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Thursday, July 31, 2025
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St. Ignatius of Loyola, Priest (Memorial)
First Option
Second Option
First Reading
Exodus 40:16-21, 34-38
16Thus did Moses; according to all that the LORD commanded him, so he did.
17And in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was erected.
18Moses erected the tabernacle; he laid its bases, and set up its frames, and put in its poles, and raised up its pillars;
19and he spread the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent over it, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
20And he took the testimony and put it into the ark, and put the poles on the ark, and set the mercy seat above on the ark;
21and he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the veil of the screen, and screened the ark of the testimony; as the LORD had commanded Moses.
34Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
35And Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting, because the cloud abode upon it, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
36Throughout all their journeys, whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the people of Israel would go onward;
37but if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not go onward till the day that it was taken up.
38For throughout all their journeys the cloud of the LORD was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was in it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 84:3-6, 8, 11
2My soul longs, yea, faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.
3Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at thy altars, O LORD of hosts, my King and my God.
4Blessed are those who dwell in thy house, ever singing thy praise! Selah
5Blessed are the men whose strength is in thee, in whose heart are the highways to Zion.
7They go from strength to strength; the God of gods will be seen in Zion.
10For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Gospel
Matthew 13:47-53
47“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net which was thrown into the sea and gathered fish of every kind;
48when it was full, men drew it ashore and sat down and sorted the good into vessels but threw away the bad.
49So it will be at the close of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous,
50and throw them into the furnace of fire; there men will weep and gnash their teeth.
51“Have you understood all this?” They said to him, “Yes.”
52And he said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.”
53And when Jesus had finished these parables, he went away from there,
First Reading
1 Corinthians 10:31--11:1
10
31So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
32Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God,
33just as I try to please all men in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.
11
1Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 34:2-11
1I will bless the LORD at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
2My soul makes its boast in the LORD; let the afflicted hear and be glad.
3O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together!
4I sought the LORD, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.
5Look to him, and be radiant; so your faces shall never be ashamed.
6This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
7The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.
8O taste and see that the LORD is good! Happy is the man who takes refuge in him!
9O fear the LORD, you his saints, for those who fear him have no want!
10The young lions suffer want and hunger; but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
Gospel
Luke 14:25-33
25Now great multitudes accompanied him; and he turned and said to them,
26“If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
27Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me, cannot be my disciple.
28For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?
29Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him,
30saying, ‘This man began to build, and was not able to finish.’
31Or what king, going to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
32And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an embassy and asks terms of peace.
33So therefore, whoever of you does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.
