Tuesday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time
Reading 1 Ex 2:1-15a A certain man of the house of Levi married a Levite woman,who conceived and bore a son.Seeing that he was a goodly child, she hid him for three months.When she could hide him no longer, she took a papyrus basket,daubed it with bitumen and pitch,and putting the child in it,placed it among the reeds on the river bank.His sister stationed herself at a distanceto find out what would happen to him.Pharaoh’s daughter came down to the river to bathe,while her maids walked along the river bank.Noticing the basket among the reeds, she sent her handmaid to fetch it.On opening it, she looked, and lo, there was a baby boy, crying!She was moved with pity for him and said,“It is one of the Hebrews’ children.”Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter,“Shall I go and call one of the Hebrew womento nurse the child for you?”“Yes, do so,” she answered.So the maiden went and called the child’s own mother.Pharaoh’s daughter said to her,“Take this child and nurse it for me, and I will repay you.”The woman therefore took the child and nursed it.When the child grew, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter,who adopted him as her son and called him Moses;for she said, “I drew him out of the water.”On one occasion, after Moses had grown up,when he visited his kinsmen and witnessed their forced labor,he saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his own kinsmen.Looking about and seeing no one,he slew the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.The next day he went out again, and now two Hebrews were fighting!So he asked the culprit,“Why are you striking your fellow Hebrew?”But the culprit replied,“Who has appointed you ruler and judge over us?Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?”Then Moses became afraid and thought,“The…
Memorial of Saint Bonaventure, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
Reading 1 Ex 1:8-14, 22 A new king, who knew nothing of Joseph, came to power in Egypt.He said to his subjects, “Look how numerous and powerfulthe people of the children of Israel are growing, more so than we ourselves!Come,…
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Reading 1 Dt 30:10-14 Moses said to the people:“If only you would heed the voice of the LORD, your God,and keep his commandments and statutesthat are written in this book of the law,when you return to the LORD, your God,with…
Saturday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time
Reading 1 Gn 49:29-32; 50:15-26a Jacob gave his sons this charge: “Since I am about to be taken to my people, bury me with my fathers in the cave that lies in the field of Ephron the Hittite, the cave…
Friday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time
Reading 1 Gn 46:1-7, 28-30 Israel set out with all that was his. When he arrived at Beer-sheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. There God, speaking to Israel in a vision by night, called, “Jacob!…
Memorial of Saint Benedict, Abbot
Reading 1 Gn 44:18-21, 23b-29; 45:1-5 Judah approached Joseph and said: “I beg you, my lord,let your servant speak earnestly to my lord,and do not become angry with your servant,for you are the equal of Pharaoh.My lord asked your servants,…
Wednesday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time
Reading 1 Gn 41:55-57; 42:5-7a, 17-24a When hunger came to be felt throughout the land of Egyptand the people cried to Pharaoh for bread,Pharaoh directed all the Egyptians to go to Josephand do whatever he told them.When the famine had…
Tuesday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time
Reading 1 Gn 32:23-33 In the course of the night, Jacob arose, took his two wives,with the two maidservants and his eleven children,and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.After he had taken them across the streamand had brought over all…
Monday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time
Reading 1 Gn 28:10-22a Jacob departed from Beer-sheba and proceeded toward Haran.When he came upon a certain shrine, as the sun had already set,he stopped there for the night.Taking one of the stones at the shrine, he put it under…
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Reading 1 Is 66:10-14c Thus says the LORD: Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad because of her, all you who love her; exult, exult with her, all you who were mourning over her! Oh, that you may suck fully of the milk of her comfort, that you…