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Tuesday, June 30, 2015
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The First Martyrs of the Holy Roman Church (Optional Memorial)
First Option
Second Option
First Reading
Genesis 19:15-29
15When morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Arise, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the punishment of the city.”
16But he lingered; so the men seized him and his wife and his two daughters by the hand, the LORD being merciful to him, and they brought him forth and set him outside the city.
17And when they had brought them forth, they said, “Flee for your life; do not look back or stop anywhere in the valley; flee to the hills, lest you be consumed.”
18And Lot said to them, “Oh, no, my lords;
19behold, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness in saving my life; but I cannot flee to the hills, lest the disaster overtake me, and I die.
20Behold, yonder city is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one. Let me escape there—is it not a little one?—and my life will be saved!”
21He said to him, “Behold, I grant you this favor also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.
22Make haste, escape there; for I can do nothing till you arrive there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoʹar.
23The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoʹar.
24Then the LORD rained on Sodom and Gomorʹrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;
25and he overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.
26But Lot’s wife behind him looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
27And Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD;
28and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorʹrah and toward all the land of the valley, and beheld, and lo, smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace.
29So it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 26:2-3, 9-12
2Prove me, O LORD, and try me; test my heart and my mind.
3For thy steadfast love is before my eyes, and I walk in faithfulness to thee.
9Sweep me not away with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men,
10men in whose hands are evil devices, and whose right hands are full of bribes.
11But as for me, I walk in my integrity; redeem me, and be gracious to me.
12My foot stands on level ground; in the great congregation I will bless the LORD.
Gospel
Matthew 8:23-27
23And when he got into the boat, his disciples followed him.
24And behold, there arose a great storm on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by the waves; but he was asleep.
25And they went and woke him, saying, “Save, Lord; we are perishing.”
26And 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.
27And the men marveled, saying, “What sort of man is this, that even winds and sea obey him?”
First Reading
Romans 8:31-39
31What then shall we say to this? If God is for us, who is against us?
32He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, will he not also give us all things with him?
33Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies;
34who is to condemn? Is it Christ Jesus, who died, yes, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us?
35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36As it is written, “For thy sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
38For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
39nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 124:2-5, 7-8
2if it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us,
3then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their anger was kindled against us;
4then the flood would have swept us away, the torrent would have gone over us;
5then over us would have gone the raging waters.
7We have escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we have escaped!
8Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.
Gospel
Matthew 24:4-13
4And Jesus answered them, “Take heed that no one leads you astray.
5For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray.
6And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars; see that you are not alarmed; for this must take place, but the end is not yet.
7For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places:
8all this is but the beginning of the sufferings.
9“Then they will deliver you up to tribulation, and put you to death; and you will be hated by all nations for my name’s sake.
10And then many will fall away, and betray one another, and hate one another.
11And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray.
12And because wickedness is multiplied, most men’s love will grow cold.
13But he who endures to the end will be saved.