The 14th of July, 2022 is Thursday in the Fifteenth Week of Ordinary Time. The Bible scriptures for the holy mass readings for this day came from the Year 2022 of Liturgical Calendar.
Reading 1: IS 26:7-9, 12, 16-19
The first reading from the Book of Isaiah.
The way of the just is uprightness. You who are upright make the path of the righteous level.
Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, we have waited for you. Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul.
With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
Yahweh, you will ordain peace for us, for you have also done all our work for us.
Yahweh, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.
Just as a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs, so we have been before you, Yahweh.
We have been with child. We have been in pain. We gave birth, it seems, only to wind. We have not worked any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
Your dead shall live. Their dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.
Responsorial Psalm: PS 102:12-13AB and 14, 15-17, 18-20
Response: From heaven, Yahweh saw the earth.
But you, Yahweh, will remain forever; your renown endures to all generations.
You will arise and have mercy on Zion, for it is time to have pity on her.
For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and have pity on her dust.
R: From heaven, Yahweh saw the earth.
So the nations will fear Yahweh’s name, all the kings of the earth your glory.
For Yahweh has built up Zion. He has appeared in his glory.
He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.
R: From heaven, Yahweh saw the earth.
This will be written for the generation to come. A people which will be created will praise Yah, for he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary. From heaven, Yahweh saw the earth, to hear the groans of the prisoner, to free those who are condemned to death.
R: From heaven, Yahweh saw the earth.
Gospel of the Day: MT 11:28-30
From the gospel verse according to Matthew.
“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
Other Celebration
An optional celebration on this day is the Memorial of Saint Camillus de Lellis, Priest as well as Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, Virgin.
