Mass Readings for July 4, 2025

Isaiah 58:6-11
Psalms 107:2-9
Matthew 25:31-46

Isaiah 58:6-11
(6) Is not this, instead, the kind of fast that I have chosen? Release the constraints of impiety; relieve the burdens that oppress; freely forgive those who are broken; and break apart every burden (7) Break your bread with the hungry, and lead the destitute and the homeless into your house. When you see someone naked, cover him, and do not despise your own flesh (8) Then your light will break forth like the morning, and your health will improve quickly, and your justice will go before your face, and the glory of the Lord will gather you up (9) Then you will call, and the Lord will heed; you will cry out, and he will say, “Here I am,” if you take away the chains from your midst, and cease to point your finger and to speak what is not beneficial (10) When you pour out your life for the hungry, and you satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will rise up in darkness, and your darkness will be like the midday (11) And the Lord will give you rest continually, and he will fill your soul with splendor, and he will free your bones, and you will be like a watered garden and like a fountain of water whose waters will not fail

Psalms 107:2-9
(2) My heart is prepared, O God, my heart is prepared. I will sing songs, and I will sing psalms in my glory (3) Rise up, my glory. Rise up, Psalter and harp. I will arise in early morning (4) I will confess to you, O Lord, among the peoples. And I will sing psalms to you among the nations (5) For your mercy is great, beyond the heavens, and your truth, even to the clouds (6) Be exalted, O God, beyond the heavens, and your glory, beyond all the earth (7) so that your beloved may be freed. Save with your right hand, and heed me (8) God has spoken in his holiness. I will exult, and I will divide Shechem, and I will divide by measure the steep valley of tabernacles (9) Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine, and Ephraim is the supporter of my head. Judah is my king

Matthew 25:31-46
(31) But when the Son of man will have arrived in his majesty, and all the Angels with him, then he will sit upon the seat of his majesty (32) And all the nations shall be gathered together before him. And he shall separate them from one another, just as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats (33) And he shall station the sheep, indeed, on his right, but the goats on his left (34) Then the King shall say to those who will be on his right: ‘Come, you blessed of my Father. Possess the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world (35) For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and you took me in (36) naked, and you covered me; sick, and you visited me; I was in prison, and you came to me. (37) Then the just will answer him, saying: ‘Lord, when have we see you hungry, and fed you; thirsty, and given you drink (38) And when have we seen you a stranger, and taken you in? Or naked, and covered you (39) Or when did we see you sick, or in prison, and visit to you? (40) And in response, the King shall say to them, ‘Amen I say to you, whenever you did this for one of these, the least of my brothers, you did it for me. (41) Then he shall also say, to those who will be on his left: ‘Depart from me, you accursed ones, into the eternal fire, which was prepared for the devil and his angels (42) For I was hungry, and you did not give me to eat; I was thirsty, and you did not give me to drink (43) I was a stranger and you did not take me in; naked, and you did not cover me; sick and in prison, and you did not visit me. (44) Then they will also answer him, saying: ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister to you? (45) Then he shall respond to them by saying: ‘Amen I say to you, whenever you did not do it to one of these least, neither did you do it to me. (46) And these shall go into eternal punishment, but the just shall go into eternal life.