Blessed are they who have kept the word with a generous heart

Reading 1 and//www.usccb.org/bible/readings/bible/jeremiah/17:5 JER 17:5-10 Thus says the LORDandCursed is the man who trusts in human beings,who seeks his strength in flesh,whose heart turns away from the LORD.He is like a barren bush in the desertthat enjoys no change of season,But stands in a lava waste,a salt and empty earth.Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD,whose hope is the LORD.He is like a tree planted beside the watersthat stretches out its roots to the streamandIt fears not the heat when it comes,its leaves stay greenIn the year of drought it shows no distress,but still bears fruit.More tortuous than all else is the human heart,beyond remedy who can understand it?I, the LORD, alone probe the mindand test the heart,To reward everyone according to his ways,according to the merit of his deeds. Responsorial Psalm and//www.usccb.org/bible/readings/bible/psalms/1and1 PS 1and1-2, 3, 4 AND 6 R. (40and5a)Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.Blessed the man who follows notthe counsel of the wickedNor walks in the way of sinners,nor sits in the company of the insolent,But delights in the law of the LORDand meditates on his law day and night.R.Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.He is like a treeplanted near running water,That yields its fruit in due season,and whose leaves never fade.Whatever he does, prospers.R.Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.Not so, the wicked, not sothey are like chaff which the wind drives away.For the LORD watches over the way of the just,but the way of the wicked vanishes.R.Blessed are they who hope in the Lord. Verse Before The Gospel and//www.usccb.org/bible/readings/bible/luke/8:15 SEE LK 8:15 Blessed are they who have kept the word with a generous heartand yield a harvest through perseverance. Gospel and//www.usccb.org/bible/readings/bible/luke/16:19 LK 16:19-31 Jesus said to the Phariseesand There was a rich man who dressed in purple garments and fine linenand dined sumptuously each day.And lying at his door was a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores,who would gladly have eaten his fill of the scrapsthat fell from the rich man's table.Dogs even used to come and lick his sores.When the poor man died,he was carried away by angels to the bosom of Abraham.The rich man also died and was buried,and from the netherworld, where he was in torment,he raised his eyes and saw Abraham far offand Lazarus at his side.And he cried out, 'Father Abraham, have pity on me.Send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue,for I am suffering torment in these flames.'Abraham replied, 'My child,remember that you received what was good during your lifetimewhile Lazarus likewise received what was badbut now he is comforted here, whereas you are tormented.Moreover, between us and you a great chasm is establishedto prevent anyone from crossingwho might wish to go from our side to yoursor from your side to ours.'He said, 'Then I beg you, father, send himto my father's house,for I have five brothers, so that he may warn them,lest they too come to this place of torment.'But Abraham replied, 'They have Moses and the prophets.Let them listen to them.'He said, 'Oh no, father Abraham,but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.'Then Abraham said,'If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets,neither will they be persuadedif someone should rise from the dead.'