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Monday, July 20, 2026

Liturgy of the Hours

Saint Apollinarus, B & M or Monday in the 15th week of Ordinary Time

Prayer Hours

Invitatory

1 audio file available

Office of Readings

Morning Prayer

Midmorning Prayer

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Midday Prayer

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Midafternoon Prayer

1 audio file available

Evening Prayer

Night Prayer

1 audio file available

3 audio recordings available

Mass Readings

Monday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time

First Reading

Micah 6:1-4, 6-8

Hear what the LORD says: Arise, present your plea before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice! Hear, O mountains, the plea of the LORD, pay attention, O foundations of the earth! For the LORD has a plea against his people, and he enters into trial with Israel.O my people, what have I done to you, or how have I wearied you? Answer me! For I brought you up from the land of Egypt, from the place of slavery I released you; and I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.With what shall I ...

Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 50:5-6, 8-9, 16bc-17, 21, 23

Refrain: To the upright I will show the saving power of God.

Gospel

Matthew 12:38-42

Some of the scribes and Pharisees said to Jesus, “Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.” He said to them in reply, “An evil and unfaithful generation seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it except the sign of Jonah the prophet. Just as Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights, so will the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights. At the judgment, the men of Nineveh will arise with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the...

Lectionary for Mass for Use in the Dioceses of the United States, second typical edition, Copyright © 2001, 1998, 1997, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine; Psalm refrain © 1968, 1981, 1997, International Committee on English in the Liturgy, Inc. All rights reserved.