Saturday, August
10, 2013
19th
Sunday of Ordinary Time – Year C
5:30 pm Novena to Our Lady
6:00 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
WISDOM 18:6-9
6 That night had
been known in advance to our ancestors, so that, well knowing him in whom they
had put their trust, they would be sure of his promises.
7 Your people thus
were waiting both for the rescue of the upright and for the ruin of the enemy;
8 for by the very
vengeance that you exacted on our adversaries, you glorified us by calling us
to you.
9 So the holy
children of the good offered sacrifice in secret and with one accord enacted
this holy law: that the holy ones should share good things and dangers alike;
and forthwith they chanted the hymns of the ancestors.
“The Word of the
Lord”
PSALMS 33:1, 12,
18-20, 22
1 Shout for joy,
you upright; praise comes well from the honest.
12 How blessed the
nation whose God is Yahweh, the people he has chosen as his heritage.
18 But see how
Yahweh watches over those who fear him, those who rely on his faithful love,
19 to rescue them
from death and keep them alive in famine.
20 We are waiting
for Yahweh; he is our help and our shield,
22 Yahweh, let
your faithful love rest on us, as our hope has rested in you.
Second Reading
HEBREWS 11:1-2,
8-19
1 Only faith can
guarantee the blessings that we hope for, or prove the existence of realities
that are unseen.
2 It is for their
faith that our ancestors are acknowledged.
8 It was by faith
that Abraham obeyed the call to set out for a country that was the inheritance
given to him and his descendants, and that he set out without knowing where he
was going.
9 By faith he
sojourned in the Promised Land as though it were not his, living in tents with
Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.
10 He looked
forward to the well-founded city, designed and built by God.
11 It was equally
by faith that Sarah, in spite of being past the age, was made able to conceive,
because she believed that he who had made the promise was faithful to it.
12 Because of
this, there came from one man, and one who already had the mark of death on
him, descendants as numerous as the stars of heaven and the grains of sand on
the seashore which cannot be counted.
13 All these died
in faith, before receiving any of the things that had been promised, but they
saw them in the far distance and welcomed them, recognising that they were only
strangers and nomads on earth.
14 People who use
such terms about themselves make it quite plain that they are in search of a
homeland.
15 If they had
meant the country they came from, they would have had the opportunity to return
to it;
16 but in fact
they were longing for a better homeland, their heavenly homeland. That is why
God is not ashamed to be called their God, since he has founded the city for
them.
17 It was by faith
that Abraham, when put to the test, offered up Isaac. He offered to sacrifice
his only son even though he had yet to receive what had been promised,
18 and he had been
told: Isaac is the one through whom your name will be carried on.
19 He was
confident that God had the power even to raise the dead; and so, figuratively
speaking, he was given back Isaac from the dead.
“The Word of the
Lord”
Gospel Reading
LUKE 12:32-48
32 'There is no
need to be afraid, little flock, for it has pleased your Father to give you the
kingdom.
33 'Sell your
possessions and give to those in need. Get yourselves purses that do not wear
out, treasure that will not fail you, in heaven where no thief can reach it and
no moth destroy it.
34 For wherever
your treasure is, that is where your heart will be too.
35 'See that you
have your belts done up and your lamps lit.
36 Be like people
waiting for their master to return from the wedding feast, ready to open the
door as soon as he comes and knocks.
37 Blessed those
servants whom the master finds awake when he comes. In truth I tell you, he
will do up his belt, sit them down at table and wait on them.
38 It may be in
the second watch that he comes, or in the third, but blessed are those servants
if he finds them ready.
39 You may be
quite sure of this, that if the householder had known at what time the burglar
would come, he would not have let anyone break through the wall of his house.
40 You too must
stand ready, because the Son of man is coming at an hour you do not expect.'
41 Peter said,
'Lord, do you mean this parable for us, or for everyone?'
42 The Lord
replied, 'Who, then, is the wise and trustworthy steward whom the master will
place over his household to give them at the proper time their allowance of
food?
43 Blessed that
servant if his master's arrival finds him doing exactly that.
44 I tell you
truly, he will put him in charge of everything that he owns.
45 But if the
servant says to himself, "My master is taking his time coming," and
sets about beating the menservants and the servant-girls, and eating and
drinking and getting drunk,
46 his master will
come on a day he does not expect and at an hour he does not know. The master
will cut him off and send him to the same fate as the unfaithful.
47 'The servant
who knows what his master wants, but has got nothing ready and done nothing in
accord with those wishes, will be given a great many strokes of the lash.
48 The one who did
not know, but has acted in such a way that he deserves a beating, will be given
fewer strokes. When someone is given a great deal, a great deal will be
demanded of that person; when someone is entrusted with a great deal, of that
person even more will be expected.
“The Gospel of the
Lord”
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