Daily Reading for Thursday, July 24th, 2025

Reading 1, Exodus 19:1-2, 9-11, 16-20

¹ Three months to the day after leaving Egypt, the Israelites reached the desert of Sinai.

² Setting out from Rephidim, they reached the desert of Sinai and pitched camp in the desert; there, facing the mountain, Israel pitched camp.

⁹ Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Look, I shall come to you in a dense cloud so that the people will hear when I speak to you and believe you ever after.' Moses then told Yahweh what the people had said.

¹⁰ Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Go to the people and tell them to sanctify themselves today and tomorrow. They must wash their clothes

¹¹ and be ready for the day after tomorrow; for the day after tomorrow, in the sight of all the people, Yahweh will descend on Mount Sinai.

¹⁶ Now at daybreak two days later, there were peals of thunder and flashes of lightning, dense cloud on the mountain and a very loud trumpet blast; and, in the camp, all the people trembled.

¹⁷ Then Moses led the people out of the camp to meet God; and they took their stand at the bottom of the mountain.

¹⁸ Mount Sinai was entirely wrapped in smoke, because Yahweh had descended on it in the form of fire. The smoke rose like smoke from a furnace and the whole mountain shook violently.

¹⁹ Louder and louder grew the trumpeting. Moses spoke, and God answered him in the thunder.

²⁰ Yahweh descended on Mount Sinai, on the top of the mountain, and Yahweh called Moses to the top of the mountain; and Moses went up.

Responsorial Psalm, Daniel 3:52, 53, 54, 55, 56

⁵² May you be blessed, Lord, God of our ancestors, be praised and extolled for ever. Blessed be your glorious and holy name, praised and extolled for ever.

⁵³ May you be blessed in the Temple of your sacred glory, exalted and glorified above all for ever:

⁵⁴ blessed on the throne of your kingdom, exalted above all, glorified for ever:

⁵⁵ blessed are you who fathom the abyss, enthroned on the winged creatures, praised and exalted above all for ever:

⁵⁶ blessed in the expanse of the heavens, exalted and glorified for ever.