The 13th of July, 2021 is Tuesday in the Fifteenth Week of Ordinary Time. The Holy Bible verses for the mass readings for this day came from the Liturgical Calendar of the Year 2021.
Reading 1: EX 2:1-15A
The first reading from the Book of Exodus.
A man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi as his wife.
The woman conceived and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months.
When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank.
His sister stood far off, to see what would be done to him.
Pharaoh’s daughter came down to bathe at the river. Her maidens walked along by the riverside. She saw the basket among the reeds, and sent her servant to get it.
She opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”
Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Should I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?”
Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” The young woman went and called the child’s mother.
Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away, and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages.” The woman took the child, and nursed it.
The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, and said, “Because I drew him out of the water.”
In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his brothers and saw their burdens. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.
He looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no one, he killed the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
He went out the second day, and behold, two men of the Hebrews were fighting with each other. He said to him who did the wrong, “Why do you strike your fellow?”
He said, “Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?” Moses was afraid, and said, “Surely this thing is known.”
Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian.
Responsorial Psalm: PS 69:2, 13, 29-30, 32-33
Response: The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live.
I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
R: The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live.
But as for me, my prayer is to you, Yahweh, in an acceptable time. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation.
R: The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live.
But I am in pain and distress. Let your salvation, God, protect me.
I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
R: The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live.
The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live.
For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn’t despise his captive people.
R: The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live.
Gospel of the Day: MT 11:20-24
From the gospel scripture according to Matthew.
Then he began to denounce the cities in which most of his mighty works had been done, because they didn’t repent.
“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.
You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, you will go down to Hades. For if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which were done in you, it would have remained until today.
But I tell you that it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom on the day of judgment, than for you.”
Other Celebration
An optional celebration on this day is the Memorial of Saint Henry.
