July 30, 2018
I hope you have a nice day today too.
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Monday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time
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Gospel : Matthew 13:31-35
31 He set another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field;
32 which indeed is smaller than all seeds. But when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches."
33 He spoke another parable to them. "The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took, and hid in three measures† of meal, until it was all leavened."
34 Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn't speak to them,
35 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying,
"I will open my mouth in parables;
I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world."☆
†13:33: literally, three sata. 3 sata is about 39 litres or a bit more than a bushel
☆13:35: Psalm 78:2
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Jeremiah 13:1-11
1 the LORD says to me, "Go, and buy yourself a linen belt, and put it on your waist, and don't put it in water."
2 So I bought a belt according to the LORD's word, and put it on my waist.
3 the LORD's word came to me the second time, saying,
4 "Take the belt that you have bought, which is on your waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock."
5 So I went, and hid it by the Euphrates, as the LORD commanded me.
6 After many days, the LORD said to me, "Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take the belt from there, which I commanded you to hide there."
7 Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and took the belt from the place where I had hidden it; and behold, the belt was ruined. It was profitable for nothing.
8 Then the LORD's word came to me, saying,
9 "the LORD says, 'In this way I, will ruin the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.
10 This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and are gone after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this belt, which is profitable for nothing.
11 For as the belt clings to the waist of a man, so have I caused to cling to me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah,' says the LORD; 'that they may be to me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.'
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* The World English Bible
http://ebible.org/web/
◇ July 30, 2018 Daily Mass Reading
http://ccc.usccb.org/cccradio/NABPodcasts/18_07_30.mp3
◇ Daily Readings July 307, 2018
http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/073018.cfm
◇ Liturgical Calendar
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/calendarday.php?date=2018-07-30
◇ 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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