Saturday, September 13,
2014
24th Sunday of
Ordinary Time – Year A
Feast of the
Exaltation of the Holy Cross
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
NUMBERS 21:4-9
4 They left Mount Hor
by the road to the Sea of Suph, to skirt round Edom. On the way the people lost
patience.
5 They spoke against
God and against Moses, 'Why did you bring us out of Egypt to die in the desert?
For there is neither food nor water here; we are sick of this meagre diet.'
6 At this, God sent
fiery serpents among the people; their bite brought death to many in Israel.
7 The people came and
said to Moses, 'We have sinned by speaking against Yahweh and against you.
Intercede for us with Yahweh to save us from these serpents.' Moses interceded
for the people,
8 and Yahweh replied,
'Make a fiery serpent and raise it as a standard. Anyone who is bitten and
looks at it will survive.'
9 Moses then made a
serpent out of bronze and raised it as a standard, and anyone who was bitten by
a serpent and looked at the bronze serpent survived.
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 78:1-2, 34-38
1 [Psalm Of Asaph] My
people, listen to my teaching, pay attention to what I say.
2 I will speak to you
in poetry, unfold the mysteries of the past.
34 Whenever he
slaughtered them, they began to seek him, they turned back and looked eagerly
for him,
35 recalling that God
was their rock, God the Most High, their redeemer.
36 They tried to
hoodwink him with their mouths, their tongues were deceitful towards him;
37 their hearts were not
loyal to him, they were not faithful to his covenant.
38 But in his compassion
he forgave their guilt instead of killing them, time and again repressing his
anger instead of rousing his full wrath,
Second Reading
Philippians 2:6-11
6 Who, being in the
form of God, did not count equality with God something to be grasped.
7 But he emptied
himself, taking the form of a slave, becoming as human beings are; and being in
every way like a human being,
8 he was humbler yet,
even to accepting death, death on a cross.
9 And for this God
raised him high, and gave him the name which is above all other names;
10 so that all beings in
the heavens, on earth and in the underworld, should bend the knee at the name
of Jesus
11 and that every tongue
should acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
John 3:13-17
13 No one has gone up to
heaven except the one who came down from heaven, the Son of man;
14 as Moses lifted up
the snake in the desert, so must the Son of man be lifted up
15 so that everyone who
believes may have eternal life in him.
16 For this is how God
loved the world: he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may
not perish but may have eternal life.
17 For God sent his Son
into the world not to judge the world, but so that through him the world might
be saved.
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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