The 7th of August, 2021 is Saturday in the Eighteenth Week of Ordinary Time. The Bible scriptures for the holy mass readings for this day came from the 2021 Liturgical Calendar.
Reading 1: DT 6:4-13
The first reading from the Book of Deuteronomy.
Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one.
You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.
These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart; and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.
You shall write them on the door posts of your house and on your gates.
It shall be, when Yahweh your God brings you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities which you didn’t build, and houses full of all good things which you didn’t fill, and cisterns dug out which you didn’t dig, vineyards and olive trees which you didn’t plant, and you shall eat and be full; then beware lest you forget Yahweh, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
You shall fear Yahweh your God; and you shall serve him, and shall swear by his name.
Responsorial Psalm: PS 18:1-2A, 2BC-3, 46 and 50
Response: I love you, Yahweh, my strength.
I love you, Yahweh, my strength.
Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer.
R: I love you, Yahweh, my strength.
My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
I call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised; and I am saved from my enemies.
R: I love you, Yahweh, my strength.
Yahweh lives! Blessed be my rock. Exalted be the God of my salvation.
He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his offspring, forever more.
R: I love you, Yahweh, my strength.
Gospel of the Day: MT 17:14-20
From the gospel verse according to Matthew.
When they came to the multitude, a man came to him, kneeling down to him and saying, “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is epileptic and suffers grievously; for he often falls into the fire, and often into the water.
So I brought him to your disciples, and they could not cure him.”
Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me.”
Jesus rebuked the demon, and it went out of him, and the boy was cured from that hour.
Then the disciples came to Jesus privately, and said, “Why weren’t we able to cast it out?”
He said to them, “Because of your unbelief. For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.”
Other Celebration
An optional celebration on this day is the Memorial of Saint Sixtus II, Pope, and Companions, Martyrs as well as Saint Cajetan, Priest.
