FIRST
READING: Exodus
2: 1 - 15
1
After this there went a man of the house of Levi; and took a wife of
his own kindred.
2
And she conceived, and bore a son; and seeing him a goodly child hid
him three months.
3
And when she could hide him no longer, she took a basket made of
bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and pitch: and put the little
babe therein, and laid him in the sedges by the river's brink,
4
His sister standing afar off, and taking notice what would be done.
5
And behold the daughter of Pharao came down to wash herself in the
river: and her maids walked by the river's brink. And when she saw
the basket in the sedges, she sent one of her maids for it: and when
it was brought,
6
She opened it and seeing within it an infant crying, having
compassion on it she said: This is one of the babes of the Hebrews.
7
And the child's sister said to her Shall I go and call to thee a
Hebrew woman, to nurse the babe?
8
She answered: Go. The maid went and called her mother.
9
And Pharao's daughter said to her. Take this child and nurse him for
me: I will give thee thy wages. The woman took, and nursed the child:
and when he was grown up, she delivered him to Pharao's daughter.
10
And she adopted him for a son, and called him Moses, saying: Because
I took him out of the water.
11
In those days after Moses was grown up, he went out to his brethren:
and saw their affliction, and an Egyptian striking one of the Hebrews
his brethren.
12
And when he had looked about this way and that way, and saw no one
there, he slew the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.
13
And going out the next day, he saw two Hebrews quarrelling: and he
said to him that did the wrong: Why strikest thou thy neighbour?
14
But he answered: Who hath appointed thee prince and judge over us?
Wilt thou kill me, as thou didst yesterday kill the Egyptian? Moses
feared, and said: How is this come to be known?
15
And Pharao heard of this word and sought to kill Moses: but he fled
from his sight, and abode in the land of Madian, and he sat down by a
well.
PSALM:
Psalms 69:
3, 14, 30 - 31, 33 - 34
3
I have laboured with crying; my jaws are become hoarse, my eyes have
failed, whilst I hope in my God.
14
Draw me out of the mire, that I may not stick fast: deliver me from
them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
30
I will praise the name of God with a canticle: and I will magnify him
with praise.
31
And it shall please God better than a young calf, that bringeth forth
horns and hoofs.
33
For the Lord hath heard the poor: and hath not despised his
prisoners.
34
Let the heavens and the earth praise him; the sea, and every thing
that creepeth therein
GOSPEL:
Matthew 11:
20 - 24
20
Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein were done the most of his
miracles, for that they had not done penance.
21
Woe to thee, Corozain, woe to thee, Bethsaida: for if in Tyre and
Sidon had been wrought the miracles that have been wrought in you,
they had long ago done penance in sackcloth and ashes.
22
But I say unto you, it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in
the day of judgment, than for you.
23
And thou Capharnaum, shalt thou be exalted up to heaven? thou shalt
go down even unto hell. For if in Sodom had been wrought the miracles
that have been wrought in thee, perhaps it had remained unto this
day.
24
But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable for the land of
Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee.
