Saturday, 19th August,
2017
20th Sunday of Ordinary
Time – Year A
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
ISAIAH 56:1, 6-7
1 Thus says Yahweh: Make
fair judgement your concern, act with justice, for soon my salvation will come
and my saving justice be manifest.
6 As for foreigners who
adhere to Yahweh to serve him, to love Yahweh's name and become his servants,
all who observe the Sabbath, not profaning it, and cling to my covenant:
7 these I shall lead to
my holy mountain and make them joyful in my house of prayer. Their burnt
offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on my altar, for my house will be
called a house of prayer for all peoples.
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 67:2-3, 5, 6, 8
2 Then the earth will
acknowledge your ways, and all nations your power to save.
3 Let the nations praise
you, God, let all the nations praise you.
5 Let the nations praise
you, God, let all the nations praise you.
6 The earth has yielded
its produce; God, our God has blessed us.
Second Reading
ROMAS 11:13-15, 29-32
13 Let me say then to you
gentiles that, as far as I am an apostle to the gentiles, I take pride in this
work of service;
14 and I want it to be the
means of rousing to envy the people who are my own blood-relations and so of
saving some of them.
15 Since their rejection
meant the reconciliation of the world, do you know what their re-acceptance
will mean? Nothing less than life from the dead!
29 There is no change of
mind on God's part about the gifts he has made or of his choice.
30 Just as you were in the
past disobedient to God but now you have been shown mercy, through their
disobedience;
31 so in the same way they
are disobedient now, so that through the mercy shown to you they too will receive
mercy.
32 God has imprisoned all
human beings in their own disobedience only to show mercy to them all.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
MATTHEW 15:21-28
21 Jesus left that place
and withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon.
22 And suddenly out came a
Canaanite woman from that district and started shouting, 'Lord, Son of David,
take pity on me. My daughter is tormented by a devil.'
23 But he said not a word
in answer to her. And his disciples went and pleaded with him, saying, 'Give
her what she wants, because she keeps shouting after us.'
24 He said in reply, 'I
was sent only to the lost sheep of the House of Israel.'
25 But the woman had come
up and was bowing low before him. 'Lord,' she said, 'help me.'
26 He replied, 'It is not
fair to take the children's food and throw it to little dogs.'
27 She retorted, 'Ah yes,
Lord; but even little dogs eat the scraps that fall from their masters' table.'
28 Then Jesus answered
her, 'Woman, you have great faith. Let your desire be granted.' And from that
moment her daughter was well again.
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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