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 Tuesday 4 Th July 2023.
Ordinary Weekday/ Independence Day
First Reading:Â Genesis 19:Â 15-29
15Â And when it was morning, the angels pressed him, saying: Arise, take thy wife, and the two daughters which thou hast: lest thou also perish in the wickedness of the city.
16Â And as he lingered, they took his hand, and the hand of his wife, and of his two daughters, because the Lord spared him.
17Â And they brought him forth, and set him without the city: and there they spoke to him, saying: Save thy life: look not back, neither stay thou in all the country about: but save thyself in the mountain, lest thou be also consumed.
18 And Lot said to them: I beseech thee my Lord,
19Â Because thy servant hath found grace before thee, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewn to me, in saving my life, and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil seize me, and I die:
20Â There is this city here at hand, to which I may flee, it is a little one, and I shall be saved in it: is it not a little one, and my soul shall live?
21Â And he said to him: Behold also in this, I have heard thy prayers, not to destroy the city for which thou hast spoken.
22Â Make haste and be saved there, because I cannot do any thing till thou go in thither. Therefore the name of that city was called Segor.
23Â The sun was risen upon the earth, and Lot entered into Segor.
24Â And the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrha brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.
25Â And he destroyed these cities, and all the country about, all the inhabitants of the cities, and all things that spring from the earth.
26Â And his wife looking behind her, was turned into a statue of salt.
27Â And Abraham got up early in the morning and in the place where he had stood before with the Lord,
28Â He looked towards Sodom and Gomorrha, and the whole land of that country: and he saw the ashes rise up from the earth as the smoke of a furnace.
29Â Now when God destroyed the cities of that country, remembering Abraham, he delivered Lot out of the destruction of the cities wherein he had dwelt.
Responsorial Psalm:Â Psalms 26:Â 2-3, 9-10, 11-12
R. (3a) O Lord, your mercy is before my eyes.
2Â Prove me, O Lord, and try me; burn my reins and my heart.
3 For thy mercy is before my eyes; and I am well pleased with thy truth.
R. O Lord, your mercy is before my eyes.
9Â Take not away my soul, O God, with the wicked: nor my life with bloody men:
10Â In whose hands are iniquities: their right hand is filled with gifts.
R. O Lord, your mercy is before my eyes.
11Â But as for me, I have walked in my innocence: redeem me, and have mercy on me.
12Â My foot hath stood in the direct way: in the churches I will bless thee, O Lord.
R. O Lord, your mercy is before my eyes.
Alleluia:Â Psalms 130:Â 5
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
5Â I trust in the LORD; my soul trusts in his word.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel:Â Matthew 8:Â 23-27
23Â And when he entered into the boat, his disciples followed him:
24Â And behold a great tempest arose in the sea, so that the boat was covered with waves, but he was asleep.
25Â And they came to him, and awaked him, saying: Lord, save us, we perish.
26Â And Jesus saith to them: Why are you fearful, O ye of little faith? Then rising up he commanded the winds, and the sea, and there came a great calm.
27Â But the men wondered, saying: What manner of man is this, for the winds and the sea obey him?
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