Saturday, 01st July,
2017
13th Sunday of Ordinary
Time – Year A
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
Second Kings 4:8-11,
14-16
8 One day as Elisha was
on his way to Shunem, a woman of rank who lived there pressed him to stay and
eat there. After this he always broke his journey for a meal when he passed
that way.
9 She said to her
husband, 'Look, I am sure the man who is constantly passing our way must be a
holy man of God.
10 Let us build him a
small walled room, and put him a bed in it, and a table and chair and lamp;
whenever he comes to us he can rest there.'
11 One day when he came,
he retired to the upper room and lay down.
14 'What can I do for you
then?' he asked. Gehazi replied, 'Well, she has no son and her husband is old.'
15 Elisha said, 'Call
her.' The servant called her and she stood at the door.
16 'This time next year',
he said, 'you will hold a son in your arms.' But she said, 'No, my lord, do not
deceive your servant.'
“The
Word Of The Lord”
PSALMS 89:2-3, 16-19
2 for you have said: love
is built to last for ever, you have fixed your constancy firm in the heavens.
3 'I have made a covenant
with my Chosen One, sworn an oath to my servant David:
16 In your name they
rejoice all day long, by your saving justice they are raised up.
17 You are the flower of
their strength, by your favour our strength is triumphant;
18 for to Yahweh belongs our
shield, to the Holy One of Israel our king.
19 Once you spoke in a
vision, to your faithful you said: 'I have given strength to a warrior, I have
raised up a man chosen from my people.
Second Reading
ROMANS 6:3-4, 8-11
3 You cannot have
forgotten that all of us, when we were baptised into Christ Jesus, were
baptised into his death.
4 So by our baptism into
his death we were buried with him, so that as Christ was raised from the dead
by the Father's glorious power, we too should begin living a new life.
8 But we believe that, if
we died with Christ, then we shall live with him too.
9 We know that Christ has
been raised from the dead and will never die again. Death has no power over him
any more.
10 For by dying, he is
dead to sin once and for all, and now the life that he lives is life with God.
11 In the same way, you
must see yourselves as being dead to sin but alive for God in Christ Jesus.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
MATTHEW 10:37-42
37 'No one who prefers
father or mother to me is worthy of me. No one who prefers son or daughter to
me is worthy of me.
38 Anyone who does not
take his cross and follow in my footsteps is not worthy of me.
39 Anyone who finds his
life will lose it; anyone who loses his life for my sake will find it.
40 'Anyone who welcomes
you welcomes me; and anyone who welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me.
41 'Anyone who welcomes a
prophet because he is a prophet will have a prophet's reward; and anyone who
welcomes an upright person because he is upright will have the reward of an
upright person.
42 'If anyone gives so
much as a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is a
disciple, then in truth I tell you, he will most certainly not go without his
reward.'
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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