Catholic Daily Reading 31st July 2012

"Jer 14:17  And thou shalt speak this word to them: Let my eyes shed down tears night and day, and let them not cease, because the virgin daughter of my people is afflicted with a great affliction, with an exceeding grievous evil.
Jer 14:18  If I go forth into the fields, behold the slain with the sword: and if I enter into the city, behold them that are consumed with famine. The prophet also and the priest are gone into a land which they knew not.
Jer 14:19  Hast thou utterly cast away Juda, or hath thy soul abhorred Sion? why then hast thou struck us, so that there is no healing for us? we have looked for peace, and there is no good: and for the time of healing, and behold trouble.
Jer 14:20  We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness, the iniquities of our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.
Jer 14:21  Give us not to be a reproach, for thy name's sake, and do not disgrace in us the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.
Jer 14:22  Are there any among the graven things of the Gentiles that can send rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou the Lord our God, whom we have looked for? for thou hast made all these things."
Jeremiah 14:17-22

"Psa 79:8  Remember not our former iniquities: let thy mercies speedily prevent us, for we are become exceeding poor.
Psa 79:9  Help us, O God, our saviour: and for the glory of thy name, O Lord, deliver us: and forgive us our sins for thy name's sake:
Psa 79:11  Let the sighing of the prisoners come in before thee. According to the greatness of thy arm, take possession of the children of them that have been put to death.
Psa 79:13  But we thy people, and the sheep of thy pasture, will give thanks to thee for ever. We will shew forth thy praise, unto generation and generation."
Psalm 79:8,9,11,13

"Mat 13:35  That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.
Mat 13:36  Then having sent away the multitudes, he came into the house, and his disciples came to him, saying: Expound to us the parable of the cockle of the field.
Mat 13:37  Who made answer and said to them: He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man.
Mat 13:38  And the field is the world. And the good seed are the children of the kingdom. And the cockle are the children of the wicked one.
Mat 13:39  And the enemy that sowed them, is the devil. But the harvest is the end of the world. And the reapers are the angels.
Mat 13:40  Even as cockle therefore is gathered up, and burnt with fire: so shall it be at the end of the world.
Mat 13:41  The Son of man shall send his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all scandals, and them that work iniquity.
Mat 13:42  And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Mat 13:43  Then shall the just shine as the sun, in the kingdom of their Father. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear."
Matthew 13:35-43