Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time
Year II
01st August 2024 (Thursday)
Psalter: Week 4
Reading of the Day
| First Reading | Jeremiah 18:1-6 |
| Response | Blessed is he who is helped by Jacob’s God |
| Gospel | Matthew 13:47-53 |
First Reading
Jeremiah 18:1-6
The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord. “Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will let you hear my words.” So I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was working at his wheel. And the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter’s hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do. Then the word of the Lord came to me: “O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done? declares the Lord. Behold, like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 146:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6ab (R. 5a)
R/. Blessed is he who is helped by Jacob’s God
My soul, give praise to the Lord;
I will praise the Lord all my life,
sing praise to my God while I live. R/.
Put no trust in princes,
in mortal man who cannot save.
Take their breath, they return to the earth,
and their plans that day come to nothing. R/.
Blessed is he who is helped by Jacob’s God,
whose hope is in the Lord his God,
who made the heavens and the earth,
the seas and all they contain. R/.
Gospel Acclamation
See Acts 16:14b
V/. Alleluia
R/. Alleluia
V/. Open our hearts, O Lord, that we may pay attention to the words of your Son.
R/. Alleluia.
Gospel
Matthew 13:47-53
At that time: Jesus said to the crowds, “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was thrown into the sea and gathered fish of every kind. When it was full, men drew it ashore and sat down and sorted the good into containers but threw away the bad. So it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. “Have you understood all these things?” They said to him, “Yes.” And he said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house, who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.” And when Jesus had finished these parables, he went away from there.
