Saturday, Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time, Year 1- Mass of Our Lady

Send us Fan MailSaturday, 12 July 2025Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time, Year 1Saturday, Mass of Our Lady Antiphons on page 1866 (CBVM #7) and Readings on page 1036 of the Daily Missal First Reading: Genesis 49:29-33; 50:15-26aIn those days:  Jacob charged his sons and said to them,  “I am to be gathered to my people;  bury me with my ancestors in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,  in the cave that is in the field at Machpelah,  to the east of Mamre, in the land of Canaan,  which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite  to possess as a burying place.  There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife;  there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife;  and there I buried Leah— the field and the cave that is in it  were purchased from the Hittites.”  When Jacob finished charging his sons,  he drew up his feet into the bed,  and breathed his last,  and was gathered to his people. When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead,  they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us  and pay us back for all the evil which we did to him.”  So they sent a message to Joseph, saying,  “Your father gave this command before he died,  ‘Say to Joseph, Forgive, I pray you,  the transgression of your brothers and their sin,  because they did evil to you.’  And now, we beg you,  forgive the transgression of the servants  of the God of your father.”  Joseph wept when they spoke to him.  His brothers also came and fell down before him, and said,  “Behold, we are your servants.”  But Joseph said to them, “Fear not,  for am I in the place of God?  As for you, you meant evil against me;  but God meant it for good,  to bring it about that many people should be kept alive,  as they are today.  So do not fear;  I will provide for you and your little ones.”  Then he reassured them and comforted them. So Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he and his father’s house;  and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years.  And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation;  the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh  were born upon Joseph’s knees.  And Joseph said to his brothers,  “I am about to die;  but God will visit you  and bring you up out of this land  to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”  Then Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying,  “God will visit you,  and you shall carry up my bones from here.”  So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old.Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 105:1-2.3-4.6-7 (R. see Psalm 69:33)Gospel: Matthew 10:24-33At that time:  Jesus said to his apostles “A disciple is not above his teacher,  nor a servant above his master;  it is enough for the disciple to be like his teacher,  and the servant like his master.  If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul,  how much more will they malign those of his household. “So have no fear of them;  for nothing is covered that will not be revealed  or hidden that will not be known. What I tell you in the dark, utter in the light;  and what you hear whispered, proclaim upon the housetops.  And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul;  rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell. &nbsp