Official Translation
Reading 1 – Jeremiah 7.1-11
The word that came to Jeremiah
from the Lord, saying,
“Stand in the gate of the Lord’s house,
and proclaim there this word, and say,
‘Hear the Lord’s word, all you of Judah,
who enter in at these gates
to worship the Lord.’”
The Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel says,
“Amend your ways and your deeds,
and I will cause you to dwell in this place.
Do not trust in lying words, saying,
‘The Temple of the Lord!’
‘The Temple of the Lord!’
‘The Temple of the Lord!’
For only if you thoroughly amend
your ways and your deeds;
if you thoroughly execute justice
between a man and his neighbor;
if you do not oppress
the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow,
and do not shed innocent blood in this place,
nor walk after other gods to your own harm:
then I will cause you to dwell in this place,
in the land that I gave to your fathers,
from of old and forevermore.
Behold, you trust in lying words
which cannot profit.
Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery,
and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal,
and walk after other gods that you have not known,
and come and stand before me in this house,
which is called by my name, and say,
‘We are saved;’
that you may do all these abominations?
Has this house, which is called by my name,
become a den of robbers in your eyes?
Behold, I, even I, have seen it,” says the Lord.
Responsorial – Psalm 84.3, 4, 5-6a+8a, 11 Resp. 2
R. How lovely are your dwellings, Lord of Hosts!
My soul longs, and even faints
for the courts of the Lord.
My heart and my flesh
cry out for the living God.
R. How lovely are your dwellings, Lord of Hosts!
Lo, the sparrow has found a home,
and the swallow a nest for herself,
where she may have her young,
near your altars, Lord of Hosts,
my King, and my God.
R. How lovely are your dwellings, Lord of Hosts!
Blessed are those who dwell in your house.
They are always praising you.
Blessed are those whose strength is in you;
They go from strength to strength.
R. How lovely are your dwellings, Lord of Hosts!
For a day in your courts
is better than a thousand elsewhere
I would rather live in the threshold of the house of my God,
than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
R. How lovely are your dwellings, Lord of Hosts!
Gospel – Matthew 13.24-30
Jesus set another parable before them, saying,
“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a human
who sowed good seed in his field,
but while people slept,
his enemy came and sowed
weeds among the wheat,
and went away.
But when the blade sprang up and produced fruit,
then the weeds appeared also.
The slaves of the householder
came and said to him,
‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field?
Where did these weeds come from?’
He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’
The servants asked him,
‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’
But he said, ‘No, lest perhaps
while you pull up the weeds,
you uproot the wheat with them.
Let both grow together until the harvest,
and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers,
“First, gather up the weeds,
and bind them in bundles to burn them;
but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”
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