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Saturday, August 1, 2015
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St. Alphonsus Liguori, Bishop, Doctor of the Church (Memorial)
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First Reading
Leviticus 25:1, 8-17
1The LORD said to Moses on Mount Sinai,
8“And you shall count seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, so that the time of the seven weeks of years shall be to you forty-nine years.
9Then you shall send abroad the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the day of atonement you shall send abroad the trumpet throughout all your land.
10And you shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants; it shall be a jubilee for you, when each of you shall return to his property and each of you shall return to his family.
11A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be to you; in it you shall neither sow, nor reap what grows of itself, nor gather the grapes from the undressed vines.
12For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you; you shall eat what it yields out of the field.
13“In this year of jubilee each of you shall return to his property.
14And if you sell to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.
15According to the number of years after the jubilee, you shall buy from your neighbor, and according to the number of years for crops he shall sell to you.
16If the years are many you shall increase the price, and if the years are few you shall diminish the price, for it is the number of the crops that he is selling to you.
17You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am the LORD your God.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 67:2-3, 5, 7-8
1May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us, Selah
2that thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving power among all nations.
4Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for thou dost judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth. Selah
6The earth has yielded its increase; God, our God, has blessed us.
7God has blessed us; let all the ends of the earth fear him!
Gospel
Matthew 14:1-12
1At that time Herod the tetrarch heard about the fame of Jesus;
2and he said to his servants, “This is John the Baptist, he has been raised from the dead; that is why these powers are at work in him.”
3For Herod had seized John and bound him and put him in prison, for the sake of Heroʹdi-as, his brother Philip’s wife;
4because John said to him, “It is not lawful for you to have her.”
5And though he wanted to put him to death, he feared the people, because they held him to be a prophet.
6But when Herod’s birthday came, the daughter of Heroʹdi-as danced before the company, and pleased Herod,
7so that he promised with an oath to give her whatever she might ask.
8Prompted by her mother, she said, “Give me the head of John the Baptist here on a platter.”
9And the king was sorry; but because of his oaths and his guests he commanded it to be given;
10he sent and had John beheaded in the prison,
11and his head was brought on a platter and given to the girl, and she brought it to her mother.
12And his disciples came and took the body and buried it; and they went and told Jesus.
First Reading
Romans 8:1-4
1There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death.
3For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do: sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,
4in order that the just requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 119:9-14
9How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to thy word.
10With my whole heart I seek thee; let me not wander from thy commandments!
11I have laid up thy word in my heart, that I might not sin against thee.
12Blessed be thou, O LORD; teach me thy statutes!
13With my lips I declare all the ordinances of thy mouth.
14In the way of thy testimonies I delight as much as in all riches.
Gospel
Matthew 5:13-19
13“You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trodden under foot by men.
14“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hid.
15Nor do men light a lamp and put it under a bushel, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house.
16Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
17“Think not that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets; I have come not to abolish them but to fulfil them.
18For truly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the law until all is accomplished.
19Whoever then relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who does them and teaches them shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.