CATHOLIC DAILY READING
Catholic Daily Reading Includes the complete readings – 1st Reading, Responsorial Psalm and the Gospel. This daily reading is published to help you live a life full of faith.
Daily Mass Reading for Today Saturday 15 Th July 2023.
Bonaventure, Bishop, Religious, Doctor Obligatory Memorial
First Reading:Â Genesis 49:Â 29-32; 50: 15-26a
29Â And he charged them, saying: I am now going to be gathered to my people: bury me with my fathers in the double cave, which is in the field of Ephron the Hethite,
30Â Over against Mambre in the land of Chanaan, which Abraham bought together with the field of Ephron the Hethite for a possession to bury in.
31 There they buried him, and Sara his wife: there was Isaac buried with Rebecca his wife: there also Lia doth lie buried.
32The field and the cave in it that had been purchased from the Hethite.
50:15Â Now he being dead, his brethren were afraid, and talked one with another: Lest perhaps he should remember the wrong he suffered, and requite us all the evil that we did to him.
16Â And they sent a message to him, saying: Thy father commanded us before he died,
17Â That we should say thus much to thee from him: I beseech thee to forget the wickedness of thy brethren, and the sin and malice they practiced against thee: we also pray thee, to forgive the servants of the God of thy father this wickedness. And when Joseph heard this, he wept.
18Â And his brethren came to him: and worshipping prostrate on the ground they said: We are thy servants.
19Â And he answered them: Fear not: can we resist the will of God?
20Â You thought evil against me: but God turned it into good, that he might exalt me, as at present you see, and might save many people.
21Â Fear not: I will feed you and your children. And he comforted them, and spoke gently and mildly.
22 And he dwelt in Egypt with all his father’s house: and lived a hundred and ten years.
23 And he saw the children of Ephraim to the third generation. The children also of Machir the son of Manasses were born on Joseph’s knees.
24Â After which he told his brethren: God will visit you after my death, and will make you go up out of this land, to the land which he swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
25Â And he made them swear to him, saying: God will visit you, carry my bones with you out of this place:
26a And he died being a hundred and ten years old.
Responsorial Psalm:Â Psalms 105:Â 1-2, 3-4, 6-7
R. (Psalms 69:33) Be glad you lowly ones; may your hearts be glad!
1Â Alleluia. Give glory to the Lord, and call upon his name: declare his deeds among the Gentiles.
2Â Sing to him, yea sing praises to him: relate all his wondrous works.
R. Be glad you lowly ones; may your hearts be glad!
3 Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord.
4Â Seek ye the Lord, and be strengthened: seek his face evermore.
R. Be glad you lowly ones; may your hearts be glad!
6Â O ye seed of Abraham his servant; ye sons of Jacob his chosen.
7Â He is the Lord our God: his judgments are in all the earth.
R. Be glad you lowly ones; may your hearts be glad!
Alleluia:Â First Peter 4:Â 14
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
14Â If you are insulted for the name of Christ, blessed are you, for the Spirit of God rests upon you.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel:Â Matthew 10:Â 24-33
24Â The disciple is not above the master, nor the servant above his lord.
25Â It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the goodman of the house Beelzebub, how much more them of his household?
26Â Therefore fear them not. For nothing is covered that shall not be revealed: nor hid, that shall not be known.
27Â That which I tell you in the dark, speak ye in the light: and that which you hear in the ear, preach ye upon the housetops.
28 And fear ye not them that kill the body, and are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him that can destroy both soul and body in hell.
29Â Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and not one of them shall fall on the ground without your Father.
30Â But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
31Â Fear not therefore: better are you than many sparrows.
32Â Every one therefore that shall confess me before men, I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven.
33Â But he that shall deny me before men, I will also deny him before my Father who is in heaven.
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