Catholic Daily Devotional and Reading 19 July 2019
Daily Reading for Friday July 19, 2019
Reading 1: Exodus 11:10–12:14
Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 116:12-13, 15-16, 17-18
Gospel: Matthew 12:1-8
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Topic: By Our Love
Key Verse: I say to you, something greater than the temple is here. If you knew what this meant, I desire mercy, not sacrifice… – Matthew 12:6-7
Message: Jesus dismisses the Pharisees’ accusation that his disciples have broken the Sabbath law. He turns their argument upside down by accusing the priests of working on the Sabbath. Jesus has a habit of turning things upside down. For starters, the Son of God has come to serve God’s children, not to be served. The law he cares about most of all demands we, too, serve others and act with mercy, despite all costs. Jesus makes it clear that God’s laws are not constrictive but freeing.
We are not to be slaves to petty thinking or to be burdened with our own selfish need to win. When we love without measure and forgive without blame, God’s love is magnified through our merciful service to others.
By our love, as disciples of Jesus, may all come to know the glory of God and the peace of Jesus Christ.
Catholic Daily Devotional and Reading 19 July 2019
Reading 1- Exodus 11:10–12:14
10 Moses and Aaron worked all these wonders in Pharaoh’s presence, but Yahweh made Pharaoh stubborn, and he did not let the Israelites leave his country.
1 Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt,
2 ‘This month must be the first of all the months for you, the first month of your year.
3 Speak to the whole community of Israel and say, “On the tenth day of this month each man must take an animal from the flock for his family: one animal for each household.
4 If the household is too small for the animal, he must join with his neighbour nearest to his house, depending on the number of persons. When you choose the animal, you will take into account what each can eat.
5 It must be an animal without blemish, a male one year old; you may choose it either from the sheep or from the goats.
6 You must keep it till the fourteenth day of the month when the whole assembly of the community of Israel will slaughter it at twilight.
7 Some of the blood must then be taken and put on both door-posts and the lintel of the houses where it is eaten.
8 That night, the flesh must be eaten, roasted over the fire; it must be eaten with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
9 Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted over the fire, with the head, feet and entrails.
10 You must not leave any of it over till the morning: whatever is left till morning you must burn.
11 This is how you must eat it: with a belt round your waist, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. You must eat it hurriedly: it is a Passover in Yahweh’s honour.
12 That night, I shall go through Egypt and strike down all the first-born in Egypt, man and beast alike, and shall execute justice on all the gods of Egypt, I, Yahweh!
13 The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are. When I see the blood I shall pass over you, and you will escape the destructive plague when I strike Egypt.
14 This day must be commemorated by you, and you must keep it as a feast in Yahweh’s honour. You must keep it as a feast-day for all generations; this is a decree for all time.
Responsorial Psalm – Psalms 116:12-13, 15-16, 17-18
12 What return can I make to Yahweh for his generosity to me?
13 I shall take up the cup of salvation and call on the name of Yahweh.
15 Costly in Yahweh’s sight is the death of his faithful.
16 I beg you, Yahweh! I am your servant, I am your servant and my mother was your servant; you have undone my fetters.
17 I shall offer you a sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of Yahweh.
18 I shall fulfil my vows to Yahweh, witnessed by all his people,
Gospel – Matthew 12:1-8
1 At that time Jesus went through the cornfields one Sabbath day. His disciples were hungry and began to pick ears of corn and eat them.
2 The Pharisees noticed it and said to him, ‘Look, your disciples are doing something that is forbidden on the Sabbath.’
3 But he said to them, ‘Have you not read what David did when he and his followers were hungry-
4 how he went into the house of God and they ate the loaves of the offering although neither he nor his followers were permitted to eat them, but only the priests?
5 Or again, have you not read in the Law that on the Sabbath day the Temple priests break the Sabbath without committing any fault?
6 Now here, I tell you, is something greater than the Temple.
7 And if you had understood the meaning of the words: Mercy is what pleases me, not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the blameless.
8 For the Son of man is master of the Sabbath.’
Catholic Daily Devotional 19 July 2019 was written by Deborah A. Meister
