Mass of the day: Tuesday 16 July 2019

TUESDAY 16 JULY 2019
Mass of the Day
TUESDAY OF THE XNUMXTH WEEK OF ORDINARY TIME (ODD YEAR)

Green Liturgical Color
Antiphon
In justice I will contemplate your face,
when I wake up I will be satisfied with your presence. (Ps 16,15:XNUMX)

Collection
O God, show the light of your truth to wanderers.
so that they can return to the right path,
grant to all those who profess to be Christians
to reject what is contrary to this name
and to follow what conforms to it.
For our Lord Jesus Christ ...

First Reading
Moses called him because he had taken him from the waters; grown in age, he went to his brothers.
From the book of Exodus
Ex 2,1-15

In those days, a man from Levi's family went to pick up a descendant of Levi's wife. The woman conceived and gave birth to a son; he saw that it was beautiful and kept it hidden for three months. But as he could not keep it hidden any further, he took a papyrus basket for him, smeared it with bitumen and pitch, laid the boy on it and placed it among the rushes on the bank of the Nile. The boy's sister began to observe from a distance what would happen to him.
Now Pharaoh's daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, while her handmaids strolled along the bank of the Nile. She saw the basket among the rushes and sent her slave to get it. He opened it and saw the boy: here, the boy was crying. He took pity on him and said, "He is a child of the Jews." The boy's sister then said to Pharaoh's daughter, "I have to go and call you a nurse among the Jewish women, why are you nursing the baby for yourself?" "Go," replied Pharaoh's daughter. The girl went to call the boy's mother. Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this baby with you and breastfeed it for me; I will give you a salary. " The woman took the baby and nursed him.
When the boy was raised, he led him to Pharaoh's daughter. He was like a son to her and called him Moses, saying, "I brought him out of the waters!"
One day Moses, grown in age, went to his brothers and noticed their forced labor. He saw an Egyptian striking a Jew, one of his brothers. Turning around and seeing that nobody was there, he hit the Egyptian to death and buried him in the sand.
The next day he went out again and saw two Jews arguing; he said to the wrong one: "Why do you strike your brother?" He replied, "Who made you chief and judge over us?" Do you think you can kill me, how did you kill the Egyptian? » Then Moses was afraid and thought, "Certainly it has been known."
Pharaoh heard about this fact and had Moses search to put him to death. Then Moses fled away from Pharaoh and stopped in the territory of Midian.

God's word

Responsorial Psalm
From Psalm 68 (69)
R. You who seek God, take courage.
?Or:
R. Do not hide your face from your servant, Lord.
I sink into an abyss of mud,
I have no support;
I fell into deep water
and the current overwhelms me. R.

But I turn my prayer to you,
Lord, in the time of benevolence.
O God, in your great goodness, answer me,
in the fidelity of your salvation. R.

I am poor and suffering:
your salvation, God, put me in safety.
I will praise the name of God with a song,
I will magnify it with thanks. R.

They see the poor and rejoice;
you who seek God, take courage,
because the Lord listens to the poor
and does not despise his who are prisoners. R.

Gospel acclamation
Hallelujah, hallelujah.

Today don't harden your heart,
but listen to the voice of the Lord. (Cf. Ps 94,8ab)

Hallelujah.

Gospel
On the day of judgment, Tire and Sidòne and the land of Sodom will be treated less harshly than you.
From the Gospel according to Matthew
Mt 11,20-24

At that time, Jesus began to reproach the cities in which most of his wonders had occurred, because they had not been converted: «Woe to you, Corazìn! Woe to you, Bethsaida! Because, if the wonders that took place among you had occurred in Tire and Sidòne, they would have been converted for a long time, dressed in sackcloth and sprinkled with ashes. Well, I say to you: on the day of judgment, Tire and Sidòne will be treated less harshly than you.
And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to heaven? To the underworld you will fall! Because, if the wonders that took place among you had occurred in Sodom, today it would still exist! Well, I say to you: on the day of judgment, the land of Sodom will be treated less harshly than you! ».

Word of the Lord

On offers
Look, Lord,
the gifts of your Church in prayer,
and turn them into spiritual food
for the sanctification of all believers.
For Christ our Lord.

Communion antiphon
The sparrow finds the house, the swallow the nest
where to place his little ones near your altars,
Lord of hosts, my king and my God.
Blessed are those who live in your home: always sing your praises. (Ps 83,4-5)

?Or:

The Lord says: «Whoever eats my flesh
and he drinks my blood, he remains in me and I in him ». (Jn 6,56)

After communion
Lord, who fed us at your table,
do that for communion with these holy mysteries
assert itself more and more in our life
the work of redemption.
For Christ our Lord.