Tuesday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time

Reading 1 and//www.usccb.org/bible/genesis/19:15 GN 19:15-29 As dawn was breaking, the angels urged Lot on, saying, On your way!Take with you your wife and your two daughters who are here,or you will be swept away in the punishment of Sodom.”When he hesitated, the men, by the LORD’s mercy,seized his hand and the hands of his wife and his two daughtersand led them to safety outside the city.As soon as they had been brought outside, he was toldand Flee for your life!Don’t look back or stop anywhere on the Plain.Get off to the hills at once, or you will be swept away.” Oh, no, my lord!” Lot replied, You have already thought enough of your servantto do me the great kindness of intervening to save my life.But I cannot flee to the hills to keep the disaster from overtaking me,and so I shall die.Look, this town ahead is near enough to escape to.It’s only a small place.Let me flee there–it’s a small place, is it not?–that my life may be saved.” Well, then,” he replied, I will also grant you the favor you now ask.I will not overthrow the town you speak of.Hurry, escape there!I cannot do anything until you arrive there.”That is why the town is called Zoar.The sun was just rising over the earth as Lot arrived in Zoarat the same time the LORD rained down sulphurous fireupon Sodom and Gomorrahfrom the LORD out of heaven.He overthrew those cities and the whole Plain,together with the inhabitants of the citiesand the produce of the soil.But Lot’s wife looked back, and she was turned into a pillar of salt.Early the next morning Abraham went to the placewhere he had stood in the LORD’s presence.As he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrahand the whole region of the Plain,he saw dense smoke over the land rising like fumes from a furnace.Thus it came to passand when God destroyed the Cities of the Plain,he was mindful of Abraham by sending Lot away from the upheavalby which God overthrew the cities where Lot had been living. Responsorial Psalm and//www.usccb.org/bible/psalms/26and2 PS 26and2-3, 9-10, 11-12 R. (3a)O Lord, your mercy is before my eyes.Search me, O LORD, and try metest my soul and my heart.For your mercy is before my eyes,and I walk in your truth.R.O Lord, your mercy is before my eyes.Gather not my soul with those of sinners,nor with men of blood my life.On their hands are crimes,and their right hands are full of bribes.R.O Lord, your mercy is before my eyes.But I walk in integrityredeem me, and have mercy on me.My foot stands on level groundin the assemblies I will bless the LORD.R.O Lord, your mercy is before my eyes. Alleluia and//www.usccb.org/bible/psalms/130and5 PS 130and5 R.Alleluia, alleluia.I trust in the LORDmy soul trusts in his word.R.Alleluia, alleluia. Gospel and//www.usccb.org/bible/matthew/8:23 MT 8:23-27 As Jesus got into a boat, his disciples followed him.Suddenly a violent storm came up on the sea,so that the boat was being swamped by wavesbut he was asleep.They came and woke him, saying, Lord, save us! We are perishing!”He said to them, Why are you terrified, O you of little faith?”Then he got up, rebuked the winds and the sea,and there was great calm.The men were amazed and said, What sort of man is this,whom even the winds and the sea obey?”