Readings for the 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time, July 4, 2010

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Daily Readings for Sunday July 04, 2010

Reading 1, Is 66:10-14c

¹⁰ Rejoice with Jerusalem, be glad for her, all you who love her! Rejoice, rejoice with her, all you who mourned her!

¹¹ So that you may be suckled and satisfied from her consoling breast, so that you may drink deep with delight from her generous nipple.

¹² For Yahweh says this: Look, I am going to send peace flowing over her like a river, and like a stream in spate the glory of the nations. You will be suckled, carried on her hip and fondled in her lap.

¹³ As a mother comforts a child, so I shall comfort you; you will be comforted in Jerusalem.

¹⁴ At the sight your heart will rejoice, and your limbs regain vigour like the grass. To his servantsYahweh will reveal his hand, but to his enemies his fury.

Gospel, Lk 10:1-9

¹ After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them out ahead of him in pairs, to all the towns and places he himself would be visiting.

² And he said to them, 'The harvest is rich but the labourers are few, so ask the Lord of the harvest to send labourers to do his harvesting.

³ Start off now, but look, I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.

⁴ Take no purse with you, no haversack, no sandals. Salute no one on the road.

⁵ Whatever house you enter, let your first words be, "Peace to this house!"

⁶ And if a man of peace lives there, your peace will go and rest on him; if not, it will come back to you.

⁷ Stay in the same house, taking what food and drink they have to offer, for the labourer deserves his wages; do not move from house to house.

⁸ Whenever you go into a town where they make you welcome, eat what is put before you.

⁹ Cure those in it who are sick, and say, "The kingdom of God is very near to you."

Reading 2, Gal 6:14-18

¹⁴ But as for me, it is out of the question that I should boast at all, except of the cross of our Lord JesusChrist, through whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

¹⁵ It is not being circumcised or uncircumcised that matters; but what matters is a new creation.

¹⁶ Peace and mercy to all who follow this as their rule and to the Israel of God.

¹⁷ After this, let no one trouble me; I carry branded on my body the marks of Jesus.

¹⁸ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, my brothers. Amen.