Saturday, 29th July,
2017
17th Sunday of Ordinary
Time – Year A
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
1 KINGS 3:5, 7-12
5 At Gibeon Yahweh
appeared to Solomon in a dream during the night. God said, 'Ask what you would
like me to give you.'
7 Now, Yahweh my God, you
have made your servant king in succession to David my father. But I am a very
young man, unskilled in leadership.
8 And here is your
servant, surrounded with your people whom you have chosen, a people so numerous
that its number cannot be counted or reckoned.
9 So give your servant a
heart to understand how to govern your people, how to discern between good and
evil, for how could one otherwise govern such a great people as yours?'
10 It pleased Yahweh that
Solomon should have asked for this.
11 'Since you have asked
for this,' God said, 'and not asked for long life for yourself or riches or the
lives of your enemies but have asked for a discerning judgement for yourself,
12 here and now I do what
you ask. I give you a heart wise and shrewd as no one has had before and no one
will have after you.
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 119:57, 72,
76-77, 127-128, 129-130
57 My task, I have said,
Yahweh, is to keep your word.
72 The Law you have
uttered is more precious to me than all the wealth in the world.
76 Your faithful love must
be my consolation, as you have promised your servant.
77 Treat me with
tenderness and I shall live, for your Law is my delight.
127 So I love your
commandments more than gold, purest gold.
128 So I rule my life by
your precepts, I hate all deceptive paths.
129 Wonderful are your
instructions, so I observe them.
130 As your word unfolds it
gives light, and even the simple understand.
Second Reading
ROMANS 8:28-30
28 We are well aware that
God works with those who love him, those who have been called in accordance
with his purpose, and turns everything to their good.
29 He decided beforehand
who were the ones destined to be moulded to the pattern of his Son, so that he
should be the eldest of many brothers;
30 it was those so
destined that he called; those that he called, he justified, and those that he
has justified he has brought into glory.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
MATTHEW 13:44-52
44 'The kingdom of Heaven
is like treasure hidden in a field which someone has found; he hides it again,
goes off in his joy, sells everything he owns and buys the field.
45 'Again, the kingdom of
Heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls;
46 when he finds one of
great value he goes and sells everything he owns and buys it.
47 'Again, the kingdom of
Heaven is like a dragnet that is cast in the sea and brings in a haul of all
kinds of fish.
48 When it is full, the
fishermen bring it ashore; then, sitting down, they collect the good ones in
baskets and throw away those that are no use.
49 This is how it will be
at the end of time: the angels will appear and separate the wicked from the
upright,
50 to throw them into the blazing
furnace, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.
51 'Have you understood
all these?' They said, 'Yes.'
52 And he said to them,
'Well then, every scribe who becomes a disciple of the kingdom of Heaven is
like a householder who brings out from his storeroom new things as well as
old.'
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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