Saturday, August 17,
2013
20th
Sunday of Ordinary Time – Year C
5:30 pm Novena to Our Lady
6:00 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
JEREMIAH 38:4-6, 8-10
4 The chief men then
said to the king, 'You must have this man put to death: he is unquestionably
disheartening the remaining soldiers in the city, and all the people too, by
talking like this. This man is seeking not the welfare of the people but their
ruin.'
5 King Zedekiah
answered, 'He is in your hands as you know, for the king is powerless to oppose
you.'
6 So they took Jeremiah
and put him into the storage-well of the king's son Malchiah in the Court of
the Guard, letting him down with ropes. There was no water in the storage-well,
only mud, and into the mud Jeremiah sank.
8 Ebed-Melech came out
from the palace and spoke to the king.
9 'My lord king,' he
said, 'these men have done a wicked thing by treating the prophet Jeremiah like
this: they have thrown him into the storage-well. He will starve to death
there, since there is no more food in the city.'
10 At this the king gave
Ebed-Melech the Cushite the following order: 'Take thirty men with you from
here and pull the prophet Jeremiah out of the storage-well before he dies.'
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 40:2-4, 18
2 [For the choirmaster
Of David Psalm] I waited, I waited for Yahweh, then he stooped to me and heard
my cry for help.
3 He pulled me up from
the seething chasm, from the mud of the mire. He set my feet on rock, and made
my footsteps firm.
4 He put a fresh song
in my mouth, praise of our God. Many will be awestruck at the sight, and will
put their trust in Yahweh.
18 Poor and needy as I
am, the Lord has me in mind. You, my helper, my Saviour, my God, do not delay.
Second Reading
HEBREWS 12:1-4
1 With so many
witnesses in a great cloud all around us, we too, then, should throw off
everything that weighs us down and the sin that clings so closely, and with
perseverance keep running in the race which lies ahead of us.
2 Let us keep our eyes
fixed on Jesus, who leads us in our faith and brings it to perfection: for the
sake of the joy which lay ahead of him, he endured the cross, disregarding the
shame of it, and has taken his seat at the right of God's throne.
3 Think of the way he
persevered against such opposition from sinners and then you will not lose
heart and come to grief.
4 In the fight against
sin, you have not yet had to keep fighting to the point of bloodshed.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
LUKE 12:49-53
49 'I have come to bring
fire to the earth, and how I wish it were blazing already!
50 There is a baptism I
must still receive, and what constraint I am under until it is completed!
51 'Do you suppose that
I am here to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.
52 For from now on, a
household of five will be divided: three against two and two against three;
53 father opposed to
son, son to father, mother to daughter, daughter to mother, mother-in-law to
daughter-in-law, daughter-in-law to mother-in-law.'
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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