HOLY MASS READINGS FOR JULY 2, 2024

Tuesday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Weekday (Green)

LH: Office of the Day, Week I

Mass of the Choice

FIRST READING

“The Lord has spoken who can but prophesy?”
A reading from the Book of Amos (Amos 3:1-8, 4:11-12)

Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you, O sons of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up out of the land of Egypt: “You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities. “Do two walk together, unless they have made an appointment? Does a lion roar in the forest, when he has no prey? Does a young lion cry out from his den, if he has taken nothing? Does a bird fall in a snare on the earth, when there is no trap for it? Does a snare spring up from the ground when it has taken nothing? Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? Does evil befall a city, unless the Lord has done it? Surely the Lord God does nothing, without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets. The lion has roared; who will not fear? The Lord God has spoken; who can but prophesy? “I overthrew some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were as a brand plucked out of the burning; yet you did not return to me,” says the Lord. “Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel!”

The word of the Lord.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM 

Psalm 5:5-6, 7, 8 (R. 9)

R/. Lead me, Lord, in your justice.

You are no God who delights in evil;
No sinner is your guest.
The boastful shall not stand their ground
before your eyes. R/.

All who do evil you despise;
All who lie you destroy.
The deceitful and those who shed blood,
The Lord detests. R/.

Yet through the greatness of your merciful love,
I enter your house.
I bow down before your holy temple,
In awe of you. R/.

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION 

Psalm 130:5

Alleluia. 

I wait for the Lord, in his word I hope. 

Alleluia.

GOSPEL
“He rose and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.”
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew (Matthew 8:23-27)

At that time: when Jesus got into the boat, his disciples followed him. And behold, there arose a great storm on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by the waves; but he was asleep. And they went and woke him, saying, “Save us, Lord; we are perishing.” And he said to them, “Why are you afraid, O men of little faith?” Then he rose and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm. And the men marveled, saying, “What sort of man is this, that even winds and sea obey him?”

The Gospel of the Lord.