Liturgy of the Hours
The Exaltation of the Holy Cross
Prayer Hours
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Mass Readings
Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
First Reading
Numbers 21:4b-9
With their patience worn out by the journey, the people complained against God and Moses, "Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in this desert, where there is no food or water? We are disgusted with this wretched food!" In punishment the LORD sent among the people saraph serpents, which bit the people so that many of them died. Then the people came to Moses and said, "We have sinned in complaining against the LORD and you. Pray the LORD to take the serpents from us." So Moses p...
Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 78:1bc-2, 34-35, 36-37, 38
Refrain: Do not forget the works of the Lord!
Gospel
John 3:13-17
Jesus said to Nicodemus: "No one has gone up to heaven except the one who has come down from heaven, the Son of Man. And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life." For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the worl...
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