First Reading

Genesis 37:3-4, 12-13a, 17b-28a

3Now Israel loved Joseph above all his sons, because he had conceived him in his old age. And he made him a tunic, woven of many colors. 4Then his brothers, seeing that he was loved by his father more than all his other sons, hated him, and they were not able to say anything peacefully to him. 5Then it also happened that he recounted the vision of a dream to his brothers, for which reason a greater hatred began to be nurtured. 6And he said to them, “Listen to my dream that I saw. 7I thought we were binding sheaves in the field. And my sheaf seemed to rise up and stand, and your sheaves, standing in a circle, reverenced my sheaf.” 8His brothers responded: “Would you be our king? Or will we be subject to your dominion?” Therefore, this matter of his dreams and words provided kindling to their envy and hatred. 9Likewise, he saw another dream, which he explained to his brothers, saying, “I saw by a dream, as if the sun, and the moon, and eleven stars were reverencing me.” 10And when he had related this to his father and brothers, his father rebuked him, and he said: “What does it mean to you, this dream that you have seen? Should I, and your mother, and your brothers reverence you upon the earth?” 11Therefore, his brothers were envious of him. Yet truly, his father considered the matter silently. 12And while his brothers were lodging at Shechem, pasturing their father’s flocks,

Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 104

16And he called a famine upon the land, and he crushed every foundation of the bread. 17He sent a man before them: Joseph, who had been sold as a slave. 18They humbled his feet in shackles; the iron pierced his soul, 19until his word arrived. The eloquence of the Lord inflamed him. 20The king sent and released him; he was the ruler of the people, and he dismissed him. 21He established him as master of his house and ruler of all his possessions,

Gospel

Matthew 21:33-43, 45-46

33Listen to another parable. There was a man, the father of a family, who planted a vineyard, and surrounded it with a hedge, and dug a press in it, and built a tower. And he loaned it out to farmers, and he set out to sojourn abroad. 34Then, when the time of the fruits drew near, he sent his servants to the farmers, so that they might receive its fruits. 35And the farmers apprehended his servants; they struck one, and killed another, and stoned yet another. 36Again, he sent other servants, more than before; and they treated them similarly. 37Then, at the very end, he sent his son to them, saying: ‘They will revere my son.’ 38But the farmers, seeing the son, said among themselves: ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and then we will have his inheritance.’ 39And apprehending him, they cast him outside the vineyard, and they killed him. 40Therefore, when the lord of the vineyard arrives, what will he do to those farmers?” 41They said to him, “He will bring those evil men to an evil end, and he will loan out his vineyard to other farmers, who shall repay to him the fruit in its time.” 42Jesus said to them: “Have you never read in the Scriptures: ‘The stone that the builders have rejected has become the cornerstone. By the Lord has this been done, and it is wonderful in our eyes?’ 43Therefore, I say to you, that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and it shall be given to a people who shall produce its fruits. 44And whoever will have fallen on this stone shall be broken, yet truly, on whomever it shall fall, it will crush him.” 45And when the leaders of the priests, and the Pharisees had heard his parables, they knew that he was speaking about them. 46And though they sought to take hold of him, they feared the crowds, because they held him to be a prophet.