Daily Mass Readings for August 04, 2025: Gospel — Mt 14,13-21

⁴ Now the mixed multitude who were among them craved more desirable foods, and so the Israelites wept again and said, “If only we had meat to eat! ⁵ We remember the fish we used to eat freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic. ⁶ But now we are dried up, and there is nothing at all before us except this manna!” ⁷ (Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its color like the color of bdellium. ⁸ And the people went about and gathered it, and ground it with mills or pounded it in mortars; they baked it in pans and made cakes of it. It tasted like fresh olive oil. ⁹ And when the dew came down on the camp in the night, the manna fell with it.) 1 ⁰ Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, everyone at the door of his tent; and when the anger of the Lord was kindled greatly, Moses was also displeased. 1 ¹ And Moses said to the Lord, “Why have you afflicted your servant? Why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of this entire people on me? 1 ² Did I conceive this entire people? Did I give birth to them, that you should say to me, ‘Carry them in your arms, as a foster father bears a nursing child,’ to the land that you swore to their fathers? 1 ³ From where shall I get meat to give to this entire people, for they cry to me, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat!’ 1 ⁴ I am not able to bear this entire people alone, because it is too heavy for me! 1 ⁵ But if you are going to deal with me like this, then kill me immediately. If I have found favor in your sight then do not let me see my trouble.”