Saturday, 21st
January, 2017
3rd Sunday of
Ordinary Time – Year A
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
ISAIAH 8:23, 9:3
23 For is not everything
dark as night for a country in distress? As the past humbled the land of
Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, so the future will glorify the Way of the
Sea, beyond the Jordan, the territory of the nations.
3 For the yoke that
weighed on it, the bar across its shoulders, the rod of its oppressor, these
you have broken as on the day of Midian.
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 27:1, 4, 13-14
1 [Of David] Yahweh is
my light and my salvation, whom should I fear? Yahweh is the fortress of my
life, whom should I dread?
4 One thing I ask of
Yahweh, one thing I seek: to dwell in Yahweh's house all the days of my life,
to enjoy the sweetness of Yahweh, to seek out his temple.
13 This I believe: I
shall see the goodness of Yahweh, in the land of the living.
14 Put your hope in
Yahweh, be strong, let your heart be bold, put your hope in Yahweh.
Second Reading
1 CORINTHIANS
1:10-13, 17
10 Brothers, I urge you,
in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, not to have factions among yourselves but
all to be in agreement in what you profess; so that you are perfectly united in
your beliefs and judgements.
11 From what Chloe's
people have been telling me about you, brothers, it is clear that there are
serious differences among you.
12 What I mean is this:
every one of you is declaring, 'I belong to Paul,' or 'I belong to Apollos,' or
'I belong to Cephas,' or 'I belong to Christ.'
13 Has Christ been split
up? Was it Paul that was crucified for you, or was it in Paul's name that you
were baptised?
17 After all, Christ
sent me not to baptise, but to preach the gospel; and not by means of wisdom of
language, wise words which would make the cross of Christ pointless.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
MATTHEW 4:12-23
12 Hearing that John had
been arrested he withdrew to Galilee,
13 and leaving Nazara he
went and settled in Capernaum, beside the lake, on the borders of Zebulun and Naphtali.
14 This was to fulfil
what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah:
15 Land of Zebulun! Land
of Naphtali! Way of the sea beyond Jordan. Galilee of the nations!
16 The people that lived
in darkness have seen a great light; on those who lived in a country of shadow
dark as death a light has dawned.
17 From then onwards
Jesus began his proclamation with the message, 'Repent, for the kingdom of
Heaven is close at hand.'
18 As he was walking by
the Lake of Galilee he saw two brothers, Simon, who was called Peter, and his
brother Andrew; they were making a cast into the lake with their net, for they
were fishermen.
19 And he said to them,
'Come after me and I will make you fishers of people.'
20 And at once they left
their nets and followed him.
21 Going on from there
he saw another pair of brothers, James son of Zebedee and his brother John;
they were in their boat with their father Zebedee, mending their nets, and he
called them.
22 And at once, leaving
the boat and their father, they followed him.
23 He went round the
whole of Galilee teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the
kingdom and curing all kinds of disease and illness among the people.
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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