August 1 - Saturday of the 17th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Jer.26:11-16,24; Ps.69:14-16,30-31,33-34; Mt.14:1-12) "In truth it was the Lord who sent me to you, to speak all these things for you to hear." Jeremiah speaks to the people in the Lord's name, even as he is threatened with death: "Reform your ways and your deeds; listen to the voice of the Lord your God, so that the Lord will repent of the evil with which He threatens you," he declares at his trial – he does not hide the truth. And the words of David's psalm are proven genuine: "His own who are in bonds He spurns not"; for the prophet's words find a hearing in the people, and Ahikam…
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