Saturday, 26th August,
2017
21st Sunday of Ordinary
Time – Year A
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
ISAIAH 22:12, 19-23
15 The Lord Yahweh Sabaoth
says this: Go and find that steward, Shebna, the master of the palace:
19 I shall hound you from
your office, I shall snatch you from your post
20 and, when that day
comes, I shall summon my servant Eliakim son of Hilkiah.
21 I shall dress him in
your tunic, I shall put your sash round his waist, I shall invest him with your
authority; and he will be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the
House of Judah.
22 I shall place the key
of David's palace on his shoulder; when he opens, no one will close, when he
closes, no one will open.
23 I shall drive him like
a nail into a firm place; and he will become a throne of glory for his family.
‘The
Word of the Lord’
PSALMS 138:1-2, 2-3, 6,
8
1 [Of David] I thank you,
Yahweh, with all my heart, for you have listened to the cry I uttered. In the
presence of angels I sing to you,
2 I bow down before your
holy Temple. I praise your name for your faithful love and your constancy; your
promises surpass even your fame.
3 You heard me on the day
when I called, and you gave new strength to my heart.
6 Sublime as he is,
Yahweh looks on the humble, the proud he picks out from afar.
7 Though I live
surrounded by trouble you give me life -- to my enemies' fury! You stretch out
your right hand and save me,
8 Yahweh will do all
things for me. Yahweh, your faithful love endures for ever, do not abandon what
you have made.
Second Reading
ROMANS 11:33-36
33 How rich and deep are
the wisdom and the knowledge of God! We cannot reach to the root of his
decisions or his ways.
34 Who has ever known the
mind of the Lord? Who has ever been his adviser?
35 Who has given anything
to him, so that his presents come only as a debt returned?
36 Everything there is
comes from him and is caused by him and exists for him. To him be glory for
ever! Amen.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
MATTHEW 16:13-20
13 When Jesus came to
the region of Caesarea Philippi he put this question to his disciples, 'Who do
people say the Son of man is?'
14 And they said, 'Some
say John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.'
15 'But you,' he said,
'who do you say I am?'
16 Then Simon Peter spoke
up and said, 'You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.'
17 Jesus replied, 'Simon
son of Jonah, you are a blessed man! Because it was no human agency that
revealed this to you but my Father in heaven.
18 So I now say to you:
You are Peter and on this rock I will build my community. And the gates of the
underworld can never overpower it.
19 I will give you the
keys of the kingdom of Heaven: whatever you bind on earth will be bound in
heaven; whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.'
20 Then he gave the
disciples strict orders not to say to anyone that he was the Christ.
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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