Saturday, 16 July 2022

Memorial of Our Lady of Mount Carmel – Year II

Readings on p.1063 and Antiphons on p. 1679 & 1862 of the Daily Missal. (CBVM 1)

First Reading: Micah 2:1-5
A reading from the Book of Micah.

Woe to those who devise wickedness 
and work evil upon their beds! 
When the morning dawns, they perform it, 
because it is in the power of their hand. 
They covet fields, and seize them; 
and houses, and take them away; 
they oppress a man and his house, 
a man and his inheritance. 
Therefore thus says the Lord: 
Behold, against this family I am devising evil, 
from which you cannot remove your necks; 
and you shall not walk haughtily, 
for it will be an evil time. 
In that day they shall take up a taunt song against you, 
and wail with bitter lamentation, 
and say, “We are utterly ruined; 
he changes the portion of my people; 
how he removes it from me! 
Among our captors, he divides our fields.” 
Therefore you will have none to cast the line by lot 
in the assembly of the Lord.

The Word of the Lord.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 10:1-25.3-4a.7-8b.14 (R. 12b)
Let us now pray the Responsorial Psalm:

R/ Do not forget the poor, O Lord!.

O Lord, why do you stand afar off,
and hide yourself in times of distress?
The poor are devoured by the pride of the wicked;
they are caught in the schemes that others have made.

For the wicked boasts of his soul’s desires;
the covetous blasphemes and spurns the Lord.
The wicked says in his pride, “God will not punish.
There is no God.” Such are his thoughts.

His mouth is full of cursing, guile, oppression;
under his tongue are deceit and evil.
He sits in ambush in the villages;
in hidden places, he murders the innocent.

But you have seen the trouble and sorrow.
You note it; you take it in your hands.
The helpless one relies on you,
for you are the helper of the orphan.

R/ Do not forget the poor, O Lord!


Alleluia, Alleluia.
 God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
 Alleluia.

Gospel: Matthew 12:14-21
A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew.

At that time: 
The Pharisees went out and took counsel against Jesus, 
how to destroy him. 
Jesus, aware of this, withdrew from there. 
And many followed him, and he healed them all 
and ordered them not to make Him known. 
This was to fulfil what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah: 
“Behold, my servant whom I have chosen, 
my beloved with whom my soul is well pleased. 
I will put my Spirit upon him, 
and he shall proclaim justice to the Gentiles. 
He will not wrangle or cry aloud, 
nor will anyone hear his voice in the streets; 
he will not break a bruised reed 
or quench a smouldering wick, 
till he brings justice to victory; 
and in his name will the Gentiles hope.”

The Gospel of the Lord.