Mass Readings

Saturday, July 18, 2026

Saturday of the fifteenth week of Ordinary Time

Weekday · Ordinary Time · Cycle A · Year II · Green

Reading I

Mic 2:1-5

Woe to you that devise that which is unprofitable, and work evil in your beds: in the morning light they execute it, because their hand is against God.

And they have coveted fields, and taken them by violence, and houses they have forcibly taken away: and oppressed a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.

Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I devise an evil against this family: from which you shall not withdraw your necks, and you shall not walk haughtily, for this is a very evil time.

In that day a parable shall be taken up upon you, and a song shall be sung with melody by them that say: We are laid waste and spoiled: the portion of my people is changed: how shall he depart from me, whereas he is returning that will divide our land?

Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the cord of a lot in the assembly of the Lord.

Responsorial Psalm

Ps 10:1-2, 3-4, 7-8, 14

Unto the end, for the hidden things of the Son. A psalm for David.

I will give praise to thee, O Lord, with my whole heart: I will relate all thy wonders.

I will be glad, and rejoice in thee: I will sing to thy name, O thou most high.

When my enemy shall be turned back: they shall be weakened, and perish before thy face.

The swords of the enemy have failed unto the end: and their cities thou hast destroyed. Their memory hath perished with a noise:

But the Lord remaineth for ever. He hath prepared his throne in judgment:

Have mercy on me, O Lord: see my humiliation which I suffer from my enemies.

Gospel Acclamation

2 Cor 5:19

For God indeed was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not imputing to them their sins. And he hath placed in us the word of reconciliation.

Gospel

Matt 12:14-21

And the Pharisees going out made a consultation against him, how they might destroy him.

But Jesus knowing it, retired from thence: and many followed him, and he healed them all.

And he charged them that they should not make him known.

That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaias the prophet, saying:

Behold my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved in whom my soul hath been well pleased. I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles.

He shall not contend, nor cry out, neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets.

The bruised reed he shall not break: and smoking flax he shall not extinguish: till he send forth judgment unto victory.

And in his name the Gentiles shall hope.

About These Readings

Scripture text from the Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision, 1899), which is in the public domain. The Mass readings appointed for today follow the Lectionary for Mass approved for the dioceses of the United States.

Psalm verses follow the Vulgate numbering in the Douay-Rheims, which may differ by one chapter and a few verses from the Hebrew numbering used by the modern Lectionary. The substance of each Psalm is the same.

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