Saturday, January 02,
2016
EPIPHANY OF THE LORD
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
ISAIAH 60:1-6
1 Arise, shine out, for
your light has come, and the glory of Yahweh has risen on you.
2 Look! though night
still covers the earth and darkness the peoples, on you Yahweh is rising and
over you his glory can be seen.
3 The nations will come
to your light and kings to your dawning brightness.
4 Lift up your eyes and
look around: all are assembling and coming towards you, your sons coming from
far away and your daughters being carried on the hip.
5 At this sight you
will grow radiant, your heart will throb and dilate, since the riches of the
sea will flow to you, the wealth of the nations come to you;
6 camels in throngs
will fill your streets, the young camels of Midian and Ephah; everyone in Saba
will come, bringing gold and incense and proclaiming Yahweh's praises.
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 71:2, 7-8,
10-13
2 In your saving
justice rescue me, deliver me, listen to me and save me.
7 Many were bewildered
at me, but you are my sure refuge.
8 My mouth is full of
your praises, filled with your splendour all day long.
10 for my enemies are
discussing me, those with designs on my life are plotting together.
11 'Hound him down, for
God has deserted him! Seize him, there is no one to rescue him.'
12 God, do not stand
aloof, my God, come quickly to help me.
13 Shame and ruin on
those who slander me, may those intent on harming me be covered with insult and
infamy.
Second Reading
EPHESIANS 3:2-3, 5-6
2 You have surely heard
the way in which God entrusted me with the grace he gave me for your sake;
3 he made known to me
by a revelation the mystery I have just described briefly-
5 This mystery, as it
is now revealed in the Spirit to his holy apostles and prophets, was unknown to
humanity in previous generations:
6 that the gentiles now
have the same inheritance and form the same Body and enjoy the same promise in
Christ Jesus through the gospel.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
MATTHEW 2:1-12
1 After Jesus had been
born at Bethlehem in Judaea during the reign of King Herod, suddenly some wise
men came to Jerusalem from the east
2 asking, 'Where is the
infant king of the Jews? We saw his star as it rose and have come to do him
homage.'
3 When King Herod heard
this he was perturbed, and so was the whole of Jerusalem.
4 He called together
all the chief priests and the scribes of the people, and enquired of them where
the Christ was to be born.
5 They told him, 'At
Bethlehem in Judaea, for this is what the prophet wrote:
6 And you, Bethlehem,
in the land of Judah, you are by no means the least among the leaders of Judah,
for from you will come a leader who will shepherd my people Israel.'
7 Then Herod summoned
the wise men to see him privately. He asked them the exact date on which the
star had appeared
8 and sent them on to
Bethlehem with the words, 'Go and find out all about the child, and when you
have found him, let me know, so that I too may go and do him homage.'
9 Having listened to
what the king had to say, they set out. And suddenly the star they had seen
rising went forward and halted over the place where the child was.
10 The sight of the star
filled them with delight,
11 and going into the
house they saw the child with his mother Mary, and falling to their knees they
did him homage. Then, opening their treasures, they offered him gifts of gold
and frankincense and myrrh.
12 But they were given a
warning in a dream not to go back to Herod, and returned to their own country
by a different way.
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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