Saturday, June 17, 2017
Solemnity of the Most
Holy Body and Blood of the Lord – Year A
5:30 pm Multilingual Mass followed by Corpus Christi
Procession
(Mandarin Mass scheduled at 08:00 pm is cancelled)
First Reading
Deuteronomy 8:2-3,
14-16
2 Remember the long road
by which Yahweh your God led you for forty years in the desert, to humble you,
to test you and know your inmost heart -- whether you would keep his
commandments or not.
3 He humbled you, he made
you feel hunger, he fed you with manna which neither you nor your ancestors had
ever known, to make you understand that human beings live not on bread alone
but on every word that comes from the mouth of Yahweh.
14 do not become proud of
heart. Do not then forget Yahweh your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of
the place of slave-labour,
15 who guided you through
this vast and dreadful desert, a land of fiery snakes, scorpions, thirst;
16 who in this waterless
place brought you water out of the flinty rock; who in this desert fed you with
manna unknown to your ancestors, to humble you and test you and so make your
future the happier.
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 147:12-15, 19-20
12 Praise Yahweh,
Jerusalem, Zion, praise your God.
13 For he gives strength
to the bars of your gates, he blesses your children within you,
14 he maintains the peace
of your frontiers, gives you your fill of finest wheat.
15 He sends his word to
the earth, his command runs quickly,
19 He reveals his word to
Jacob, his statutes and judgements to Israel.
20 For no other nation has
he done this, no other has known his judgements.
Second Reading
1 CORINTHIANS 10:16-17
16 The blessing-cup, which
we bless, is it not a sharing in the blood of Christ; and the loaf of bread
which we break, is it not a sharing in the body of Christ?
17 And as there is one
loaf, so we, although there are many of us, are one single body, for we all
share in the one loaf.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
JOHN 6:51-58
51 I am the living bread
which has come down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will live for ever;
and the bread that I shall give is my flesh, for the life of the world.'
52 Then the Jews started
arguing among themselves, 'How can this man give us his flesh to eat?'
53 Jesus replied to them:
In all truth I tell you, if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of man and
drink his blood, you have no life in you.
54 Anyone who does eat my
flesh and drink my blood has eternal life, and I shall raise that person up on
the last day.
55 For my flesh is real
food and my blood is real drink.
56 Whoever eats my flesh
and drinks my blood lives in me and I live in that person.
57 As the living Father
sent me and I draw life from the Father, so whoever eats me will also draw life
from me.
58 This is the bread which
has come down from heaven; it is not like the bread our ancestors ate: they are
dead, but anyone who eats this bread will live for ever.
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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