GOD'S MYSTERY, GOD'S KINGDOM

Monday, Week 17 in Ordinary Time

'I will speak to you in parables and expound things hidden since the foundation of the world.'

First Reading Jeremiah 13:1-11 Let this evil people become good for nothing

The Lord said this to me, ‘Go and buy a linen loincloth and put it round your waist. But do not dip it in water.’ And so, as the Lord had ordered, I bought a loincloth and put it round my waist. A second time the word of the Lord was spoken to me, ‘Take the loincloth that you have bought and are wearing round your waist; up! Go to the Euphrates and hide it in a hole in the rock.’ So I went and hid it near the Euphrates as the Lord had ordered me. Many days afterwards the Lord said to me, ‘Get up and go to the Euphrates and fetch the loincloth I ordered you to hide there.’ So I went to the Euphrates, and I searched, and I took the loincloth from the place where I had hidden it. The loincloth was spoilt, good for nothing. Then the word of the Lord was addressed to me, ‘Thus says the Lord: In the same way I will spoil the arrogance of Judah and Jerusalem. This evil people who refuse to listen to my words, who follow the dictates of their own hard hearts, who have followed alien gods, and served them and worshipped them, let them become like this loincloth, good for nothing. For just as a loincloth clings to a man’s waist, so I had intended the whole House of Judah to cling to me – it is the Lord who speaks – to be my people, my glory, my honour and my boast. But they have not listened.’

Responsorial Psalm: You forget the God who fathered you.

Gospel Matthiew 13:31-35 The smallest of all seeds grows into the biggest shrub of all

Jesus put a parable before the crowds: ‘The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field. It is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the biggest shrub of all and becomes a tree so that the birds of the air come and shelter in its branches.’

He told them another parable: ‘The kingdom of heaven is like the yeast a woman took and mixed in with three measures of flour till it was leavened all through.’

In all this Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables; indeed, he would never speak to them except in parables. This was to fulfil the prophecy:

I will speak to you in parables and expound things hidden since the foundation of the world.

My God, my Father, you are my glory, you are my honour. I can't do without you my God. You are my Rock, for you fashioned me in your image. Do not hide your face from me. I boast in your Holy Name because without you Lord, I am nothing. Father, reveal to me the secrete of your kingdom.  Expound your mystery to me. Make me know your will.

Jesus, I trust in you. Virgin Mary, pray for me. Saint Joseph pray for me. My Angel guardian, pray for me. Pray the Rosary: Hail Mary full of grace. Hail, the Mother of my Lord and Saviour.

Psalm 27

AELF: LE MYSTÈRE DE DIEU, LE ROYAUME DE DIEU

« Je vous parlerai en paraboles et je publierai ce qui fut caché depuis la fondation du monde.»

Évangile  Matthieu 13, 31-35

«la plus petite de toutes les semences, mais, quand elle a poussé, elle dépasse les autres»

En ce temps-là, Jésus proposa aux foules une autre parabole : « Le royaume des Cieux est comparable à une graine de moutarde qu’un homme a prise et qu’il a semée dans son champ. C’est la plus petite de toutes les semences, mais, quand elle a poussé, elle dépasse les autres plantes potagères et devient un arbre, si bien que les oiseaux du ciel viennent et font leurs nids dans ses branches. » 

Il leur dit une autre parabole : « Le royaume des Cieux est comparable au levain qu’une femme a pris et qu’elle a enfoui dans trois mesures de farine, jusqu’à ce que toute la pâte ait levé. » 

Tout cela, Jésus le dit aux foules en paraboles, et il ne leur disait rien sans parabole, accomplissant ainsi la parole du prophète :

J’ouvrirai la bouche pour des paraboles, je publierai ce qui fut caché depuis la fondation du monde.

Mon Dieu, mon Père, tu es ma gloire, tu es mon honneur. Dieu, tu es ma force. Tu es mon Roche. Tu m'as créé dans ton image. Ne me cache pas ta face. Je me vante en ton Nom saint, car Seigneur sans toi, je incapable. Père, révèle-moi le secret de ton royaume. Fais-moi comprendre ton mystère. Fais-moi connaître ta volonté.

Jésus, j'ai confiance en toi. Vierge Marie, prie pour moi. Saint Joseph, prie pour moi. Mon ange gardien, prie pour moi. Priez le chapelet : Je vous salue, Marie, pleine de grâce. Je vous salue, Mère de mon Seigneur, mon Sauveur.

Psaume 27