Saturday 18 July 2026 (other days)
Saturday of week 15 in Ordinary Time
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Liturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(II).
| First reading | Micah 2:1-5 |
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‘They covet fields and seize them, and take houses away.’
Woe to those who devise wickedness
and work evil on their beds!
When the morning dawns, they perform it,
because it is in the power of their hand.
They covet fields and seize them,
and houses, and take them away;
they oppress a man and his house,
a man and his inheritance.
Therefore, thus says the Lord:
behold, against this family I am devising disaster,
from which you cannot remove your necks,
and you shall not walk haughtily,
for it will be a time of disaster.
In that day they shall take up a taunt song against you
and moan bitterly,
and say, ‘We are utterly ruined;
he changes the portion of my people;
how he removes it from me!
To an apostate he allots our fields.’
Therefore, you will have none to cast the line by lot
in the assembly of the Lord.
| Responsorial Psalm |
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| Ps 10(9b):1-2. 3-4. 7-8. 14. ℟12b |
O Lord, forget not the poor.
Why, O Lord, do you stand afar off,
and hide yourself in times of distress?
The poor are devoured by the pride of the wicked;
they are caught in the schemes that others have made.
O Lord, forget not the poor.
For the wicked boasts of his soul’s desires;
the covetous blasphemes and spurns the Lord.
In his pride, the wicked does not seek him;
all his thoughts are, ‘There is no God.’
O Lord, forget not the poor.
His mouth is full of cursing, guile, oppression;
under his tongue are deceit and evil.
He sits in ambush in the villages;
in hidden places, he murders the innocent.
O Lord, forget not the poor.
But you have seen the trouble and sorrow.
You note it; you take it in your hands.
The helpless one relies on you,
for you are the helper of the orphan.
O Lord, forget not the poor.
| Gospel Acclamation |
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| 2 Corinthians 5:19 |
Alleluia, alleluia.
God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself,
and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
Alleluia.
| Gospel |
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| Matthew 12:14-21 |
‘He ordered them not to make him known. This was to fulfil what was spoken by the prophet.’
At that time: The Pharisees went out and conspired against him, how to destroy him. Jesus, aware of this, withdrew from there. And many followed him, and he healed them all and ordered them not to make him known. This was to fulfil what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah: ‘Behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved with whom my soul is well pleased. I will put my Spirit upon him, and he will proclaim justice to the Gentiles. He will not quarrel or cry aloud, nor will anyone hear his voice in the streets; a bruised reed he will not break, and a smouldering wick he will not quench, until he brings justice to victory; and in his name the Gentiles will hope.’
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Universalis podcast: The week ahead – from 19 to 25 July
Saint James and the pilgrim route to Compostela. Saint Mary Magdalene: Apostle to the Apostles, organiser of the caravan, and the one freed from seven devils. About devils: yours and mine, and how to deal with them. Saint Bridget of Sweden, patron saint of Europe. (22 minutes)
Episode notes.
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