Saturday, July 12,
2014
15th Sunday of
Ordinary Time – Year A
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
ISAIAH 55:10-11
10 For, 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,
11 so 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.
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 65:10-13
10 you water its furrows
abundantly, level its ridges, soften it with showers and bless its shoots.
11 You crown the year
with your generosity, richness seeps from your tracks,
12 the pastures of the
desert grow moist, the hillsides are wrapped in joy,
13 the meadows are
covered with flocks, the valleys clothed with wheat; they shout and sing for
joy.
Second Reading
ROMAN 8:18-23
18 In my estimation, all
that we suffer in the present time is nothing in comparison with the glory
which is destined to be disclosed for us,
19 for the whole
creation is waiting with eagerness for the children of God to be revealed.
20 It was not for its
own purposes that creation had frustration imposed on it, but for the purposes
of him who imposed it-
21 with the intention
that the whole creation itself might be freed from its slavery to corruption
and brought into the same glorious freedom as the children of God.
22 We are well aware
that the whole creation, until this time, has been groaning in labour pains.
23 And not only that: we
too, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we are groaning inside
ourselves, waiting with eagerness for our bodies to be set free.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
MATTHEW 13:1-23
1 That same day, Jesus
left the house and sat by the lakeside,
2 but such large crowds
gathered round him that he got into a boat and sat there. The people all stood
on the shore,
3 and he told them many
things in parables. He said, 'Listen, a sower went out to sow.
4 As he sowed, some
seeds fell on the edge of the path, and the birds came and ate them up.
5 Others fell on
patches of rock where they found little soil and sprang up at once, because
there was no depth of earth;
6 but as soon as the
sun came up they were scorched and, not having any roots, they withered away.
7 Others fell among
thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them.
8 Others fell on rich
soil and produced their crop, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
9 Anyone who has ears
should listen!'
10 Then the disciples
went up to him and asked, 'Why do you talk to them in parables?'
11 In answer, he said,
'Because to you is granted to understand the mysteries of the kingdom of
Heaven, but to them it is not granted.
12 Anyone who has will
be given more and will have more than enough; but anyone who has not will be
deprived even of what he has.
13 The reason I talk to
them in parables is that they look without seeing and listen without hearing or
understanding.
14 So in their case what
was spoken by the prophet Isaiah is being fulfilled: Listen and listen, but
never understand! Look and look, but never perceive!
15 This people's heart
has grown coarse, their ears dulled, they have shut their eyes tight to avoid
using their eyes to see, their ears to hear, their heart to understand,
changing their ways and being healed by me.
16 'But blessed are your
eyes because they see, your ears because they hear!
17 In truth I tell you,
many prophets and upright people longed to see what you see, and never saw it;
to hear what you hear, and never heard it.
18 'So pay attention to
the parable of the sower.
19 When anyone hears the
word of the kingdom without understanding, the Evil One comes and carries off
what was sown in his heart: this is the seed sown on the edge of the path.
20 The seed sown on
patches of rock is someone who hears the word and welcomes it at once with joy.
21 But such a person has
no root deep down and does not last; should some trial come, or some
persecution on account of the word, at once he falls away.
22 The seed sown in
thorns is someone who hears the word, but the worry of the world and the lure
of riches choke the word and so it produces nothing.
23 And the seed sown in
rich soil is someone who hears the word and understands it; this is the one who
yields a harvest and produces now a hundredfold, now sixty, now thirty.'
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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