(Optional Memorial for Our Lady of Mount Carmel)
Proper readings for the Memorial of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
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“The Disciples Pluck Corn” by Edward Armitage, c. 1865 |
in Pharaoh's presence,
the LORD made Pharaoh obstinate,
and he would not let the children of
"This month shall stand at the head of your calendar;
you shall reckon it the first month of the year.
Tell the whole community of
every one of your families must procure for itself a lamb,
one apiece for each household.
If a family is too small for a whole lamb,
it shall join the nearest household in procuring one
and shall share in the lamb
in proportion to the number of persons who partake of it.
The lamb must be a year-old male and without blemish.
You may take it from either the sheep or the goats.
You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, and then,
with the whole assembly of
it shall be slaughtered during the evening twilight.
They shall take some of its blood
and apply it to the two doorposts and the lintel
of every house in which they partake of the lamb.
That same night they shall eat its roasted flesh
with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
It shall not be eaten raw or boiled, but roasted whole,
with its head and shanks and inner organs.
None of it must be kept beyond the next morning;
whatever is left over in the morning shall be burned up.
with your loins girt, sandals on your feet and your staff in hand,
you shall eat like those who are in flight.
It is the Passover of the LORD.
For on this same night I will go through
striking down every first born of the land, both man and beast,
and executing judgment on all the gods of
But the blood will mark the houses where you are.
Seeing the blood, I will pass over you;
thus, when I strike the
no destructive blow will come upon you.
which all your generations shall celebrate
with pilgrimage to the LORD, as a perpetual institution."
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Commentary on Ex 11:10—12:14
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Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 116:12-13, 15 and 16bc, 17-18
for all the good he has done for me?
The cup of salvation I will take up,
and I will call upon the name of the LORD.
R. I will take the cup of salvation, and call on the name of the Lord.
is the death of his faithful ones.
I am your servant, the son of your handmaid;
you have loosed my bonds.
R. I will take the cup of salvation, and call on the name of the Lord.
and I will call upon the name of the LORD.
My vows to the LORD I will pay
in the presence of all his people.
R. I will take the cup of salvation, and call on the name of the Lord.
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Commentary on Ps 116:12-13, 15 and 16bc, 17-18
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Gospel: Matthew 12:1-8
His disciples were hungry
and began to pick the heads of grain and eat them.
When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him,
"See, your disciples are doing what is unlawful to do on the sabbath."
He said to the them, "Have you not read what David did
when he and his companions were hungry,
how he went into the house of God and ate the bread of offering,
which neither he nor his companions
but only the priests could lawfully eat?
Or have you not read in the law that on the sabbath
the priests serving in the temple violate the sabbath
and are innocent?
I say to you, something greater than the temple is here.
If you knew what this meant, I desire mercy, not sacrifice,
you would not have condemned these innocent men.
For the Son of Man is Lord of the sabbath."
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Commentary on Mt 12:1-8
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Reflection:
Their argument is that Jesus’ disciples were not confined to the religious rituals and laws of the Pharisees and chief priests of the temple. In fact, on many occasions, as in the passage given today, Jesus challenged them on their practice of the faith. Even when he reached out to the poor and downtrodden offering a lighter burden and an easier yoke, he was speaking at least in part about the strict regulations of the Pharisees.
[1] The picture is “The Disciples Pluck Corn” by Edward Armitage, c. 1865.
[2] S.S. Commemoratio
[3] The readings are taken from the New American Bible, with the exception of the psalm and its response which were developed by the International Committee for English in Liturgy (ICEL). This republication is not authorized by USCCB and is for private use only.
[4] NAB footnote on Matthew 12:1-8.
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