Catholic Missal of the day: Saturday, July 16 2016

Saturday of the Fifteenth week in Ordinary Time

Saturday of the Fifteenth week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

Book of Micah

2,1-5.

]Woe to those who plan iniquity, and work out evil on their couches; In the morning light they accomplish it when it lies within their power.
]They covet fields, and seize them; houses, and they take them; They cheat an owner of his house, a man of his inheritance.
]Therefore thus says the LORD: Behold, I am planning against this race an evil from which you shall not withdraw your necks; Nor shall you walk with head high, for it will be a time of evil.
]On that day a satire shall be sung over you, and there shall be a plaintive chant: "Our ruin is complete, our fields are portioned out among our captors, The fields of my people are measured out, and no one can get them back!"
]Thus you shall have no one to mark out boundaries by lot in the assembly of the LORD.

Psalm

Psalms

9(9B),1-2.3-4.7-8.14.

]Why, O LORD, do you stand aloof?
Why hide in times of distress?
]Proudly the wicked harass the afflicted,
who are caught in the devices the wicked have contrived.
]For the wicked man glories in his greed,
and the covetous blasphemes, sets the LORD at nought.
]The wicked man boasts, "He will not avenge it";
"There is no God," sums up his thoughts.
]His mouth is full of cursing, guile and deceit;
under his tongue are mischief and iniquity.  
]He lurks in ambush near the villages;
in hiding he murders the innocent;
his eyes spy upon the unfortunate.
]You do see, for you behold misery and sorrow,
taking them in your hands.
On you the unfortunate man depends;
of the fatherless you are the helper.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew

12,14-21.

]The Pharisees went out and took counsel against Jesus to put him to death.
]When Jesus realized this, he withdrew from that place. Many (people) followed him, and he cured them all,
]but he warned them not to make him known.
]This was to fulfill what had been spoken through Isaiah the prophet:
]"Behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved in whom I delight; I shall place my spirit upon him, and he will proclaim justice to the Gentiles.
]He will not contend or cry out, nor will anyone hear his voice in the streets.
]A bruised reed he will not break, a smoldering wick he will not quench, until he brings justice to victory.
]And in his name the Gentiles will hope."

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