Catholic Mass Readings For Monday, July 07, 2014

"The Woman with an Issue of Blood" -- by James Tissot

FIRST READING: Hosea 2: 16 - 18, 21 - 22

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16 So I am going to allure her, lead her once more into the desert, where I can speak to her tenderly.

17 Then I will give back her vineyards, make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. There she will answer me as in her youth,

as when she came out of the land of Egypt.

18 On that day, Yahweh says, you will call me my husband, and never again: my Baal.

21 You will be my spouse forever, betrothed in justice and integrity; we will be united in love and tenderness.

22 I will espouse you in faithfulness and you will come to know Yahweh.

PSALM: Psalms 145: 2 - 9

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2 I will praise you day after day and exalt your name forever.

3 Great is the Lord, most worthy of praise; and his deeds are beyond measure.

4 Parents commend your works to their children and tell them your feats.

5 They proclaim the splendor of your majesty and recall your wondrous works.

6 People will proclaim your mighty deeds, and I will declare your greatness.

7 They will celebrate your abundant kindness, and rejoice in singing of your justice.

8 Compassionate and gracious is the Lord, slow to anger and abounding in love.

9 The Lord is good to everyone; his mercy embraces all his creation.

GOSPEL: Matthew 9: 18 - 26

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18 While Jesus was speaking to them, an official of the synagogue came up to him, bowed before him and said, "My daughter has just died, but come and place your hands on her, and she will live."

19 Jesus stood up and followed him with his disciples.

20 Then a woman who had suffered from a severe bleeding for twelve years came up from behind and touched the edge of his cloak.

21 For she thought, "If I only touch his cloak, I will be healed."

22 Jesus turned, saw her and said, "Courage, my daughter, your faith has saved you." And from that moment the woman was cured.

23 When Jesus arrived at the official's house and saw the flute players and the excited crowd, he said,

24 "Get out of here! The girl is not dead. She is only sleeping!" And they laughed at him.

25 But once the crowd had been turned out, Jesus went in and took the girl by the hand, and she stood up.

26 The news of this spread through the whole area.

Sunday Catholic Mass Readings For July 06, 2014

FIRST READING: Zechariah 9: 9 - 10

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9 Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout for joy, daughter of Jerusalem! For your king is coming, just and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

10 No more chariots in Ephraim, no more horses in Jerusalem, for he will do away with them. The warrior's bow shall be broken when he dictates peace to the nations. He will reign from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.

PSALM: Psalms 145: 1 - 2, 8 - 11, 13 - 14

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1 I will extol you, my God and King; I will bless your name forever.

2 I will praise you day after day and exalt your name forever.

8 Compassionate and gracious is the Lord, slow to anger and abounding in love.

9 The Lord is good to everyone; his mercy embraces all his creation.

10 All your works will give you thanks; all your saints, O Lord, will praise you.

11 They will tell of the glory of your kingdom and speak of your power,

13 Your reign is from age to age; your dominion endures from generation to generation.

The Lord is true to his promises and lets his mercy show in all he does.

14 The Lord lifts up those who are falling and raises those who are beaten down.

SECOND READING: Romans 8: 9, 11 - 13

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9 Yet your existence is not in the flesh, but in the spirit, because the Spirit of God is within you. If you did not have the Spirit of Christ, you would not belong to him.

11 And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is within you, He who raised Jesus Christ from among the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies. Yes, he will do it through his Spirit who dwells within you.

12 Then, brothers, let us leave the flesh and no longer live according to it.

13 If not, we will die. Rather, walking in the Spirit, let us put to death the body's deeds so that we may live.

GOSPEL: Matthew 11: 25 - 30

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25 On that occasion Jesus said, "Father, Lord of heaven and earth, I praise you, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned and revealed them to simple people.

26 Yes, Father, this is what pleased you.

27 Everything has been entrusted to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.

28 Come to me, all you who work hard and who carry heavy burdens and I will refresh you.

29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me for I am gentle and humble of heart; and you will find rest.

30 For my yoke is good and my burden is light."

Catholic Mass Readings For Saturday, July 05, 2014

FIRST READING: Amos 9: 11 - 15

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11 On that day I shall restore the fallen hut of David and wall up its breaches and raise its ruined walls and so build it as in days of old.

12 They shall conquer the remnant of Edom and the neighboring nations upon which my name has been called." Thus says Yahweh, the one who will do this.

13 Yahweh says also, "The days are coming when the plowman will overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes overtake the sower. The mountains shall drip sweet wine and all the hills shall melt.

14 I shall bring back the exiles of my people Israel; they will rebuild the desolate cities and dwell in them. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will have orchards and eat their fruit.

15 I shall plant them in their own country and they shall never again be rooted up from the land which I have given them," says Yahweh your God.

PSALM: Psalms 85: 9 - 14

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9 Would that I hear God's proclamation, that he promise peace to his people, his saints - lest they come back to their folly.

10 Yet his salvation is near to those who fear him, and his Glory will dwell in our land.

11 Love and faithfulness have met; righteousness and peace have embraced.

12 Faithfulness will reach up from the earth while justice bends down from heaven.

13 The Lord will give what is good, and our land will yield its fruit.

14 Justice will go before him, and peace will follow along his path.

GOSPEL: Matthew 9: 14 - 17

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14 Then the disciples of John came to him with the question, "How is it that we and the Pharisees fast on many occasions, but not your disciples?"

15 Jesus answered them, "How can you expect wedding guests to mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? Time will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, then they will fast.

16 No one patches an old coat with a piece of unshrunken cloth, for the patch will shrink and tear an even bigger hole in the coat.

17 Besides you don't put new wine in old wineskins. If you do, the wineskins will burst and the wine be spilt. No, you put new wine in fresh skins; then both are preserved."

Catholic Mass Readings For Friday, July 04, 2014

FIRST READING: Amos 8: 4 - 6, 9 - 12

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4 Hear this, you who trample on the needy to do away with the weak of the land.

5 You who say, "When will the new moon or the sabbath feast be over that we may open the store and sell our grain? Let us lower the measure and raise the price; let us cheat and tamper with the scales,

6 and even sell the refuse with the whole grain. We will buy up the poor for money and the needy for a pair of sandals."

9 Yahweh says, "On that day I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.

10 I will turn your festivals into mourning and all your singing into wailing. Everyone will mourn, covered with sackcloth and every head will be shaved. I will make them mourn as for an only son and bring their day to a bitter end."

11 Yahweh says, "Days are coming when I will send famine upon the land, not hunger for bread or thirst for water, but for hearing the word of Yahweh.

12 Men will stagger from sea to sea, wander to and fro, from north to east, searching for the word of Yahweh, but they will not find it.

PSALM: Psalms 119: 2, 10, 20, 30, 40, 131

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2 Blessed are they who treasure his word and seek him with all their heart.

10 I seek you with my whole heart; let me not stray from your commands.

20 My soul is consumed with desire for your ordinances at all times.

30 I have chosen the way of truth; I have set my heart upon your laws.

40 Oh, how I long for your precepts! Renew my life in your righteousness.

131 I gasp in ardent yearning for your commandments that I love.

GOSPEL: Matthew 9: 9 - 13

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9 As Jesus moved on from there, he saw a man named Matthew at his seat in the custom-house, and he said to him, "Follow me." And Matthew got up and followed him.

10 Now it happened, while Jesus was at table in Matthew's house, many tax collectors and other sinners joined Jesus and his disciples.

11 When the Pharisees saw this they said to his disciples, "Why is it that your master eats with those sinners and tax collectors?"

12 When Jesus heard this he said, "Healthy people do not need a doctor, but sick people do.

13 Go and find out what this means: What I want is mercy, not sacrifice. I did not come to call the righteous but sinners."