Official Translation
Reading 1 – Jeremiah 15.10, 16-21
Woe is me, O my mother,
that you have given birth to me,
a man of strife and a man of contention
to the whole earth!
I have not lent, nor have men lent to me;
yet every one of them curses me.
I found your words and I ate them up,
and your words were to me a joy
and the rejoicing of my heart:
for I am called by your name,
O Lord, God of Hosts.
I did not sit in the assembly
of those who make merry, nor rejoiced;
I sat alone because of your hand;
for you have filled me with indignation.
Why is my pain perpetual
and my wound incurable,
which refuses to be healed?
Will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook,
like waters that fail?
Therefore the Lord says,
“If you return, then I will bring you back again,
that you may stand before me,
and if you take out the precious from the vile,
you shall be as my mouth.
They shall return to you,
but you shall not return to them.
I will make you to this people
a fortified bronze wall,
and they shall fight against you,
but they shall not prevail against you;
for I am with you
to save you and to deliver you, says the Lord.
I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked,
and I will redeem you
out of the hand of the terrible.
Responsorial – Psalm 59.2-3, 4, 10-11, 17, 18 Resp. 17d
R. God is a refuge in the day of my distress.
Deliver me from my enemies, my God.
Set me on high from those who rise up against me.
Deliver me from the workers of iniquity.
Save me from the bloodthirsty men.
R. God is a refuge in the day of my distress.
For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul.
The mighty gather themselves together against me,
not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, O Lord.
R. God is a refuge in the day of my distress.
O my Strength, I watch for you,
for God is my high tower.
My God will go before me with his loving kindness.
God will let me look at my enemies in triumph.
R. God is a refuge in the day of my distress.
But I will sing of your strength.
Yes, I will sing aloud of your loving kindness in the morning.
For you have been my high tower,
a refuge in the day of my distress.
R. God is a refuge in the day of my distress.
To you, my strength, I will sing praises.
For God is my high tower,
the God of my mercy.
R. God is a refuge in the day of my distress.
Gospel – Matthew 13.44-46
Jesus said to his disciples:
“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven
is like a treasure buried in the field,
which a human found and hid.
In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has,
and buys that field.
Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a human
who is a merchant seeking fine pearls,
who having found one pearl of great price,
went and sold all that he had and bought it.
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