July 19 - Saturday of the 15th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Ex.12:37-42; Ps.136:1,10-15,23-24; Mt.12:14-21) “All the Israelites must keep a vigil for the Lord throughout their generations.” After four hundred and thirty years, as one man the Israelites left the land of Egypt. More than a million people all told were “rushed out of Egyptand had no opportunity even to prepare food for the journey.” And so the exodus from sin we all must make is here prefigured. And in thanks for such grace from the Lord, whose “mercy endures forever,” who “freed us from our foes,” we keep constant vigil. Knowing the manner of our first release from slavery, we watch…
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