Saturday, November 07,
2015
32nd Sunday of
Ordinary Time – Year B
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass
First Reading
First Kings 17:10-16
10 So he went off to
Sidon. And when he reached the city gate, there was a widow gathering sticks.
Addressing her he said, 'Please bring a little water in a pitcher for me to
drink.'
11 She was on her way to
fetch it when he called after her. 'Please', he said, 'bring me a scrap of
bread in your hand.'
12 'As Yahweh your God
lives,' she replied, 'I have no baked bread, but only a handful of meal in a
jar and a little oil in a jug; I am just gathering a stick or two to go and
prepare this for myself and my son to eat, and then we shall die.'
13 But Elijah said to
her, 'Do not be afraid, go and do as you have said; but first make a little
scone of it for me and bring it to me, and then make some for yourself and for
your son.
14 For Yahweh, God of
Israel, says this: Jar of meal shall not be spent, jug of oil shall not be
emptied, before the day when Yahweh sends rain on the face of the earth.'
15 The woman went and
did as Elijah told her and they ate the food, she, himself and her son.
16 The jar of meal was
not spent nor the jug of oil emptied, just as Yahweh had foretold through
Elijah.
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 146:7, 8-9,
9-10
7 gives justice to the
oppressed, gives food to the hungry; Yahweh sets prisoners free.
8 Yahweh gives sight to
the blind, lifts up those who are bowed down.
9 Yahweh protects the
stranger, he sustains the orphan and the widow. Yahweh loves the upright,but he
frustrates the wicked.
10 Yahweh reigns for
ever, your God, Zion, from age to age.
Second Reading
Hebrews 9:24-28
24 It is not as though
Christ had entered a man-made sanctuary which was merely a model of the real
one; he entered heaven itself, so that he now appears in the presence of God on
our behalf.
25 And he does not have
to offer himself again and again, as the high priest goes into the sanctuary
year after year with the blood that is not his own,
26 or else he would have
had to suffer over and over again since the world began. As it is, he has made
his appearance once and for all, at the end of the last age, to do away with
sin by sacrificing himself.
27 Since human beings
die only once, after which comes judgement,
28 so Christ too, having
offered himself only once to bear the sin of many, will manifest himself a
second time, sin being no more, to those who are waiting for him, to bring them
salvation.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
Mark 12:38-44
38 In his teaching he
said, 'Beware of the scribes who like to walk about in long robes, to be
greeted respectfully in the market squares,
39 to take the front
seats in the synagogues and the places of honour at banquets;
40 these are the men who
devour the property of widows and for show offer long prayers. The more severe
will be the sentence they receive.'
41 He sat down opposite
the treasury and watched the people putting money into the treasury, and many
of the rich put in a great deal.
42 A poor widow came and
put in two small coins, the equivalent of a penny.
43 Then he called his
disciples and said to them, 'In truth I tell you, this poor widow has put more
in than all who have contributed to the treasury;
44 for they have all put
in money they could spare, but she in her poverty has put in everything she
possessed, all she had to live on.'
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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