Saturday, September
07, 2013
23rd
Sunday of Ordinary Time – Year C
5:30 pm
Novena to Our Lady
6:00 pm
Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
WISDOM 9:13-18
13 'What human being indeed can know the
intentions of God? And who can comprehend the will of the Lord?
14 For the reasoning of mortals is inadequate,
our attitudes of mind unstable;
15 for a perishable body presses down the soul,
and this tent of clay weighs down the mind with its many cares.
16 It is hard enough for us to work out what is
on earth, laborious to know what lies within our reach; who, then, can discover
what is in the heavens?
17 And who could ever have known your will, had
you not given Wisdom and sent your holy Spirit from above?
18 Thus have the paths of those on earth been
straightened and people have been taught what pleases you, and have been saved,
by Wisdom.'
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 90:3-6, 12-14,
17
3 You bring human beings to the dust, by
saying, 'Return, children of Adam.'
4 A thousand years are to you like a yesterday
which has passed, like a watch of the night.
5 You flood them with sleep -- in the morning
they will be like growing grass:
6 in the morning it is blossoming and growing,
by evening it is withered and dry.
12 Teach us to count up the days that are ours,
and we shall come to the heart of wisdom.
13 Come back, Yahweh! How long must we wait?
Take pity on your servants.
14 Each morning fill us with your faithful love,
we shall sing and be happy all our days;
17 May the sweetness of the Lord be upon us, to
confirm the work we have done!
Second Reading
PHILEMON 9-10, 12-17
9 I am rather appealing to your love, being
what I am, Paul, an old man, and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus.
10 I am appealing to you for a child of mine,
whose father I became while wearing these chains: I mean Onesimus.
12 I am sending him back to you -- that is to
say, sending you my own heart.
13 I should have liked to keep him with me; he
could have been a substitute for you, to help me while I am in the chains that
the gospel has brought me.
14 However, I did not want to do anything
without your consent; it would have been forcing your act of kindness, which
should be spontaneous.
15 I suppose you have been deprived of Onesimus
for a time, merely so that you could have him back for ever,
16 no longer as a slave, but something much
better than a slave, a dear brother; especially dear to me, but how much more
to you, both on the natural plane and in the Lord.
17 if you grant me any fellowship with yourself,
welcome him as you would me;
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
LUKE 14:25-33
25 Great crowds accompanied him on his way and he
turned and spoke to them.
26 'Anyone who comes to me without hating father,
mother, wife, children, brothers, sisters, yes and his own life too, cannot be
my disciple.
27 No one who does not carry his cross and come
after me can be my disciple.
28 'And indeed, which of you here, intending to
build a tower, would not first sit down and work out the cost to see if he had
enough to complete it?
29 Otherwise, if he laid the foundation and then
found himself unable to finish the work, anyone who saw it would start making
fun of him and saying,
30 "Here is someone who started to build and
was unable to finish."
31 Or again, what king marching to war against
another king would not first sit down and consider whether with ten thousand
men he could stand up to the other who was advancing against him with twenty
thousand?
32 If not, then while the other king was still a
long way off, he would send envoys to sue for peace.
33 So in the same way, none of you can be my
disciple without giving up all that he owns.
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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