Saturday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time

Readings
First Scripture Reading
Jeremiah 7: 1-11
Gospel Reading
Matthew 13: 24-30

Opening Prayer

God of Integrity, You must be troubled as You dig into the soil of our souls.  Our duplicity must frustrate You, even as the duplicity of our ancestors did in Jeremiah’s time.  We want to be pious, church people, and yet we do not live lives of justice, forgiveness and compassion.  We rely on our own resources, instead of You, even as we proclaim our dependence on you, as God.  Why have we split religious ritual from the way we live?  Breathe Your Spirit into us again – help us to reform our lives.  Bring integrity to our worship and lives.  Plant the seed of Your Word deep within us.  Weed out attitudes and behaviors which cripple us and Your reign.  We need Your discerning and reforming Spirit, Lord Jesus.  Plant deep in us – break open dry clods – soften our hearts – breathe deep in us today!

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