Saturday, 28th January, 2017
4th Sunday of Ordinary
Time – Year A
9:00 am Chinese New Year Mass
(Chinese Mass @ 8:00 pm
– Cancelled)
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
Zephaniah 2:3; 3:12-13
3 Seek Yahweh, all you
humble of the earth, who obey his commands. Seek uprightness, seek humility:
you may perhaps find shelter on the Day of Yahweh's anger.
12 But in you I shall leave
surviving a humble and lowly people,
13 and those who are left
in Israel will take refuge in the name of Yahweh. They will do no wrong, will
tell no lies; nor will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouths. But they
will be able to graze and rest with no one to alarm them.
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 146:6-7, 8-9,
9-10
6 who made heaven and
earth, the sea and all that is in them. He keeps faith for ever,
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 CORINTHIANS 1:26-31
26 Consider, brothers, how
you were called; not many of you are wise by human standards, not many
influential, not many from noble families.
27 No, God chose those who
by human standards are fools to shame the wise; he chose those who by human
standards are weak to shame the strong,
28 those who by human
standards are common and contemptible -- indeed those who count for nothing --
to reduce to nothing all those that do count for something,
29 so that no human being
might feel boastful before God.
30 It is by him that you
exist in Christ Jesus, who for us was made wisdom from God, and saving justice
and holiness and redemption.
31 As scripture says: If
anyone wants to boast, let him boast of the Lord.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
MATTHEW 5:1-12
1 Seeing the crowds, he
went onto the mountain. And when he was seated his disciples came to him.
2 Then he began to speak.
This is what he taught them:
3 How blessed are the
poor in spirit: the kingdom of Heaven is theirs.
4 Blessed are the gentle:
they shall have the earth as inheritance.
5 Blessed are those who
mourn: they shall be comforted.
6 Blessed are those who
hunger and thirst for uprightness: they shall have their fill.
7 Blessed are the
merciful: they shall have mercy shown them.
8 Blessed are the pure in
heart: they shall see God.
9 Blessed are the
peacemakers: they shall be recognised as children of God.
10 Blessed are those who
are persecuted in the cause of uprightness: the kingdom of Heaven is theirs.
11 'Blessed are you when
people abuse you and persecute you and speak all kinds of calumny against you
falsely on my account.
12 Rejoice and be glad,
for your reward will be great in heaven; this is how they persecuted the
prophets before you.
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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