Saturday, June 25,
2016
13th Sunday of
Ordinary Time – Year C
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
First Kings 19:16-21
16 You must anoint Jehu
son of Nimshi as king of Israel, and anoint Elisha son of Shaphat, of Abel-Meholah,
as prophet to succeed you.
17 Anyone who escapes
the sword of Hazael will be put to death by Jehu; and anyone who escapes the
sword of Jehu will be put to death by Elisha.
18 But I shall spare
seven thousand in Israel; all the knees that have not bent before Baal, all the
mouths that have not kissed him.'
19 Leaving there, he
came on Elisha son of Shaphat as he was ploughing behind twelve yoke of oxen,
he himself being with the twelfth. Elijah passed near to him and threw his
cloak over him.
20 Elisha left his oxen
and ran after Elijah. 'Let me kiss my father and mother, then I will follow
you,' he said. Elijah answered, 'Go, go back; for have I done anything to you?'
21 Elisha turned away,
took a yoke of oxen and slaughtered them. He used the oxen's tackle for cooking
the meat, which he gave the people to eat. He then rose and, following Elijah,
became his servant.
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 16:1-2, 5,
7-8, 9-10, 11
1 [In a quiet voice Of
David] Protect me, O God, in you is my refuge.
2 To Yahweh I say, 'You
are my Lord, my happiness is in none
5 My birthright, my cup
is Yahweh; you, you alone, hold my lot secure.
7 I bless Yahweh who is
my counsellor, even at night my heart instructs me.
8 I keep Yahweh before
me always, for with him at my right hand, nothing can shake me.
9 So my heart rejoices,
my soul delights, my body too will rest secure,
10 for you will not
abandon me to Sheol, you cannot allow your faithful servant to see the abyss.
11 You will teach me the
path of life, unbounded joy in your presence, at your right hand delight for
ever.
Second Reading
Galatians 5:1, 13-18
1 Christ set us free,
so that we should remain free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be
fastened again to the yoke of slavery.
13 After all, brothers,
you were called to be free; do not use your freedom as an opening for
self-indulgence, but be servants to one another in love,
14 since the whole of
the Law is summarised in the one commandment: You must love your neighbour as
yourself.
15 If you go snapping at
one another and tearing one another to pieces, take care: you will be eaten up
by one another.
16 Instead, I tell you,
be guided by the Spirit, and you will no longer yield to self-indulgence.
17 The desires of
self-indulgence are always in opposition to the Spirit, and the desires of the
Spirit are in opposition to self-indulgence: they are opposites, one against
the other; that is how you are prevented from doing the things that you want
to.
18 But when you are led
by the Spirit, you are not under the Law.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
Luke 9:51-62
51 Now it happened that
as the time drew near for him to be taken up, he resolutely turned his face
towards Jerusalem
52 and sent messengers
ahead of him. These set out, and they went into a Samaritan village to make
preparations for him,
53 but the people would
not receive him because he was making for Jerusalem.
54 Seeing this, the
disciples James and John said, 'Lord, do you want us to call down fire from
heaven to burn them up?'
55 But he turned and
rebuked them,
56 and they went on to
another village.
57 As they travelled
along they met a man on the road who said to him, 'I will follow you wherever
you go.'
58 Jesus answered,
'Foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of man has
nowhere to lay his head.'
59 Another to whom he said,
'Follow me,' replied, 'Let me go and bury my father first.'
60 But he answered,
'Leave the dead to bury their dead; your duty is to go and spread the news of
the kingdom of God.'
61 Another said, 'I will
follow you, sir, but first let me go and say good -- bye to my people at home.'
62 Jesus said to him,
'Once the hand is laid on the plough, no one who looks back is fit for the
kingdom of God.'
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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