WEDNESDAY AUGUST 5, 2026

Weekday (18) DEDICATION OF THE BASILICA OF ST MARY MAJOR IN ROME (Opt. Mem.)

Office: Psalter Week 2 Mass and Preface of the day or Memorial

Vestment: Green/White

Today’s Rosary: The Glorious Mystery

ENTRANCE ANTIPHON Ps 69: 2, 6

FIRST READING A reading from the Book of Jeremiah (Jeremiah 31:1-7) I have loved you with an everlasting love. “At that time, says the Lord, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.” Thus says the Lord: “The people who survived the sword found grace in the wilderness; when Israel sought for rest, the Lord appeared to him from afar. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you. Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin Israel! Again you shall adorn yourself with timbrels, and shall go forth in the dance of the merrymakers. Again you shall plant vineyards upon the mountains of Samaria; the planters shall plant, and shall enjoy the fruit. For there shall be a day when watchmen will call in the hill country of Ephraim: ‘Arise, and let us go up to Zion, to the Lord our God. ”’ For thus says the Lord: “Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob, and raise shouts for the chief of the nations; proclaim, give praise, and say, ‘The Lord has saved his people, the remnant of Israel.”’ V/The word of the Lord. R/ Thank be to God.