Wednesday of the Fourteenth week in Ordinary Time

Book of Genesis

When hunger came to be felt throughout the land of Egypt and the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, Pharaoh directed all the Egyptians to go to Joseph and do whatever he told them.
When the famine had spread throughout the land, Joseph opened all the cities that had grain and rationed it to the Egyptians, since the famine had gripped the land of Egypt.
In fact, all the world came to Joseph to obtain rations of grain, for famine had gripped the whole world.
Thus, since there was famine in the land of Canaan also, the sons of Israel were among those who came to procure rations.
It was Joseph, as governor of the country, who dispensed the rations to all the people. When Joseph's brothers came and knelt down before him with their faces to the ground,
he recognized them as soon as he saw them. But he concealed his own identity from them and spoke sternly to them. "Where do you come from?" he asked them. They answered, "From the land of Canaan, to procure food."
With that, he locked them up in the guardhouse for three days.
On the third day Joseph said to them: "Do this, and you shall live; for I am a God-fearing man.
If you have been honest, only one of your brothers need be confined in this prison, while the rest of you may go and take home provisions for your starving families.
But you must come back to me with your youngest brother. Your words will thus be verified, and you will not die." To this they agreed.
To one another, however, they said: "Alas, we are being punished because of our brother. We saw the anguish of his heart when he pleaded with us, yet we paid no heed; that is why this anguish has now come upon us."
"Didn't I tell you," broke in Reuben, "not to do wrong to the boy? But you wouldn't listen! Now comes the reckoning for his blood."
They did not know, of course, that Joseph understood what they said, since he spoke with them through an interpreter.
But turning away from them, he wept.

Psalms

Give thanks to the LORD on the harp;
with the ten stringed lyre chant his praises.
Sing to him a new song;
pluck the strings skillfully, with shouts of gladness.
The LORD brings to nought the plans of nations;
He foils the designs of peoples.
But the plan of the LORD stands forever;
The design of his heart, through all generations.
See, the eyes of the LORD are upon those who fear him,
upon those who hope for his kindness,
To deliver them from death
and preserve them in spite of famine.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew

Jesus summoned his Twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits to drive them out and to cure every disease and every illness.
The names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon called Peter, and his brother Andrew; James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother John;
Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James, the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddeus;
Simon the Cananean, and Judas Iscariot who betrayed him.
Jesus sent out these twelve after instructing them thus, "Do not go into pagan territory or enter a Samaritan town.
Go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
As you go, make this proclamation: 'The kingdom of heaven is at hand.'"

Sts. Agostino Zhao Rong and Companions(Martyrs († 1815))

AGOSTINO ZHAO RONGPriest and Martyr ( 1815)and Companions Previous Chinese emperors tolerated Catholicism, but Emperor Kia-Kin (1796-1821) unleashed a wave of persecution. Kia-Kin's edicts of 1805 and 1811 criminalized holy orders, preaching and the promotion of Catholicism. A decree of 1813 released voluntary apostates from torture and execution. In 1815, two more decrees caused the beheading of Monsignor Dufresse of the Paris Foreign Missions Society (M.E.P) and the execution of Chinese Christians by the Viceroy of Sichuan. Another martyr, St. John Gabriel Taurin Dufresse, M.E.P, Bishop, was arrested on May 18, 1815, taken to Chengdu, and executed on September 14, 1815. As a result of the decrees, the persecutions intensified. St. Augustine Zhao Rong was a Chinese diocesan priest. He was one of the soldiers who had escorted Monsignor Dufresse from Chengdu to Beijing. Zhao Rong was so moved by Dufresse's patience that he asked to be numbered among the neophytes. After he was baptized, he was sent to the seminary and ordained a priest. After being arrested, St. Augustine Zhao Rong was tortured to death. The martyrs never renounced Jesus Christ. They overcame death and sin. They behold God face to face forever.

St. Nicholas Pick and Companions()

St. Veronica Giuliani(Virgin (1660-1727))

misalcatolico.com

Category: Mass by Year / Catholic Missal 2025 / Catholic Missal of july 2025