Daily Reading for Sunday, July 2nd, 2023

Reading 1, Second Kings 4:8-11, 14-16

⁸ One day as Elisha was on his way to Shunem, a woman of rank who lived there pressed him to stay and eat there. After this he always broke his journey for a meal when he passed that way.

⁹ She said to her husband, 'Look, I am sure the man who is constantly passing our way must be a holy man of God.

¹⁰ Let us build him a small walled room, and put him a bed in it, and a table and chair and lamp; whenever he comes to us he can rest there.'

¹¹ One day when he came, he retired to the upper room and lay down.

¹⁴ 'What can I do for you then?' he asked. Gehazi replied, 'Well, she has no son and her husband is old.'

¹⁵ Elisha said, 'Call her.' The servant called her and she stood at the door.

¹⁶ 'This time next year', he said, 'you will hold a son in your arms.' But she said, 'No, my lord, do not deceive your servant.'

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.