Saturday, September
03, 2016
23rd Sunday of
Ordinary Time – Year C
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
WISDOM 9:13-18
13 'What human being
indeed can know the intentions of God? And who can comprehend the will of the
Lord?
14 For the reasoning of
mortals is inadequate, our attitudes of mind unstable;
15 for a perishable body
presses down the soul, and this tent of clay weighs down the mind with its many
cares.
16 It is hard enough for
us to work out what is on earth, laborious to know what lies within our reach;
who, then, can discover what is in the heavens?
17 And who could ever
have known your will, had you not given Wisdom and sent your holy Spirit from
above?
18 Thus have the paths
of those on earth been straightened and people have been taught what pleases
you, and have been saved, by Wisdom.'
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 90:3-4, 5-6,
12-13, 14-17
3 You bring human
beings to the dust, by saying, 'Return, children of Adam.'
4 A thousand years are
to you like a yesterday which has passed, like a watch of the night.
5 You flood them with
sleep -- in the morning they will be like growing grass:
6 in the morning it is
blossoming and growing, by evening it is withered and dry.
12 Teach us to count up
the days that are ours, and we shall come to the heart of wisdom.
13 Come back, Yahweh!
How long must we wait? Take pity on your servants.
14 Each morning fill us
with your faithful love, we shall sing and be happy all our days;
15 let our joy be as
long as the time that you afflicted us, the years when we experienced disaster.
16 Show your servants
the deeds you do, let their children enjoy your splendour!
17 May the sweetness of
the Lord be upon us, to confirm the work we have done!
Second Reading
PHILEMON 1:9-10,
12-17
9 I am rather appealing
to your love, being what I am, Paul, an old man, and now also a prisoner of
Christ Jesus.
10 I am appealing to you
for a child of mine, whose father I became while wearing these chains: I mean
Onesimus.
12 I am sending him back
to you -- that is to say, sending you my own heart.
13 I should have liked
to keep him with me; he could have been a substitute for you, to help me while
I am in the chains that the gospel has brought me.
14 However, I did not
want to do anything without your consent; it would have been forcing your act
of kindness, which should be spontaneous.
15 I suppose you have
been deprived of Onesimus for a time, merely so that you could have him back
for ever,
16 no longer as a slave,
but something much better than a slave, a dear brother; especially dear to me,
but how much more to you, both on the natural plane and in the Lord.
17 So if you grant me
any fellowship with yourself, welcome him as you would me;
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
LUKE 14:25-33
25 Great crowds
accompanied him on his way and he turned and spoke to them.
26 'Anyone who comes to
me without hating father, mother, wife, children, brothers, sisters, yes and
his own life too, cannot be my disciple.
27 No one who does not
carry his cross and come after me can be my disciple.
28 'And indeed, which of
you here, intending to build a tower, would not first sit down and work out the
cost to see if he had enough to complete it?
29 Otherwise, if he laid
the foundation and then found himself unable to finish the work, anyone who saw
it would start making fun of him and saying,
30 "Here is someone
who started to build and was unable to finish."
31 Or again, what king
marching to war against another king would not first sit down and consider whether
with ten thousand men he could stand up to the other who was advancing against
him with twenty thousand?
32 If not, then while
the other king was still a long way off, he would send envoys to sue for peace.
33 So in the same way,
none of you can be my disciple without giving up all that he owns.
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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