Liturgical Readings for: Thursday, 29th July, 2010
Liturgical notes:
St Martha, memorial
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Léachtaí Gaeilge
FIRST READING Jeremiah 18:1-6.
The word that was addressed to Jeremiah by the Lord, 'Get up and make your way down to the potter's house; there I shall let you hear what I have to say'. So I went down to the potter's house; and there he was, working at the wheel. And whenever the vessel he was making came out wrong, as happens with the clay handled by potters, he would start afresh and work it into another vessel, as potters do. Then this word of the Lord was addressed to me, 'House of Israel, can not I do to you what this potter does? - it is The Lord who speaks. Yes, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so you are in mine, House of Israel.
Responsorial Psalm: Ps 145
Response: He is happy who is helped by Jacob's God.
Or Alleluia!
1. My soul, give praise to the Lord;
I will praise the Lord all my days,
make music to my God while I live. Response
2. Put no trust in princes,
in mortal men in whom there is no help.
Take their breath, they return to clay
and their plans that day come to nothing. Response
3. He is happy who is helped by Jacob's God,
whose hope is in the Lord his God;
who alone made heaven and earth,
the seas and all they contain. Response
Gospel Acclamation Jn 15: 15
Alleluia, alleluia!
I call you friends, says the Lord,
because I have made known to you
everything I have learnt from my Father.
Alleluia
or Acts 16: 14
Alleluia, alleluia!
Open our heart, O Lord,
to accept the words of your Son.
Alleluia
GOSPEL: Matthew 13:47-53
Jesus said to the crowds: The kingdom of heaven is like a dragnet cast into the sea that brings in a haul of all kinds. When it is full, the fishermen haul it ashore; then, sitting down, they collect the good ones in a basket and throw away those that are no use. This is how it will be at the end of time: the angels will appear and separate the wicked from the just to throw them into the blazing furnace where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.
'Have you understood all this?' They said, 'Yes'. And he said to them, 'Well then, every scribe who becomes a disciple of the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings out from his storeroom things both new and old'.
When Jesus had finished these parables he left the district.
Taken from THE JERUSALEM BIBLE, published and copyright 1966, 1967 and 1968 by Darton, Longman and Todd Ltd and Doubleday, a division of Random House Inc, and used by permission of the publishers.