father, he will testify on my behalf |
Trinity Sunday | Matthew 28:1620 | Make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit |
The Body and Blood of Christ | Mark 14:12-16 16:22-26 | This is my body, this is my blood |
12th Sunday in ordinary time | Mark 4:35-41 | Who can this be? Even the wind and the sea obey him. |
SS Peter and Paul, Apostles | Matthew 16: 13-19 | You are Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it |
13th Sunday in ordinary time | Mark 5:21-43 | Little girl, I tell you: get up. |
14th Sunday in ordinary time | Mark 6:1-6 | Prophets are not without honor, except in their hometown, and among their own kin, and in their own house. |
15th Sunday in ordinary time | Mark 6:7-13 | He called the twelve and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits |
16th Sunday in ordinary time | Mark 6:30-34 | He had compassion and began to teach them many things |
17th Sunday in ordinary time | John 6:1-15 | Feeding of the five thousand |
The Transfiguration of the Lord | Matthew 17:1-9 | Transfiguration - His face shone like the sun |
18th Sunday in ordinary time | John 6:24-35 | What must we do, to do the Work of God? |
19th Sunday in ordinary time | Juan 6:41-51 | I am the bread of life |
20th Sunday in ordinary time | John 6:51-59 | Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day |
21st Sunday in ordinary time | John 6:61-70 | You are the Christ, the Son of God |
22nd Sunday in ordinary time | Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 | This people honour me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me |
23rd Sunday in ordinary time | Mark 7:31-37 | Then looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, "Ephphatha," that is, "Be opened." |
24th Sunday in ordinary time | John 3:13-17 | Triumph of the Cross - And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up |
25th Sunday in ordinary time | Mark 9:29-36 | The Son of Man is to be betrayed into human hands, and they will kill him, and three days after being killed, he will rise again. |
26th Sunday in ordinary time | Mark 9:37-42, 44, 46-47 | The reality of Hell |
27th Sunday in ordinary time | Mark 10:2-16 | Divorce - Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate |
28th Sunday in ordinary time | Mark 10:17-30 | You lack one thing; go, sell what you own, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me. |
29th Sunday in ordinary time | Mark 10:35-45 | For the Son of man also has not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as redemption for many |
30th Sunday in ordinary time | Mark 10:46-52 | What do you want me to do for you? |
31st Sunday in ordinary time | Mark 15:33-39, 16:1-6 | The commemoration of all the faithful - "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" departed |
32nd Sunday in ordinary time | John 2:13-22 | Zeal for your house will consume me. |
33rd Sunday in ordinary time | Mark 13:24-32 | Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word shall not pass away |
34th Sunday in ordinary time | John 8:33-37 | So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed |
