Friday, 18 July 2025
Fifteenth week in Ordinary Time – Year 1
Antiphons on page 1039 and readings on Page 1059 of the Daily Missal
First Reading: Exodus 11:10-12:14
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 116:12-13.15&16bc.17-18 (R. 13)
R/. The cup of salvation I will raise;
I will call on the name of the Lord.
How can I repay the Lord
for all his goodness to me?
The cup of salvation I will raise;
I will call on the name of the Lord.
How precious in the eyes of the Lord
is the death of his faithful.
Your servant am I, the son of your handmaid;
you have loosened my bonds.
A thanksgiving sacrifice I make;
I will call on the name of the Lord.
My vows to the Lord I will fulfil
before all his people.
R/. The cup of salvation I will raise;
I will call on the name of the Lord.
Gospel: Matthew 12:1-8
At that time:
Jesus went through the grainfields on the sabbath;
his disciples were hungry,
and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat.
But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him,
“Look, your disciples are doing
what is not lawful to do on the sabbath.”
He said to them,
“Have you not read what David did, when he was hungry,
and those who were with him:
how he entered the house of God
and ate the showbread,
which it was not lawful for him to eat
nor for those who were with him,
but only for the priests?
Or have you not read in the law how on the sabbath
the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are guiltless?
I tell you, something greater than the temple is here.
And if you had known what this means,
‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’
you would not have condemned the guiltless.
For the Son of man is lord of the sabbath.”
