Saturday, August 03,
2013
18th Sunday
of Ordinary Time – Year C
5:30 pm Novena to Our Lady
6:00 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
ECCLESIASTES 1:2,
2:21-23
2 Sheer futility,
Qoheleth says. Sheer futility: everything is futile!
21 For here is one who
has laboured wisely, skilfully and successfully and must leave what is his own
to someone who has not toiled for it at all. This is futile too, and grossly
unjust;
22 for what does he gain
for all the toil and strain that he has undergone under the sun-
23 since his days are
full of sorrow, his work is full of stress and even at night he has no peace of
mind? This is futile too.
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 89:3-6, 12-14,
17
3 'I have made a
covenant with my Chosen One, sworn an oath to my servant David:
4 I have made your
dynasty firm for ever, built your throne stable age after age.'Pause
5 The heavens praise
your wonders, Yahweh, your constancy in the gathering of your faithful.
6 Who in the skies can
compare with Yahweh? Who among the sons of god can rival him?
12 you created the north
and the south, Tabor and Hermon hail your name with joy.
13 Yours is a strong
arm, mighty your hand, your right hand raised high;
14 Saving Justice and
Fair Judgement the foundations of your throne, Faithful Love and Constancy
march before you.
17 You are the flower of
their strength, by your favour our strength is triumphant;
Second Reading
COLOSSIANS 3:1-5,
9-11
1 Since you have been
raised up to be with Christ, you must look for the things that are above, where
Christ is, sitting at God's right hand.
2 Let your thoughts be
on things above, not on the things that are on the earth,
3 because you have
died, and now the life you have is hidden with Christ in God.
4 But when Christ is
revealed -- and he is your life-you, too, will be revealed with him in glory.
5 That is why you must
kill everything in you that is earthly: sexual vice, impurity, uncontrolled
passion, evil desires and especially greed, which is the same thing as
worshipping a false god;
9 and do not lie to
each other. You have stripped off your old behaviour with your old self,
10 and you have put on a
new self which will progress towards true knowledge the more it is renewed in
the image of its Creator;
11 and in that image
there is no room for distinction between Greek and Jew, between the circumcised
and uncircumcised, or between barbarian and Scythian, slave and free. There is
only Christ: he is everything and he is in everything.
“The Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
LUKE 12:13-21
13 A man in the crowd
said to him, 'Master, tell my brother to give me a share of our inheritance.'
14 He said to him, 'My
friend, who appointed me your judge, or the arbitrator of your claims?'
15 Then he said to them,
'Watch, and be on your guard against avarice of any kind, for life does not
consist in possessions, even when someone has more than he needs.'
16 Then he told them a
parable, 'There was once a rich man who, having had a good harvest from his
land,
17 thought to himself,
"What am I to do? I have not enough room to store my crops."
18 Then he said,
"This is what I will do: I will pull down my barns and build bigger ones,
and store all my grain and my goods in them,
19 and I will say to my
soul: My soul, you have plenty of good things laid by for many years to come;
take things easy, eat, drink, have a good time."
20 But God said to him,
"Fool! This very night the demand will be made for your soul; and this
hoard of yours, whose will it be then?"
21 So it is when someone
stores up treasure for himself instead of becoming rich in the sight of God.'
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
