Wednesday of the Fourteenth Week of Ordinary Time, Year A. July 12, 2017 1st Reading: Gen 41:55-57; 42:5-7a, 17-24a When hunger came to be felt throughout the land of Egypt and the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, Pharaoh directed all the Egyptians to go to Joseph and do whatever he told them. When the … [Read more…]
Monday of the Fourteenth Week of Ordinary Time, Year A, July 10, 2017. 1st Reading: Book of Genesis 28:10-22a. Jacob departed from Beer-sheba and proceeded toward Haran. When he came upon a certain shrine, as the sun had already set, he stopped there for the night. Taking one of the stones at the shrine, he … [Read more…]
Fourteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year A, July 09, 2017. 1st Reading: Book of Zechariah 9:9-10. Thus says the LORD: Rejoice heartily, O daughter Zion, shout for joy, O daughter Jerusalem! See, your king shall come to you; a just savior is he, Meek, and riding on an ass, on a colt, the foal of … [Read more…]
Friday of the Thirteenth Week of Ordinary Time, Year A. July 07, 2017. 1st Reading:Gn 23:1-4, 19; 24:1-8, 62-67 The span of Sarah’s life was one hundred and twenty-seven years. She died in Kiriatharba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham performed the customary mourning rites for her. Then he left the … [Read more…]
Wednesday of the Thirteenth Week of Ordinary Time, Year A. July 05, 2017. 1st Reading: Gn 21:5, 8-20a Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him. Isaac grew, and on the day of the child’s weaning Abraham held a great feast. Sarah noticed the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had … [Read more…]