Saturday, January 03,
2015
EPIPHANY OF THE LORD
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
ISAIAH 60:1-6
1 Arise, shine out, for
your light has come, and the glory of Yahweh has risen on you.
2 Look! though night
still covers the earth and darkness the peoples, on you Yahweh is rising and
over you his glory can be seen.
3 The nations will come
to your light and kings to your dawning brightness.
4 Lift up your eyes and
look around: all are assembling and coming towards you, your sons coming from
far away and your daughters being carried on the hip.
5 At this sight you
will grow radiant, your heart will throb and dilate, since the riches of the
sea will flow to you, the wealth of the nations come to you;
6 camels in throngs
will fill your streets, the young camels of Midian and Ephah; everyone in Saba
will come, bringing gold and incense and proclaiming Yahweh's praises.
“The Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 71:2, 7-8, 10-13
2 In your saving justice rescue me, deliver me, listen
to me and save me.
7 Many were bewildered at me, but you are my sure
refuge.
8 My mouth is full of your praises, filled with your
splendour all day long.
10 for my enemies are discussing me, those with designs
on my life are plotting together.
11 'Hound him down, for God has deserted him! Seize him,
there is no one to rescue him.'
12 God, do not stand aloof, my God, come quickly to help
me.
13 Shame and ruin on those who slander me, may those
intent on harming me be covered with insult and infamy.
Second Reading
EPHESIANS 3:2-3, 5-6
2 You have surely heard the way in which God entrusted
me with the grace he gave me for your sake;
3 he made known to me by a revelation the mystery I have
just described briefly-
5 This mystery, as it is now revealed in the Spirit to
his holy apostles and prophets, was unknown to humanity in previous
generations:
6 that the gentiles now have the same inheritance and
form the same Body and enjoy the same promise in Christ Jesus through the
gospel.
“The Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
MATTHEW 2:1-12
1 After Jesus had been born at Bethlehem in Judaea
during the reign of King Herod, suddenly some wise men came to Jerusalem from
the east
2 asking, 'Where is the infant king of the Jews? We saw
his star as it rose and have come to do him homage.'
3 When King Herod heard this he was perturbed, and so
was the whole of Jerusalem.
4 He called together all the chief priests and the
scribes of the people, and enquired of them where the Christ was to be born.
5 They told him, 'At Bethlehem in Judaea, for this is
what the prophet wrote:
6 And you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, you are by
no means the least among the leaders of Judah, for from you will come a leader
who will shepherd my people Israel.'
7 Then Herod summoned the wise men to see him privately.
He asked them the exact date on which the star had appeared
8 and sent them on to Bethlehem with the words, 'Go and
find out all about the child, and when you have found him, let me know, so that
I too may go and do him homage.'
9 Having listened to what the king had to say, they set
out. And suddenly the star they had seen rising went forward and halted over
the place where the child was.
10 The sight of the star filled them with delight,
11 and going into the house they saw the child with his
mother Mary, and falling to their knees they did him homage. Then, opening
their treasures, they offered him gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh.
12 But they were given a warning in a dream not to go
back to Herod, and returned to their own country by a different way.
“The Gospel of the Lord”
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