13TH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME (YEAR B) – JUNE 28, 2015

Saturday, June 27, 2015

13th Sunday of Ordinary Time – Year B

5:00 pm  Novena to Our Lady

5:30 pm  Sunset Mass in English

First Reading

WISDOM 1:13-15, 2:23-24

13 For God did not make Death, he takes no pleasure in destroying the living.

14 To exist -- for this he created all things; the creatures of the world have health in them, in them is no fatal poison, and Hades has no power over the world:

15 for uprightness is immortal.

23 For God created human beings to be immortal, he made them as an image of his own nature;

24 Death came into the world only through the Devil's envy, as those who belong to him find to their COST.

“The Word of the Lord”

PSALMS 30:2, 4, 5-6, 11, 12, 13

2 Yahweh, my God, I cried to you for help and you healed me.

4 Make music for Yahweh, all you who are faithful to him, praise his unforgettable holiness.

5 His anger lasts but A moment, his favour through life; In the evening come tears, but with dawn cries of joy.

6 Carefree, I used to think, 'Nothing can ever shake me!'

11 You have turned my mourning into dancing, you have stripped off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy.

12 So my heart will sing to you unceasingly, Yahweh, my God, I shall praise you for ever.

Second Reading

2 CORINTHIANS 8:7, 9, 13-15

7 More, as you are rich in everything-faith, eloquence, understanding, concern for everything, and love for us too -- then make sure that you excel in this WORK of generosity too.

9 You are well aware of the generosity which our Lord Jesus Christ had, that, although he was rich, he became poor for your sake, so that you should become rich through his poverty.

13 It is not that you ought to relieve other people's needs and leave yourselves in hardship; but there should be A fair balance-

14 your surplus at present may fill their deficit, and another time their surplus may fill your deficit. So there may be A fair balance;

15 as scripture says: No one who had collected more had too much, no one who collected less had too little.

‘The Word of the Lord”

Gospel Reading

MARK 5:21-43

21 When Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, A large crowd gathered round him and he stayed by the lake.

22 Then the president of the synagogue came up, named Jairus, and seeing him, fell at his feet

23 and begged him earnestly, saying, 'My little daughter is desperately sick. Do come and lay your hands on her that she may be SAVED and may live.'

24 Jesus went with him and A large crowd followed him; they were pressing all round him.

25 Now there was a woman who had suffered from a haemorrhage for twelve years;

26 after long and painful treatment under various doctors, she had spent all she had without being any the better for it; in fact, she was GETTING worse.

27 She had heard about Jesus, and she came up through the crowd and touched his cloak from behind, thinking,

28 'If I can just touch his clothes, I shall be SAVED.'

29 And at once the source of the bleeding dried up, and she felt in herself that she was cured of her complaint.

30 And at once aware of the power that had gone out from him, Jesus turned round in the crowd and said, 'Who touched my clothes?'

31 His disciples said to him, 'You see how the crowd is pressing round you; how can you ask, "Who touched me?" '

32 But he continued to look all round to see who had done it.

33 Then the woman came forward, frightened and trembling because she knew what had happened to her, and she fell at his feet and told him the whole truth.

34 'My daughter,' he said, 'your faith has restored you to health; go in peace and be FREE of your complaint.'

35 While he was still speaking some people arrived from the house of the president of the synagogue to say, 'Your daughter is dead; why put the Master to any further trouble?'

36 But Jesus overheard what they said and he said to the president of the synagogue, 'Do not be afraid; only have faith.'

37 And he allowed no one to go with him except Peter and James and John the brother of James.

38 So they came to the house of the president of the synagogue, and Jesus noticed all the commotion, with people weeping and wailing unrestrainedly.

39 He went in and said to them, 'Why all this commotion and crying? The child is not dead, but asleep.'

40 But they ridiculed him. So he turned them all out and, taking with him the child's father and mother and his own companions, he went into the place where the child lay.

41 And taking the child by the hand he said to her, 'Talitha kum!' which means, 'Little girl, I tell you to GET up.'

42 The little girl got up at once and began to walk about, for she was twelve years old. At once they were overcome with astonishment,

43 and he gave them strict ORDERS not to let anyone know about it, and told them to give her something to eat.

“The Gospel of the Lord”

12TH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME (YEAR B) – JUNE 21, 2015

Saturday, June 20, 2015

12th Sunday of Ordinary Time – Year B

5:00 pm  Novena to Our Lady

5:30 pm  Sunset Mass in English

First Reading

JOB 38:1, 8-11

1 Then from the heart of the tempest Yahweh gave Job his answer. He said:

8 Who pent up the sea behind closed doors when it leapt tumultuous from the womb,

9 when I wrapped it in A robe of mist and made black clouds its swaddling bands;

10 when I cut out the place I had decreed for it and imposed gates and A bolt?

11 'Come so far,' I said, 'and no further; here your proud waves must break!'

“The Word of the Lord”

PSALMS 107:23-26, 28-31

23 Voyagers on the sea in ships, plying their TRADE on the great ocean,

24 have seen the WORKS of Yahweh, his wonders in the deep.

25 By his word he raised A storm-wind, lashing up towering waves.

26 Up to the sky then down to the depths! Their stomachs were turned to water;

28 They cried out to Yahweh in their distress, he rescued them from their plight,

29 he reduced the storm to A calm, and all the waters subsided,

30 and he brought them, overjoyed at the stillness, to the port where they were bound.

31 Let them thank Yahweh for his faithful love, for his wonders for the children of Adam!

Second Reading

2 CORINTHIANS 5:14-17

14 For the love of Christ overwhelms us when we consider that if one man died for all, then all have died;

15 his purpose in dying for all humanity was that those who live should live not any more for themselves, but for him who died and was raised to life.

16 From now onwards, then, we will not consider anyone by human STANDARDS: even if we were once familiar with Christ according to human STANDARDS, we do not know him in that way any longer.

17 So for anyone who is in Christ, there is ANEW creation: the old order is gone and a new being is there to see.

“The Word of the Lord”

Gospel Reading

MARK 4:35-41

35 With the coming of evening that same day, he said to them, 'Let us cross over to the other side.'

36 And leaving the crowd behind they took him, just as he was, in the boat; and there were other boats with him.

37 Then it began to blow A great gale and the waves were breaking into the boat so that it was almost swamped.

38 But he was in the stern, his head on the cushion, asleep.

39 They woke him and said to him, 'Master, do you not care? We are lost!' And he woke up and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, 'Quiet now! Be calm!' And the wind dropped, and there followed a great calm.

40 Then he said to them, 'Why are you so frightened? Have you still no faith?'

41 They were overcome with awe and said to one another, 'Who can this be? Even the wind and the sea obey him.'

“The Gospel of the Lord”

11TH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME (YEAR B) – JUNE 14, 2015

Saturday, June 13, 2015

11th Sunday of Ordinary Time – Year B

5:00 pm  Novena to Our Lady

5:30 pm  Sunset Mass in English

First Reading

EZEKIEL 17:22-24

22 "The Lord Yahweh says this: From the TOP of the tall cedar tree, from the highest branch I shall take a shoot and plant it myself on a high and lofty mountain.

23 I shall plant it on the highest mountain in Israel. It will put out branches and bear fruit and grow into a noble cedar tree. Every kind of bird will live beneath it, every kind of winged creature will rest in the shade of its branches.

24 And all the trees of the countryside will know that I, Yahweh, am the one who lays the tall tree low and raises the low tree high, who MAKES the green tree wither and makes the withered bear fruit. I, Yahweh, have spoken, and I will do it." '

“The Word of the Lord”

PSALMS 92:2-3, 13-14, 15-16

2 to proclaim your faithful love at daybreak, and your constancy all through the night,

3 on the lyre, the ten-stringed lyre, to the murmur of the harp.

13 Planted in the house of Yahweh, they will flourish in the courts of our God.

14 In old age they will still bear fruit, will remain fresh and green,

15 to proclaim Yahweh's integrity; my rock, in whom no fault can be found.

Second Reading

2 CORINTHIANS 5:6-10

6 We are always full of confidence, then, realising that as long as we are at home in the body we are exiled from the Lord,

7 guided by faith and not yet by sight;

8 we are full of confidence, then, and long instead to be exiled from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

9 And so whether at home or exiled, we MAKE it our ambition to please him.

10 For at the judgement seat of Christ we are all to be seen for what we are, so that each of us may receive what he has deserved in the body, matched to whatever he has done, good or bad.

“The Word of the Lord”

Gospel Reading

MARK 4:26-34

26 He also said, 'This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the land.

27 Night and day, while he sleeps, when he is awake, the seed is sprouting and growing; how, he does not know.

28 Of its own accord the land produces first the shoot, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.

29 And when the crop is ready, at once he STARTS to reap because the harvest has come.'

30 He also said, 'What can we say that the kingdom is like? What parable can we find for it?

31 It is like a mustard seed which, at the time of its sowing, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth.

32 Yet once it is sown it grows into the biggest shrub of them all AND PUTS out big branches so that the birds of the air can shelter in its shade.'

33 Using many parables like these, he spoke the word to them, so far as they were capable of understanding it.

34 He would not speak to them except in parables, but he explained everything to his disciples when they were by themselves.

“The Gospel of the Lord”

Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of the Lord (Year B) - June 07, 2015

Saturday, June 06, 2015

Corpus Christi – Year B

5:30 pm   Multilingual Mass and Procession

First Reading

EXODUS 24:3-8

3 Moses went and told the people all Yahweh's words and all the laws, and all the people answered with one voice, 'All the words Yahweh has spoken we will CARRY out!'

4 Moses put all Yahweh's words into writing, and early next morning he built an altar at the foot of the mountain, with twelve standing-stones for the twelve tribes of Israel.

5 Then he SENT certain young Israelites to OFFER burnt offerings and sacrifice bullocks to Yahweh as communion sacrifices.

6 Moses then took half the blood AND PUT it into basins, and the other half he sprinkled on the altar.

7 Then, taking the BOOK of the Covenant, he read it to the listening people, who then said, 'We shall do everything that Yahweh has said; we shall obey.'

8 Moses then took the blood and sprinkled it over the people, saying, 'This is the blood of the covenant which Yahweh has made with you, entailing all these stipulations.'

“The Word of the Lord”

PSALMS 115:12-13, 15-18

12 Yahweh will keep us in mind, he will bless, he will bless the House of Israel, he will bless the House of Aaron,

13 he will bless those who fear Yahweh, small and great alike.

15 May you be blessed by Yahweh, who made heaven and earth.

16 Heaven belongs to Yahweh, but earth he has given to the children of Adam.

17 The dead cannot praise Yahweh, those who sink into silence,

18 but we, the living, shall bless Yahweh, henceforth and for ever.

Second Reading

HEBREWS 9:11-15

11 But now Christ has come, as the high priest of all the blessings which were to come. He has PASSED through the greater, the more perfect tent, not made by human hands, that is, not of this created order;

12 and he has entered the sanctuary once and for all, taking with him not the blood of goats and bull calves, but his own blood, having won an eternal redemption.

13 The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkled on those who have incurred defilement, may restore their bodily purity.

14 How much more will the blood of Christ, who OFFERED himself, blameless as he was, to God through the eternal Spirit, purify our conscience from dead actions so that we can worship the living God.

15 This makes him the mediator of a NEW covenant, so that, now that a death has occurred to redeem the sins committed under an earlier covenant, those who have been called to an eternal inheritance may receive the promise.

“The Word of the Lord”

Gospel Reading

MARK 14:12-16, 22-26

12 On the first day of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb was sacrificed, his disciples said to him, 'Where do you want us to go and make the preparations for you to eat the Passover?'

13 So he sent two of his disciples, saying to them, 'Go into the CITY and you will meet a man CARRYING a pitcher of water. Follow him,

14 and say to the owner of the house which he enters, "The Master says: Where is the room for me to eat the Passover with my disciples?"

15 He will show you a large upper room furnished with couches, all prepared. Make the preparations for us there.'

16 The disciples set out and went to the CITY and found everything as he had told them, and prepared the Passover.

22 And as they were eating he took bread, and when he had said the blessing he broke it and gave it to them. 'Take it,' he said, 'this is my body.'

23 Then he took A cup, and when he had given thanks he handed it to them, and all drank from it,

24 and he said to them, 'This is my blood, the blood of the covenant, poured out for many.

25 In truth I tell you, I shall never drink wine any more until the day I drink the NEW wine in the kingdom of God.'

26 After the psalms had been sung they left for the Mount of Olives.

“The Gospel of the Lord”