Saturday, September
26, 2015
26th Sunday of
Ordinary Time – Year B
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
Numbers 11:25-29
25 Yahweh descended in
the cloud. He spoke to him and took some of the spirit that was on him and put
it on the seventy elders. When the spirit came on them they prophesied -- but
only once.
26 Two men had stayed
back in the camp; one was called Eldad and the other Medad. The spirit came
down on them; though they had not gone to the Tent, their names were enrolled
among the rest. These began to prophesy in the camp.
27 A young man ran to
tell Moses this. 'Look,' he said, 'Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the
camp.'
28 Joshua son of Nun,
who had served Moses since he was a boy, spoke up and said, 'My lord Moses,
stop them!'
29 Moses replied, 'Are
you jealous on my account? If only all Yahweh's people were prophets, and
Yahweh had given them his spirit!'
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 19:8, 10,
12-13, 14
8 The precepts of
Yahweh are honest, joy for the heart; the commandment of Yahweh is pure, light
for the eyes.
10 more desirable than
gold, even than the finest gold; his words are sweeter than honey, that drips
from the comb.
12 But who can detect
his own failings? Wash away my hidden faults.
13 And from pride
preserve your servant, never let it be my master. So shall I be above reproach,
free from grave sin.
14 May the words of my
mouth always find favour, and the whispering of my heart, in your presence,
Yahweh, my rock, my redeemer.
Second Reading
James 5:1-6
1 Well now, you rich!
Lament, weep for the miseries that are coming to you.
2 Your wealth is
rotting, your clothes are all moth-eaten.
3 All your gold and
your silver are corroding away, and the same corrosion will be a witness
against you and eat into your body. It is like a fire which you have stored up
for the final days.
4 Can you hear crying
out against you the wages which you kept back from the labourers mowing your
fields? The cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord Sabaoth.
5 On earth you have had
a life of comfort and luxury; in the time of slaughter you went on eating to
your heart's content.
6 It was you who condemned
the upright and killed them; they offered you no resistance.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
Mark 9:38-43, 45,
47-48
38 John said to him,
'Master, we saw someone who is not one of us driving out devils in your name,
and because he was not one of us we tried to stop him.'
39 But Jesus said, 'You
must not stop him; no one who works a miracle in my name could soon afterwards
speak evil of me.
40 Anyone who is not
against us is for us.
41 'If anyone gives you
a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ, then in truth I tell you,
he will most certainly not lose his reward.
42 'But anyone who is
the downfall of one of these little ones who have faith, would be better thrown
into the sea with a great millstone hung round his neck.
43 And if your hand
should be your downfall, cut it off; it is better for you to enter into life
crippled, than to have two hands and go to hell, into the fire that can never
be put out.
45 And if your foot
should be your downfall, cut it off; it is better for you enter into life lame,
than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.
47 And if your eye
should be your downfall, tear it out; it is better for you to enter into the
kingdom of God with one eye, than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell
48 where their worm will
never die nor their fire be put out.
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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