Saturday, August 22,
2015
21st Sunday of
Ordinary Time – Year B
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
Joshua 24:1-2, 15-17,
18
1 Joshua gathered all
the tribes of Israel together at Shechem; he then summoned all the elders of
Israel, its leaders, judges and officials, and they presented themselves in
God's presence.
2 Joshua then said to
all the people: 'Yahweh, the God of Israel, says this, "From time
immemorial, your ancestors, Terah, father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond
the River, and served other gods.
15 But if serving Yahweh
seems a bad thing to you, today you must make up your minds whom you do mean to
serve, whether the gods whom your ancestors served beyond the River, or the
gods of the Amorites in whose country you are now living. As regards my family
and me, we shall serve Yahweh.'
16 The people replied,
'Far be it from us to desert Yahweh and to serve other gods!
17 Yahweh our God was
the one who brought us and our ancestors here from Egypt, from the place of
slave-labour, who worked those great wonders before our eyes and who kept us
safe all along the way we travelled and among all the peoples through whom we passed.
18 And Yahweh has driven
all the nations out for us, including the Amorites who used to live in the
country. We too shall serve Yahweh, for he is our God.'
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 34:2-3, 16-17,
18-19, 20-21, 22-23
2 I will praise Yahweh
from my heart; let the humble hear and rejoice.
3 Proclaim with me the
greatness of Yahweh, let us acclaim his name together.
16 But Yahweh's face is
set against those who do evil, to cut off the memory of them from the earth.
17 They cry in anguish
and Yahweh hears, and rescues them from all their troubles.
18 Yahweh is near to the
broken-hearted, he helps those whose spirit is crushed.
19 Though hardships
without number beset the upright, Yahweh brings rescue from them all.
20 Yahweh takes care of
all their bones, not one of them will be broken.
21 But to the wicked
evil brings death, those who hate the upright will pay the penalty.
22 Yahweh ransoms the
lives of those who serve him, and there will be no penalty for those who take
refuge in him.
Second Reading
Ephesians 5:21-32
21 Be subject to one
another out of reverence for Christ.
22 Wives should be
subject to their husbands as to the Lord,
23 since, as Christ is
head of the Church and saves the whole body, so is a husband the head of his
wife;
24 and as the Church is
subject to Christ, so should wives be to their husbands, in everything.
25 Husbands should love
their wives, just as Christ loved the Church and sacrificed himself for her
26 to make her holy by
washing her in cleansing water with a form of words,
27 so that when he took
the Church to himself she would be glorious, with no speck or wrinkle or
anything like that, but holy and faultless.
28 In the same way,
husbands must love their wives as they love their own bodies; for a man to love
his wife is for him to love himself.
29 A man never hates his
own body, but he feeds it and looks after it; and that is the way Christ treats
the Church,
30 because we are parts
of his Body.
31 This is why a man
leaves his father and mother and becomes attached to his wife, and the two
become one flesh.
32 This mystery has
great significance, but I am applying it to Christ and the Church.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
John 6:60-69
60 After hearing it,
many of his followers said, 'This is intolerable language. How could anyone
accept it?'
61 Jesus was aware that
his followers were complaining about it and said, 'Does this disturb you?
62 What if you should
see the Son of man ascend to where he was before?
63 'It is the spirit
that gives life, the flesh has nothing to offer. The words I have spoken to you
are spirit and they are life.
64 'But there are some
of you who do not believe.' For Jesus knew from the outset who did not believe
and who was to betray him.
65 He went on, 'This is
why I told you that no one could come to me except by the gift of the Father.'
66 After this, many of
his disciples went away and accompanied him no more.
67 Then Jesus said to
the Twelve, 'What about you, do you want to go away too?'
68 Simon Peter answered,
'Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the message of eternal life,
69 and we believe; we
have come to know that you are the Holy One of God.'
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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