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| "The Enemy Who Sows" -- by James Tissot |
FIRST
READING: Exodus
24: 3 - 8
3
So Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all
the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice: We will do
all the words of the Lord, which he hath spoken.
4
And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord: and rising in the morning
he built an altar at the foot of the mount, and twelve titles
according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
5
And he sent young men of the children of Israel, and they offered
holocausts, and sacrificed pacific victims of calves to the Lord.
6
Then Moses took half of the blood, and put it into bowls: and the
rest he poured upon the altar.
7
And taking the book of the covenant, he read it in the hearing of the
people: and they said: All things that the Lord hath spoken we will
do, we will be obedient.
8
And he took the blood and sprinkled it upon the people, and he said:
This is the blood of the covenant which the Lord hath made with you
concerning all these words.
PSALM:
Psalms 50:
1 - 2, 5 - 6, 14 - 15
1
A psalm for Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord hath spoken: and he hath
called the earth. From the rising of the sun, to the going down
thereof:
2
Out of Sion the loveliness of his beauty.
5
Gather ye together his saints to him: who set his covenant before
sacrifices.
6
And the heavens shall declare his justice: for God is judge.
14
Offer to God the sacrifice of praise: and pay thy vows to the most
High.
15
And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou
shalt glorify me.
GOSPEL:
Matthew 13:
24 - 30
24
Another parable he proposed to them, saying: The kingdom of heaven is
likened to a man that sowed good seeds in his field.
25
But while men were asleep, his enemy came and oversowed cockle among
the wheat and went his way.
26
And when the blade was sprung up, and had brought forth fruit, then
appeared also the cockle.
27
And the servants of the goodman of the house coming said to him: Sir,
didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? whence then hath it
cockle?
28
And he said to them: An enemy hath done this. And the servants said
to him: Wilt thou that we go and gather it up?
29
And he said: No, lest perhaps gathering up the cockle, you root up
the wheat also together with it.
30
Suffer both to grow until the harvest, and in the time of the harvest
I will say to the reapers: Gather up first the cockle, and bind it
into bundles to burn, but the wheat gather ye into my barn.
