FIRST
READING: Exodus
14: 21 -- 15:
1
21
And when Moses had stretched forth his hand over the sea, the Lord
took it away by a strong and burning wind blowing all the night, and
turned it into dry ground: and the water was divided.
22
And the children of Israel went in through the midst of the sea dried
up: for the water was as a wall on their right hand and on their
left.
23
And the Egyptians pursuing went in after them, and all Pharao's
horses, his chariots and horsemen through the midst of the sea,
24
And now the morning watch was come, and behold the Lord looking upon
the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, slew
their host.
25
And overthrew the wheels of the chariots, and they were carried into
the deep. And the Egyptians said: Let us flee from Israel: for the
Lord fighteth for them against us.
26
And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch forth they hand over the sea,
that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their
chariots and horsemen.
27
And when Moses had stretched forth his hand towards the sea, it
returned at the first break of day to the former place: and as the
Egyptians were fleeing away, the waters came upon them, and the Lord
shut them up in the middle of the waves.
28
And the waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen of
all the army of Pharao, who had come into the sea after them, neither
did there so much as one of them remain.
29
But the children of Israel marched through the midst of the sea upon
dry land, and the waters were to them as a wall on the right hand and
on the left:
30
And the Lord delivered Israel on that day out of the hands of the
Egyptians.
31
And they saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore, and the mighty
hand that the Lord had used against them: and the people feared the
Lord, and they believed the Lord, and Moses his servant.
1
Then Moses and the children of Israel sung this canticle to the Lord:
and said: Let us sing to the Lord: for he is gloriously magnified,
the horse and the rider he hath thrown into the sea.
PSALM:
Exodus 15:
8 - 10, 12, 17
8
And with the blast of thy anger the waters were gathered together:
the flowing water stood, the depth were gathered together in the
midst of the sea.
9
The enemy said: I will pursue and overtake, I will divide the spoils,
my soul shall have its fill: I will draw my sword, my hand shall slay
them.
10
Thy wind blew and the sea covered them: they sunk as lead in the
mighty waters.
12
Thou stretchedst forth thy hand, and the earth swallowed them.
17
Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thy
inheritance, in thy most firm habitation which thou hast made, O
Lord; thy sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established.
GOSPEL:
Matthew 12:
46 - 50
46
As he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold his mother and his
brethren stood without, seeking to speak to him.
47
And one said unto him: Behold thy mother and thy brethren stand
without, seeking thee.
48
But he answering him that told him, said: Who is my mother, and who
are my brethren?
49
And stretching forth his hand towards his disciples, he said: Behold
my mother and my brethren.
50
For whosoever shall do the will of my Father, that is in heaven, he
is my brother, and sister, and mother.
