July 23, 2014
We hope that today is a good day.
◇Daily Readings July 23, 2014
http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/072314.cfm
◇July 23, 2014 Daily Mass Reading
http://ccc.usccb.org/cccradio/NABPodcasts/14_07_23.mp3
The New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)
http://www.usccb.org/bible/books-of-the-bible/index.cfm
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◇The World English Bible
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Gospel Matthew 13:1-9
1 On that day Jesus went out of the house, and sat by the seaside.
2 Great multitudes gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat, and sat, and all the multitude stood on the beach.
3 He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, "Behold, a farmer went out to sow.
4 As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them.
5 Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn't have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth.
6 When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away.
7 Others fell amongst thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them.
8 Others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.
9 He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
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Jeremiah 1:1, 4-10
1 The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, one of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin.
4 Now the LORD's word came to me, saying,
5 "Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you.
Before you were born, I sanctified you.
I have appointed you a prophet to the nations."
6 Then I said, "Ah, Lord† the LORD! Behold,‡ I don't know how to speak; for I am a child."
7 But the LORD said to me, "Don't say, 'I am a child;' for you must go to whomever I send you, and you must say whatever I command you.
8 Don't be afraid because of them, for I am with you to rescue you," says the LORD.
9 Then the LORD stretched out his hand, and touched my mouth. Then the LORD said to me, "Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.
10 Behold, I have today set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to uproot and to tear down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant."
†1:6: The word translated "Lord" is "Adonai."
‡1:6: "Behold", from "??????", means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.
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◇King James Version Bible Online
http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/book.php?book=Matthew&chapter=13&verse=
◇Zondervan King James Audio Bible
http://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/kjv/Matt.13
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◇Douay-Rheims Bible
http://www.drbo.org/
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