1ST READING
A number of hymns have been based on this text that talk about choosing to go to the house of the potter and allow Him, the Lord, to shape and reshape our lives according to His will. Sin deforms the life God has created and we constantly need to return to Him and ask Him to repair the damage we have done through our ill-considered choices.
Jeremiah 18:1-6
1 This word came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 2 Rise up, be off to the potter’s house; there I will give you my message. 3 I went down to the potter’s house and there he was, working at the wheel. 4 Whenever the object of clay which he was making turned out badly in his hand, he tried again, making of the clay another object of whatever sort he pleased. 5 Then the word of the Lord came to me: 6 Can I not do to you, house of Israel, as this potter has done? says the Lord. Indeed, like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.
P S A L M
Psalm 146:1-2, 3-4, 5-6
R: Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob.
1 Praise the Lord, O my soul; 2 I will praise the Lord all my life; I will sing praise to my God while I live. (R) 3 Put not your trust in princes, in the son of men, in whom there is no salvation. 4 When his spirit departs he returns to his earth; on that day his plans perish. (R) 5 Blessed he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord, his God, 6 who made heaven and earth, the sea and all that is in them. (R)
GOSPEL
Just as lives will be sorted on Judgment Day, so do we have to sort through our experiences every day and decide which are worth keeping and which we should discard. There are good and bad influences in the world. It is our responsibility to select the good ones and use these as the foundation upon which we build our lives. If we choose the wrong ones we can be sure that there will be problems later.
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
Open our hearts, O Lord, to listen to the words of your Son.
Matthew 13:47-53
47 Jesus said to his disciples: “The Kingdom of heaven is like a net thrown into the sea, which collects fish of every kind. 48 When it is full they haul it ashore and sit down to put what is good into buckets. What is bad they throw away. 49 Thus it will be at the end of the age. The angels will go out and separate the wicked from the righteous 50 and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth.” 51 “Do you understand all these things?” They answered, “Yes.” 52 And he replied, “Then every scribe who has been instructed in the Kingdom of heaven is like the head of a household who brings from his storeroom both the new and the old.” 53 When Jesus finished these parables, he went away from there.
GOSPEL PSALM
TODAY’S
think: Just as lives will be sorted on Judgment Day, so do we have to sort through our experiences every day and decide which are worth keeping and which we should discard.
ESSING
T O D A Y’S BLESSING LIST
Thank You Lord for: ____________________________________
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God’s special verse/thought for me today________________
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