Saturday, 30th
September, 2017
26th Sunday of Ordinary
Time – Year A
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
EZEKIEL 18:25-28
25 'Now, you say,
"What the Lord does is unjust." Now listen, House of Israel: is what
I do unjust? Is it not what you do that is unjust?
26 When the upright
abandons uprightness and does wrong and dies, he dies because of the wrong
which he himself has done.
27 Similarly, when the
wicked abandons wickedness to become law-abiding and upright, he saves his own
life.
28 Having chosen to
renounce all his previous crimes, he will most certainly live: he will not die.
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 25:4-5, 6-7, 8-9
4 DIRECT me in your ways,
Yahweh, and teach me your paths.
5 ENCOURAGE me to walk in
your truth and teach me since you are the God who saves me. FOR my hope is in
you all day long -- such is your generosity, Yahweh.
6 GOODNESS and faithful
love have been yours for ever, Yahweh, do not forget them.
7 HOLD not my youthful
sins against me, but remember me as your faithful love dictates.
8 INTEGRITY and
generosity are marks of Yahweh for he brings sinners back to the path.
9 JUDICIOUSLY he guides
the humble, instructing the poor in his way.
Second Reading
PHILIPPIANS 2:1-11
1 So if in Christ there
is anything that will move you, any incentive in love, any fellowship in the
Spirit, any warmth or sympathy -- I appeal to you,
2 make my joy complete by
being of a single mind, one in love, one in heart and one in mind.
3 Nothing is to be done
out of jealousy or vanity; instead, out of humility of mind everyone should
give preference to others,
4 everyone pursuing not
selfish interests but those of others.
5 Make your own the mind
of Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in the form
of God, did not count equality with God something to be grasped.
7 But he emptied himself,
taking the form of a slave, becoming as human beings are; and being in every
way like a human being,
8 he was humbler yet,
even to accepting death, death on a cross.
9 And for this God raised
him high, and gave him the name which is above all other names;
10 so that all beings in
the heavens, on earth and in the underworld, should bend the knee at the name
of Jesus
11 and that every tongue
should acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
MATTHEW 21:28-32
28 'What is your opinion?
A man had two sons. He went and said to the first, "My boy, go and work in
the vineyard today."
29 He answered, "I
will not go," but afterwards thought better of it and went.
30 The man then went and
said the same thing to the second who answered, "Certainly, sir," but
did not go.
31 Which of the two did
the father's will?' They said, 'The first.' Jesus said to them, 'In truth I
tell you, tax collectors and prostitutes are making their way into the kingdom
of God before you.
32 For John came to you,
showing the way of uprightness, but you did not believe him, and yet the tax
collectors and prostitutes did. Even after seeing that, you refused to think
better of it and believe in him.
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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