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Mass Readings

Wednesday, August 4, 2027

Saint John Mary Vianney, Priest

Memorial · Ordinary Time · Cycle B · Year I · White

Reading I

Num 13:1-2, 25—14:1, 26-29a, 34-35

And the people marched from Haseroth, and pitched their tents in the desert of Pharan.

And there the Lord spoke to Moses, saying.

And they that went to spy out the land returned after forty days, having gone round all the country,

And came to Moses and Aaron and to all the assembly of the children of Israel to the desert of Pharan, which is in Cades. And speaking to them and to all the multitude, they shewed them the fruits of the land:

And they related and said: We came into the land to which thou sentest us, which in very deed floweth with milk and honey as may be known by these fruits:

But it hath very strong inhabitants, and the cities are great and walled. We saw there the race of Enac.

There we saw certain monsters of the sons of Enac, of the giant kind: in comparison of whom, we seemed like locusts.

Responsorial Psalm

Ps 106:6-7ab, 13-14, 21-22, 23

We have sinned with our fathers: we have acted unjustly, we have wrought iniquity.

Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt: they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies: And they provoked to wrath going up to the sea, even the Red Sea.

They had quickly done, they forgot his works: and they waited not for his counsel.

And they coveted their desire in the desert: and they tempted God in the place without water.

They forgot God, who saved them, who had done great things in Egypt,

Wondrous works in the land of Cham: terrible things in the Red Sea.

And he said that he would destroy them: had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach: To turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.

Gospel Acclamation

Luke 7:16

And there came a fear upon them all: and they glorified God saying: A great prophet is risen up among us: and, God hath visited his people.

Gospel

Matt 15:21-28

And Jesus went from thence, and retired into the coast of Tyre and Sidon.

And behold a woman of Canaan who came out of those coasts, crying out, said to him: Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David: my daughter is grievously troubled by a devil.

Who answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying: Send her away, for she crieth after us:

And he answering, said: I was not sent but to the sheep, that are lost of the house of Israel.

But she came and adored him, saying: Lord, help me.

Who answering, said: It is not good to take the bread of the children, and to cast it to the dogs.

But she said: Yea, Lord; for the whelps also eat of the crumbs that fall from the table of their masters.

Then Jesus answering, said to her: O woman, great is thy faith: be it done to thee as thou wilt: and her daughter was cured from that hour.

About These Readings

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

The Douay-Rheims follows the Vulgate numbering, which in the Psalms, Sirach, and a few other books can differ by a chapter or a few verses from the numbering in the modern Lectionary. The text is the same passage.

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