Thursday, 16 July 2026 Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time, Year II Our Lady of Mount Carmel Antiphons on page 1862 and readings on page 1057 of the Daily Missal

Send us Fan MailEntrance Antiphon: Hail, Holy Mother, who gave birth to the King who rules heaven and earth forever.First Reading: Isaiah 26: 7-9, 12, 16-19A reading from the Book of IsaiahThe way of the righteous is level;    you make smooth the path of the righteous.In the path of thy judgments,    O Lord, we wait for you;your memorial name    is the desire of our soul.My soul yearns for you in the night,    my spirit within me earnestly seeks you.For when your judgments are in the earth,    the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.O Lord, you will. ordain peace for us,    you have wrought for us all our works.O Lord, in distress they sought you,    they poured out a prayer    when your chastening was upon them.Like a woman with child,    who writhes and cries out in her pangs,    when she is near her time,so were we because of you, O Lord;we were with child, we writhed,    but we gave birth only to wind.We have wrought no deliverance in the earth,    and the inhabitants of the world have not fallen.Your dead shall live, their bodies shall rise.    O dwellers in the dust, awake and sing for joy!For your dew is a dew of light,    and on the land of the shades you will let it fall.The Word of the LordResponsorial Psalm: Psalm 102:13-14ab and 15.16-18.19-21 (R.20b)R/. The Lord looked down from heaven to the earth.But you, O Lord, are enthroned forever, and your renown is from age to age.You will arise and take pity on Sion, for this is the time to have mercy.Behold, your servants love her very stones, are moved to pity for her dust.The nations shall fear the name of the Lord,and all the earth’s kings your glory.When the Lord shall build up Sion, he will appear in all his glory.Then he will turn to the prayers of the helpless;he will not despise their prayers.Let this be written for ages to come,that a people yet unborn may praise the Lord;the Lord looked down from his holy place on high,looked down from heaven to the earth,to hear the groans of the prisoners, and free those condemned to die. R/. The Lord looked down from heaven to the earth.Alleluia, alleluia.Come to me, all who labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest, says the Lord.Alleluia.Gospel: Matthew 11:28-30A reading from the Holy Gospel according to MatthewAt that time: Jesus declared, “Come to me, all who labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”The Gospel of the LordCommunion Antiphon: Cf. Lk 11:27Blessed is the womb of the Virgin Mary, which bore the Son of the eternal Father.