Saturday, August 06,
2016
19th Sunday of
Ordinary Time – Year C
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
WISDOM 18:6-9
6 That night had been
known in advance to our ancestors, so that, well knowing him in whom they had
put their trust, they would be sure of his promises.
7 Your people thus were
waiting both for the rescue of the upright and for the ruin of the enemy;
8 for by the very
vengeance that you exacted on our adversaries, you glorified us by calling us
to you.
9 So the holy children
of the good offered sacrifice in secret and with one accord enacted this holy
law: that the holy ones should share good things and dangers alike; and
forthwith they chanted the hymns of the ancestors.
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 33:1, 12,
18-19, 20-22
1 Shout for joy, you upright; praise comes well
from the honest.
12 How blessed the
nation whose God is Yahweh, the people he has chosen as his heritage.
18 But see how Yahweh
watches over those who fear him, those who rely on his faithful love,
19 to rescue them from
death and keep them alive in famine.
20 We are waiting for
Yahweh; he is our help and our shield,
21 for in him our heart
rejoices, in his holy name we trust.
22 Yahweh, let your
faithful love rest on us, as our hope has rested in you.
Second Reading
HEBREWS 11:1-2, 8-19
1 Only faith can
guarantee the blessings that we hope for, or prove the existence of realities
that are unseen.
2 It is for their faith
that our ancestors are acknowledged.
8 It was by faith that
Abraham obeyed the call to set out for a country that was the inheritance given
to him and his descendants, and that he set out without knowing where he was
going.
9 By faith he sojourned
in the Promised Land as though it were not his, living in tents with Isaac and
Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.
10 He looked forward to
the well-founded city, designed and built by God.
11 It was equally by
faith that Sarah, in spite of being past the age, was made able to conceive,
because she believed that he who had made the promise was faithful to it.
12 Because of this,
there came from one man, and one who already had the mark of death on him,
descendants as numerous as the stars of heaven and the grains of sand on the
seashore which cannot be counted.
13 All these died in
faith, before receiving any of the things that had been promised, but they saw
them in the far distance and welcomed them, recognising that they were only
strangers and nomads on earth.
14 People who use such
terms about themselves make it quite plain that they are in search of a
homeland.
15 If they had meant the
country they came from, they would have had the opportunity to return to it;
16 but in fact they were
longing for a better homeland, their heavenly homeland. That is why God is not
ashamed to be called their God, since he has founded the city for them.
17 It was by faith that
Abraham, when put to the test, offered up Isaac. He offered to sacrifice his
only son even though he had yet to receive what had been promised,
18 and he had been told:
Isaac is the one through whom your name will be carried on.
19 He was confident that
God had the power even to raise the dead; and so, figuratively speaking, he was
given back Isaac from the dead.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
LUKE 12:32-48
32 'There is no need to
be afraid, little flock, for it has pleased your Father to give you the
kingdom.
33 'Sell your
possessions and give to those in need. Get yourselves purses that do not wear
out, treasure that will not fail you, in heaven where no thief can reach it and
no moth destroy it.
34 For wherever your
treasure is, that is where your heart will be too.
35 'See that you have
your belts done up and your lamps lit.
36 Be like people
waiting for their master to return from the wedding feast, ready to open the
door as soon as he comes and knocks.
37 Blessed those
servants whom the master finds awake when he comes. In truth I tell you, he
will do up his belt, sit them down at table and wait on them.
38 It may be in the
second watch that he comes, or in the third, but blessed are those servants if
he finds them ready.
39 You may be quite sure
of this, that if the householder had known at what time the burglar would come,
he would not have let anyone break through the wall of his house.
40 You too must stand
ready, because the Son of man is coming at an hour you do not expect.'
41 Peter said, 'Lord, do
you mean this parable for us, or for everyone?'
42 The Lord replied,
'Who, then, is the wise and trustworthy steward whom the master will place over
his household to give them at the proper time their allowance of food?
43 Blessed that servant
if his master's arrival finds him doing exactly that.
44 I tell you truly, he
will put him in charge of everything that he owns.
45 But if the servant
says to himself, "My master is taking his time coming," and sets
about beating the menservants and the servant-girls, and eating and drinking
and getting drunk,
46 his master will come
on a day he does not expect and at an hour he does not know. The master will
cut him off and send him to the same fate as the unfaithful.
47 'The servant who
knows what his master wants, but has got nothing ready and done nothing in
accord with those wishes, will be given a great many strokes of the lash.
48 The one who did not
know, but has acted in such a way that he deserves a beating, will be given
fewer strokes. When someone is given a great deal, a great deal will be
demanded of that person; when someone is entrusted with a great deal, of that
person even more will be expected.
“The
Gospel of the Lord’
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