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Tuesday 21 July 2026    (other days)
Tuesday of week 16 in Ordinary Time 
 or Saint Laurence of Brindisi, Priest, Doctor 

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Office of Readings

If this is the first Hour that you are reciting today, you should precede it with the Invitatory Psalm.
INTRODUCTION
Deus, in adiutórium meum inténde.
  Dómine, ad adiuvándum me festína.
Glória Patri et Fílio*
  et Spirítui Sancto.
Sicut erat in princípio et nunc et semper*
  et in sǽcula sæculórum.
Amen. Allelúia.
INTRODUCTION
O God, come to our aid.
  O Lord, make haste to help us.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son
  and to the Holy Spirit,
as it was in the beginning,
  is now, and ever shall be,
  world without end.
Amen. Alleluia.
Hymnus
Nocte surgéntes vigilémus omnes,
semper in psalmis meditémur atque
víribus totis Dómino canámus
dúlciter hymnos,
Ut, pio regi páriter canéntes,
cum suis sanctis mereámur aulam
íngredi cæli, simul et beátam
dúcere vitam.
Præstet hoc nobis Déitas Beáta
Patris ac Nati, paritérque Sancti
Spíritus, cuius résonat per omnem
glória mundum. Amen.
Hymn
O God of truth and Lord of power,
whose word their course to things assigns,
whose splendour lights the morning hour,
whose fiery sun at noonday shines:
Within us quench the flames of strife,
the harmful heat of passion quell;
give health of body to our life
and give true peace of soul as well.
In this, most loving Father, hear,
and Christ, co-equal Son, our prayer:
with Holy Ghost, one Trinity,
you reign for all eternity.

Ps 101:2-12
Exsulis vota et preces

“Consolatur nos Deus in omni tribulatione nostra” (2 Cor 1, 4).

Clamor meus, Dómine, ad te pervéniat; non abscóndas fáciem tuam a me.
2Dómine, exáudi oratiónem meam,*
  et clamor meus ad te véniat.
3Non abscóndas fáciem tuam a me;†
  in quacúmque die tríbulor,*
  inclína ad me aurem tuam.
In quacúmque die invocávero te,*
  velóciter exáudi me.
4Quia defecérunt sicut fumus dies mei,*
  et ossa mea sicut crémium aruérunt.
5Percússum est ut fenum et áruit cor meum,*
  étenim oblítus sum comédere panem meum.
6A voce gémitus mei*
  adhǽsit os meum carni meæ.
7Símilis factus sum pellicáno solitúdinis,*
  factus sum sicut nyctícorax in ruínis.
8Vigilávi*
  et factus sum sicut passer solitárius in tecto.
9Tota die exprobrábant mihi inimíci mei,*
  exardescéntes in me per me iurábant.
10Quia cínerem tamquam panem manducábam*
  et potum meum cum fletu miscébam,
11a fácie iræ et increpatiónis tuæ,*
  quia élevans allisísti me.
12Dies mei sicut umbra declinavérunt,*
  et ego sicut fenum árui.
Glória Patri et Fílio*
  et Spirítui Sancto.
Sicut erat in princípio et nunc et semper*
  et in sǽcula sæculórum.
Amen.
Clamor meus, Dómine, ad te pervéniat; non abscóndas fáciem tuam a me.

Psalm 101 (102)
Prayers and vows of an exile

Let my cry come to you, Lord: do not hide your face from me.
Lord, listen to my prayer
  and let my cry come to you.
Do not hide your face from me:
  whenever I am troubled,
  turn to me and hear me.
Whenever I call on you,
  hurry to answer me.
For my days vanish like smoke,
  and my bones are dry as tinder.
My heart is cut down like grass, it is dry –
  I cannot remember to eat.
The sound of my groaning
  makes my bones stick to my flesh.
I am lonely as a pelican in the wilderness,
  as an owl in the ruins,
  as a sparrow alone on a rooftop:
  I do not sleep.
All day long my enemies taunt me,
  they burn with anger and use my name as a curse.
I make ashes my bread,
  I mix tears with my drink,
  because of your anger and reproach –
you, who raised me up, have dashed me to the ground.
My days fade away like a shadow:
  I wither like grass.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son
  and to the Holy Spirit,
as it was in the beginning,
  is now, and ever shall be,
  world without end.
Amen.
Let my cry come to you, Lord: do not hide your face from me.

How to listen

Ps 101:13-23

Réspice, Dómine, in oratiónem humílium.
13Tu autem, Dómine, in ætérnum pérmanes,*
  et memoriále tuum in generatiónem et generatiónem.
14Tu exsúrgens miseréberis Sion,†
  quia tempus miseréndi eius,*
  quia venit tempus,
15quóniam placuérunt servis tuis lápides eius*
  et púlveris eius miseréntur.
16Et timébunt gentes nomen tuum, Dómine,*
  et omnes reges terræ glóriam tuam,
17quia ædificávit Dóminus Sion*
  et appáruit in glória sua.
18Respéxit in oratiónem ínopum*
  et non sprevit precem eórum.
19Scribántur hæc pro generatióne áltera,*
  et pópulus, qui creábitur, laudábit Dóminum.
20Quia prospéxit de excélso sanctuário suo,*
  Dóminus de cælo in terram aspéxit,
21ut audíret gémitus compeditórum,*
  ut sólveret fílios mortis;
22ut annúntient in Sion nomen Dómini*
  et laudem eius in Ierúsalem,
23cum congregáti fúerint pópuli in unum*
  et regna, ut sérviant Dómino.
Glória Patri et Fílio*
  et Spirítui Sancto.
Sicut erat in princípio et nunc et semper*
  et in sǽcula sæculórum.
Amen.
Réspice, Dómine, in oratiónem humílium.

Psalm 101 (102)

Turn, Lord, to the prayers of the helpless.
But you, Lord, remain for ever
  and your name lasts from generation to generation.
You will rise up and take pity on Zion,
  for it is time that you pitied it,
  indeed it is time:
for your servants love its very stones
  and pity even its dust.
Then, Lord, the peoples will fear your name.
  All the kings of the earth will fear your glory,
when the Lord has rebuilt Zion
  and appeared there in his glory;
when he has listened to the prayer of the destitute
  and not rejected their pleading.
These things shall be written for the next generation
  and a people yet to be born shall praise the Lord:
because he has looked down from his high sanctuary,
  – the Lord has looked down from heaven to earth –
and heard the groans of prisoners
  and freed the children of death
so that they could proclaim the Lord’s name in Zion
  and sing his praises in Jerusalem,
where people and kingdoms gather together
  to serve the Lord.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son
  and to the Holy Spirit,
as it was in the beginning,
  is now, and ever shall be,
  world without end.
Amen.
Turn, Lord, to the prayers of the helpless.

Ps 101:24-29

Tu, Dómine, terram fundásti et ópera mánuum tuárum sunt cæli.
24Humiliávit in via virtútem meam,*
  abbreviávit dies meos.
Dicam: «Deus meus,†
  25ne áuferas me in dimídio diérum meórum;*
  in generatiónem et generatiónem sunt anni tui.
26Inítio terram fundásti;*
  et ópera mánuum tuárum sunt cæli.
27Ipsi períbunt, tu autem pérmanes;†
  et omnes sicut vestiméntum veteráscent,*
  et sicut opertórium mutábis eos, et mutabúntur.
28Tu autem idem ipse es,*
  et anni tui non defícient.
29Fílii servórum tuórum habitábunt,*
  et semen eórum in conspéctu tuo firmábitur».
Glória Patri et Fílio*
  et Spirítui Sancto.
Sicut erat in princípio et nunc et semper*
  et in sǽcula sæculórum.
Amen.
Tu, Dómine, terram fundásti et ópera mánuum tuárum sunt cæli.

Psalm 101 (102)

You founded the earth, Lord, and the heavens are the work of your hands.
He has brought down my strength in the midst of my journey;
  he has shortened my days.
I will say, “My God, do not take me away
  half way through the days of my life.
Your years last from generation to generation:
  in the beginning you founded the earth,
  and the heavens are the work of your hands.
They will pass away but you will remain;
  all will grow old, like clothing,
  and like a cloak you will change them, and they will be changed.
“But you are always the same,
  your years will never run out.
The children of your servants shall live in peace,
  their descendants will endure in your sight.”
Glory be to the Father and to the Son
  and to the Holy Spirit,
as it was in the beginning,
  is now, and ever shall be,
  world without end.
Amen.
You founded the earth, Lord, and the heavens are the work of your hands.
℣. Atténdite, pópule meus, doctrínam meam.
℟. Inclináte aurem vestram in verba oris mei.
℣. Give heed, my people, to my teaching.
℟. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.
Lectio prior
De Epístola secúnda beáti Pauli apóstoli ad Corínthios 2, 12-3, 6

Paulus minister novi testamenti

Fratres: 2,12Cum veníssem Tróadem ob evangélium Christi, et óstium mihi apértum esset in Dómino, 13non hábui réquiem spirítui meo, eo quod non invénerim Titum fratrem meum, sed valefáciens eis proféctus sum in Macedóniam. 14Deo autem grátias, qui semper triúmphat nos in Christo et odórem notítiæ suæ maniféstat per nos in omni loco. 15Quia Christi bonus odor sumus Deo in his, qui salvi fiunt, et in his, qui péreunt: 16áliis quidem odor ex morte in mortem, áliis autem odor ex vita in vitam. Et ad hæc quis idóneus? 17Non enim sumus sicut plúrimi adulterántes verbum Dei, sed sicut ex sinceritáte, sed sicut ex Deo coram Deo in Christo lóquimur.
  3,1Incípimus íterum nosmetípsos commendáre? Aut numquid egémus sicut quidam commendatíciis epístulis ad vos aut ex vobis? 2Epístula nostra vos estis, scripta in córdibus nostris, quæ scitur et légitur ab ómnibus homínibus; 3manifestáti quóniam epístula estis Christi ministráta a nobis, scripta non atraménto sed Spíritu Dei vivi, non in tábulis lapídeis sed in tábulis cordis carnálibus.
  4Fidúciam autem talem habémus per Christum ad Deum. 5Non quod sufficiéntes simus cogitáre áliquid a nobis quasi ex nobis, sed sufficiéntia nostra ex Deo est, 6qui et idóneos nos fecit minístros Novi Testaménti, non lítteræ sed Spíritus: líttera enim occídit, Spíritus autem vivíficat.
First Reading
2 Corinthians 2:12-3:6

Paul, minister of the New Covenant

When I went up to Troas to preach the Good News of Christ, and the door was wide open for my work there in the Lord, I was so continually uneasy in mind at not meeting brother Titus there, I said good-bye to them and went on to Macedonia.
  Thanks be to God who, wherever he goes, makes us, in Christ, partners of his triumph, and through us is spreading the knowledge of himself, like a sweet smell, everywhere. We are Christ’s incense to God for those who are being saved and for those who are not; for the last, the smell of death that leads to death, for the first the sweet smell of life that leads to life. And who could be qualified for work like this? At least we do not go round offering the word of God for sale, as many other people do. In Christ, we speak as men of sincerity, as envoys of God and in God’s presence.
  Does this sound like a new attempt to commend ourselves to you? Unlike other people, we need no letters of recommendation either to you or from you, because you are yourselves our letter, written in our hearts, that anybody can see and read, and it is plain that you are a letter from Christ, drawn up by us, and written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on stone tablets but on the tablets of your living hearts.
  Before God, we are confident of this through Christ: not that we are qualified in ourselves to claim anything as our own work: all our qualifications come from God. He is the one who has given us the qualifications to be the administrators of this new covenant, which is not a covenant of written letters but of the Spirit: the written letters bring death, but the Spirit gives life.
Responsorium
2 Cor 3, 4. 6. 5
℟. Fidúciam habémus per Christum ad Deum,* Qui et idóneos nos fecit minístros Novi Testaménti, non lítteræ sed Spíritus.
℣. Non quod sufficiéntes simus cogitáre áliquid a nobis, quasi ex nobis, sed sufficiéntia nostra ex Deo est.* Qui et.
Responsory2 Co 3:4-6
℟. Through Christ, we have confidence in God;* and through Christ we have been made capable of serving the new covenant, which consists not of a written law but of the Spirit.
℣. There is nothing in us which can justify a claim that we are capable of doing this work. What capacity we have comes from God,* and through Christ we have been made capable of serving the new covenant, which consists not of a written law but of the Spirit.
Lectio altera
De Epístola sancti Ignátii Antiochéni epíscopi et mártyris ad Magnésios (N. 10, 1-15: Funk 1, 199-203)

Christum habetis in vobis

Absit ergo a nobis non movéri benignitáte Christi. Si enim nos imitétur secúndum ea, quæ fácimus, iam períimus. Proptérea, discípuli eius effécti, discámus secúndum christianísmum vívere. Qui enim álio nómine vocátur præter hoc, non est Dei. Abícite ígitur malum ferméntum inveterátum et ácidum et transmutámini in novum ferméntum, quod est Iesus Christus. Saliámini in ipso, ut non corrumpátur áliquis e vobis, quóniam ab odóre redarguémini. Absúrdum est Christum Iesum profári, et iudaizáre; christianísmus enim non in iudaísmum crédidit, sed iudaísmus in christianísmum, in quo omnes qui credunt in Deum congregáti sunt.
  Hæc autem scribo, dilécti mei, non quod cognóverim áliquos vestrum hoc ánimo afféctos esse, sed, ut minor vobis, cautum vobis cúpio, ne incidátis in hamos inánis doctrínæ, sed ut plene certi reddámini de nativitáte et passióne et resurrectióne, quæ cóntigit témpore præfectúræ Póntii Piláti: quæ vere et indubitánter gesta sunt a Iesu Christo, spe nostra, a qua avérti némini vestrum áccidat.
  Fruar vobis in ómnibus, síquidem dignus sum. Etsi enim ligátus sum, comparándus tamen non sum uni vestrum, qui ligáti non estis. Novi quod non inflámini; Iesum enim Christum habétis in vobis. Et magis, cum laudo vos, scio quod erubéscitis, sicut scriptum est: Iustus sui est accusátor.
  Studéte ígitur confirmári in doctrínis Dómini et apostolórum, ut ómnia, quæ fácitis, próspere vobis succédant carne et spíritu, fide et caritáte, in Fílio et Patre et Spíritu, in princípio et in fine, cum digníssimo epíscopo vestro et digne contéxta spiritáli coróna presbytérii vestri et cum diáconis Deo placéntibus. Subiécti estóte epíscopo et vobis mútuo, ut Iesus Christus Patri secúndum carnem, et apóstoli Christo et Patri et Spirítui, ut únio sit et carnális et spiritális.
  Cum sciam vos Deo plenos esse, brévibus vos cohortátus sum. Mémores estóte mei in oratiónibus vestris, ut Deum ássequar, et Ecclésiæ, quæ in Sýria est (unde non sum dignus vocári; indígeo enim uníta vestra in Deo oratióne et caritáte), ut Ecclésia, quæ in Sýria est, mereátur per Ecclésiam vestram irrorári.
  Salútant vos Ephésii e Smyrna, unde hæc scribo vobis, qui præséntes adsunt in Dei glóriam ut et vos, qui me una cum Polycárpo epíscopo Smyrnæórum in ómnibus recreárunt. Et céteræ Ecclésiæ in honórem Iesu Christi vos salútant. Valéte, Deo uníti, spíritum possidéntes inseparábilem, qui est Iesus Christus.
Second Reading
From St Ignatius of Antioch's letter to the Magnesians

You have Jesus Christ within you

Let us not fail to be moved by his goodness, for if he were ever to imitate the way we behave ourselves, we would be truly lost. Now that we are his disciples let us learn to lead Christian lives. Whoever does not take the name of Christian does not belong to God. Put aside the old worn-out leaven which has grown old and sour, and turn to the new leaven, which is Jesus Christ. Be preserved by the salt of Christ so that you do not decay; for it is by your odour that you will be judged. It is monstrous to talk of Jesus Christ and to practise Judaism. For the Christian faith does not look to Judaism, but Judaism looks to Christianity, in which everyone who believes in God has been brought together.
  Now I say this, beloved, not because I know that there are any of you that are thus, but because I wish to warn you, though I am less than you, not to fall into the snare of vain doctrine. Be convinced of the birth and passion and resurrection which took place at the time of the procuratorship of Pontius Pilate; for these things were truly and certainly done by Jesus Christ, our hope, from which God grant that none of you be turned aside.
  My desire is to enjoy every happiness in you, if only I can be found worthy. Even though I am in chains and you are not, I am still unfit to be compared to you. I know that you are free from pride, for you have Jesus Christ in yourselves. Even when I praise you, you are not proud but embarrassed. As Scripture says, The righteous man is his own accuser.
  Do your utmost to stand firm in the precepts of the Lord and the Apostles, so that you may prosper in all that you do in the flesh and in the spirit, in faith and love, in the Son and the Father and the Spirit, at the beginning and at the end, together with your revered bishop and with your clergy (that beautifully woven spiritual crown) and with the godly deacons. Be subject to the bishop and to one another, even as Jesus Christ was subject to the Father, and the Apostles were subject to Christ and to the Father, so that there may be complete unity of both flesh and spirit.
  I have kept my exhortation brief because I know how God fills you. Remember me in your prayers, so that I may win through to God, and remember the Church in Syria, of which I am not worthy to be called a member. For I need your united prayers and love in God so that the Church in Syria may draw refreshment from the dew of your Church.
  I am writing this from Smyrna and the Ephesians here send you their greeting. They, like you, are here for the glory of God and have in all things given me comfort, as has Polycarp, the bishop of the Smyrnaeans. The other Churches also greet you in honour of Jesus Christ.
  Farewell. See that there is a godly unity among you and an unhesitating spirit; for this is Jesus Christ.
Responsorium
Eph 3, 16 a. 17. 19 b; Col 2, 6 b-7 a
℟. Det vobis Deus Christum habitáre per fidem in córdibus vestris;* In caritáte radicáti et fundáti, ut impleámini in omnem plenitúdinem Dei.
℣. In ipso ambuláte, radicáti et superædificáti in ipso et confirmáti fide.* In caritáte.
Responsory
℟. God grant that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.* Then, being rooted and grounded in love, you will be filled with all the fullness of God.
℣. Live in Christ; rooted in him, built up on him, and established firmly in the faith.* Then, being rooted and grounded in love, you will be filled with all the fullness of God.
Oremus.
  Propitiáre, Dómine, fámulis tuis et cleménter grátiæ tuæ super eos dona multíplica, ut, spe, fide et caritáte fervéntes, semper in mandátis tuis vígili custódia persevérent.
Per Dóminum nostrum Iesum Christum, Fílium tuum,
qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus,
per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.
Amen.
Let us pray.
Be gracious, Lord, to us who serve you,
  and in your kindness increase your gifts of grace within us:
so that, fervent in faith, hope and love,
  we may be ever on the watch
  and persevere in doing what you command.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.
Amen.
Benedicámus Dómino.
– Deo grátias.
Let us praise the Lord.
– Thanks be to God.

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