Thursday, July 30, 2026

Weekday Readings

The Net Cast into the Sea

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Thursday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time. The evangelist Matthew concludes Jesus's parable discourse with one final image: a net cast into the sea that gathers every kind of fish.

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