Saturday, January 07, 2017
EPIPHANY OF THE LORD
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass
First Reading
ISAIAH 60:1-6
1 Arise, shine out, for
your light has come, and the glory of Yahweh has risen on you.
2 Look! though night
still covers the earth and darkness the peoples, on you Yahweh is rising and
over you his glory can be seen.
3 The nations will come
to your light and kings to your dawning brightness.
4 Lift up your eyes and
look around: all are assembling and coming towards you, your sons coming from
far away and your daughters being carried on the hip.
5 At this sight you will
grow radiant, your heart will throb and dilate, since the riches of the sea
will flow to you, the wealth of the nations come to you;
6 camels in throngs will
fill your streets, the young camels of Midian and Ephah; everyone in Saba will
come, bringing gold and incense and proclaiming Yahweh's praises.
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 72:1-2, 7-8,
10-13
1
[Of Solomon] God, endow the king with your own fair judgement, the son of the
king with your own saving justice,
2 that he may rule your
people with justice, and your poor with fair judgement.
7 In his days uprightness
shall flourish, and peace in plenty till the moon is no more.
8 His empire shall
stretch from sea to sea, from the river to the limits of the earth.
10 the kings of Tarshish
and the islands will pay him tribute. The kings of Sheba and Saba will offer
gifts;
11 all kings will do him
homage, all nations become his servants.
12 For he rescues the
needy who calls to him, and the poor who has no one to help.
13 He has pity on the weak
and the needy, and saves the needy from death.
Second Reading
EPHESIANS 3:2-3, 5-6
2 You have surely heard
the way in which God entrusted me with the grace he gave me for your sake;
3 he made known to me by
a revelation the mystery I have just described briefly-
5 This mystery, as it is
now revealed in the Spirit to his holy apostles and prophets, was unknown to
humanity in previous generations:
6 that the gentiles now
have the same inheritance and form the same Body and enjoy the same promise in
Christ Jesus through the gospel.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
MATTHEW 2:1-12
1 After Jesus had been
born at Bethlehem in Judaea during the reign of King Herod, suddenly some wise
men came to Jerusalem from the east
2 asking, 'Where is the
infant king of the Jews? We saw his star as it rose and have come to do him
homage.'
3 When King Herod heard
this he was perturbed, and so was the whole of Jerusalem.
4 He called together all
the chief priests and the scribes of the people, and enquired of them where the
Christ was to be born.
5 They told him, 'At
Bethlehem in Judaea, for this is what the prophet wrote:
6 And you, Bethlehem, in
the land of Judah, you are by no means the least among the leaders of Judah,
for from you will come a leader who will shepherd my people Israel.'
7 Then Herod summoned the
wise men to see him privately. He asked them the exact date on which the star
had appeared
8 and sent them on to
Bethlehem with the words, 'Go and find out all about the child, and when you
have found him, let me know, so that I too may go and do him homage.'
9 Having listened to what
the king had to say, they set out. And suddenly the star they had seen rising
went forward and halted over the place where the child was.
10 The sight of the star
filled them with delight,
11 and going into the
house they saw the child with his mother Mary, and falling to their knees they
did him homage. Then, opening their treasures, they offered him gifts of gold
and frankincense and myrrh.
12 But they were given a
warning in a dream not to go back to Herod, and returned to their own country
by a different way.
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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