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Friday, July 31, 2015
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St. Ignatius of Loyola, Priest (Memorial)
First Option
Second Option
First Reading
Leviticus 23:1, 4-11, 15-16, 27, 34-37
1The LORD said to Moses,
4“These are the appointed feasts of the LORD, the holy convocations, which you shall proclaim at the time appointed for them.
5In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is the LORD’s passover.
6And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread to the LORD; seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.
7On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work.
8But you shall present an offering by fire to the LORD seven days; on the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work.”
9And the LORD said to Moses,
10“Say to the people of Israel, When you come into the land which I give you and reap its harvest, you shall bring the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest;
11and he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, that you may find acceptance; on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.
15“And you shall count from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven full weeks shall they be,
16counting fifty days to the morrow after the seventh sabbath; then you shall present a cereal offering of new grain to the LORD.
27“On the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement; it shall be for you a time of holy convocation, and you shall afflict yourselves and present an offering by fire to the LORD.
34“Say to the people of Israel, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month and for seven days is the feast of booths to the LORD.
35On the first day shall be a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work.
36Seven days you shall present offerings by fire to the LORD; on the eighth day you shall hold a holy convocation and present an offering by fire to the LORD; it is a solemn assembly; you shall do no laborious work.
37“These are the appointed feasts of the LORD, which you shall proclaim as times of holy convocation, for presenting to the LORD offerings by fire, burnt offerings and cereal offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its proper day;
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 81:3-6, 10-11
2Raise a song, sound the timbrel, the sweet lyre with the harp.
3Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.
4For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
5He made it a decree in Joseph, when he went out over the land of Egypt. I hear a voice I had not known:
9There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god.
10I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
Gospel
Matthew 13:54-58
54and coming to his own country he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, “Where did this man get this wisdom and these mighty works?
55Is not this the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother called Mary? And are not his brethren James and Joseph and Simon and Judas?
56And are not all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all this?”
57And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own country and in his own house.”
58And he did not do many mighty works there, because of their unbelief.
First Reading
1 Corinthians 10:31--11:1
10
31So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
32Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God,
33just as I try to please all men in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.
11
1Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 34:2-11
1I will bless the LORD at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
2My soul makes its boast in the LORD; let the afflicted hear and be glad.
3O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together!
4I sought the LORD, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.
5Look to him, and be radiant; so your faces shall never be ashamed.
6This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
7The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.
8O taste and see that the LORD is good! Happy is the man who takes refuge in him!
9O fear the LORD, you his saints, for those who fear him have no want!
10The young lions suffer want and hunger; but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
Gospel
Luke 14:25-33
25Now great multitudes accompanied him; and he turned and said to them,
26“If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
27Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me, cannot be my disciple.
28For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?
29Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him,
30saying, ‘This man began to build, and was not able to finish.’
31Or what king, going to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
32And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an embassy and asks terms of peace.
33So therefore, whoever of you does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.