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Sunday, July 15, 2007
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
First Reading:
Psalm:
Second Reading:
Gospel:
Deuteronomy 30:10-14
Psalm 69:14, 17, 30-31, 33-34, 36-37 or Psalm 19:8-11
Colossians 1:15-20
Luke 10:25-37

No one really wants to sin against God, even though we do all sin without being forced to do so.

-- St. John Climacus

Monday, July 16, 2007
Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Optional Memorial)
First Reading:
Psalm:
Gospel:
Exodus 1:8-14, 22
Psalm 124:1-8
Matthew 10:34 -- 11:1

What Revelation makes known to us is confirmed by our own experience. For when man looks into his own heart he finds that he is drawn towards what is wrong and sunk in many evils which cannot come from his good Creator. Often refusing to acknowledge God as his source, man has also upset the relationship which should link him to his last end, and at the same time he has broken the right order that should reign within himself as well as between himself and other men and all creatures.

-- Gaudium et spes

Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Feria
First Reading:
Psalm:
Gospel:
Exodus 2:1-15
Psalm 69:3, 14, 30-31, 33-34
Matthew 11:20-24

How can a man say he believes in Christ if he doesn't do what Christ commanded him to do?

-- St. Cyprian of Carthage

Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Feria
First Reading:
Psalm:
Gospel:
Exodus 3:1-6, 9-12
Psalm 103:1-4, 6-7
Matthew 11:25-27

The devil and the other demons were indeed created naturally good by God, but they became evil by their own doing.

-- Lateran Council IV

Thursday, July 19, 2007
Feria
First Reading:
Psalm:
Gospel:
Exodus 3:13-20
Psalm 105:1, 5, 8-9, 24-27
Matthew 11:28-30

The very tradition, teaching, and faith of the Catholic Church from the beginng, which the Lord gave, was preached by the apostles and was preserved by the Fathers. On this was the Church founded, and if anyone departs from this, he neither is, nor any longer ought to be called, a Christian.

-- St. Athanasius of Alexandria

Friday, July 20, 2007
Feria
First Reading:
Psalm:
Gospel:
Exodus 11:10 -- 12:14
Psalm 116:12-13, 15-18
Matthew 12:1-8

What has a person to fear who lives in the arms and bosom of God?

-- St. Paul of the Cross

Saturday, July 21, 2007
St. Lawrence of Brindisi, Priest, Doctor of the Church (Feast)
First Reading:
Psalm:
Gospel:
Wisdom 8:9-16  or 2 Corinthians 5:14-21
Psalm 67:2-5, 7-8
Luke 9:1-6

As God recognized each of us before we were born, and called us by name, so too may we recognize the value of each human life and pledge ourselves to continue to defend and nurture God's greatest gift to us.

-- NCCB 1992 Respect Life Manual