Saturday, 14th
September, 2013
24th
Sunday of Ordinary Time – Year C
5:30 pm Novena to Our Lady
6:00 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
EXODUS 32:7-11, 13-14
7 Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Go down at once,
for your people whom you brought here from Egypt have become corrupt.
8 They have quickly left the way which I
ordered them to follow. They have cast themselves a metal calf, worshipped it
and offered sacrifice to it, shouting, "Israel, here is your God who
brought you here from Egypt!" '
9 Yahweh then said to Moses, 'I know these
people; I know how obstinate they are!
10 So leave me now, so that my anger can blaze
at them and I can put an end to them! I shall make a great nation out of you
instead.'
11 Moses tried to pacify Yahweh his God.
'Yahweh,' he said, 'why should your anger blaze at your people, whom you have
brought out of Egypt by your great power and mighty hand?
13 Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob, to whom you swore by your very self and made this promise: "I shall
make your offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven, and this whole country
of which I have spoken, I shall give to your descendants, and it will be their
heritage for ever."
14 Yahweh then relented over the disaster which
he had intended to inflict on his people.
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 51:3-4, 12-13,
17, 19
3 For I am well aware of my offences, my sin is
constantly in mind.
4
Against you, you alone, I have sinned, I
have done what you see to be wrong, that you may show your saving justice when
you pass sentence, and your victory may appear when you give judgement,
13 I shall teach the wicked your paths, and
sinners will return to you.
14 Deliver me from bloodshed, God, God of my
salvation, and my tongue will acclaim your saving justice.
17 Sacrifice to God is a broken spirit, a
broken, contrite heart you never scorn.
19 Then you will delight in upright
sacrifices,-burnt offerings and whole oblations -- and young bulls will be
offered on your altar.
Second Reading
1 TIMOTHY 1:12-17
12 I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given
me strength. By calling me into his service he has judged me trustworthy,
13 even though I used to be a blasphemer and a
persecutor and contemptuous. Mercy, however, was shown me, because while I
lacked faith I acted in ignorance;
14 but the grace of our Lord filled me with
faith and with the love that is in Christ Jesus.
15 Here is a saying that you can rely on and
nobody should doubt: that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. I
myself am the greatest of them;
16 and if mercy has been shown to me, it is
because Jesus Christ meant to make me the leading example of his inexhaustible
patience for all the other people who were later to trust in him for eternal
life.
17 To the eternal King, the undying, invisible
and only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
LUKE 15:1-32
1 The tax collectors and sinners, however, were
all crowding round to listen to him,
2 and the Pharisees and scribes complained
saying, 'This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.'
3 So he told them this parable:
4 'Which one of you with a hundred sheep, if he
lost one, would fail to leave the ninety-nine in the desert and go after the
missing one till he found it?
5 And when he found it, would he not joyfully
take it on his shoulders
6 and then, when he got home, call together his
friends and neighbours, saying to them, "Rejoice with me, I have found my
sheep that was lost."
7 In the same way, I tell you, there will be
more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repenting than over ninety-nine upright
people who have no need of repentance.
8 'Or again, what woman with ten drachmas would
not, if she lost one, light a lamp and sweep out the house and search
thoroughly till she found it?
9 And then, when she had found it, call
together her friends and neighbours, saying to them, "Rejoice with me, I
have found the drachma I lost."
10 In the same way, I tell you, there is
rejoicing among the angels of God over one repentant sinner.'
11 Then he said, 'There was a man who had two
sons.
12 The younger one said to his father,
"Father, let me have the share of the estate that will come to me."
So the father divided the property between them.
13 A few days later, the younger son got
together everything he had and left for a distant country where he squandered
his money on a life of debauchery.
14 'When he had spent it all, that country
experienced a severe famine, and now he began to feel the pinch;
15 so he hired himself out to one of the local
inhabitants who put him on his farm to feed the pigs.
16 And he would willingly have filled himself
with the husks the pigs were eating but no one would let him have them.
17 Then he came to his senses and said,
"How many of my father's hired men have all the food they want and more,
and here am I dying of hunger!
18 I will leave this place and go to my father
and say: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you;
19 I no longer deserve to be called your son;
treat me as one of your hired men."
20 So he left the place and went back to his
father. 'While he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was moved
with pity. He ran to the boy, clasped him in his arms and kissed him.
21 Then his son said, "Father, I have
sinned against heaven and against you. I no longer deserve to be called your
son."
22 But the father said to his servants,
"Quick! Bring out the best robe and put it on him; put a ring on his finger
and sandals on his feet.
23 Bring the calf we have been fattening, and
kill it; we will celebrate by having a feast,
24 because this son of mine was dead and has
come back to life; he was lost and is found." And they began to celebrate.
25 'Now the elder son was out in the fields, and
on his way back, as he drew near the house, he could hear music and dancing.
26 Calling one of the servants he asked what it
was all about.
27 The servant told him, "Your brother has
come, and your father has killed the calf we had been fattening because he has
got him back safe and sound."
28 He was angry then and refused to go in, and
his father came out and began to urge him to come in;
29 but he retorted to his father, "All
these years I have slaved for you and never once disobeyed any orders of yours,
yet you never offered me so much as a kid for me to celebrate with my friends.
30 But, for this son of yours, when he comes
back after swallowing up your property -- he and his loose women -- you kill
the calf we had been fattening."
31 'The father said, "My son, you are with
me always and all I have is yours.
32 But it was only right we should celebrate and
rejoice, because your brother here was dead and has come to life; he was lost
and is found." '
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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