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| "Jesus Stilling the Tempest" -- by James Tissot |
TheFirst Martyrs of Holy Roman Church (Optional Memorial)
FIRST
READING: Genesis
19: 15-29
15
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.
16
And as he lingered, they took his hand, and the hand of his wife, and
of his two daughters, because the Lord spared him.
17
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,
19
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:
20
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?
21
And he said to him: Behold also in this, I have heard thy prayers,
not to destroy the city for which thou hast spoken.
22
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.
23
The sun was risen upon the earth, and Lot entered into Segor.
24
And the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrha brimstone and fire from
the Lord out of heaven.
25
And he destroyed these cities, and all the country about, all the
inhabitants of the cities, and all things that spring from the earth.
26
And his wife looking behind her, was turned into a statue of salt.
27
And Abraham got up early in the morning and in the place where he had
stood before with the Lord,
28
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.
29
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.
PSALM:
Psalms 26: 2-3,
9-12
2
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.
9
Take not away my soul, O God, with the wicked: nor my life with
bloody men:
10
In whose hands are iniquities: their right hand is filled with gifts.
11
But as for me, I have walked in my innocence: redeem me, and have
mercy on me.
12
My foot hath stood in the direct way: in the churches I will bless
thee, O Lord.
GOSPEL:
Matthew 8: 23-27
23
And when he entered into the boat, his disciples followed him:
24
And behold a great tempest arose in the sea, so that the boat was
covered with waves, but he was asleep.
25
And they came to him, and awaked him, saying: Lord, save us, we
perish.
26
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.
27
But the men wondered, saying: What manner of man is this, for the
winds and the sea obey him?
