Today’s
Readings

First Reading

Numbers 13:1-2, 25-14:1, 26a-29a, 34-35

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Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 106:6-7ab, 13-14, 21-22, 23

1. 6

   We have sinned with our fathers: we have acted unjustly, we have wrought iniquity.

2. 7

   Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt: they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies: And they provoked to wrath going up to the sea, even the Red Sea.

3. 13

   They had quickly done, they forgot his works: and they waited not for his counsels.

4. 14

   And they coveted their desire in the desert: and they tempted God in the place without water.

5. 21

   They forgot God, who saved them, who had done great things in Egypt,

6. 22

   Wondrous works in the land of Cham: terrible things in the Red Sea.

7. 23

   And he said that he would destroy them: had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach: To turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.

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Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition · public domain · 73 books. Psalm numbers follow the Roman lectionary.

Gospel

Matthew 15: 21-28

1. 21

   And Jesus went from thence, and retired into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.

2. 22

   And behold a woman of Canaan who came out of those coasts, crying out, said to him: Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David: my daughter is grieviously troubled by the devil.

3. 23

   Who answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying: Send her away, for she crieth after us:

4. 24

   And he answering, said: I was not sent but to the sheep that are lost of the house of Israel.

5. 25

   But she came and adored him, saying: Lord, help me.

6. 26

   Who answering, said: It is not good to take the bread of the children, and to cast it to the dogs.

7. 27

   But she said: Yea, Lord; for the whelps also eat of the crumbs that fall from the table of their masters.

8. 28

   Then Jesus answering, said to her: O woman, great is thy faith: be it done to thee as thou wilt: and her daughter was cured from that hour.

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition · public domain · 73 books. Psalm numbers follow the Roman lectionary.