Daily Reading for Friday, March 18th, 2022

Daily Reading for Friday March 18, 2022

Reading 1, Genesis 37:3-4, 12-13, 17-18
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 105:16-17, 18-19, 20-21
Gospel, Matthew 21:33-43, 45-46
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Reading 1, Genesis 37:3-4, 12-13, 17-18

³ Jacob loved Joseph more than all his other sons, for he was the son of his old age, and he had a decorated tunic made for him.

⁴ But his brothers, seeing how much more his father loved him than all his other sons, came to hate him so much that they could not say a civil word to him.

¹² His brothers went to pasture their father's flock at Shechem.

¹³ Then Israel said to Joseph, 'Your brothers are with the flock at Shechem, aren't they? Come, I am going to send you to them.' 'I am ready,' he replied.

¹⁷ The man answered, 'They have moved on from here; indeed I heard them say, "Let us go to Dothan." ' So Joseph went after his brothers and found them at Dothan.

¹⁸ They saw him in the distance, and before he reached them they made a plot to kill him.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 105:16-17, 18-19, 20-21

¹⁶ He called down famine on the land, he took away their food supply;

¹⁷ he sent a man ahead of them, Joseph, sold as a slave.

¹⁸ So his feet were weighed down with shackles, his neck was put in irons.

¹⁹ In due time his prophecy was fulfilled, the word of Yahweh proved him true.

²⁰ The king sent orders to release him, the ruler of nations set him free;

²¹ he put him in charge of his household, the ruler of all he possessed,

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Gospel, Matthew 21:33-43, 45-46

³³ 'Listen to another parable. There was a man, a landowner, who planted a vineyard; he fenced it round, dug a winepress in it and built a tower; then he leased it to tenants and went abroad.

³⁴ When vintage time drew near he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his produce.

³⁵ But the tenants seized his servants, thrashed one, killed another and stoned a third.

³⁶ Next he sent some more servants, this time a larger number, and they dealt with them in the same way.

³⁷ Finally he sent his son to them thinking, "They will respect my son."

³⁸ But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, "This is the heir. Come on, let us kill him and take over his inheritance."

³⁹ So they seized him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.

⁴⁰ Now when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?'

⁴¹ They answered, 'He will bring those wretches to a wretched end and lease the vineyard to other tenants who will deliver the produce to him at the proper time.'

⁴² Jesus said to them, 'Have you never read in the scriptures: The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this is the Lord's doing and we marvel at it?

⁴³ 'I tell you, then, that the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.'

⁴⁵ When they heard his parables, the chief priests and the scribes realised he was speaking about them,

⁴⁶ but though they would have liked to arrest him they were afraid of the crowds, who looked on him as a prophet.

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