Saturday, 16th
September, 2017
24th Sunday of Ordinary
Time – Year A
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
SIRACH 27:30, 28:1-7
30 Resentment and anger,
these are foul things too, and a sinner is a master at them both.
1 Whoever exacts
vengeance will experience the vengeance of the Lord, who keeps strict account
of sin.
2 Pardon your neighbour
any wrongs done to you, and when you pray, your sins will be forgiven.
3 If anyone nurses anger
against another, can one then demand compassion from the Lord?
4 Showing no pity for
someone like oneself, can one then plead for one's own sins?
5 Mere creature of flesh,
yet cherishing resentment!-who will forgive one for sinning?
6 Remember the last
things, and stop hating, corruption and death, and be faithful to the
commandments.
7 Remember the
commandments, and do not bear your fellow ill-will, remember the covenant of
the Most High, and ignore the offence.
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 103:1-2, 3-4, 9-10,
11-12
1 [Of David] Bless
Yahweh, my soul, from the depths of my being, his holy name;
2 bless Yahweh, my soul,
never forget all his acts of kindness.
3 He forgives all your
offences, cures all your diseases,
4 he redeems your life
from the abyss, crowns you with faithful love and tenderness;
9 his indignation does
not last for ever, nor his resentment remain for all time;
10 he does not treat us as
our sins deserve, nor repay us as befits our offences.
11 As the height of heaven
above earth, so strong is his faithful love for those who fear him.
12 As the distance of east
from west, so far from us does he put our faults.
Second Reading
ROMANS 14:7-9
7 For none of us lives
for himself and none of us dies for himself;
8 while we are alive, we
are living for the Lord, and when we die, we die for the Lord: and so, alive or
dead, we belong to the Lord.
9 It was for this purpose
that Christ both died and came to life again: so that he might be Lord of both
the dead and the living.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
MATTHEW 18:21-35
21 Then Peter went up to
him and said, 'Lord, how often must I forgive my brother if he wrongs me? As often
as seven times?'
22 Jesus answered, 'Not
seven, I tell you, but seventy-seven times.
23 'And so the kingdom of
Heaven may be compared to a king who decided to settle his accounts with his
servants.
24 When the reckoning
began, they brought him a man who owed ten thousand talents;
25 he had no means of
paying, so his master gave orders that he should be sold, together with his
wife and children and all his possessions, to meet the debt.
26 At this, the servant
threw himself down at his master's feet, with the words, "Be patient with
me and I will pay the whole sum."
27 And the servant's
master felt so sorry for him that he let him go and cancelled the debt.
28 Now as this servant
went out, he happened to meet a fellow-servant who owed him one hundred
denarii; and he seized him by the throat and began to throttle him, saying,
"Pay what you owe me."
29 His fellow-servant fell
at his feet and appealed to him, saying, "Be patient with me and I will
pay you."
30 But the other would not
agree; on the contrary, he had him thrown into prison till he should pay the
debt.
31 His fellow-servants
were deeply distressed when they saw what had happened, and they went to their
master and reported the whole affair to him.
32 Then the master sent
for the man and said to him, "You wicked servant, I cancelled all that
debt of yours when you appealed to me.
33 Were you not bound,
then, to have pity on your fellow-servant just as I had pity on you?"
34 And in his anger the
master handed him over to the torturers till he should pay all his debt.
35 And that is how my
heavenly Father will deal with you unless you each forgive your brother from
your heart.'
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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