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Thursday, July 31, 2014
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St. Ignatius of Loyola, Priest (Memorial)
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Second Option
First Reading
Jeremiah 18:1-6
1The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:
2“Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will let you hear my words.”
3So I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was working at his wheel.
4And the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter’s hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do.
5Then the word of the LORD came to me:
6“O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done? says the LORD. Behold, like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 146:1-6
1Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD, O my soul!
2I will praise the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God while I have being.
3Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no help.
4When his breath departs he returns to his earth; on that very day his plans perish.
5Happy is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God,
6who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps faith for ever;
Gospel
Matthew 13:47-53
47“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net which was thrown into the sea and gathered fish of every kind;
48when it was full, men drew it ashore and sat down and sorted the good into vessels but threw away the bad.
49So it will be at the close of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous,
50and throw them into the furnace of fire; there men will weep and gnash their teeth.
51“Have you understood all this?” They said to him, “Yes.”
52And he said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.”
53And when Jesus had finished these parables, he went away from there,
First Reading
1 Corinthians 10:31--11:1
10
31So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
32Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God,
33just as I try to please all men in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.
11
1Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 34:2-11
1I will bless the LORD at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
2My soul makes its boast in the LORD; let the afflicted hear and be glad.
3O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together!
4I sought the LORD, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.
5Look to him, and be radiant; so your faces shall never be ashamed.
6This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
7The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.
8O taste and see that the LORD is good! Happy is the man who takes refuge in him!
9O fear the LORD, you his saints, for those who fear him have no want!
10The young lions suffer want and hunger; but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
Gospel
Luke 14:25-33
25Now great multitudes accompanied him; and he turned and said to them,
26“If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
27Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me, cannot be my disciple.
28For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?
29Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him,
30saying, ‘This man began to build, and was not able to finish.’
31Or what king, going to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
32And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an embassy and asks terms of peace.
33So therefore, whoever of you does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.