Online Church: @Our Lady of Africa Church Mbuya today, July 19, 2026
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Online Church: @Our Lady of Africa Church Mbuya today, July 19, 2026
SIXTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
-First Reading - Wisdom 12:13, 16-19; You are merciful to all, because you can do all things Wisdom reminds us: God’s strength is the source of justice. He is patient because He is master of all.
“You gave your children good ground for hope that you would permit repentance for their sins.” God doesn’t punish immediately — He gives time to turn back.
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 86:5-6, 9-10, 15-16, Response: Lord, you are good and forgiving
Second Reading: Romans 8:26-27; The Spirit intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words. Paul tells us we don’t even know how to pray as we ought.
“The Spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words.”
God knows our hearts, and the Spirit prays in us when we’re weak.
Gospel: Matthew 13:24-43; The Parable of the Weeds and the Wheat
The master says: “Let both grow together until the harvest... Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.”
Jesus later explains: the field is the world. God is patient. He lets good and evil grow together now, and will judge at the end.