Saturday, June 21, 2014
Corpus Christi – Year A
6:00 pm Multilingual Mass and
Procession
First Reading
Deuteronomy 8:2-3, 14-16
2 Remember the long road by which Yahweh your God led
you for forty years in the desert, to humble you, to test you and know your
inmost heart -- whether you would keep his commandments or not.
3 He humbled you, he made you feel hunger, he fed you
with manna which neither you nor your ancestors had ever known, to make you
understand that human beings live not on bread alone but on every word that
comes from the mouth of Yahweh.
14 do not become proud of heart. Do not then forget
Yahweh your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the place of slave-labour,
15 who guided you through this vast and dreadful desert,
a land of fiery snakes, scorpions, thirst;
16 who in this waterless place brought you water out of
the flinty rock; who in this desert fed you with manna unknown to your
ancestors, to humble you and test you and so make your future the happier.
“The Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 147:12-15, 19-20
12 Praise Yahweh, Jerusalem, Zion, praise your God.
13 For he gives strength to the bars of your gates, he
blesses your children within you,
14 he maintains the peace of your frontiers, gives you
your fill of finest wheat.
15 He sends his word to the earth, his command runs
quickly,
19 He reveals his word to Jacob, his statutes and
judgements to Israel.
20 For no other nation has he done this, no other has
known his judgements.
Second Reading
1 CORINTHIANS 10:16-17
16 Yes, I did baptise the family of Stephanas, too; but
besides these I do not think I baptised anyone.
17 After all, Christ sent me not to baptise, but to
preach the gospel; and not by means of wisdom of language, wise words which
would make the cross of Christ pointless.
“The Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
JOHN 6:51-58
51 I am the living bread which has come down from heaven.
Anyone who eats this bread will live for ever; and the bread that I shall give
is my flesh, for the life of the world.'
52 Then the Jews started arguing among themselves, 'How
can this man give us his flesh to eat?'
53 Jesus replied to them: In all truth I tell you, if you
do not eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in
you.
54 Anyone who does eat my flesh and drink my blood has
eternal life, and I shall raise that person up on the last day.
55 For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.
56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me
and I live in that person.
57 As the living Father sent me and I draw life from the
Father, so whoever eats me will also draw life from me.
58 This is the bread which has come down from heaven; it
is not like the bread our ancestors ate: they are dead, but anyone who eats
this bread will live for ever.
“The Gospel of the Lord”
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