July 14 - Monday of the 15th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Ex.1:8-14,22; Ps.124:1-8; Mt.10:34-11:1) "The more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread." The Israelites lived and worked side by side with the Egyptians for some four hundred years; they had virtually become members of the same household. But jealousy overcame a "new king" of Egypt, who determined "to oppress them with forced labor," hoping to break their will as well as their backs. But they only grew stronger because, as our psalm tells us so vividly, the Lord was with them. "Had not the Lord been with us… when men rose up against us, then would they have swallowed us…
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