Catholic Mass Readings, Saturday July 26, 2025; 16th Wk, Ordinary Time | This Is The Blood Of The Covenant That The Lord Has Made With You || Let Them Both Grow Till The Harvest ||| Prophets & Holy Men Longed To Hear What You Hear
Readings at Mass Today, Saturday, 26th July 2025
Liturgical Colour: White
Year: C
Feria Readings
First Reading
Exodus 24:3-8
This Is The Blood Of The Covenant That The Lord Has Made With You
Moses went and told the people all the commands of the Lord and all the ordinances. In answer, all the people said with one voice, ‘We will observe all the commands that the Lord has decreed.’ Moses put all the commands of the Lord into writing, and early next morning he built an altar at the foot of the mountain, with twelve standing-stones for the twelve tribes of Israel. Then he directed certain young Israelites to offer holocausts and to immolate bullocks to the Lord as communion sacrifices. Half of the blood Moses took up and put into basins, the other half he cast on the altar. And taking the Book of the Covenant he read it to the listening people, and they said, ‘We will observe all that the Lord has decreed; we will obey.’ Then Moses took the blood and cast it towards the people. ‘This,’ he said, ‘is the blood of the Covenant that the Lord has made with you, containing all these rules.’
Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 49(50):1-2,5-6,14-15
Gospel Acclamation
Heb 4:12
Alleluia, alleluia!
The word of God is something alive and active:
it can judge secret emotions and thoughts.
Alleluia!
Or: Jm 1:21
Alleluia, alleluia!
Accept and submit to the word
which has been planted in you
and can save your souls.
Alleluia!
Gospel
Matthew 13:24-30
Let Them Both Grow Till The Harvest
Jesus put another parable before the crowds: ‘The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field. While everybody was asleep his enemy came, sowed darnel all among the wheat, and made off. When the new wheat sprouted and ripened, the darnel appeared as well. The owner’s servants went to him and said, “Sir, was it not good seed that you sowed in your field? If so, where does the darnel come from?” “Some enemy has done this” he answered. And the servants said, “Do you want us to go and weed it out?” But he said, “No, because when you weed out the darnel you might pull up the wheat with it. Let them both grow till the harvest; and at harvest time I shall say to the reapers: First collect the darnel and tie it in bundles to be burnt, then gather the wheat into my barn.”’
Memorial Readings
First Reading
Ecclesiasticus 44:1,10-15
Their Name Lives On For All Generations
Let us praise illustrious men,
our ancestors in their successive generations.
Here is a list of generous men
whose good works have not been forgotten.
In their descendants there remains
a rich inheritance born of them.
Their descendants stand by the covenants
and, thanks to them, so do their children’s children.
Their offspring will last for ever,
their glory will not fade.
Their bodies have been buried in peace,
and their name lives on for all generations.
The peoples will proclaim their wisdom,
the assembly will celebrate their praises.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 131(132):11,13-14,17-18
Gospel Acclamation
cf. Lk 2:25
Alleluia, alleluia!
They looked forward to Israel’s comforting
and the Holy Spirit rested upon them.
Alleluia!
Gospel
Matthew 13:16-17
Prophets & Holy Men Longed To Hear What You Hear
Jesus said to his disciples: ‘Happy are your eyes because they see, your ears because they hear! I tell you solemnly, many prophets and holy men longed to see what you see, and never saw it; to hear what you hear, and never heard it.’