The 19th of July, 2022 is Tuesday in the Sixteenth Week of Ordinary Time. The Holy Bible verses for the mass readings for this day came from the Liturgical Calendar of the Year 2022.
Reading 1: MI 7:14-15, 18-20
The first reading from the Book of Micah.
Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your heritage, who dwell by themselves in a forest. Let them feed in the middle of fertile pasture land, in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
“As in the days of your coming out of the land of Egypt, I will show them marvelous things.”
Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.
He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot. You will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
You will give truth to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
Responsorial Psalm: PS 85:1-3, 4-5, 6-7
Response: Show us your loving kindness, Yahweh.
Yahweh, you have been favorable to your land. You have restored the fortunes of Jacob.
You have forgiven the iniquity of your people. You have covered all their sin.
You have taken away all your wrath. You have turned from the fierceness of your anger.
R: Show us your loving kindness, Yahweh.
Turn us, God of our salvation, and cause your indignation toward us to cease.
Will you be angry with us forever? Will you draw out your anger to all generations?
R: Show us your loving kindness, Yahweh.
Won’t you revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?
Show us your loving kindness, Yahweh. Grant us your salvation.
R: Show us your loving kindness, Yahweh.
Gospel of the Day: MT 12:46-50
From the gospel scripture according to Matthew.
While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, seeking to speak to him.
One said to him, “Behold, your mother and your brothers stand outside, seeking to speak to you.”
But he answered him who spoke to him, “Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?”
He stretched out his hand toward his disciples, and said, “Behold, my mother and my brothers!
For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.”
