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| "Ordaining of the Twelve Apostles" -- by James Tissot (top); "The Exhortation to the Apostles" -- by James Tissot (bottom) |
FIRST
READING: Genesis
41: 55 - 57; 42:
5 - 7, 17 - 24
55
And when there also they began to be famished, the people cried to
Pharao for food. And he said to them: Go to Joseph: and do all that
he shall say to you.
56
And the famine increased daily in all the land: and Joseph opened all
the barns, and sold to the Egyptians: for the famine had oppressed
them also.
57
And all provinces came into Egypt, to buy food, and to seek some
relief of their want.
5
And they entered into the land of Egypt with others that went to buy.
For the famine was in the land of Canaan.
6
And Joseph was governor in the land of Egypt, and corn was sold by
his direction to the people. And when his brethren had bowed down to
him,
7
And he knew them, he spoke as it were to strangers somewhat roughly,
asking them: Whence came you? They answered: From the land of Canaan,
to buy necessaries of life.
17
So he put them in prison three days.
18
And the third day he brought them out of prison, and said: Do as I
have said, and you shall live: for I fear God.
19
If you be peaceable men, let one of your brethren be bound in prison:
and go ye your ways and carry the corn that you have bought, unto
your houses.
20
And bring your youngest brother to me, that I may find your words to
be true, and you may not die. They did as he had said.
21
And they talked one to another: We deserve to suffer these things,
because we have sinned against our brother, seeing the anguish of his
soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear: therefore is this
affliction come upon us.
22
And Ruben one of them, said: Did not I say to you: Do not sin against
the boy: and you would not hear me? Behold his blood is required.
23
And they knew not that Joseph understood, because he spoke to them by
an interpreter.
24
And he turned himself away a little while, and wept: and returning he
spoke to them.
PSALM:
Psalms 33:
2 - 3, 10 - 11, 18 - 19
2
Give praise to the Lord on the harp; sing to him with the psaltery,
the instrument of ten strings.
3
Sing to him a new canticle, sing well unto him with a loud noise.
10
The Lord bringeth to naught the counsels of nations; and he rejecteth
the devices of people, and casteth away the counsels of princes.
11
But the counsel of the Lord standeth for ever: the thoughts of his
heart to all generations.
18
Behold the eyes of the Lord are on them that fear him: and on them
that hope in his mercy.
19
To deliver their souls from death; and feed them in famine.
GOSPEL:
Matthew 10:
1 - 7
1
And having called his twelve disciples together, he gave them power
over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of
diseases, and all manner of infirmities.
2
And the names of the twelve apostles are these: The first, Simon who
is called Peter, and Andrew his brother,
3
James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, Philip and
Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew the publican, and James the son of
Alpheus, and Thaddeus,
4
Simon the Cananean, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.
5
These twelve Jesus sent: commanding them, saying: Go ye not into the
way of the Gentiles, and into the city of the Samaritans enter ye
not.
6
But go ye rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
7
And going, preach, saying: The kingdom of heaven is at hand.
