CHURCH OF ST JOSEPH, PLENTONG
避 兰 圣 若 瑟 天 主 堂
LOT 2139, Jalan Bunga Raya,
81750 Plentong, Johor, Malaysia
Tel/Fax: 07-386 3062
Email: stjoseph@ymail.com
Saturday, April 26,
2014 Divine Mercy Sunday –
Year A
5:00 pmNovena to Divine Mercy 5:30 pmSunset Mass in English
First Reading ACTS OF APOSTLES
2:42-47
42 These remained
faithful to the teaching of the apostles, to the brotherhood, to the breaking
of bread and to the prayers.
43 And everyone was
filled with awe; the apostles worked many signs and miracles.
44And all who shared
the faith owned everything in common;
45they sold their goods
and possessions and distributed the proceeds among themselves according to what
each one needed.
46Each day, with one
heart, they regularly went to the Temple but met in their houses for the
breaking of bread; they shared their food gladly and generously;
47 they praised God and
were looked up to by everyone. Day by day the Lord added to their community
those destined to be saved.
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 118:2-4,
13-15, 22-24
2 Let the House of
Israel say, 'His faithful love endures for ever.'
3Let the House of
Aaron say, 'His faithful love endures for ever.'
4Let those who fear
Yahweh say, 'His faithful love endures for ever.'
13I was pushed hard, to
make me fall, but Yahweh came to my help.
14 Yahweh is my strength
and my song, he has been my Saviour.
15 Shouts of joy and
salvation, in the tents of the upright, 'Yahweh's right hand is triumphant,
22 The stone which the
builders rejected has become the cornerstone;
23 This is Yahweh's
doing, and we marvel at it.
24This is the day which
Yahweh has made, a day for us to rejoice and be glad.
Second Reading 1 PETER 1:3-9
3 Blessed be God the
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who in his great mercy has given us a new
birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead
4 and into a heritage
that can never be spoilt or soiled and never fade away. It is reserved in
heaven for you
5 who are being kept
safe by God's power through faith until the salvation which has been prepared
is revealed at the final point of time.
6This is a great joy
to you, even though for a short time yet you must bear all sorts of trials;
7 so that the worth of
your faith, more valuable than gold, which is perishable even if it has been
tested by fire, may be proved -- to your praise and honour when Jesus Christ is
revealed.
8You have not seen
him, yet you love him; and still without seeing him you believe in him and so
are already filled with a joy so glorious that it cannot be described;
9 and you are sure of
the goal of your faith, that is, the salvation of your souls.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading JOHN 20:19-31
19In the evening of
that same day, the first day of the week, the doors were closed in the room
where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews. Jesus came and stood among
them. He said to them, 'Peace be with you,'
20and, after saying
this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples were filled with joy
at seeing the Lord,
21 and he said to them
again, 'Peace be with you. 'As the Father sent me, so am I sending you.'
22After saying this he
breathed on them and said: Receive the Holy Spirit.
23If you forgive
anyone's sins, they are forgiven; if you retain anyone's sins, they are
retained.
24Thomas, called the
Twin, who was one of the Twelve, was not with them when Jesus came.
25So the other
disciples said to him, 'We have seen the Lord,' but he answered, 'Unless I can
see the holes that the nails made in his hands and can put my finger into the
holes they made, and unless I can put my hand into his side, I refuse to
believe.'
26Eight days later the
disciples were in the house again and Thomas was with them. The doors were
closed, but Jesus came in and stood among them. 'Peace be with you,' he said.
27 Then he spoke to
Thomas, 'Put your finger here; look, here are my hands. Give me your hand; put
it into my side. Do not be unbelieving any more but believe.'
28Thomas replied, 'My
Lord and my God!'
29 Jesus said to him:
You believe because you can see me. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet
believe.
30 There were many other
signs that Jesus worked in the sight of the disciples, but they are not
recorded in this book.
31These are recorded so
that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that
believing this you may have life through his name.
34Then Peter addressed them, 'I now really understand',
he said, 'that God has no favourites,
37You know what happened all over Judaea, how Jesus of
Nazareth began in Galilee, after John had been preaching baptism.
38 God had anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with
power, and because God was with him, Jesus went about doing good and curing all
who had fallen into the power of the devil.
39Now we are witnesses to everything he did throughout
the countryside of Judaea and in Jerusalem itself: and they killed him by
hanging him on a tree,
40yet on the third day God raised him to life and
allowed him to be seen,
41not by the whole people but only by certain witnesses
that God had chosen beforehand. Now we are those witnesses -- we have eaten and
drunk with him after his resurrection from the dead-
42and he has ordered us to proclaim this to his people
and to bear witness that God has appointed him to judge everyone, alive or
dead.
43It is to him that all the prophets bear this witness:
that all who believe in Jesus will have their sins forgiven through his name.'
“The Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23
1Alleluia! Give thanks to Yahweh for he is good, for
his faithful love endures for ever.
2Let the House of Israel say, 'His faithful love
endures for ever.'
16Yahweh's right hand is victorious, Yahweh's right hand
is triumphant!'
17 I shall not die, I shall live to recount the great
deeds of Yahweh.
22The stone which the builders rejected has become the
cornerstone;
23This is Yahweh's doing, and we marvel at it.
Second Reading COLOSSIANS 3:1-4
1Since you have been raised up to be with Christ, you
must look for the things that are above, where Christ is, sitting at God's
right hand.
2Let your thoughts be on things above, not on the
things that are on the earth,
3because you have died, and now the life you have is
hidden with Christ in God.
4But when Christ is revealed -- and he is your
life-you, too, will be revealed with him in glory.
“The Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading JOHN 20:1-9
1 It was very early on the first day of the week and
still dark, when Mary of Magdala came to the tomb. She saw that the stone had
been moved away from the tomb
2 and came running to Simon Peter and the other
disciple, the one whom Jesus loved. 'They have taken the Lord out of the tomb,'
she said, 'and we don't know where they have put him.'
3So Peter set out with the other disciple to go to the
tomb.
4They ran together, but the other disciple, running
faster than Peter, reached the tomb first;
5he bent down and saw the linen cloths lying on the
ground, but did not go in.
6 Simon Peter, following him, also came up, went into
the tomb, saw the linen cloths lying on the ground
7and also the cloth that had been over his head; this
was not with the linen cloths but rolled up in a place by itself.
8 Then the other disciple who had reached the tomb first
also went in; he saw and he believed.
9Till this moment they had still not understood the
scripture, that he must rise from the dead.
2On the seventh day God had completed the work he had
been doing. He rested on the seventh day after all the work he had been doing.
Second Reading
GENESIS 22:1-18
1It happened some time later that God put Abraham to
the test. 'Abraham, Abraham!' he called. 'Here I am,' he replied.
2God said, 'Take your son, your only son, your beloved
Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, where you are to offer him as a burnt
offering on one of the mountains which I shall point out to you.'
3Early next morning Abraham saddled his donkey and took
with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. He chopped wood for the burnt
offering and started on his journey to the place which God had indicated to
him.
4 On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place
in the distance.
5Then Abraham said to his servants, 'Stay here with the
donkey. The boy and I are going over there; we shall worship and then come back
to you.'
6Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering, loaded
it on Isaac, and carried in his own hands the fire and the knife. Then the two
of them set out together.
7Isaac spoke to his father Abraham. 'Father?' he said.
'Yes, my son,' he replied. 'Look,' he said, 'here are the fire and the wood,
but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?'
8Abraham replied, 'My son, God himself will provide the
lamb for the burnt offering.' And the two of them went on together.
9When they arrived at the place which God had indicated
to him, Abraham built an altar there, and arranged the wood. Then he bound his
son and put him on the altar on top of the wood.
10Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to
kill his son.
11 But the angel of Yahweh called to him from heaven.
'Abraham, Abraham!' he said. 'Here I am,' he replied.
12 'Do not raise your hand against the boy,' the angel
said. 'Do not harm him, for now I know you fear God. You have not refused me
your own beloved son.'
13Then looking up, Abraham saw a ram caught by its horns
in a bush. Abraham took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of
his son.
14Abraham called this place 'Yahweh provides', and hence
the saying today: 'On the mountain Yahweh provides.'
15The angel of Yahweh called Abraham a second time from
heaven.
16'I swear by my own self, Yahweh declares, that because
you have done this, because you have not refused me your own beloved son,
17I will shower blessings on you and make your
descendants as numerous as the stars of heaven and the grains of sand on the
seashore. Your descendants will gain possession of the gates of their enemies.
18All nations on earth will bless themselves by your
descendants, because you have obeyed my command.'
Third Reading
EXODUS 14:15, 15:1
15 Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Why cry out to me? Tell
the Israelites to march on.
1It was then that Moses and the Israelites sang this
song in Yahweh's honour: I shall sing to Yahweh, for he has covered himself in
glory, horse and rider he has thrown into the sea.
Fourth Reading
ISAIAH 54:5-14
5For your Creator is your husband, Yahweh Sabaoth is
his name, the Holy One of Israel is your redeemer, he is called God of the
whole world.
6 Yes, Yahweh has called you back like a forsaken,
grief-stricken wife, like the repudiated wife of his youth, says your God.
7I did forsake you for a brief moment, but in great
compassion I shall take you back.
8In a flood of anger, for a moment I hid my face from
you. But in everlasting love I have taken pity on you, says Yahweh, your
redeemer.
9 For me it will be as in the days of Noah when I swore
that Noah's waters should never flood the world again. So now I swear never to
be angry with you and never to rebuke you again.
10For the mountains may go away and the hills may
totter, but my faithful love will never leave you, my covenant of peace will
never totter, says Yahweh who takes pity on you.
11Unhappy creature, storm-tossed, unpitied, look, I
shall lay your stones on agates and your foundations on sapphires.
12I shall make your battlements rubies, your gateways
firestone and your entire wall precious stones.
13All your children will be taught by Yahweh and great
will be your children's prosperity.
14In saving justice you will be made firm, free from
oppression: you will have nothing to fear; free from terror: it will not
approach you.
Fifth Reading
ISAIAH 55:1-11
1Oh, come to the water all you who are thirsty; though
you have no money, come! Buy and eat; come, buy wine and milk without money,
free!
2Why spend money on what cannot nourish and your wages
on what fails to satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and you will have good things
to eat and rich food to enjoy.
3 Pay attention, come to me; listen, and you will live.
I shall make an everlasting covenant with you in fulfilment of the favours
promised to David.
4Look, I have made him a witness to peoples, a leader
and lawgiver to peoples.
5 Look, you will summon a nation unknown to you, a
nation unknown to you will hurry to you for the sake of Yahweh your God,
because the Holy One of Israel has glorified you.
6 Seek out Yahweh while he is still to be found, call to
him while he is still near.
7 Let the wicked abandon his way and the evil one his
thoughts. Let him turn back to Yahweh who will take pity on him, to our God,
for he is rich in forgiveness;
8for my thoughts are not your thoughts and your ways
are not my ways, declares Yahweh.
9 For the heavens are as high above earth as my ways are
above your ways, my thoughts above your thoughts.
10For, as the rain and the snow come down from the sky
and do not return before having watered the earth, fertilising it and making it
germinate to provide seed for the sower and food to eat,
11so it is with the word that goes from my mouth: it
will not return to me unfulfilled or before having carried out my good pleasure
and having achieved what it was sent to do.
Sixth Reading
BARUCH 3:9-15, 32,4:4,
9Listen, Israel, to commands that bring life; hear, and
learn what knowledge means.
10Why, Israel, why are you in the country of your
enemies, growing older and older in an alien land,
11 defiling yourselves with the dead, reckoned with those
who go to Sheol?
12It is because you have forsaken the fountain of
wisdom!
13 Had you walked in the way of God, you would be living
in peace for ever.
14 Learn where knowledge is, where strength, where
understanding, and so learn where length of days is, where life, where the
light of the eyes and where peace.
15 But who has found out where she lives, who has entered
her treasure house?
4 Israel, blessed are we: what pleases God has been
revealed to us!
Seventh Reading
EZEKIEL 36:16-28
16 The word of Yahweh was addressed to me as follows,
17 'Son of man, the members of the House of Israel used
to live in their own territory, but they defiled it by their conduct and
actions; to me their conduct was as unclean as a woman's menstruation.
18 I then vented my fury on them because of the blood
they shed in the country and the foul idols with which they defiled it.
19I scattered them among the nations and they were
dispersed throughout the countries. I sentenced them as their conduct and
actions deserved.
20They have profaned my holy name among the nations
where they have gone, so that people say of them, "These are the people of
Yahweh; they have been exiled from his land."
21 But I have been concerned about my holy name, which
the House of Israel has profaned among the nations where they have gone.
22 And so, say to the House of Israel, "The Lord
Yahweh says this: I am acting not for your sake, House of Israel, but for the
sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you have
gone.
23I am going to display the holiness of my great name,
which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned among them.
And the nations will know that I am Yahweh -- declares the Lord Yahweh -- when
in you I display my holiness before their eyes.
24 For I shall take you from among the nations and gather
you back from all the countries, and bring you home to your own country.
25 I shall pour clean water over you and you will be
cleansed; I shall cleanse you of all your filth and of all your foul idols.
26I shall give you a new heart, and put a new spirit in
you; I shall remove the heart of stone from your bodies and give you a heart of
flesh instead.
27I shall put my spirit in you, and make you keep my
laws, and respect and practice my judgments.
28You will live in the country which I gave your
ancestors. You will be my people and I shall be your God.
Eight Reading
ROMANS 6:3-11
3You cannot have forgotten that all of us, when we were
baptised into Christ Jesus, were baptised into his death.
4So by our baptism into his death we were buried with
him, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the Father's glorious power,
we too should begin living a new life.
5If we have been joined to him by dying a death like
his, so we shall be by a resurrection like his;
6 realising that our former self was crucified with him,
so that the self which belonged to sin should be destroyed and we should be
freed from the slavery of sin.
7Someone who has died, of course, no longer has to
answer for sin.
8 But we believe that, if we died with Christ, then we
shall live with him too.
9 We know that Christ has been raised from the dead and
will never die again. Death has no power over him any more.
10For by dying, he is dead to sin once and for all, and
now the life that he lives is life with God.
11In the same way, you must see yourselves as being dead
to sin but alive for God in Christ Jesus.
“The Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
MATTHEW 28:1-10
1After the Sabbath, and towards dawn on the first day
of the week, Mary of Magdala and the other Mary went to visit the sepulchre.
2And suddenly there was a violent earthquake, for an
angel of the Lord, descending from heaven, came and rolled away the stone and
sat on it.
3His face was like lightning, his robe white as snow.
4 The guards were so shaken by fear of him that they
were like dead men.
5 But the angel spoke; and he said to the women, 'There
is no need for you to be afraid. I know you are looking for Jesus, who was
crucified.
6 He is not here, for he has risen, as he said he would.
Come and see the place where he lay,
7then go quickly and tell his disciples, "He has
risen from the dead and now he is going ahead of you to Galilee; that is where
you will see him." Look! I have told you.'
8 Filled with awe and great joy the women came quickly
away from the tomb and ran to tell his disciples.
9 And suddenly, coming to meet them, was Jesus.
'Greetings,' he said. And the women came up to him and, clasping his feet, they
did him homage.
10Then Jesus said to them, 'Do not be afraid; go and
tell my brothers that they must leave for Galilee; there they will see me.'
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