Saturday, August 02,
2014
18th Sunday of
Ordinary Time – Year A
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
ISAIAH 55:1-3
1 Oh, 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!
2 Why 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.
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 145:8-9, 15-18
8 Yahweh is tenderness
and pity, slow to anger, full of faithful love.
9 Yahweh is generous to
all, his tenderness embraces all his creatures.
15 All look to you in
hope and you feed them with the food of the season.
16 And, with generous
hand, you satisfy the desires of every living creature.
17 Upright in all that
he does, Yahweh acts only in faithful love.
18 He is close to all
who call upon him, all who call on him from the heart.
Second Reading
ROMANS 8:35, 37-39
35 Can anything cut us
off from the love of Christ -- can hardships or distress, or persecution, or
lack of food and clothing, or threats or violence;
37 No; we come through
all these things triumphantly victorious, by the power of him who loved us.
38 For I am certain of
this: neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nothing already
in existence and nothing still to come, nor any power,
39 nor the heights nor
the depths, nor any created thing whatever, will be able to come between us and
the love of God, known to us in Christ Jesus our Lord.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
MATTHEW 14:13-21
13 When Jesus received
this news he withdrew by boat to a lonely place where they could be by
themselves. But the crowds heard of this and, leaving the towns, went after him
on foot.
14 So as he stepped
ashore he saw a large crowd; and he took pity on them and healed their sick.
15 When evening came,
the disciples went to him and said, 'This is a lonely place, and time has
slipped by; so send the people away, and they can go to the villages to buy
themselves some food.'
16 Jesus replied, 'There
is no need for them to go: give them something to eat yourselves.'
17 But they answered,
'All we have with us is five loaves and two fish.'
18 So he said, 'Bring
them here to me.'
19 He gave orders that
the people were to sit down on the grass; then he took the five loaves and the
two fish, raised his eyes to heaven and said the blessing. And breaking the
loaves he handed them to his disciples, who gave them to the crowds.
20 They all ate as much
as they wanted, and they collected the scraps left over, twelve baskets full.
21 Now about five
thousand men had eaten, to say nothing of women and children.
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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