Saturday, September
24, 2016
26th Sunday of
Ordinary Time – Year C
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
AMOS 6:1, 4-7
1 Disaster for those so
comfortable in Zion and for those so confident on the hill of Samaria, the
notables of this first of nations, those to whom the House of Israel has
recourse!
4 Lying on ivory beds
and sprawling on their divans, they dine on lambs from the flock, and
stall-fattened veal;
5 they bawl to the
sound of the lyre and, like David, they invent musical instruments;
6 they drink wine by
the bowlful, and lard themselves with the finest oils, but for the ruin of
Joseph they care nothing.
7 That is why they will
now go into captivity, heading the column of captives. The sprawlers' revelry
is over.
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 146:7, 8-9,
9-10
7 gives justice to the
oppressed, gives food to the hungry; Yahweh sets prisoners free.
8 Yahweh gives sight to
the blind, lifts up those who are bowed down.
9 Yahweh protects the
stranger, he sustains the orphan and the widow. Yahweh loves the upright,but he
frustrates the wicked.
10 Yahweh reigns for
ever, your God, Zion, from age to age.
Second Reading
1 TIMOTHY 6:11-16
11 But, as someone
dedicated to God, avoid all that. You must aim to be upright and religious,
filled with faith and love, perseverance and gentleness.
12 Fight the good fight
of faith and win the eternal life to which you were called and for which you
made your noble profession of faith before many witnesses.
13 Now, before God, the
source of all life, and before Jesus Christ, who witnessed to his noble
profession of faith before Pontius Pilate, I charge you
14 to do all that you
have been told, with no faults or failures, until the appearing of our Lord
Jesus Christ,
15 who at the due time
will be revealed by God, the blessed and only Ruler of all, the King of kings
and the Lord of lords,
16 who alone is immortal,
whose home is in inaccessible light, whom no human being has seen or is able to
see: to him be honour and everlasting power. Amen.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
LUKE 16:19-31
19 'There was a rich man
who used to dress in purple and fine linen and feast magnificently every day.
20 And at his gate there
used to lie a poor man called Lazarus, covered with sores,
21 who longed to fill
himself with what fell from the rich man's table. Even dogs came and licked his
sores.
22 Now it happened that
the poor man died and was carried away by the angels into Abraham's embrace.
The rich man also died and was buried.
23 'In his torment in
Hades he looked up and saw Abraham a long way off with Lazarus in his embrace.
24 So he cried out,
"Father Abraham, pity me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in
water and cool my tongue, for I am in agony in these flames."
25 Abraham said,
"My son, remember that during your life you had your fill of good things,
just as Lazarus his fill of bad. Now he is being comforted here while you are
in agony.
26 But that is not all:
between us and you a great gulf has been fixed, to prevent those who want to
cross from our side to yours or from your side to ours."
27 'So he said,
"Father, I beg you then to send Lazarus to my father's house,
28 since I have five
brothers, to give them warning so that they do not come to this place of
torment too."
29 Abraham said,
"They have Moses and the prophets, let them listen to them."
30 The rich man replied,
"Ah no, father Abraham, but if someone comes to them from the dead, they
will repent."
31 Then Abraham said to
him, "If they will not listen either to Moses or to the prophets, they
will not be convinced even if someone should rise from the dead."
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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