Gospel of 26 July 2018

Thursday of the XNUMXth week of Ordinary Time

Book of Jeremiah 2,1-3.7-8.12-13.
This word of the lord was addressed to me:
“Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem: Thus says the Lord: I remember you, the affection of your youth, the love at the time of your engagement, when you followed me in the desert, in a land not sown.
Israel was the firstfruits of its harvest sacred to the Lord; those who ate it had to pay for it, misfortune fell on them. Oracle of the Lord.
I led you to a garden land, because you ate its fruits and products. But as soon as you entered, you contaminated my land and made my possession an abomination.
Not even the priests asked themselves: Where is the Lord? The holders of the law did not know me, the shepherds rebelled against me, the prophets foretold in the name of Baal and followed useless beings.
Be amazed, o heavens; horrified like never before. Oracle of the Lord.
Because my people have committed two iniquities: they have abandoned me, a spring of living water, to dig for themselves cisterns, cracked cisterns, which do not hold water ”.

Salmi 36(35),6-7ab.8-9.10-11.
Lord, your grace is in heaven,
your loyalty to the clouds;
your righteousness is like the highest mountains,
your judgment as the great abyss.

How precious is your grace, O God!
Men take refuge in the shadow of your wings,
they are satisfied with the abundance of your home
and quench your thirst at the torrent of your delights.

The source of life is in you,
in your light we see the light.
Grant your grace to those who know you,
your justice to the upright in heart.

From the Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Matthew 13,10-17.
At that time, the disciples approached Jesus and said to him, "Why do you speak to them in parables?"
He replied: "Because it is given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
So to him who has will be given and he will be in abundance; and whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away.
This is why I speak to them in parables: because while seeing they do not see, and while hearing they do not hear and do not understand.
And so is fulfilled for them the prophecy of Isaiah which says: You will hear, but you will not understand, you will look, but you will not see.
Because the heart of this people has hardened, they have become hard of ears, and they have closed their eyes, so as not to see with the eyes, not to hear with the ears and not to understand with the heart and to convert, and I heal them.
But blessed are your eyes because they see and your ears because they hear.
Truly I tell you: many prophets and righteous have desired to see what you see, and they did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and they did not hear it! ».