Saturday, February 27,
2016
3rd Sunday of LENT –
Year C
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
Exodus 3:1-8, 13-15
1 Moses was looking
after the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led it to
the far side of the desert and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
2 The angel of Yahweh
appeared to him in a flame blazing from the middle of a bush. Moses looked;
there was the bush blazing, but the bush was not being burnt up.
3 Moses said, 'I must
go across and see this strange sight, and why the bush is not being burnt up.'
4 When Yahweh saw him
going across to look, God called to him from the middle of the bush. 'Moses,
Moses!' he said. 'Here I am,' he answered.
5 'Come no nearer,' he
said. 'Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy
ground.
6 I am the God of your
ancestors,' he said, 'the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of
Jacob.' At this Moses covered his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
7 Yahweh then said, 'I
have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying for
help on account of their taskmasters. Yes, I am well aware of their sufferings.
8 And I have come down
to rescue them from the clutches of the Egyptians and bring them up out of that
country, to a country rich and broad, to a country flowing with milk and honey,
to the home of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the
Hivites and the Jebusites.
13 Moses then said to
God, 'Look, if I go to the Israelites and say to them, "The God of your
ancestors has sent me to you," and they say to me, "What is his
name?" what am I to tell them?'
14 God said to Moses, 'I
am he who is.' And he said, 'This is what you are to say to the Israelites,
"I am has sent me to you." '
15 God further said to
Moses, 'You are to tell the Israelites, "Yahweh, the God of your
ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, has sent
me to you." This is my name for all time, and thus I am to be invoked for
all generations to come.
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 103:1-2, 3-4,
6-7, 8, 11
1 [Of David] Bless
Yahweh, my soul, from the depths of my being, his holy name;
2 bless Yahweh, my
soul, never forget all his acts of kindness.
3 He forgives all your
offences, cures all your diseases,
4 he redeems your life
from the abyss, crowns you with faithful love and tenderness;
5 he contents you with
good things all your life, renews your youth like an eagle's.
6 Yahweh acts with
uprightness, with justice to all who are oppressed;
7 he revealed to Moses
his ways, his great deeds to the children of Israel.
8 Yahweh is tenderness
and pity, slow to anger and rich in faithful love;
9 his indignation does
not last for ever, nor his resentment remain for all time;
10 he does not treat us
as our sins deserve, nor repay us as befits our offences.
11 As the height of
heaven above earth, so strong is his faithful love for those who fear him.
Second Reading
First Corinthians
10:1-6, 10-12
1 I want you to be
quite certain, brothers, that our ancestors all had the cloud over them and all
passed through the sea.
2 In the cloud and in
the sea they were all baptised into Moses;
3 all ate the same
spiritual food
4 and all drank the
same spiritual drink, since they drank from the spiritual rock which followed
them, and that rock was Christ.
5 In spite of this, God
was not pleased with most of them, and their corpses were scattered over the
desert.
6 Now these happenings
were examples, for our benefit, so that we should never set our hearts, as they
did, on evil things;
10 Never complain; some
of them complained, and they were killed by the Destroyer.
11 Now all these things
happened to them by way of example, and they were described in writing to be a
lesson for us, to whom it has fallen to live in the last days of the ages.
12 Everyone, no matter
how firmly he thinks he is standing, must be careful he does not fall.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
Luke 13:1-9
1 It was just about
this time that some people arrived and told him about the Galileans whose blood
Pilate had mingled with that of their sacrifices. At this he said to them,
2 'Do you suppose that
these Galileans were worse sinners than any others, that this should have
happened to them?
3 They were not, I tell
you. No; but unless you repent you will all perish as they did.
4 Or those eighteen on
whom the tower at Siloam fell, killing them all? Do you suppose that they were
more guilty than all the other people living in Jerusalem?
5 They were not, I tell
you. No; but unless you repent you will all perish as they did.'
6 He told this parable,
'A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on
it but found none.
7 He said to his
vinedresser, "For three years now I have been coming to look for fruit on
this fig tree and finding none. Cut it down: why should it be taking up the
ground?"
8 "Sir," the
man replied, "leave it one more year and give me time to dig round it and
manure it:
9 it may bear fruit
next year; if not, then you can cut it down." '
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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