FIRST
READING: Jeremiah
18: 1 - 6
1
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:
2
"Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will let
you hear my words."
3
So I went down to the potter's house, and there he was working at his
wheel.
4
And the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter's
hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to
the potter to do.
5
Then the word of the LORD came to me:
6
"O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has
done? says the LORD. Behold, like the clay in the potter's hand, so
are you in my hand, O house of Israel.
PSALM:
Psalms 146:
1 - 6
1
Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD, O my soul!
2
I will praise the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praises to my
God while I have being.
3
Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no
help.
4
When his breath departs he returns to his earth; on that very day his
plans perish.
5
Happy is 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; who
keeps faith for ever.
GOSPEL:
Matthew 13: 47
- 53
47
"Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net which was thrown
into the sea and gathered fish of every kind;
48
when it was full, men drew it ashore and sat down and sorted the good
into vessels but threw away the bad.
49
So it will be at the close of the age. The angels will come out and
separate the evil from the righteous,
50
and throw them into the furnace of fire; there men will weep and
gnash their teeth.
51
"Have you understood all this?" They said to him, "Yes."
52
And he said to them, "Therefore every scribe who has been
trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings
out of his treasure what is new and what is old."
53
And when Jesus had finished these parables, he went away from there.
