Saturday, 18th
February, 2017
7th Sunday of Ordinary
Time – Year A
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
LEVITICUS 19:1-2, 17-18
1 Yahweh spoke to Moses
and said:
2 'Speak to the whole
community of Israelites and say: "Be holy, for I, Yahweh your God, am
holy.
17 You will not harbour
hatred for your brother. You will reprove your fellow-countryman firmly and
thus avoid burdening yourself with a sin.
18 You will not exact
vengeance on, or bear any sort of grudge against, the members of your race, but
will love your neighbour as yourself. I am Yahweh.
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 103:1-2, 3-4, 8,
10, 12-13
1 [Of David] Bless
Yahweh, my soul, from the depths of my being, his holy name;
2 bless Yahweh, my soul,
never forget all his acts of kindness.
3 He forgives all your
offences, cures all your diseases,
4 he redeems your life
from the abyss, crowns you with faithful love and tenderness;
8 Yahweh is tenderness
and pity, slow to anger and rich in faithful love;
10 he does not treat us as
our sins deserve, nor repay us as befits our offences.
12 As the distance of east
from west, so far from us does he put our faults.
13 As tenderly as a father
treats his children, so Yahweh treats those who fear him;
Second Reading
1 CORINTHIANS 3:16-23
16 Do you not realise that
you are a temple of God with the Spirit of God living in you?
17 If anybody should
destroy the temple of God, God will destroy that person, because God's temple
is holy; and you are that temple.
18 There is no room for
self-delusion. Any one of you who thinks he is wise by worldly standards must
learn to be a fool in order to be really wise.
19 For the wisdom of the
world is folly to God. As scripture says: He traps the crafty in the snare of
their own cunning
20 and again: The Lord
knows the plans of the wise and how insipid they are.
21 So there is to be no
boasting about human beings: everything belongs to you,
22 whether it is Paul, or
Apollos, or Cephas, the world, life or death, the present or the future -- all
belong to you;
23 but you belong to
Christ and Christ belongs to God.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
MATTHEW 5:38-48
38 'You have heard how it
was said: Eye for eye and tooth for tooth.
39 But I say this to you:
offer no resistance to the wicked. On the contrary, if anyone hits you on the
right cheek, offer him the other as well;
40 if someone wishes to go
to law with you to get your tunic, let him have your cloak as well.
41 And if anyone requires
you to go one mile, go two miles with him.
42 Give to anyone who asks
you, and if anyone wants to borrow, do not turn away.
43 'You have heard how it
was said, You will love your neighbour and hate your enemy.
44 But I say this to you,
love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you;
45 so that you may be
children of your Father in heaven, for he causes his sun to rise on the bad as
well as the good, and sends down rain to fall on the upright and the wicked
alike.
46 For if you love those
who love you, what reward will you get? Do not even the tax collectors do as
much?
47 And if you save your
greetings for your brothers, are you doing anything exceptional?
48 Do not even the
gentiles do as much? You must therefore be perfect, just as your heavenly
Father is perfect.'
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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