14 MONDAY, JULY 2025
Saint Camillus de Lellis, Priest (Opt. Mem.)
Liturgical colour: Green/White
Today’s Rosary: The Joyful Mysteries
FIRST READING
A reading from the Book of Exodus 1:8-14.22
Let us deal shrewdly with Israel, lest they multiply.
In those days: there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. And he said to his people, “Behold, the sons of Israel are too many and too mighty for us. Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and, if war befall us, they join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land.” Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens; and they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Ra-amses. But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And the Egyptians were in dread of the sons of Israel. So they made the people of Israel serve with rigour, and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field; in all their work they made them serve with rigor. And Pharaoh commanded all his people, “Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall cast into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live.”
V/ The word of the Lord.
R/ Thanks be to God.
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