Saturday, February 22,
2014
7th Sunday of
Ordinary Time – Year A
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
LEVITICUS 19:1-2,
17-18
1 Yahweh spoke to Moses
and said:
2 'Speak to the whole
community of Israelites and say: "Be holy, for I, Yahweh your God, am
holy.
17 You will not harbour
hatred for your brother. You will reprove your fellow-countryman firmly and
thus avoid burdening yourself with a sin.
18 You will not exact
vengeance on, or bear any sort of grudge against, the members of your race, but will love your neighbour as
yourself. I am Yahweh.
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 102:1-4, 8,
10, 12-13
1 [Prayer of someone
afflicted, who in misfortune pours out sorrows before Yahweh] Yahweh, hear my
prayer, let my cry for help reach you.
2 Do not turn away your
face from me when I am in trouble; bend down and listen to me, when I call, be
quick to answer me!
3 For my days are
vanishing like smoke, my bones burning like an oven;
4 like grass struck by
blight, my heart is withering, I forget to eat my meals.
8 All day long my
enemies taunt me, those who once praised me now use me as a curse.
10 because of your fury
and anger, since you have raised me up only to cast me away;
12 But you, Yahweh, are
enthroned for ever, each generation in turn remembers you.
13 Rise up, take pity on
Zion! the time has come to have mercy on her, the moment has come;
Second Reading
1 CORINTHIANS 3:16-23
16 Do you not realise
that you are a temple of God with the Spirit of God living in you?
17 If anybody should
destroy the temple of God, God will destroy that person, because God's temple
is holy; and you are that temple.
18 There is no room for
self-delusion. Any one of you who thinks he is wise by worldly standards must
learn to be a fool in order to be really wise.
19 For the wisdom of the
world is folly to God. As scripture says: He traps the crafty in the snare of
their own cunning
20 and again: The Lord
knows the plans of the wise and how insipid they are.
21 So there is to be no
boasting about human beings: everything belongs to you,
22 whether it is Paul,
or Apollos, or Cephas, the world, life or death, the present or the future --
all belong to you;
23 but you belong to
Christ and Christ belongs to God.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
MATTHEW 5:38-48
38 'You have heard how
it was said: Eye for eye and tooth for tooth.
39 But I say this to
you: offer no resistance to the wicked. On the contrary, if anyone hits you on
the right cheek, offer him the other as well;
40 if someone wishes to
go to law with you to get your tunic, let him have your cloak as well.
41 And if anyone
requires you to go one mile, go two miles with him.
42 Give to anyone who
asks you, and if anyone wants to borrow, do not turn away.
43 'You have heard how
it was said, You will love your neighbour and hate your enemy.
44 But I say this to
you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you;
45 so that you may be
children of your Father in heaven, for he causes his sun to rise on the bad as
well as the good, and sends down rain to fall on the upright and the wicked
alike.
46 For if you love those
who love you, what reward will you get? Do not even the tax collectors do as
much?
47 And if you save your
greetings for your brothers, are you doing anything exceptional?
48 Do not even the
gentiles do as much? You must therefore be perfect, just as your heavenly
Father is perfect.'
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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