The 13th of July, 2022 is Wednesday in the Fifteenth Week of Ordinary Time. The Holy Bible verses for the mass readings for this day came from the Liturgical Calendar Year 2022.
Reading 1: IS 10:5-7, 13B-16
The first reading from the Book of Isaiah.
Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!
I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me I will give him a command to take the plunder and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
However, he doesn’t mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.
For he has said, “By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I have understanding. I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers.
My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, I have gathered all the earth. There was no one who moved their wing, or that opened their mouth, or chirped.”
Should an ax brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood.
Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory a burning will be kindled like the burning of fire.
Responsorial Psalm: PS 94:5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 14-15
Response: For Yahweh won’t reject his people.
They break your people in pieces, Yahweh, and afflict your heritage.
They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.
R: For Yahweh won’t reject his people.
They say, “Yah will not see, neither will Jacob’s God consider.”
Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?
R: For Yahweh won’t reject his people.
He who implanted the ear, won’t he hear? He who formed the eye, won’t he see?
He who disciplines the nations, won’t he punish? He who teaches man knows.
R: For Yahweh won’t reject his people.
For Yahweh won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
For judgment will return to righteousness. All the upright in heart shall follow it.
R: For Yahweh won’t reject his people.
Gospel of the Day: MT 11:25-27
From the gospel scripture according to Matthew.
At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.
Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.
All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.”
Other Celebration
An optional celebration on this day is the Memorial of Saint Henry.
