Saturday, September
12, 2015
24th Sunday of
Ordinary Time – Year B
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
Isaiah 50:4-9
4 Lord Yahweh has given
me a disciple's tongue, for me to know how to give a word of comfort to the
weary. Morning by morning he makes my ear alert to listen like a disciple.
5 Lord Yahweh has
opened my ear and I have not resisted, I have not turned away.
6 I have offered my
back to those who struck me, my cheeks to those who plucked my beard; I have
not turned my face away from insult and spitting.
7 Lord Yahweh comes to
my help, this is why insult has not touched me, this is why I have set my face
like flint and know that I shall not be put to shame.
8 He who grants me
saving justice is near! Who will bring a case against me? Let us appear in
court together! Who has a case against me? Let him approach me!
9 Look, Lord Yahweh is
coming to my help! Who dares condemn me? Look at them, all falling apart like
moth-eaten clothes!
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 116:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9
1 Alleluia! I am filled
with love when Yahweh listens to the sound of my prayer,
2 when he bends down to
hear me, as I call.
3 The bonds of death
were all round me, the snares of Sheol held me fast; distress and anguish held
me in their grip,
4 I called on the name
of Yahweh. Deliver me, Yahweh, I beg you.
5 Yahweh is merciful
and upright, our God is tenderness.
6 Yahweh looks after
the simple, when I was brought low he gave me strength.
8 He has rescued me
from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from stumbling.
9 I shall pass my life
in the presence of Yahweh, in the land of the living.
Second Reading
James 2:14-18
14 How does it help, my
brothers, when someone who has never done a single good act claims to have
faith? Will that faith bring salvation?
15 If one of the
brothers or one of the sisters is in need of clothes and has not enough food to
live on,
16 and one of you says
to them, 'I wish you well; keep yourself warm and eat plenty,' without giving
them these bare necessities of life, then what good is that?
17 In the same way
faith, if good deeds do not go with it, is quite dead.
18 But someone may say:
So you have faith and I have good deeds? Show me this faith of yours without
deeds, then! It is by my deeds that I will show you my faith.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
Mark 8:27-35
27 Jesus and his
disciples left for the villages round Caesarea Philippi. On the way he put this
question to his disciples, 'Who do people say I am?'
28 And they told him,
'John the Baptist, others Elijah, others again, one of the prophets.'
29 'But you,' he asked
them, 'who do you say I am?' Peter spoke up and said to him, 'You are the
Christ.'
30 And he gave them
strict orders not to tell anyone about him.
31 Then he began to
teach them that the Son of man was destined to suffer grievously, and to be
rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes, and to be put to
death, and after three days to rise again;
32 and he said all this
quite openly. Then, taking him aside, Peter tried to rebuke him.
33 But, turning and
seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said to him, 'Get behind me, Satan!
You are thinking not as God thinks, but as human beings do.'
34 He called the people
and his disciples to him and said, 'If anyone wants to be a follower of mine,
let him renounce himself and take up his cross and follow me.
35 Anyone who wants to
save his life will lose it; but anyone who loses his life for my sake, and for
the sake of the gospel, will save it.
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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