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Wednesday, August 5, 2015
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Dedication of the Basilica of Saint Mary Major in Rome (Optional Memorial)
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Second Option
First Reading
Numbers 13:1-2, 25--14:1, 26-29, 34-35
13
1The LORD said to Moses,
2“Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the people of Israel; from each tribe of their fathers shall you send a man, every one a leader among them.”
25At the end of forty days they returned from spying out the land.
26And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the people of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh; they brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.
27And they told him, “We came to the land to which you sent us; it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.
28Yet the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large; and besides, we saw the descendants of Anak there.
29The Amalʹekites dwell in the land of the Negeb; the Hittites, the Jebʹusites, and the Amorites dwell in the hill country; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and along the Jordan.”
30But Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once, and occupy it; for we are well able to overcome it.”
31Then the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.”
32So they brought to the people of Israel an evil report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants; and all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature.
33And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim); and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.”
14
1Then all the congregation raised a loud cry; and the people wept that night.
26And the LORD said to Moses and to Aaron,
27“How long shall this wicked congregation murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the people of Israel, which they murmur against me.
28Say to them, ‘As I live, says the LORD, what you have said in my hearing I will do to you:
29your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and of all your number, numbered from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me,
34According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, for every day a year, you shall bear your iniquity, forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.’
35I, the LORD, have spoken; surely this will I do to all this wicked congregation that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall come to a full end, and there they shall die.”
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 106:6-7, 13-14, 21-23
6Both we and our fathers have sinned; we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.
7Our fathers, when they were in Egypt, did not consider thy wonderful works; they did not remember the abundance of thy steadfast love, but rebelled against the Most High at the Red Sea.
13But they soon forgot his works; they did not wait for his counsel.
14But they had a wanton craving in the wilderness, and put God to the test in the desert;
21They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt,
22wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red Sea.
23Therefore he said he would destroy them— had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him, to turn away his wrath from destroying them.
Gospel
Matthew 15:21-28
21And Jesus went away from there and withdrew to the district of Tyre and Sidon.
22And behold, a Canaanite woman from that region came out and cried, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is severely possessed by a demon.”
23But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away, for she is crying after us.”
24He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
25But she came and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, help me.”
26And he answered, “It is not fair to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”
27She said, “Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master’s table.”
28Then Jesus answered her, “O woman, great is your faith! Be it done for you as you desire.” And her daughter was healed instantly.
First Reading
Revelation 21:1-5
1Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
2And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband;
3and I heard a great voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling of God is with men. He will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself will be with them;
4he will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the former things have passed away.”
5And he who sat upon the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” Also he said, “Write this, for these words are trustworthy and true.”
Responsorial Psalm
Judith 13:18-19
18And Uzziʹah said to her, “O daughter, you are blessed by the Most High God above all women on earth; and blessed be the Lord God, who created the heavens and the earth, who has guided you to strike the head of the leader of our enemies.
19Your hope will never depart from the hearts of men, as they remember the power of God.
Gospel
Luke 11:27-28
27As he said this, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts that you sucked!”
28But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”