SUNDAY, AUGUST 2ND, 2026​

10TH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST

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INTRODUCTION​

In today’s first reading God invites all who are hungry or thirsty to receive food
     and drink without cost. Jesus feeds the hungry multitude and reveals the
     abundance of God. At the eucharistic table we remember all who are hungry or
     poor in our world today. As we share the bread of life, we are sent forth to give
     ourselves away as bread for the hungry.

PRAYER OF THE DAY

Glorious God, your generosity waters the world with goodness, and you cover
     creation with abundance. Awaken in us a hunger for the food that satisfies both
     body and spirit, and with this food fill all the starving world; through your Son,
     Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord. Amen.​

FIRST READING

ISAIAH 55:1-5
God invites Israel to a great feast at which both food and drink are free. God also
     promises to make an everlasting covenant with all peoples, with promises that
     previously had been limited to Israel. As David was a witness to the nations,
     these nations shall now acknowledge the ways in which God has glorified Israel.

1 Hear, everyone who thirsts;
come to the waters;
and you who have no money,
come, buy and eat!
  Come, buy wine and milk
  without money and without price.
  2 Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread
  and your earnings for that which does not satisfy?
  Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good,
  and delight yourselves in rich food.
  3 Incline your ear, and come to me;
  listen, so that you may live.
  I will make with you an everlasting covenant,
  my steadfast, sure love for David.
  4 See, I made him a witness to the peoples,
  a leader and commander for the peoples.
  5 Now you shall call nations that you do not know,
  and nations that do not know you shall run to you,
  because of the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel,
  for he has glorified you.

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PSALM

PSALM 145:8-9, 14-21
(Response) You open wide your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing. (Ps. 145:16)

8 The Lord is gracious and full of compassion,
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
9 Lord, you are good to all,
and your compassion is over all your works.
(Response) You open wide your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing. (Ps. 145:16)

14 The Lord upholds all those who fall
and lifts up those who are bowed down.
15 The eyes of all wait upon you, O Lord,
and you give them their food in due season.
16 You open wide your hand
and satisfy the desire of every living thing.
17 You are righteous in all your ways
and loving in all your works.
(Response) You open wide your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing. (Ps. 145:16)

18 You are near to all who call upon you,
to all who call upon you faithfully.
19 You fulfill the desire of those who fear you;
you hear their cry and save them.
20 You watch over all those who love you,
but all the wicked you shall destroy.
21 My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord;
let all flesh bless God’s holy name forever and ever.
(Response) You open wide your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing. (Ps. 145:16)

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SECOND READING

ROMANS 8:26-39
These words celebrate the depth of God’s actions for us. Through Christ’s death
     for us and the activity of the Spirit praying for us, we are fused to God’s love
     poured out in Jesus Christ. Nothing, not even death itself, is able to separate us
     from such incredible divine love.

26 The Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as we
     ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with groanings too deep for words. 27 And
     God, who searches hearts, knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the
     Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.

     28 We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who
     are called according to his purpose. 29 For those whom he foreknew he also
     predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be
     the firstborn within a large family. 30 And those whom he predestined he also
     called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified
     he also glorified.

     31 What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against
     us? 32 He who did not withhold his own Son but gave him up for all of us, how
     will he not with him also give us everything else? 33 Who will bring any charge
     against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is to condemn? It is Christ
     who died, or rather, who was raised, who is also at the right hand of God, who
     also intercedes for us. 35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will
     affliction or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword?
     36 As it is written,
     “For your sake we are being killed all day long;
     we are accounted as sheep to be slaughtered.”
     37 No, in all these things we are more than victorious through him who loved us.
     38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor
     things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor
     anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in
     Christ Jesus our Lord.​​

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​​​​GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
Alleluia. One does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
     from the mouth of God. Alleluia. (Matt. 4:4)

GOSPEL READING

MATTHEW 14:13-21
After John the Baptist is murdered, Jesus desires a time of solitude. Still, his
     compassion for others will not allow him to dismiss those who need him, and he
     is moved to perform one of his greatest miracles.

13 Now when Jesus heard [about the beheading of John the Baptist,] he withdrew
     from there in a boat to a deserted place by himself. But when the crowds heard it,
     they followed him on foot from the towns. 14 When he went ashore, he saw a
     great crowd, and he had compassion for them and cured their sick. 15 When it
     was evening, the disciples came to him and said, “This is a deserted place, and
     the hour is now late; send the crowds away so that they may go into the villages
     and buy food for themselves.” 16 Jesus said to them, “They need not go away;
     you give them something to eat.” 17 They replied, “We have nothing here but five
     loaves and two fish.” 18 And he said, “Bring them here to me.” 19 Then he
     ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two
     fish, he looked up to heaven and blessed and broke the loaves and gave them to
     the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds. 20 And all ate and were
     filled, and they took up what was left over of the broken pieces, twelve baskets full.
      21 And those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children.

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