26 August 2019, Monday, 21st Week, Ordinary Time; Lit Colour: Green.

• 1st Reading: 1Th 1:1-5, 8b-10; Responsorial Psalm: Ps 149:1-2, 3-4, 5-6a, 9b; Gospel: Mt 23:13-22.

25 August 2019, 21st Sunday of Ordinary Time; Lit Colour: Green.

• 1st Reading: Is 66:18-21; Responsorial Psalm: Ps 116:1, 2; 2nd Reading: Hebr 12:5-7, 11-13; Gospel: Lk 13:22-30.

27 August 2019, St. Monica of Hippo, Memorial; Lit Colour: White.

• 1st Reading: 1 Th 2:1-8; Responsorial Psalm: Ps 138:1-3, 4-6; Gospel: Mt 23:23-26.

“Nothing is far from God, and I need have no fear that he will not know where to find me, when he comes to raise me to life at the end of the world.”

​St. Monic of Hippo (from "St. Alban's Cafe, The Daily Cup")

24 August 2019, St. Bartholomew, Apostle, feast; Lit Colour: Red.

• 1st Reading: Rev 21:9b-14; Responsorial Psalm: Ps 144:10-11, 12-13ab, 17-18; Gospel: Jn 1:45-51.

"Nathanael (=Bartholomew) replied, ‘Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!’ .” 

John 1:49

ORDINARY TIME: After the feast of Pentecost which fell on June 9, the Church’s liturgical calendar changed from the Season of Easter to Ordinary Time. Many people might have missed this fact because the liturgical colour for Ordinary Time – green – is not used on the first two Sundays of this phase of the season. The Easter colour of white is continued because two solemnities – Holy Trinity and The Body and Blood of Christ – are celebrated on the Sundays following Pentecost.
The name “Ordinary Time” for that part of the church year outside the seasons of Advent, Christmas, Lent and Easter is perhaps rather an unfortunate term. The word “ordinary” commonly means something that is unexceptional or uninteresting. However, the word “ordinary” as used in “Ordinary Time” means that the Sundays after the seasons of Christmas and Easter are counted in order, using ordinal numbers.
It is best to think of Ordinary Time as one of the liturgical seasons – the longest season of the church year. Its liturgical colour of green points to our Christian hope and life, entering into the mystery of Christ in all its fullness.

Ordinary Time enables us to devote ourselves to exploring the mystery of Christ in all its aspects and to celebrate the presence of God in the ordinary patterns of human life.

(Ref. "Liturgy Brisbane")

Oridnary Time (after the Easter Season): 10 June to 30 December 2019.