Tuesday 14 July 2026 (other days)
Tuesday of week 15 in Ordinary Time
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Liturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(II).
| First reading | Isaiah 7:1-9 |
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‘If you are not firm in faith, you will not be firm at all.’
In the days of Ahaz, the son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, the king of Judah, Rezin, the king of Syria, and Pekah, the son of Remaliah, the king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to wage war against it, but could not yet mount an attack against it. When the house of David was told, ‘Syria is in league with Ephraim,’ the heart of Ahaz and the heart of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake before the wind.
And the Lord said to Isaiah, ‘Go out to meet Ahaz, you and Shear-jashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool on the highway to the Washer’s Field. And say to him, “Be careful, be quiet, do not fear, and do not let your heart be faint because of these two smouldering stumps of firebrands, at the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria and the son of Remaliah. Because Syria, with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, has devised evil against you, saying, ‘Let us go up against Judah and terrify it, and let us conquer it for ourselves, and set up the son of Tabeel as king in the midst of it,’ thus says the Lord God:
“It shall not stand,
and it shall not come to pass.
For the head of Syria is Damascus,
and the head of Damascus is Rezin.
And within sixty-five years
Ephraim will be shattered from being a people.
And the head of Ephraim is Samaria,
and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah.
If you are not firm in faith,
you will not be firm at all.” ’
| Responsorial Psalm |
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| Ps 48(47):2-3a. 3b-4. 5-6. 7-8. ℟ cf. 9d |
God establishes his city for ever.
Great is the Lord and highly to be praised
in the city of our God.
His holy mountain rises in beauty,
the joy of all the earth.
God establishes his city for ever.
Mount Sion, in the heart of the North,
the city of the Mighty King!
God, in the midst of its citadels,
has shown himself its stronghold.
God establishes his city for ever.
Behold! the kings assembled;
together they advanced.
They saw; at once they marvelled;
dismayed, they fled in fear.
God establishes his city for ever.
A trembling seized them there,
anguish, like pangs in giving birth,
as when the east wind shatters
the ships of Tarshish.
God establishes his city for ever.
| Gospel Acclamation |
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| Cf. Psalm 95(94):8a, 7c |
Alleluia, alleluia.
Harden not your hearts today,
but listen to the voice of the Lord.
Alleluia.
| Gospel |
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| Matthew 11:20-24 |
‘It will be more tolerable on the day of judgement for Tyre and Sidon and the land of Sodom than for you.’
At that time: Jesus began to denounce the cities where most of his mighty works had been done, because they did not repent. ‘Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. But I tell you, it will be more bearable on the day of judgement for Tyre and Sidon than for you. And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You will be brought down to Hades. For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. But I tell you that it will be more tolerable on the day of judgement for the land of Sodom than for you.’
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