Friday, Second Week of Lent.

Send us Fan MailFriday, 21 March 2025Friday, Second Week of Lent. Antiphons and Readings on p. 237 of the Daily Missal.First Reading: Genesis 37:3-4, 12-13a, 17b-28Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 105:16-17.18-19.20-21 (R. 5a)R/. Remember the wonders the Lord has done.But he called down a famine on the land; he broke their staff of bread. He had sent a man ahead of them, Joseph sold as a slave.His feet were weighed down in chains, his neck was bound with iron, until what he said came to pass, and the word of the Lord proved him true.Then the king sent orders and released him; the ruler of the peoples set him free. He made him master of his house and ruler of all his possessions,R/. Gospel: Matthew 21:33-43.45-46At that time:  Jesus said to the chief priests and the elders of the people,  “Hear another parable.  There was a householder who planted a vineyard,  and set a hedge around it,  and dug a winepress in it, and built a tower,  and leased it to tenants, and went into another country.  When the season of fruit drew near,  he sent his servants to the tenants, to get his fruit;  and the tenants took his servants and beat one,  killed another, and stoned another.  Again he sent other servants, more than the first;  and they did the same to them.  Afterwards, he sent his son to them, saying,  ‘They will respect my son.’ But when the tenants saw the son,  they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir;  come, let us kill him and have his inheritance.’  And they took him  and cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him.  When therefore the owner of the vineyard comes,  what will he do to those tenants?”  They said to him,  “He will put those wretches to a miserable death,  and lease the vineyard to other tenants  who will give him the fruits in their seasons.” Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the scriptures: ‘ The very stone which the builders rejected  has become cornerstone;  this was the Lord’s doing,  and it is marvellous in our eyes?’ Therefore I tell you,  the kingdom of God will be taken away from you  and given to a nation producing the fruits of it.  When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables,  they perceived that he was speaking about them.   But when they tried to arrest him, the feared the multitudes,  because they held him to be a prophet.