Saturday, August 30, 2014
22nd Sunday of
Ordinary Time – Year A
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
JEREMIAH 20:7-9
7 You have seduced me,
Yahweh, and I have let myself be seduced; you have overpowered me: you were the
stronger. I am a laughing-stock all day long, they all make fun of me.
8 For whenever I speak,
I have to howl and proclaim, 'Violence and ruin!' For me, Yahweh's word has
been the cause of insult and derision all day long.
9 I would say to
myself, 'I will not think about him, I will not speak in his name any more,'
but then there seemed to be a fire burning in my heart, imprisoned in my bones.
The effort to restrain it wearied me, I could not do it.
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 63:2-6, 8-9
2 Thus I have gazed on
you in the sanctuary, seeing your power and your glory.
3 Better your faithful
love than life itself; my lips will praise you.
4 Thus I will bless you
all my life, in your name lift up my hands.
5 All my longings
fulfilled as with fat and rich foods, a song of joy on my lips and praise in my
mouth.
6 On my bed when I
think of you, I muse on you in the watches of the night,
8 my heart clings to
you, your right hand supports me.
9 May those who are
hounding me to death go down to the depths of the earth,
Second Reading
Romans 12:1-2
1 I urge you, then,
brothers, remembering the mercies of God, to offer your bodies as a living
sacrifice, dedicated and acceptable to God; that is the kind of worship for
you, as sensible people.
2 Do not model your
behaviour on the contemporary world, but let the renewing of your minds
transform you, so that you may discern for yourselves what is the will of God
-- what is good and acceptable and mature.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
Matthew 16:21-27
21 From then onwards
Jesus began to make it clear to his disciples that he was destined to go to
Jerusalem and suffer grievously at the hands of the elders and chief priests
and scribes and to be put to death and to be raised up on the third day.
22 Then, taking him
aside, Peter started to rebuke him. 'Heaven preserve you, Lord,' he said, 'this
must not happen to you.'
23 But he turned and
said to Peter, 'Get behind me, Satan! You are an obstacle in my path, because
you are thinking not as God thinks but as human beings do.'
24 Then Jesus said to
his disciples, 'If anyone wants to be a follower of mine, let him renounce
himself and take up his cross and follow me.
25 Anyone who wants to
save his life will lose it; but anyone who loses his life for my sake will find
it.
26 What, then, will
anyone gain by winning the whole world and forfeiting his life? Or what can
anyone offer in exchange for his life?
27 'For the Son of man
is going to come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will
reward each one according to his behaviour.
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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