Saturday, August 29,
2015
22nd Sunday of
Ordinary Time – Year B
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
Deuteronomy 4:1-2,
6-8
1 'And now, Israel,
listen to the laws and customs which I am teaching you today, so that, by
observing them, you may survive to enter and take possession of the country
which Yahweh, God of your ancestors, is giving you.
2 You must add nothing
to what I command you, and take nothing from it, but keep the commandments of
Yahweh your God just as I lay them down for you.
6 Keep them, put them
into practice, and other peoples will admire your wisdom and prudence. Once
they know what all these laws are, they will exclaim, "No other people is
as wise and prudent as this great nation!"
7 And indeed, what
great nation has its gods as near as Yahweh our God is to us whenever we call
to him?
8 And what great nation
has laws and customs as upright as the entirety of this Law which I am laying
down for you today?
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 15:2-3, 3-4, 4-5
2 Whoever lives
blamelessly, who acts uprightly, who speaks the truth from the heart,
3 who keeps the tongue
under control, who does not wrong a comrade, who casts no discredit on a neighbour,
4 who looks with scorn
on the vile, but honours those who fear Yahweh, who stands by an oath at any
cost,
5 who asks no interest
on loans, who takes no bribe to harm the innocent. No one who so acts can ever
be shaken.
Second Reading
James 1:17-18, 21-22,
27
17 all that is good, all
that is perfect, is given us from above; it comes down from the Father of all
light; with him there is no such thing as alteration, no shadow caused by
change.
18 By his own choice he
gave birth to us by the message of the truth so that we should be a sort of
first-fruits of all his creation.
21 so do away with all
impurities and remnants of evil. Humbly welcome the Word which has been planted
in you and can save your souls.
22 But you must do what
the Word tells you and not just listen to it and deceive yourselves.
27 Pure, unspoilt
religion, in the eyes of God our Father, is this: coming to the help of orphans
and widows in their hardships, and keeping oneself uncontaminated by the world.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
Mark 7:1-8, 14-15,
21-23
1 The Pharisees and
some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered round him,
2 and they noticed that
some of his disciples were eating with unclean hands, that is, without washing
them.
3 For the Pharisees,
and all the Jews, keep the tradition of the elders and never eat without
washing their arms as far as the elbow;
4 and on returning from
the market place they never eat without first sprinkling themselves. There are
also many other observances which have been handed down to them to keep,
concerning the washing of cups and pots and bronze dishes.
5 So the Pharisees and
scribes asked him, 'Why do your disciples not respect the tradition of the
elders but eat their food with unclean hands?'
6 He answered, 'How
rightly Isaiah prophesied about you hypocrites in the passage of scripture:
This people honours me only with lip-service, while their hearts are far from
me.
7 Their reverence of me
is worthless; the lessons they teach are nothing but human commandments.
8 You put aside the
commandment of God to observe human traditions.'
14 He called the people
to him again and said, 'Listen to me, all of you, and understand.
15 Nothing that goes
into someone from outside can make that person unclean; it is the things that
come out of someone that make that person unclean.
21 For it is from
within, from the heart, that evil intentions emerge: fornication, theft,
murder,
22 adultery, avarice,
malice, deceit, indecency, envy, slander, pride, folly.
23 All these evil things
come from within and make a person unclean.'
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
