July 15, 2025, Memorial of St. Bonaventure, Bishop and Doctor of the Church.

A reading from the book of Exodus. A certain man of the House of Levi married a Levite woman

who conceived and bore a son. Seeing that he was a goodly child, she hid him for three months.

When she could hide him no longer, she took a papyrus basket, dabbed it in pitumen and pitch,

and putting the child in it, placed it among the reeds on the riverbank.

His sister stationed herself at a distance to find out what would happen to him.

Farrow's daughter came down to the river to bathe while her maids walked along the riverbank.

Noticing the basket among the reeds, she sent her handmaid to fetch it.

On opening it, she looked and low, there was a baby boy crying.

She was moved with pity for him and said,

It is one of the Hebrew's children.

Then his sister asked Pharaoh's daughter,

Shall I go and call one of the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?"

Yes, do so, she answered.

So the maiden went and called the child's own mother.

Pharaoh's daughter said to her,

Take this child to nurse it for me, and I will repay you.

The woman, therefore, took the child and nursed it.

When the child grew, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter,

who adopted him as her son and called him Moses,

for she said, I drew him out of the water.

On one occasion after Moses had grown up,

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