Friday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time (II)

Official Translation

Reading 1 – Jeremiah 26.1-9

In the beginning of the reign
of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah,
this word from the Lord came, saying,
“the Lord says:
Stand in the court of the Lord’s house,
and speak to all the cities of Judah,
which come to worship in the Lord’s house,
all the words that I command you to speak to them;
do not diminish a word.
It may be that they will listen,
and turn every man from his evil way;
that I may repent of the evil
which I intend to do to them
because of the evil of their actions.

You shall tell them that the Lord says
If you will not listen to me,
to walk in my law, which I have set before you,
to listen to the words of my servants the prophets,
whom I send to you,
urgently sending them to you,
though you have not listened;
then I will make this house like Shiloh,
and will make this city a curse
to all the nations of the earth.

The priests and the prophets and all the people
heard Jeremiah speaking
these words in the Lord’s house.
When Jeremiah had made an end
of speaking all that the Lord
had commanded him to speak to all the people,
the priests and the prophets and all the people
seized him, saying, “You shall surely die.”
Why have you prophesied in the Lord’s name, saying,
‘This house shall be like Shiloh,
and this city shall be desolate,
without inhabitant?’
All the people gathered around Jeremiah
in the Lord’s house.

Responsorial – Psalm 69.5, 8-10, 14 Resp. 14c

R. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me.

They are more than the hairs on my head,
those who hate me without a cause.
Those who want to cut me off are mighty,
but are my enemies wrongfully.
I have to restore what I did not take away.

R. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me.

For your sake, I have borne reproach.
Shame has covered my face.
I have become a stranger to my brothers,
an alien to my mother’s sons.
For the zeal of your house consumes me.
The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

R. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me.

But as for me, my prayer is to you, O Lord,
in an acceptable time, O God,
in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me,
in the truth of your salvation.

R. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me.

Gospel – Matthew 13.54-58

Coming into his own country,
Jesus taught the people in their synagogue,
so that they were astonished, and said,
“Where did he get this wisdom and the mighty works?
Is this not the carpenter’s son?
Is not his mother called Mary,
and his brothers, James, Joses, Simon, and Judas?
Are not all of his sisters with us?
Where then did he get all this?”
They took offense at him.
Jesus said to them,
“A prophet is not without honor,
except in his own country,
and in his own house.”
He did not do many mighty works there
because of their unbelief.