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Dedication of the Basilica of Saint Mary Major in Rome (Optional Memorial)

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First Reading

Nahum 2:1, 3; 3:1-3, 6-7

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1The shatterer has come up against you. Man the ramparts; watch the road; gird your loins; collect all your strength.
3The shield of his mighty men is red, his soldiers are clothed in scarlet. The chariots flash like flame when mustered in array; the chargers prance.
3
1Woe to the bloody city, all full of lies and booty— no end to the plunder!
2The crack of whip, and rumble of wheel, galloping horse and bounding chariot!
3Horsemen charging, flashing sword and glittering spear, hosts of slain, heaps of corpses, dead bodies without end— they stumble over the bodies!
6I will throw filth at you and treat you with contempt, and make you a gazingstock.
7And all who look on you will shrink from you and say, Wasted is Ninʹeveh; who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for her?

Responsorial Psalm

Deuteronomy 32:35-36, 39, 41

35Vengeance is mine, and recompense, for the time when their foot shall slip; for the day of their calamity is at hand, and their doom comes swiftly.
36For the LORD will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone, and there is none remaining, bond or free.
39“ ‘See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.
41if I whet my glittering sword, and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will take vengeance on my adversaries, and will requite those who hate me.

Gospel

Matthew 16:24-28

24Then Jesus told his disciples, “If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
25For whoever would save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
26For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what shall a man give in return for his life?
27For the Son of man is to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay every man for what he has done.
28Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.”

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!”