Saturday, January 23,
2016
Third Sunday of
Ordinary Time – Year C
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
Nehemiah 8:2-4, 5-6,
8-10
2 Accordingly, on the
first day of the seventh month, the priest Ezra brought the Law before the
assembly, consisting of men, women and all those old enough to understand.
3 In the square in
front of the Water Gate, in the presence of the men and women, and of those old
enough to understand, he read from the book from dawn till noon; all the people
listened attentively to the Book of the Law.
4 The scribe Ezra stood
on a wooden dais erected for the purpose; beside him stood, on his right,
Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah and Maaseiah; on his left, Pedaiah,
Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam.
5 In full view of all
the people -- since he stood higher than them all -- Ezra opened the book; and
when he opened it, all the people stood up.
6 Then Ezra blessed
Yahweh, the great God, and all the people raised their hands and answered,
'Amen! Amen!'; then they bowed down and, face to the ground, prostrated
themselves before Yahweh.
8 Ezra read from the
book of the Law of God, translating and giving the sense; so the reading was
understood.
9 Then His Excellency
Nehemiah and the priest-scribe Ezra and the Levites who were instructing the
people said to all the people, 'Today is sacred to Yahweh your God. Do not be
mournful, do not weep.' For the people were all in tears as they listened to
the words of the Law.
10 He then said, 'You
may go; eat what is rich, drink what is sweet and send a helping to the man who
has nothing prepared. For today is sacred to our Lord. Do not be sad: the joy
of Yahweh is your stronghold.'
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 19:8, 9, 10,
15
8 The precepts of
Yahweh are honest, joy for the heart; the commandment of Yahweh is pure, light
for the eyes.
9 The fear of Yahweh is
pure, lasting for ever; the judgements of Yahweh are true, upright, every one,
10 more desirable than
gold, even than the finest gold; his words are sweeter than honey, that drips
from the comb.
Second Reading
First Corinthians
12:12-30
12 For as with the human
body which is a unity although it has many parts -- all the parts of the body,
though many, still making up one single body -- so it is with Christ.
13 We were baptised into
one body in a single Spirit, Jews as well as Greeks, slaves as well as free
men, and we were all given the same Spirit to drink.
14 And indeed the body
consists not of one member but of many.
15 If the foot were to
say, 'I am not a hand and so I do not belong to the body,' it does not belong
to the body any the less for that.
16 Or if the ear were to
say, 'I am not an eye, and so I do not belong to the body,' that would not stop
its belonging to the body.
17 If the whole body
were just an eye, how would there be any hearing? If the whole body were
hearing, how would there be any smelling?
18 As it is, God has put
all the separate parts into the body as he chose.
19 If they were all the
same part, how could it be a body?
20 As it is, the parts
are many but the body is one.
21 The eye cannot say to
the hand, 'I have no need of you,' and nor can the head say to the feet, 'I
have no need of you.'
22 What is more, it is
precisely the parts of the body that seem to be the weakest which are the
indispensable ones.
23 It is the parts of
the body which we consider least dignified that we surround with the greatest
dignity; and our less presentable parts are given greater presentability
24 which our presentable
parts do not need. God has composed the body so that greater dignity is given
to the parts which were without it,
25 and so that there may
not be disagreements inside the body but each part may be equally concerned for
all the others.
26 If one part is hurt,
all the parts share its pain. And if one part is honoured, all the parts share
its joy.
27 Now Christ's body is
yourselves, each of you with a part to play in the whole.
28 And those whom God
has appointed in the Church are, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly
teachers; after them, miraculous powers, then gifts of healing, helpful acts,
guidance, various kinds of tongues.
29 Are all of them
apostles? Or all prophets? Or all teachers? Or all miracle-workers?
30 Do all have the gifts
of healing? Do all of them speak in tongues and all interpret them?
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
Luke 1:1-4, 4:14-21
1 Seeing that many
others have undertaken to draw up accounts of the events that have reached
their fulfilment among us,
2 as these were handed
down to us by those who from the outset were eyewitnesses and ministers of the
word,
3 I in my turn, after
carefully going over the whole story from the beginning, have decided to write
an ordered account for you, Theophilus,
4 so that your
Excellency may learn how well founded the teaching is that you have received.
14 Jesus, with the power
of the Spirit in him, returned to Galilee; and his reputation spread throughout
the countryside.
15 He taught in their
synagogues and everyone glorified him.
16 He came to Nazara,
where he had been brought up, and went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day as
he usually did. He stood up to read,
17 and they handed him
the scroll of the prophet Isaiah. Unrolling the scroll he found the place where
it is written:
18 The spirit of the
Lord is on me, for he has anointed me to bring the good news to the afflicted.
He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives, sight to the blind, to let the
oppressed go free,
19 to proclaim a year of
favour from the Lord.
20 He then rolled up the
scroll, gave it back to the assistant and sat down. And all eyes in the
synagogue were fixed on him.
21 Then he began to
speak to them, 'This text is being fulfilled today even while you are
listening.'
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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