Gospel of 21 July 2018

Saturday of the XNUMXth week of Ordinary Time

Book of Micah 2,1-5.
Woe to those who meditate iniquity and plot evil on their beds; in the light of dawn they do it, because in their hands it is power.
They are greedy for fields and usurp them, for houses, and they take them. Thus oppress man and his home, the owner and his inheritance.
So thus says the Lord: “Behold, I meditate against this genie a disaster from which they will not be able to steal their necks and they will no longer go head-on, because it will be that time of calamity.
At that time a proverb will be written about you and a lamentation will be sung: "It's over!", And it will be said: "We are completely ruined! To others he passes on the inheritance of my people; - Ah, how it was stolen from me! - he divides our fields to the enemy ".
Therefore there will be no one to pull the rope for you, for the draw in the meeting of the Lord.

Salmi 9(9A),22-23.24-25.28-29.35ab.
Why, Lord, stay away,
in the time of anguish do you hide?
The poor wretch succumbs to the pride of the wicked
and falls into the pitfalls plotted.

The wicked boast of his longings,
the miser curses, despises God.
The insolent wicked man despises the Lord:
"God doesn't care: God doesn't exist"; this is his thought.

His mouth is full of perjury, fraud and deception
under his tongue are iniquity and abuse.
Lurks behind the hedges,
from hiding places he kills the innocent.

Yet you see the trouble and pain,
everything you look and take in your hands.

From the Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Matthew 12,14-21.
At that time, the Pharisees went out and took counsel against him to get him out of the way.
But Jesus, knowing it, went away from there. Many followed him and he healed all,
by ordering them not to disclose it,
for what was said by the prophet Isaiah to be fulfilled:
“Here is my servant whom I have chosen; my favorite, in which I was pleased. I will place my spirit upon him and he will announce justice to the people.
He will not contend, nor cry, nor will his voice be heard in the squares.
The shattered reed will not break, will not extinguish the fumigant wick, until justice has triumphed;
the people will hope in his name. "