DAILY READINGS & REFLECTION
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
THURSDAY OF THE SECOND WEEK OF LENT
FIRST READING
JEREMIAH 17:5-10
5 Thus says the LORD: "Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his arm, whose heart turns away from the LORD. 6 He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land. 7 "Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD. 8 He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit." 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately corrupt; who can understand it? 10 "I the LORD search the mind and try the heart, to give to every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings."
The Word of the Lord
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RESPONSORIAL PSALM
PSALMS 1:1-4, 6
Response: Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.
Blessed is the man
who walks not in the counsel of the wicked,
nor stands in the way of sinners,
nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
but his delight is in the law of the LORD,
and on his law he meditates day and night.
R. Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.
He is like a tree
planted by streams of water,
that yields its fruit in its season,
and its leaf does not wither.
In all that he does, he prospers.
R. Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.
The wicked are not so,
but are like chaff which the wind drives away.
for the LORD knows the way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked will perish.