Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time
Year II
02nd August 2024 (Friday)
Psalter: Week 4
Reading of the Day
| First Reading | Jeremiah 26:1-9 |
| Response | In your great mercy, answer me, O Lord. |
| Gospel | Matthew 13:54-58 |
First Reading
Jeremiah 26:1-9
In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came from the Lord: “Thus says the Lord: Stand in the court of the Lord’s house, and speak to all the cities of Judah that come to worship in the house of the Lord all the words that I command you to speak to them; do not hold back a word. It may be they will listen, and every one turn from his evil way, that I may relent of the disaster that I intend to do to them because of their evil deeds. You shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord: If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law that I have set before you, and to listen to the words of my servants the prophets whom I send to you urgently, though you have not listened, then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city a curse for all the nations of the earth.’” The priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the Lord. And when Jeremiah had finished speaking all that the Lord had commanded him to speak to all the people, then the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold of him, saying, “You shall die! Why have you prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying, ‘This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without inhabitant’?” And all the people gathered around Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 69:5, 8-10, 14 (R. 14c)
R/. In your great mercy, answer me, O Lord
More numerous than the hairs on my head
are those who hate me without cause.
Many are those who attack me,
enemies with lies.
What I have never stolen,
how can I restore? R/.
It is for you that I suffer taunts,
that shame has covered my face.
To my own kin I have become an outcast,
a stranger to the children of my mother.
Zeal for your house consumes me,
and taunts against you fall on me. R/.
But I pray to you, O Lord,
for a time of your favour.
In your great mercy, answer me, O God,
with your salvation that never fails. R/.
Gospel Acclamation
1 Peter 1:25
V/. Alleluia
R/. Alleluia
V/. The word of the Lord remains for ever; and this word is the good news that was preached to you.
R/. Alleluia.
Gospel
Matthew 13:54-58
At that time: Coming to his hometown Jesus taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, “Where did this man get this wisdom and these mighty works? Is not this the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother called Mary? And are not his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas? And are not all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all these things?” And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honour except in his hometown and in his own household.” And he did not do many mighty works there, because of their unbelief
