Saturday, 24th June,
2017
12th Sunday of Ordinary
Time – Year A
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
Jeremiah 20:10-13
10 I heard so many
disparaging me, 'Terror on every side! Denounce him! Let us denounce him!' All
those who were on good terms with me watched for my downfall, 'Perhaps he will
be seduced into error. Then we shall get the better of him and take our
revenge!'
11 But Yahweh is at my
side like a mighty hero; my opponents will stumble, vanquished, confounded by
their failure; everlasting, unforgettable disgrace will be theirs.
12 Yahweh Sabaoth, you who
test the upright, observer of motives and thoughts, I shall see your vengeance
on them, for I have revealed my cause to you.
13 Sing to Yahweh, praise
Yahweh, for he has delivered the soul of one in need from the clutches of evil
doers.
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 69:8-10, 14, 17,
33-35
8 I am estranged from my
brothers, alienated from my own mother's sons;
9 for I am eaten up with
zeal for your house, and insults directed against you fall on me.
10 I mortify myself with
fasting, and find myself insulted for it,
14 Rescue me from the mire
before I sink in; so I shall be saved from those who hate me, from the watery
depths.
17 do not turn away from
your servant, be quick to answer me, for I am in trouble.
33 For God listens to the
poor, he has never scorned his captive people.
34 Let heaven and earth
and seas, and all that stirs in them, acclaim him!
35 For God will save Zion,
and rebuild the cities of Judah, and people will live there on their own land;
Second Reading
Romans 5:12-15
12 Well then; it was
through one man that sin came into the world, and through sin death, and thus
death has spread through the whole human race because everyone has sinned.
13 Sin already existed in
the world before there was any law, even though sin is not reckoned when there
is no law.
14 Nonetheless death
reigned over all from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sin was not the
breaking of a commandment, as Adam's was. He prefigured the One who was to come
. . .
15 There is no comparison
between the free gift and the offence. If death came to many through the
offence of one man, how much greater an effect the grace of God has had, coming
to so many and so plentifully as a free gift through the one man Jesus Christ!
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
Matthew 10:26-33
26 'So do not be afraid of
them. Everything now covered up will be uncovered, and everything now hidden
will be made clear.
27 What I say to you in
the dark, tell in the daylight; what you hear in whispers, proclaim from the
housetops.
28 'Do not be afraid of
those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; fear him rather who can
destroy both body and soul in hell.
29 Can you not buy two
sparrows for a penny? And yet not one falls to the ground without your Father
knowing.
30 Why, every hair on your
head has been counted.
31 So there is no need to
be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
32 'So if anyone declares
himself for me in the presence of human beings, I will declare myself for him
in the presence of my Father in heaven.
33 But the one who disowns
me in the presence of human beings, I will disown in the presence of my Father
in heaven.
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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