1ST READING
Visual
prophecies can be very effective, just as visual aids are effective
when we give a seminar. It is important to be creative in proclaiming
the Gospel to increase its effectiveness. The Internet is a primary tool
for spreading any message today, both good and bad. We should use it as
cleverly as possible to further spread the Gospel.
Jeremiah 13:1-11
1 The Lord said to me: Go buy yourself a linen loincloth; wear it on your loins, but do not put it in water. 2 I bought the loincloth, as the Lord commanded, and put it on. 3 A second time the word of the Lord came to me thus: 4 Take the loincloth which you bought and are wearing, and go now to the Parath; there hide it in a cleft of the rock. 5 Obedient to the Lord’s command, I went to the Parath and buried the loincloth. 6 After a long interval, he said to me: Go now to the Parath and fetch the loincloth which I told you to hide there. 7 Again
I went to the Parath, sought out and took the loincloth from the place
where I had hid it. But it was rotted, good for nothing! 8 Then the message came to me from the Lord: 9 Thus says the Lord: So also I will allow the pride of Judah to rot, the great pride of Jerusalem.
10 This
wicked people who refuse to obey my words, who walk in the stubbornness
of their hearts, and follow strange gods to serve and adore them, shall
be like this loincloth which is good for nothing. 11 For,
as close as the loincloth clings to a man’s loins, so had I made the
whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to me, says the
Lord; to be my people, my renown, my praise, my beauty. But they did
not listen.
P S A L M
Deuteronomy 32:18-19, 20, 21
R: You have forgotten God who gave you birth.
18 You were unmindful of the Rock that begot you, you forgotthe God who gave you birth. 19 When the Lord saw this, he was filled with loathing and anger toward his sons and daughters. (R) 20 “I will hide my face from them,” he said, “and see what will then become of them. What a fickle race they are, sons with no loyalty in them! (R) 21 “Since
they have provoked me with their ‘no-god’ and angered me with their
vain idols, I will provoke them with a ‘no-people’; with a foolish
nation I will anger them.” (R)
GOSPEL
Seeds
are an interesting image for faith as they have to self-destruct in
order to bring forth the plant they have within. In a certain sense,
this is true of us as well in that we need to die to ourselves so that
the Gospel would take root in our hearts and minds. It is the Lord’s
will that must become the overarching guide to our lives as disciples of
Jesus.
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
The Father willed to give us birth by the word of truth that we may be a kind of first-fruits of his creatures.
Matthew 13:31-35
31 Jesus proposed a parable to the crowds. “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a person took and sowed in a field. 32 It
is the smallest of all the seeds, yet when full-grown it is the largest
of plants. It becomes a large bush, and the birds of the sky come and
dwell in its branches.” 33 He spoke to them another parable. “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with three measures of wheat
flour until the whole batch was leavened.” 34 All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables. He spoke to them only in parables, 35 to fulfill what
had been said through the prophet: I will open my mouth in parables, I
will announce what has lain hidden from the foundation of the world.
think: We need to die to ourselves so that the Gospel would take root in our hearts and minds.
T O D A Y’S BLESSING LIST
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