(Images of Sacrament of Confirmation held at St Joseph, Plentong on 27-10-2013)
Saturday, November
08, 2014
32nd Sunday of
Ordinary Time - Year A
SACRAMENT OF
CONFIRMATION
Celebrant: Rt. Rev.
Bishop Paul Tan
6:00 pm Multilingual Mass
First Reading
GENESIS 28:11-18
11 When he had reached a
certain place, he stopped there for the night, since the sun had set. Taking
one of the stones of that place, he made it his pillow and lay down where he
was.
12 He had a dream: there
was a ladder, planted on the ground with its top reaching to heaven; and God's
angels were going up and down on it.
13 And there was Yahweh,
standing beside him and saying, 'I, Yahweh, am the God of Abraham your father,
and the God of Isaac. The ground on which you are lying I shall give to you and
your descendants.
14 Your descendants will
be as plentiful as the dust on the ground; you will spread out to west and
east, to north and south, and all clans on earth will bless themselves by you
and your descendants.
15 Be sure, I am with
you; I shall keep you safe wherever you go, and bring you back to this country,
for I shall never desert you until I have done what I have promised you.'
16 Then Jacob awoke from
his sleep and said, 'Truly, Yahweh is in this place and I did not know!'
17 He was afraid and
said, 'How awe-inspiring this place is! This is nothing less than the abode of
God, and this is the gate of heaven!'
18 Early next morning,
Jacob took the stone he had used for his pillow, and set it up as a pillar,
pouring oil over the top of it.
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 84:3, 4, 5-6,
8, 11
3 Even the sparrow has
found a home, the swallow a nest to place its young: your altars, Yahweh
Sabaoth, my King and my God.
4 How blessed are those
who live in your house; they shall praise you continually. Pause
5 Blessed those who
find their strength in you, whose hearts are set on pilgrimage.
6 As they pass through
the Valley of the Balsam, they make there a water-hole, and -- a further
blessing -- early rain fills it.
8 Yahweh, God Sabaoth,
hear my prayer, listen, God of Jacob.
11 For Yahweh God is a
rampart and shield, he gives grace and glory; Yahweh refuses nothing good to
those whose life is blameless.
Second Reading
First Corinthians
3:9-13, 16-17
9 After all, we do
share in God's work; you are God's farm, God's building.
10 By the grace of God
which was given to me, I laid the foundations like a trained master-builder,
and someone else is building on them. Now each one must be careful how he does
the building.
11 For nobody can lay
down any other foundation than the one which is there already, namely Jesus
Christ.
12 On this foundation,
different people may build in gold, silver, jewels, wood, hay or straw
16 Do you not realise
that you are a temple of God with the Spirit of God living in you?
17 If anybody should
destroy the temple of God, God will destroy that person, because God's temple
is holy; and you are that temple.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
LUKE 19:1-10
1 He entered Jericho
and was going through the town
2 and suddenly a man
whose name was Zacchaeus made his appearance; he was one of the senior tax
collectors and a wealthy man.
3 He kept trying to see
which Jesus was, but he was too short and could not see him for the crowd;
4 so he ran ahead and
climbed a sycamore tree to catch a glimpse of Jesus who was to pass that way.
5 When Jesus reached
the spot he looked up and spoke to him, 'Zacchaeus, come down. Hurry, because I am to stay at your house today.'
6 And he hurried down and welcomed him
joyfully.
7 They all complained
when they saw what was happening. 'He has gone to stay at a sinner's house,'
they said.
8 But Zacchaeus stood
his ground and said to the Lord, 'Look, sir, I am going to give half my
property to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody I will pay him back four
times the amount.'
9 And Jesus said to
him, 'Today salvation has come to this house, because this man too is a son of
Abraham;
10 for the Son of man
has come to seek out and save what was lost.'
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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