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August 10, 2007                         Feast of Saint Lawrence, deacon and martyr Psalm: Friday 28       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 12 Cor 9:6-10 Brothers and sisters:Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly,and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.Each must do as already determined, without sadness or compulsion,for God loves a cheerful giver.Moreover, God is able to make every grace abundant for you,so that in all things, always having all you need,you may have an abundance for every good work.As it is written: He scatters abroad, he gives to the poor;his righteousness endures forever....

August 9, 2007                                     Thursday of the Eighteenth Week                                 in Ordinary Time Psalm: Thursday 28       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Nm 20:1-13 The whole congregation of the children of Israelarrived in the desert of Zin in the first month, and the people settled at Kadesh.It was here that Miriam died, and here that she was buried. As the community had no water,they held a council against Moses and Aaron. The people contended with Moses, exclaiming,“Would that we too had perished with our...

August 8, 2007                                 Memorial of Saint Dominic, priest Psalm: Wednesday 28       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Nm 13:1-2, 25–14:1, 26a-29a, 34-35 The LORD said to Moses [in the desert of Paran,]“Send men to reconnoiter the land of Canaan,which I am giving the children of Israel.You shall send one man from each ancestral tribe,all of them princes.” After reconnoitering the land for forty days they returned,met Moses and Aaron and the whole congregation of the children of Israelin the desert of Paran at Kadesh,made a report to them all,and showed the...

August 7, 2007                                     Tuesday of the Eighteenth Week                                  in Ordinary Time Psalm: Tuesday 28     Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Nm 12:1-13 Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses on the pretextof the marriage he had contracted with a Cushite woman.They complained, “Is it through Moses alone that the LORD speaks?Does he not speak through us also?”And the LORD heard this.Now, Moses himself was by far the meekest man on the face of the earth.So at once the LORD said to Moses and Aaron...

August 6, 2007                             Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord Psalm: Monday 28       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmReading 2Gospel Reading 1Dn 7:9-10, 13-14 As I watched: Thrones were set upand the Ancient One took his throne.His clothing was bright as snow,and the hair on his head as white as wool;his throne was flames of fire,with wheels of burning fire.A surging stream of fireflowed out from where he sat;Thousands upon thousands were ministering to him,and myriads upon myriads attended him.The court was convened and the books were opened. As the visions during the...

August 4, 2007                                 Memorial of Saint John Vianney, priest Psalm: Saturday 27       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Lv 25:1, 8-17 The LORD said to Moses on Mount Sinai,“Seven weeks of years shall you count–seven times seven years–so that the seven cycles amount to forty-nine years.Then, on the tenth day of the seventh month, let the trumpet resound;on this, the Day of Atonement, the trumpet blast shall re-echothroughout your land.This fiftieth year you shall make sacredby proclaiming liberty in the land for all its inhabitants.It shall be a jubilee for you,when...

August 3, 2007                                     Friday of the Seventeenth Week                                 in Ordinary Time Psalm: Friday 27       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Lv 23:1, 4-11, 15-16, 27, 34b-37 The LORD said to Moses,“These are the festivals of the LORD which you shall celebrateat their proper time with a sacred assembly.The Passover of the LORD falls on the fourteenth day of the first month,at the evening twilight.The fifteenth day of this month is the LORD’s feast of Unleavened Bread.For seven days you shall eat unleavened...

August 2, 2007                                    Thursday of the Seventeenth Week                                in Ordinary Time Psalm: Thursday 27       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Ex 40:16-21, 34-38 Moses did exactly as the LORD had commanded him.On the first day of the first month of the second yearthe Dwelling was erected.It was Moses who erected the Dwelling.He placed its pedestals, set up its boards, put in its bars,and set up its columns.He spread the tent over the Dwellingand put the covering on top of the tent,as the LORD had commanded him.He took the commandments and put them...

August 1, 2007                             Memorial of St Alphonsus Liguori Psalm: Wednesday 27       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Ex 34:29-35 As Moses came down from Mount Sinaiwith the two tablets of the commandments in his hands,he did not know that the skin of his face had become radiantwhile he conversed with the LORD.When Aaron, then, and the other children of Israel saw Mosesand noticed how radiant the skin of his face had become,they were afraid to come near him.Only after Moses called to them did Aaronand all the rulers of the community come...

July 31, 2007                         Memorial of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, priest Psalm: Tuesday 27       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Ex 33:7-11; 34:5b-9, 28 The tent, which was called the meeting tent,Moses used to pitch at some distance away, outside the camp.Anyone who wished to consult the LORDwould go to this meeting tent outside the camp.Whenever Moses went out to the tent, the people would all riseand stand at the entrance of their own tents,watching Moses until he entered the tent.As Moses entered the tent, the column of cloud would come downand stand at...

July 30, 2007                                     Monday of the Seventeenth Week                             in Ordinary Time Psalm: Monday 27       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Ex 32:15-24, 30-34 Moses turned and came down the mountainwith the two tablets of the commandments in his hands,tablets that were written on both sides, front and back;tablets that were made by God,having inscriptions on them that were engraved by God himself.Now, when Joshua heard the noise of the people shouting,he said to Moses, “That sounds like a battle in the camp.”But Moses...

July 28, 2007                                     Saturday of the Sixteenth Week                                          in Ordinary Time Psalm: Saturday 26       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Ex 24:3-8 When Moses came to the peopleand related all the words and ordinances of the LORD, they all answered with one voice,“We will do everything that the LORD has told us.”Moses then wrote down all the words of the LORD and,rising early the next day,he erected at the foot of the mountain an altarand twelve pillars for the twelve...

July 26, 2007                         Memorial of Saint Joachim and Saint Anne,                             parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary Psalm: Thursday 26       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Ex 19:1-2, 9-11, 16-20b In the third month after their departure from the land of Egypt,on its first day, the children of Israel came to the desert of Sinai.After the journey from Rephidim to the desert of Sinai,they pitched camp. While Israel was encamped here in front of the mountain,the LORD told Moses,“I am coming to you in a dense cloud,so that when the people hear me...

July 25, 2007                                 Feast of Saint James, Apostle Psalm: Wednesday 26     Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 12 Cor 4:7-15 Brothers and sisters:We hold this treasure in earthen vessels,that the surpassing power may be of God and not from us.We are afflicted in every way, but not constrained;perplexed, but not driven to despair;persecuted, but not abandoned;struck down, but not destroyed;always carrying about in the body the dying of Jesus,so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our body.For we who live are constantly being given up to deathfor the...

July 24, 2007                                 Tuesday of the Sixteenth Week                                     in Ordinary Time Psalm: Tuesday       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Ex 14:21—15:1 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea,and the LORD swept the seawith a strong east wind throughout the nightand so turned it into dry land.When the water was thus divided,the children of Israel marched into the midst of the sea on dry land,with the water like a wall to their right and to their left. The Egyptians followed in pursuit;all...

July 23, 2007                                 Monday of the Sixteenth Week                                 in Ordinary Time Psalm: Monday 26       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Ex 14:5-18 When it was reported to the king of Egyptthat the people had fled,Pharaoh and his servants changed their minds about them.They exclaimed, “What have we done!Why, we have released Israel from our service!”So Pharaoh made his chariots ready and mustered his soldiers(six hundred first-class chariotsand all the other chariots of Egypt, with warriors on them all.So obstinate had the LORD...

July 21, 2007                                         Saturday of the Fifteenth Week                                     in Ordinary Time Psalm: Saturday 25       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Ex 12:37-42 The children of Israel set out from Rameses for Succoth,about six hundred thousand men on foot,not counting the little ones.A crowd of mixed ancestry also went up with them,besides their livestock, very numerous flocks and herds.Since the dough they had brought out of Egypt was not leavened,they baked it into unleavened loaves.They had rushed out of Egypt and...

July 20, 2007                                       Friday of the Fifteenth Week                                         in Ordinary Time Psalm: Friday 25     Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Ex 11:10—12:14 Although Moses and Aaron performed various wondersin Pharaoh’s presence,the LORD made Pharaoh obstinate,and he would not let the children of Israel leave his land. The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,“This month shall stand at the head of your calendar;you shall reckon it the first month of the year.Tell the whole community of Israel: On the tenth of this monthevery one of your...

July 19, 2007                                 Thursday of the Fifteenth Week                         in Ordinary Time Psalm: Thursday 25       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Ex 3:13-20 Moses, hearing the voice of the LORD from the burning bush, said to him,“When I go to the children of Israel and say to them,‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’if they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what am I to tell them?”God replied, “I am who am.”Then he added, “This is what you shall tell the children of...

July 18, 2007                                 Wednesday of the Fifteenth Week                             in Ordinary Time Psalm: Wednesday 25       Reading 1Responsorial PsalmGospel Reading 1Ex 3:1-6, 9-12 Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian.Leading the flock across the desert, he came to Horeb,the mountain of God.There an angel of the LORD appeared to him in fireflaming out of a bush.As he looked on, he was surprised to see that the bush,though on fire, was not consumed.So Moses decided,“I must go over to...