Sunday 30th July 2017
17th Sunday in Ordinary Time Masses at Saint Peter's Catholic Church, Leigh on Sea Eastwood Parish 8.30am. 10.15am-Sung Evening 6pm Treasures of the Kingdom: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Download Audio File Readings 1 Kings 3:5 , 7-12 Psalm 119:57 , 72 , 76-77 , 127-130 Romans 8:28-30 Matthew 13:44-52 What is your new life in Christ worth to you? Do you love His words more than gold and silver, as we sing in today’s Psalm? Would you, like the characters in the Gospel today, sell all that you have in order to possess the kingdom He promises to us? If God were to grant any wish, would you follow Solomon’s example in today’s First Reading—asking not for a long life or riches, but for wisdom to know God’s ways and to desire His will? The background for today’s Gospel, as it has been for the past several weeks, is the rejection of Jesus’ preaching by Israel. The kingdom of heaven ha