Saturday, September
10, 2016
24th Sunday of
Ordinary Time – Year C
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
EXODUS 32:7-11, 13-14
7 Yahweh then said to
Moses, 'Go down at once, for your people whom you brought here from Egypt have
become corrupt.
8 They have quickly
left the way which I ordered them to follow. They have cast themselves a metal
calf, worshipped it and offered sacrifice to it, shouting, "Israel, here
is your God who brought you here from Egypt!" '
9 Yahweh then said to
Moses, 'I know these people; I know how obstinate they are!
10 So leave me now, so
that my anger can blaze at them and I can put an end to them! I shall make a
great nation out of you instead.'
11 Moses tried to pacify
Yahweh his God. 'Yahweh,' he said, 'why should your anger blaze at your people,
whom you have brought out of Egypt by your great power and mighty hand?
13 Remember your
servants Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to whom you swore by your very self and made
this promise: "I shall make your offspring as numerous as the stars of
heaven, and this whole country of which I have spoken, I shall give to your
descendants, and it will be their heritage for ever."
14 Yahweh then relented
over the disaster which he had intended to inflict on his people.
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 51:3-4, 12-13,
17, 19
3 For I am well aware
of my offences, my sin is constantly in mind.
4 Against you, you
alone, I have sinned, I have done what you see to be wrong, that you may show
your saving justice when you pass sentence, and your victory may appear when
you give judgement,
12 Give me back the joy
of your salvation, sustain in me a generous spirit.
13 I shall teach the
wicked your paths, and sinners will return to you.
17 Sacrifice to God is a
broken spirit, a broken, contrite heart you never scorn.
19 Then you will delight
in upright sacrifices,-burnt offerings and whole oblations -- and young bulls
will be offered on your altar.
Second Reading
1 Timothy 1:12-17
12 I thank Christ Jesus
our Lord, who has given me strength. By calling me into his service he has
judged me trustworthy,
13 even though I used to
be a blasphemer and a persecutor and contemptuous. Mercy, however, was shown
me, because while I lacked faith I acted in ignorance;
14 but the grace of our
Lord filled me with faith and with the love that is in Christ Jesus.
15 Here is a saying that
you can rely on and nobody should doubt: that Christ Jesus came into the world
to save sinners. I myself am the greatest of them;
16 and if mercy has been
shown to me, it is because Jesus Christ meant to make me the leading example of
his inexhaustible patience for all the other people who were later to trust in
him for eternal life.
17 To the eternal King,
the undying, invisible and only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever.
Amen.
Gospel Reading
LUKE 15:1-32
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:
4 'Which one of you
with a hundred sheep, if he lost one, would fail to leave the ninety-nine in
the desert and go after the missing one till he found it?
5 And when he found it,
would he not joyfully take it on his shoulders
6 and then, when he got
home, call together his friends and neighbours, saying to them, "Rejoice
with me, I have found my sheep that was lost."
7 In the same way, I
tell you, there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repenting than
over ninety-nine upright people who have no need of repentance.
8 'Or again, what woman
with ten drachmas would not, if she lost one, light a lamp and sweep out the
house and search thoroughly till she found it?
9 And then, when she
had found it, call together her friends and neighbours, saying to them,
"Rejoice with me, I have found the drachma I lost."
10 In the same way, I
tell you, there is rejoicing among the angels of God over one repentant
sinner.'
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”
