Reading for Thursday of the 17th Week in Ordinary Time Year B. Memorial: Saint Eusebius of Vercelli, Bishop; Saint Peter Julian Eymard, Priest. Liturgical Colour: green/white/white

First Reading: (Jeremiah 18: 1-6)

Responsorial Psalm: (Psalms 146: 1b-2, 3-4, 5-6ab)

Gospel: (Matthew 13: 47-53)

First Reading: (Jeremiah 18: 1-6)

The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, saying: Arise, and go down into the potter’s house, and there thou shalt hear my words. And I went down into the potter’s house, and behold he was doing a work on the wheel.

And the vessel was broken which he was making of clay with his hands: and turning he made another vessel, as it seemed good in his eyes to make it.

Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Cannot I do with you, as this potter, O house of Israel, saith the Lord? behold as clay is in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.

Responsorial Psalm: (Psalms 146: 1b-2, 3-4, 5-6ab)

Alleluia, of Aggeus and Zacharias. Praise the Lord, O my soul, in my life I will praise the Lord: I will sing to my God as long as I shall be.

Put not your trust in princes: In the children of men, in whom there is no salvation.

His spirit shall go forth, and he shall return into his earth: in that day all their thoughts shall perish.

Blessed is he who hath the God of Jacob for his helper, whose hope is in the Lord his God: Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all things that are in them.

Gospel: (Matthew 13: 47-53)

Again the kingdom of heaven is like to a net cast into the sea, and gathering together of all kind of fishes.

Which, when it was filled, they drew out, and sitting by the shore, they chose out the good into vessels, but the bad they cast forth.

So shall it be at the end of the world. The angels shall go out, and shall separate the wicked from among the just. And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Have ye understood all these things? They say to him: Yes. He said unto them: Therefore every scribe instructed in the kingdom of heaven, is like to a man that is a householder, who bringeth forth out of his treasure new things and old.

And it came to pass: when Jesus had finished these parables, he passed from thence.