July 12 Monday:
The context: Jesus declares, “I have not come to bring peace but the sword,” meaning the Messianic ministry will divide family member and the society as a whole between those who accept the ideas and ideals preached and the Master who preaches them, from those who oppose both. Jesus then concludes this great “missionary discourse” with an instruction to the twelve Apostles on the cost and the reward found in the commitment to discipleship.
15th Week, Ordinary Time, Tuesday, July 13
Exodus 2:1-15 / Matthew 11:20-24
Birth and early life of Moses; Moses fled to Midian
14th Week, Ordinary Time, Friday, Jul 9
Genesis
46:1-7, 28-30 / Matthew 10:16-23
Joseph meets his father: He wept a long time in his arms.
14th Week: July 5-10:
July 5 Monday (St. Anthony Zaccaria, Priest)
The context: Today’s Gospel is a beautiful presentation of two miracles,
14th Week, Ordinary Time, Tuesday, July 6
Genesis
32:23-33 / Matthew 32-38
Jacob gets a new name; "You shall be called Israel.”
14th Week, Ordinary Time, Monday, July 5
Genesis
28:10-22 / Matthew 9:18-26
Jacob has a dream; He saw the Lord.
July 4 Saturday (U. S. Independence Day reflections on next page): Matthew 9:14-17: 14 Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?” 15 And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come, when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast. 16 And no one puts a piece of unshrunken cloth on an old garment, for the patch tears away from the garment, and a worse tear is made. 17 Neither is new wine put into old wineskins; if it is, the skins burst, and the wine is spilled, and the skins are destroyed; but new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved.” USCCB video reflections: http://www.usccb.org/bible/reflections/index.cfm