You have borne me to be a man of dissension for all the land.
The king’s leading men spoke to the king. ‘Let this man be put to death:
he is unquestionably disheartening the remaining soldiers in the city,
and all the people too, by talking like this. The fellow does not have the
welfare of this people at heart so much as its ruin. ‘He is in your hands
as you know,’ King Zedekiah answered ‘for the king is powerless
against you.’ So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the well of
Prince Malchiah in the Court of the Guard, letting him down with ropes.
There was no water in the well, only mud, and into the mud Jeremiah sank.
Ebed-melech came out from the palace and spoke to the king. ‘My lord
king,’ he said ‘these men have done a wicked thing by treating the
prophet Jeremiah like this: they have thrown him into the well where he
will die.’ At this the king gave Ebed-melech the Cushite the following
order: ‘Take three men with you from here and pull the prophet
Jeremiah out of the well before he dies’.
The Word of the Lord
Responsorial Psalm Ps 39
Response: Lord, come to my aid!
1. I waited, I waited for the Lord
and he stooped down to me;
he heard my cry. Response
2. He drew me from the deadly pit,
from the miry clay.
He set my feet upon a rock
and made my footsteps firm. Response
3. He put a new song into my mouth,
praise of our God.
Many shall see and fear
and shall trust in the Lord. Response
4. As for me, wretched and poor,
the Lord thinks of me.
You are my rescuer, my help,
O God, do not delay. Response
SECOND READING Hebrews 12: 1-4
You have borne me to be a man of dissension for all the land.
With so many witnesses in a great cloud on every side of us, we too,
then, should throw off everything that hinders us, especially the sin that
clings so easily, and keep running steadily in the race we have started.
Let us not lose sight of Jesus, who leads us in our faith and brings it to
perfection: for the sake of the joy which was still in the future, he
endured the cross, disregarding the shamefulness of it, and from now
on has taken his place at the right of God’s throne. Think of the way he
stood such opposition from sinners and then you will not give up for
want of courage. In the fight against sin, you have not yet had to keep
fighting to the point of death.
The Word of the Lord
Gospel Acclamation Acts 16: 14
Alleluia, alleluia!
Open our heart, O Lord,
to accept the words of your Son.
Alleluia!
Or Jn 10: 27
Alleluia, alleluia!
The sheep that belong to me listen to my voice,
says the Lord,
I know them and they follow me.
Alleluia!
GOSPEL
A reading from the Gospel according to Luke 12: 49-53
I am not here to bring peace, but rather division.
Jesus said to his disciples: ‘I have come to bring fire to the earth, and
how I wish it were blazing already! There is a baptism I must still
receive, and how great is my distress till it is over! ‘
Do you suppose that I am here to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you,
but rather division. For from now on a household of five will be divided:
three against two and two against three; the father divided against the
son, son against father, mother against daughter, daughter against
mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law, daughter-in-law against
mother-in-law.
The Gospel of the Lord
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