Saturday, September
28, 2013
26th
Sunday of Ordinary Time – Year C
5:30 pm Novena to Our Lady
6:00 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
AMOS 6:1, 4-7
1 Disaster for those so comfortable in Zion and
for those so confident on the hill of Samaria, the notables of this first of
nations, those to whom the House of Israel has recourse!
4 Lying on ivory beds and sprawling on their
divans, they dine on lambs from the flock, and stall-fattened veal;
5 they bawl to the sound of the lyre and, like
David, they invent musical instruments;
6 they drink wine by the bowlful, and lard
themselves with the finest oils, but for the ruin of Joseph they care nothing.
7 That is why they will now go into captivity,
heading the column of captives. The sprawlers' revelry is over.
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 146:7-10
7 gives justice to the oppressed, gives food to
the hungry; Yahweh sets prisoners free.
8 Yahweh gives sight to the blind, lifts up
those who are bowed down.
9 Yahweh protects the stranger, he sustains the
orphan and the widow. Yahweh loves
the upright,but he frustrates the wicked.
10 Yahweh reigns for ever, your God, Zion, from
age to age.
Second Reading
1 TIMOTHY 6:11-16
11 But, as someone dedicated to God, avoid all
that. You must aim to be upright and religious, filled with faith and love,
perseverance and gentleness.
12 Fight the good fight of faith and win the
eternal life to which you were called and for which you made your noble
profession of faith before many witnesses.
13 Now, before God, the source of all life, and
before Jesus Christ, who witnessed to his noble profession of faith before
Pontius Pilate, I charge you
14 to do all that you have been told, with no
faults or failures, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,
15 who at the due time will be revealed by God,
the blessed and only Ruler of all, the King of kings and the Lord of lords,
16 who alone is immortal, whose home is in
inaccessible light, whom no human being has seen or is able to see: to him be
honour and everlasting power. Amen.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
LUKE 16:19-31
19 'There was a rich man who used to dress in
purple and fine linen and feast magnificently every day.
20 And at his gate there used to lie a poor man
called Lazarus, covered with sores,
21 who longed to fill himself with what fell
from the rich man's table. Even dogs came and licked his sores.
22 Now it happened that the poor man died and
was carried away by the angels into Abraham's embrace. The rich man also died
and was buried.
23 'In his torment in Hades he looked up and saw
Abraham a long way off with Lazarus in his embrace.
24 So he cried out, "Father Abraham, pity
me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue,
for I am in agony in these flames."
25 Abraham said, "My son, remember that during
your life you had your fill of good things, just as Lazarus his fill of bad.
Now he is being comforted here while you are in agony.
26 But that is not all: between us and you a
great gulf has been fixed, to prevent those who want to cross from our side to
yours or from your side to ours."
27 'So he said, "Father, I beg you then to
send Lazarus to my father's house,
28 since I have five brothers, to give them
warning so that they do not come to this place of torment too."
29 Abraham said, "They have Moses and the
prophets, let them listen to them."
30 The rich man replied, "Ah no, father
Abraham, but if someone comes to them from the dead, they will repent."
31 Then Abraham said to him, "If they will
not listen either to Moses or to the prophets, they will not be convinced even
if someone should rise from the dead."
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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