7.20.2016

Today's Bible story *

July 20, 2016

We hope it will be a good day today !

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Weekday

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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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* The World English Bible
http://ebible.org/web/

◇ July 20, 2016 Daily Mass Reading
http://ccc.usccb.org/cccradio/NABPodcasts/16_07_20.mp3

◇ Daily Readings July 20, 2016
http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/072016.cfm

◇ Liturgical Calendar
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/calendarday.php?date=2016-07-20

◇ Zondervan King James Audio Bible
http://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/kjv/Matt.13

◇ King James Version Bible Online
http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/book.php?book=Matthew&chapter=13&verse=

◇ The New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)
http://www.usccb.org/bible/books-of-the-bible/index.cfm

◇ Douay-Rheims Bible
http://www.drbo.org/

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