Catholic Daily Readings for July 8 2023: Saturday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time – Lectionary: 382
| Catholic Daily Readings for July 8 2023, Saturday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time | |
|---|---|
| 1st Reading | Genesis 27:1-5, 15-29 |
| Responsorial Psalm | Psalms 135:1B-2, 3-4, 5-6 |
| Alleluia | John 10:27 |
| Gospel | Matthew 9:14-17 |
Daily Mass Readings for July 8 2023, Saturday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time
1st Reading – Genesis 27:1-5, 15-29
1 Now Isaac was old, and his eyes were cloudy, and so he was not able to see. And he called his elder son Esau, and he said to him, “My son?” And he responded, “Here I am.”
2 His father said to him: “You see that I am old, and I do not know the day of my death.
3 Take your weapons, the quiver and the bow, and go out. And when you have taken something by hunting,
4 make from it a small meal for me, just as you know I like, and bring it, so that I may eat and my soul may bless you before I die.
5 And when Rebekah had heard this, and he had gone out into the field to fulfill his father’s order,
15 she clothed Jacob with the very fine garments of Esau, which she had at home with her.
16 And she encircled his hands with little pelts from the young goats, and she covered his bare neck.
17 And she gave him the small meal, and she handed him the bread that she had baked.
18 When Jacob had carried these in, he said, “My father?” And he answered, “I’m listening. Who are you, my son?”
19 And Jacob said: “I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you instructed me. Arise; sit and eat from my hunting, so that your soul may bless me.”
20 And again Isaac said to his son, “How were you able to find it so quickly, my son?” He answered, “It was the will of God, so that what I sought met with me quickly.”
21 And Isaac said, “Come here, so that I may touch you, my son, and may prove whether you are my son Esau, or not.”
22 He approached his father, and when he had felt him, Isaac said: “The voice indeed is the voice of Jacob. But the hands are the hands of Esau.”
23 (He failed to identify him because his hands were hairy, like those of his brother Esau; so in the end, he gave him his blessing.)
24 Again he asked Jacob, “Are you my son Esau?” Jacob answered, “I am.”
25 Then he said, “Bring me the foods from your hunting, my son, so that my soul may bless you.” And when he had eaten what was offered, he also brought forth wine for him. And after he finished it,
26 he said to him, “Come to me and give me a kiss, my son.”
27 He approached and kissed him. And immediately he perceived the fragrance of his garments. And so, blessing him, he said: “Behold, the smell of my son is like the smell of a plentiful field, which the Lord has blessed.
28 May God give to you, from the dew of heaven and from the fatness of the earth, an abundance of grain and wine.
29 And may the peoples serve you, and may the tribes reverence you. May you be the lord of your brothers, and may your mother’s sons bow down before you. Whoever curses you, may he be cursed, and whoever blesses you, may he be filled with blessings.”
Responsorial Psalm – Psalms 135:1B-2, 3-4, 5-6
R. (3a) Praise the Lord for the Lord is good!
or:
R. Alleluia.
1B Praise the name of the LORD;
Praise, you servants of the LORD
2 Who stand in the house of the LORD,
in the courts of the house of our God.
R. Praise the Lord for the Lord is good!
or:
R. Alleluia.
3 Praise the LORD, for the LORD is good;
sing praise to his name, which we love;
4 For the LORD has chosen Jacob for himself,
Israel for his own possession.
R. Praise the Lord for the Lord is good!
or:
R. Alleluia.
5 For I know that the LORD is great;
our LORD is greater than all gods.
6 All that the LORD wills he does
in heaven and on earth,
in the seas and in all the deeps.
R. Praise the Lord for the Lord is good!
or:
R. Alleluia.
Alleluia – John 10:27
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
27 My sheep hear my voice, says the Lord;
I know them, and they follow me.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel – Matthew 9:14-17
14 The disciples of John approached Jesus and said, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast much, but your disciples do not fast?”
15 Jesus answered them, “Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.
16 No one patches an old cloak with a piece of unshrunken cloth, for its fullness pulls away from the cloak and the tear gets worse.
17 People do not put new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise the skins burst, the wine spills out, and the skins are ruined. Rather, they pour new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.”
Catholic Daily Readings Homily – July 8 2023, Saturday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time
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