July 8th, 2025, Tuesday of the 14th week in ordinary time.

A reading from the book of Genesis.

In the course of the night, Jacob arose, took his two wives with the two maidservants and his 11 children,

and crossed the ford of the Zabuk.

After he had taken them across the stream and had brought over all his possessions,

Jacob was left there alone.

Then some man wrestled with him until the break of dawn.

When the man saw that he could not prevail over him,

he struck Jacob's hip at its socket, so that the hip socket

was wrenched as they wrestled. The man then said, let me go for it is daybreak. But Jacob said,

I will not let you go until you bless me. The man asked, what is your name? He answered, Jacob.

Then the man said, You shall no longer be spoken of as Jacob, but as Israel, because you have contended with

divine and human beings and have prevailed. Jacob then asked him, do tell me your name, please.

He answered, why should you want to know my name? With that,

he bade him farewell. Jacob named the place Pnewell, because I have seen God face to face,

he said, yet my life has been spared. At sunrise, as he left Pnewell, Jacob limped along because of his hip.

That is why to this day the children of Israel do not eat the sciatic muscle that is on the hip socket,

inasmuch as Jacob's hip socket was struck at the sciatic muscle. The Word of the Lord.

The responsorial psalm.

The response is,

Injustice, I shall behold your face, O Lord.

Hear, O Lord, a just suit.

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