Saturday, January 30,
2016
Fourth Sunday of
Ordinary Time – Year C
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
Jeremiah 1:4-5, 17-19
4 The word of Yahweh
came to me, saying:
5 'Before I formed you
in the womb I knew you; before you came to birth I consecrated you; I appointed
you as prophet to the nations.'
17 'As for you, prepare
yourself for action. Stand up and tell them all I command you. Have no fear of
them and in their presence I will make you fearless.
18 For look, today I
have made you into a fortified city, a pillar of iron, a wall of bronze to stand
against the whole country: the kings of Judah, its princes, its priests and the
people of the country.
19 They will fight
against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you, Yahweh declares, to
rescue you.'
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 71:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 15-17
1 In you, Yahweh, I
take refuge, I shall never be put to shame.
2 In your saving
justice rescue me, deliver me, listen to me and save me.
3 Be a sheltering rock
for me, always accessible; you have determined to save me, for you are my rock,
my fortress.
4 My God, rescue me
from the clutches of the wicked, from the grasp of the rogue and the ruthless.
5 For you are my hope,
Lord, my trust, Yahweh, since boyhood.
6 On you I have relied
since my birth, since my mother's womb you have been my portion, the constant
theme of my praise.
15 My lips shall
proclaim your saving justice, your saving power all day long.
16 I will come in the
power of Yahweh to tell of your justice, yours alone.
17 God, you have taught
me from boyhood, and I am still proclaiming your marvels.
Second Reading
First Corinthians
12:31, 13:13,
31 Set your mind on the
higher gifts. And now I am going to put before you the best way of all.
13 As
it is, these remain: faith, hope and love, the three of them; and the greatest
of them is love.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
Luke 4:21-30
21 Then he began to
speak to them, 'This text is being fulfilled today even while you are
listening.'
22 And he won the
approval of all, and they were astonished by the gracious words that came from
his lips. They said, 'This is Joseph's son, surely?'
23 But he replied, 'No
doubt you will quote me the saying, "Physician, heal yourself," and
tell me, "We have heard all that happened in Capernaum, do the same here
in your own country." '
24 And he went on, 'In
truth I tell you, no prophet is ever accepted in his own country.
25 'There were many
widows in Israel, I can assure you, in Elijah's day, when heaven remained shut
for three years and six months and a great famine raged throughout the land,
26 but Elijah was not
sent to any one of these: he was sent to a widow at Zarephath, a town in
Sidonia.
27 And in the prophet
Elisha's time there were many suffering from virulent skin-diseases in Israel,
but none of these was cured -- only Naaman the Syrian.'
28 When they heard this
everyone in the synagogue was enraged.
29 They sprang to their
feet and hustled him out of the town; and they took him up to the brow of the
hill their town was built on, intending to throw him off the cliff,
30 but he passed
straight through the crowd and walked away.
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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