July 16, 2026 Have a good day! ----- Thursday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time ----- ☆ Gospel: Matthew 11:28-30 Come to me, all you who are troubled and weighted down with care, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke on you and become like me, for I am gentle and without pride, and you will have rest for your souls; For my yoke is good, and the weight I take up is not hard. ----- ☆ Isaiah 26:7-9, 12, 16-19 The way of the good man is straight; the road of the upright is made smooth by you. We have been waiting for you, O Lord; the desire of our soul is for the memory of your name. In the night the desire of my soul has been for you; early will my spirit be searching for you; for when your punishments come on the earth, the people of the world will get the knowledge of righteousness. Lord, you will give us peace: for all our works are the outcome of your purpose. Lord, in trouble our eyes have been turned to you, we sent up a prayer when your punishment was on us. As a woman with child, whose time is near, is troubled, crying out in her pain; so have we been before you, O Lord. We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have given birth to wind; no salvation has come to the earth through us, and no children have come into the world. Your dead will come back; their dead bodies will come to life again. Those in the dust, awaking from their sleep, will send out a song; for your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the shades. ----- ◇ Daily Readings July 16, 2026 https://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/071626.cfm ☆ The Bible in Basic English BBE https://www.biblestudytools.com/bbe/ ◇ The Holy Bible[King James Version] https://www.wordproject.org/bibles/kj/index.htm ◇ Abiding Radio Instrumental (BGM) https://www.abidingradio.org/listen/ -----