Readings at Mass Monday 12 July 2021

 Readings at Mass

Monday 12 July 2021

15th Week in Ordinary Time (Sts Louis and Zelie Guerin, Spouses)

Liturgical Colour: Green.

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First reading

Exodus 1:8-14,22

There came to power in Egypt a new king who knew nothing of Joseph. ‘Look,’ he said to his subjects ‘these people, the sons of Israel, have become so numerous and strong that they are a threat to us. We must be prudent and take steps against their increasing any further, or if war should break out, they might add to the number of our enemies. They might take arms against us and so escape out of the country.’ Accordingly they put slave-drivers over the Israelites to wear them down under heavy loads. In this way they built the store-cities of Pithom and Rameses for Pharaoh. But the more they were crushed, the more they increased and spread, and men came to dread the sons of Israel. The Egyptians forced the sons of Israel into slavery, and made their lives unbearable with hard labour, work with clay and with brick, all kinds of work in the fields; they forced on them every kind of labour.

    Pharaoh then gave his subjects this command: ‘Throw all the boys born to the Hebrews into the river, but let all the girls live.’

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Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 123(124)

Response: Our help is in the name of the Lord.

‘If the Lord had not been on our side,’

    this is Israel’s song.

‘If the Lord had not been on our side

    when men rose up against us,

then would they have swallowed us alive

    when their anger was kindled.

‘Then would the waters have engulfed us,

    the torrent gone over us;

over our head would have swept

    the raging waters.’

Blessed be the Lord who did not give us

    a prey to their teeth!

Our life, like a bird, has escaped

    from the snare of the fowler.

Indeed the snare has been broken

    and we have escaped.

Our help is in the name of the Lord,

    who made heaven and earth.

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Gospel Acclamation

Mt 5:10

Alleluia, alleluia!

Happy those who are persecuted

in the cause of right,

for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Alleluia!

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Gospel

Matthew 10:34-11:1

Jesus instructed the Twelve as follows: ‘Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth: it is not peace I have come to bring, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man’s enemies will be those of his own household.

    ‘Anyone who prefers father or mother to me is not worthy of me. Anyone who prefers son or daughter to me is not worthy of me. Anyone who does not take his cross and follow in my footsteps is not worthy of me. Anyone who finds his life will lose it; anyone who loses his life for my sake will find it.

    ‘Anyone who welcomes you welcomes me; and those who welcome me welcome the one who sent me.

    ‘Anyone who welcomes a prophet will have a prophet’s reward; and anyone who welcomes a holy man will have a holy man’s reward.

    ‘If anyone gives so much as a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is a disciple, then I tell you solemnly, he will most certainly not lose his reward.’

    When Jesus had finished instructing his twelve disciples he moved on from there to teach and preach in their towns.

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Scripture readings from the Jerusalem Bible, Text of the Psalms from The Grail