Saturday, March 05,
2016
4th Sunday of LENT –
Year C
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
JOSHUA 5:9-12
9 Yahweh then said to
Joshua, 'Today I have taken the shame of Egypt away from you.' Hence, the place
has been called Gilgal ever since.
10 The Israelites
pitched their camp at Gilgal and kept the Passover there on the fourteenth day
of the month, at evening, in the plain of Jericho.
11 On the very next day
after the Passover, they ate what the land produced, unleavened bread and
roasted ears of corn.
12 The manna stopped the
day after they had eaten the produce of the land. The Israelites from that year
onwards ate the produce of Canaan and had no more manna.
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 34:2-3, 4-5,
6-7
2 I will praise Yahweh
from my heart; let the humble hear and rejoice.
3 Proclaim with me the
greatness of Yahweh, let us acclaim his name together.
4 I seek Yahweh and he
answers me, frees me from all my fears.
5 Fix your gaze on
Yahweh and your face will grow bright, you will never hang your head in shame.
6 A pauper calls out
and Yahweh hears, saves him from all his troubles.
7 The angel of Yahweh
encamps around those who fear him, and rescues them.
Second Reading
Second Corinthians
5:17-21
17 So for anyone who is
in Christ, there is a new creation: the old order is gone and a new being is
there to see.
18 It is all God's work;
he reconciled us to himself through Christ and he gave us the ministry of
reconciliation.
19 I mean, God was in
Christ reconciling the world to himself, not holding anyone's faults against
them, but entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
20 So we are ambassadors
for Christ; it is as though God were urging you through us, and in the name of
Christ we appeal to you to be reconciled to God.
21 For our sake he made
the sinless one a victim for sin, so that in him we might become the uprightness
of God.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
Luke 15:1-3, 11-32
1 The tax collectors
and sinners, however, were all crowding round to listen to him,
2 and the Pharisees and
scribes complained saying, 'This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.'
3 So he told them this
parable:
11 Then he said, 'There
was a man who had two sons.
12 The younger one said
to his father, "Father, let me have the share of the estate that will come
to me." So the father divided the property between them.
13 A few days later, the
younger son got together everything he had and left for a distant country where
he squandered his money on a life of debauchery.
14 'When he had spent it
all, that country experienced a severe famine, and now he began to feel the
pinch;
15 so he hired himself
out to one of the local inhabitants who put him on his farm to feed the pigs.
16 And he would
willingly have filled himself with the husks the pigs were eating but no one
would let him have them.
17 Then he came to his
senses and said, "How many of my father's hired men have all the food they
want and more, and here am I dying of hunger!
18 I will leave this
place and go to my father and say: Father, I have sinned against heaven and
against you;
19 I no longer deserve
to be called your son; treat me as one of your hired men."
20 So he left the place
and went back to his father. 'While he was still a long way off, his father saw
him and was moved with pity. He ran to the boy, clasped him in his arms and
kissed him.
21 Then his son said,
"Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I no longer deserve
to be called your son."
22 But the father said
to his servants, "Quick! Bring out the best robe and put it on him; put a
ring on his finger and sandals on his feet.
23 Bring the calf we
have been fattening, and kill it; we will celebrate by having a feast,
24 because this son of
mine was dead and has come back to life; he was lost and is found." And
they began to celebrate.
25 'Now the elder son
was out in the fields, and on his way back, as he drew near the house, he could
hear music and dancing.
26 Calling one of the
servants he asked what it was all about.
27 The servant told him,
"Your brother has come, and your father has killed the calf we had been fattening
because he has got him back safe and sound."
28 He was angry then and
refused to go in, and his father came out and began to urge him to come in;
29 but he retorted to
his father, "All these years I have slaved for you and never once
disobeyed any orders of yours, yet you never offered me so much as a kid for me
to celebrate with my friends.
30 But, for this son of
yours, when he comes back after swallowing up your property -- he and his loose
women -- you kill the calf we had been fattening."
31 'The father said,
"My son, you are with me always and all I have is yours.
32 But it was only right
we should celebrate and rejoice, because your brother here was dead and has
come to life; he was lost and is found." '
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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