23 WEDNESDAY, JULY 2025
Saint Bridget of Sweden (Opt. Mem.)
Liturgical colour: Green/White
Today’s Rosary: The Glorious Mysteries
FIRST READING
A reading from the Book of Exodus 16:1-5.9-15
I will rain bread from heaven for you.
The sons of Israel set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the sons of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had departed from the land of Egypt. And the whole congregation of the sons of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness, and said to them, “Would that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the fleshpots and ate bread to the full; for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.” Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not. On the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather daily.” And Moses said to Aaron, “Say to the whole congregation of the sons of Israel, `Come near before the LORD, for he has heard your murmurings. “‘ And as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the sons of Israel, they looked towards the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud. And the LORD said to Moses “I have heard the murmurings of the sons of Israel; say to them, At twilight you shall eat flesh, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread; then you shall know that I am the LORD your God.”‘ In the evening quails came up and covered the camp; and in the morning dew lay round about the camp. And when the dew had gone up, there was on the face of the wilderness a fine, flake-like thing, fine as hoarfrost on the ground. When the sons of Israel saw it, they said to one another, What is it?” For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, “it is the bread which the LORD has given you to eat.”
V/ The word of the Lord.
R/ Thanks be to God.
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