Readings of the holy Mass – Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time

Posted August 19, 2016

Read or listen to the readings before Mass with the resources below from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, using the New American Bible, Revised Edition.

Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time

See the Mass readings for Sunday, Aug. 21, 2016.

Read Msgr. Joseph Prior’s commentary on the readings for this Sunday’s Mass.

See the readings for today’s Mass Listen to the daily readings in audio.

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