Our Lady of Mount Carmel (memorial)

Prayers to Our Lady of Mount Carmel

O Most Blessed and Immaculate Virgin, ornament and beauty of Mount Carmel, thou who beholdest with thy special kindness those who wear thy blessed Scapular, look lovingly upon me, and cover me with the mantle of thy motherly protection. Fortify my weakness with thy power, enlighten the darkness of my understanding with thy wisdom, increase Faith, Hope and Charity in me, adorn my soul with the graces and virtues that will make me pleasing to thee and thy divine Son. Assist me during my life, and console me at the hour of my death and present me to the most blessed Trinity as thy devoted servant, to praise and bless thee in heaven forever. Amen.

Lady of Mount Carmel

Tuesday, 16 July, 2013
Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Optional Memorial)

Reading

Exodus 2: 1 - 15
1	Now a man from the house of Levi went and took to wife a daughter of Levi.
2	The woman conceived and bore a son; and when she saw that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
3	And when she could hide him no longer she took for him a basket made of bulrushes, and daubed it with bitumen and pitch; and she put the child in it and placed it among the reeds at the river's brink.
4	And his sister stood at a distance, to know what would be done to him.
5	Now the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, and her maidens walked beside the river; she saw the basket among the reeds and sent her maid to fetch it.
6	When she opened it she saw the child; and lo, the babe was crying. She took pity on him and said, "This is one of the Hebrews' children."
7	Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, "Shall I go and call you a nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?"
8	And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Go." So the girl went and called the child's mother.
9	And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child away, and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages." So the woman took the child and nursed him.
10	And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son; and she named him Moses, for she said, "Because I drew him out of the water."
11	One day, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and looked on their burdens; and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people.
12	He looked this way and that, and seeing no one he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.
13	When he went out the next day, behold, two Hebrews were struggling together; and he said to the man that did the wrong, "Why do you strike your fellow?"
14	He answered, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?" Then Moses was afraid, and thought, "Surely the thing is known."
15	When Pharaoh heard of it, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh, and stayed in the land of Mid'ian; and he sat down by a well.

Psalm

Psalms 69: 3, 14, 30 - 31, 33 - 34
3	I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God.
14	rescue me from sinking in the mire; let me be delivered from my enemies and from the deep waters.
30	I will praise the name of God with a song; I will magnify him with thanksgiving.
31	This will please the LORD more than an ox or a bull with horns and hoofs.
33	For the LORD hears the needy, and does not despise his own that are in bonds.
34	Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and everything that moves therein.

Gospel

Matthew 11: 20 - 24
20	Then he began to upbraid the cities where most of his mighty works had been done, because they did not repent.
21	"Woe to you, Chora'zin! woe to you, Beth-sa'ida! for if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
22	But I tell you, it shall be more tolerable on the day of judgment for Tyre and Sidon than for you.
23	And you, Caper'na-um, will you be exalted to heaven? You shall be brought down to Hades. For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
24	But I tell you that it shall be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom than for you."