Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time
Year II
29th July 2024 (Monday)
Psalter: Week 1
Reading of the Day
| First Reading | Jeremiah 13:1-11 |
| Response | You forgot the God who gave you birth. |
| Gospel | John 11:19-27 |
First Reading
Jeremiah 13:1-11
Thus says the Lord to me, “Go and buy a linen loincloth and put it round your waist, and do not dip it in water.” So I bought a loincloth according to the word of the Lord, and put it round my waist. And the word of the Lord came to me a second time, “Take the loincloth that you have bought, which is round your waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.” So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as the Lord commanded me. And after many days the Lord said to me, “Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take from there the loincloth that I commanded you to hide there.” Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and I took the loincloth from the place where I had hidden it. And behold, the loincloth was spoiled; it was good for nothing. Then the word of the Lord came to me: “Thus says the Lord: Even so will I spoil the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem. This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who stubbornly follow their own heart and have gone after other gods to serve them and worship them, shall be like this loincloth, which is good for nothing. For as the loincloth clings to the waist of a man, so I made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to me, declares the Lord, that they might be for me a people, a name, a praise, and a glory, but they would not listen.”
Responsorial Psalm
Deuteronomy 32:18-19, 20, 21 (R. see 18b)
R/. You forgot the God who gave you birth.
You were unmindful of the Rock that bore you,
and you forgot the God who gave you birth.
The Lord saw it and spurned them,
because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters. R/.
And he said, ‘I will hide my face from them;
I will see what their end will be,
for they are a perverse generation,
children in whom is no faithfulness.’ R/.
They have made me jealous with what is no god;
they have provoked me to anger with their idols.
So I will make them jealous with those who are no people;
I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. R/.
Gospel Acclamation
John 8:12
V/. Alleluia
R/. Alleluia
V/. I am the light of the world, says the Lord; whoever follows me will have the light of life.
R/. Alleluia.
Gospel
John 11:19-27
At that time: Many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them concerning their brother. So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary remained seated in the house. Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will give you.” Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.” Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?” She said to him, “Yes, Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world.”
