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| "The Canaanite's Daughter" -- by James Tissot |
FIRST
READING: Numbers
13: 1 - 2, 25 - 33 -- 14:
1, 26 - 29, 34 - 35
1
And there the Lord spoke to Moses, saying.
2
Send men to view the land of Chanaan, which I will give to the
children of Israel, one of every tribe, of the rulers.
25
And they that went to spy out the land returned after forty days,
having gone round all the country,
26
And came to Moses and Aaron and to all the assembly of the children
of Israel to the desert of Pharan, which is in Cades. And speaking to
them and to all the multitude, they shewed them the fruits of the
land:
27
And they related and said: We came into the land to which thou
sentest us, which in very deed floweth with milk and honey as may be
known by these fruits:
28
But it hath very strong inhabitants, and the cities are great and
walled. We saw there the race of Enac.
29
Amalec dwelleth in the south, the Hethite and the Jebusite and the
Amorrhite in the mountains: but the Chanaanite abideth by the sea and
near the streams of the Jordan.
30
In the mean time Caleb, to still the murmuring of the people that
rose against Moses, said: Let us go up and possess the land, for we
shall be able to conquer it.
31
But the others, that had been with him, said: No, we are not able to
go up to this people, because they are stronger than we.
32
And they spoke ill of the land, which they had viewed, before the
children of Israel, saying: The land which we have viewed, devoureth
its inhabitants: the people, that we beheld, are of a tall stature.
33
There we saw certain monsters of the sons of Enac, of the giant kind:
in comparison of whom, we seemed like locusts.
1
Wherefore the whole multitude crying wept that night.
26
And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:
27
How long doth this wicked multitude murmur against me? I have heard
the murmurings of the children of Israel.
28
Say therefore to them: As I live, saith the Lord: According as you
have spoken in my hearing, so will I do to you.
29
In the wilderness shall your carcasses lie. All you that were
numbered from twenty years old and upward, and have murmured against
me,
34
According to the number of the forty days, wherein you viewed the
land: year shall be counted for a day. And forty years you shall
receive your iniquities, and shall know my revenge:
35
For as I have spoken, so will I do to all this wicked multitude, that
hath risen up together against me: in this wilderness shall it faint
away and die.
PSALM:
Psalms 106:
6 - 7, 13 - 14, 21 - 23
6
We have sinned with our fathers: we have acted unjustly, we have
wrought iniquity.
7
Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt: they remembered not
the multitude of thy mercies: And they provoked to wrath going up to
the sea, even the Red Sea.
13
They had quickly done, they forgot his works: and they waited not for
his counsels.
14
And they coveted their desire in the desert: and they tempted God in
the place without water.
21
They forgot God, who saved them, who had done great things in Egypt,
22
Wondrous works in the land of Cham: terrible things in the Red Sea.
23
And he said that he would destroy them: had not Moses his chosen
stood before him in the breach: To turn away his wrath, lest he
should destroy them.
GOSPEL:
Matthew 15:
21 - 28
21
And Jesus went from thence, and retired into the coasts of Tyre and
Sidon.
22
And behold a woman of Canaan who came out of those coasts, crying
out, said to him: Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David: my
daughter is grieviously troubled by the devil.
23
Who answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him,
saying: Send her away, for she crieth after us:
24
And he answering, said: I was not sent but to the sheep that are lost
of the house of Israel.
25
But she came and adored him, saying: Lord, help me.
26
Who answering, said: It is not good to take the bread of the
children, and to cast it to the dogs.
27
But she said: Yea, Lord; for the whelps also eat of the crumbs that
fall from the table of their masters.
28
Then Jesus answering, said to her: O woman, great is thy faith: be it
done to thee as thou wilt: and her daughter was cured from that hour.
