Daily Reading for Sunday, July 2nd, 2017

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 89:2-3, 16-17, 18-19

² for you have said: love is built to last for ever, you have fixed your constancy firm in the heavens.

³ 'I have made a covenant with my Chosen One, sworn an oath to my servant David:

¹⁶ In your name they rejoice all day long, by your saving justice they are raised up.

¹⁷ You are the flower of their strength, by your favour our strength is triumphant;

¹⁸ for to Yahweh belongs our shield, to the Holy One of Israel our king.

¹⁹ Once you spoke in a vision, to your faithful you said: 'I have given strength to a warrior, I have raised up a man chosen from my people.

Gospel, Matthew 10:37-42

³⁷ 'No one who prefers father or mother to me is worthy of me. No one who prefers son or daughter to me is worthy of me.

³⁸ Anyone who does not take his cross and follow in my footsteps is not worthy of me.

³⁹ Anyone who finds his life will lose it; anyone who loses his life for my sake will find it.

⁴⁰ 'Anyone who welcomes you welcomes me; and anyone who welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me.

⁴¹ 'Anyone who welcomes a prophet because he is a prophet will have a prophet's reward; and anyone who welcomes an upright person because he is upright will have the reward of an upright person.

⁴² 'If anyone gives so much as a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is a disciple, then in truth I tell you, he will most certainly not go without his reward.'

Reading 2, Romans 6:3-4, 8-11

³ You cannot have forgotten that all of us, when we were baptised into Christ Jesus, were baptised into his death.

⁴ So by our baptism into his death we were buried with him, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the Father's glorious power, we too should begin living a new life.

⁸ But we believe that, if we died with Christ, then we shall live with him too.

⁹ We know that Christ has been raised from the dead and will never die again. Death has no power over him any more.

¹⁰ For by dying, he is dead to sin once and for all, and now the life that he lives is life with God.

¹¹ In the same way, you must see yourselves as being dead to sin but alive for God in Christ Jesus.