Saturday, 07th October,
2017
27th Sunday of Ordinary
Time – Year A
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
ISAIAH 5:1-7
1 Let me sing my beloved
the song of my friend for his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a fertile
hillside.
2 He dug it, cleared it
of stones, and planted it with red grapes. In the middle he built a tower, he
hewed a press there too. He expected it to yield fine grapes: wild grapes were
all it yielded.
3 And now, citizens of
Jerusalem and people of Judah, I ask you to judge between me and my vineyard.
4 What more could I have
done for my vineyard that I have not done? Why, when I expected it to yield
fine grapes, has it yielded wild ones?
5 Very well, I shall tell
you what I am going to do to my vineyard: I shall take away its hedge, for it
to be grazed on, and knock down its wall, for it to be trampled on.
6 I shall let it go to
waste, unpruned, undug, overgrown by brambles and thorn-bushes, and I shall
command the clouds to rain no rain on it.
7 Now, the vineyard of
Yahweh Sabaoth is the House of Israel, and the people of Judah the plant he
cherished. He expected fair judgement, but found injustice, uprightness, but
found cries of distress.
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 80:9, 12, 13-14,
15-16, 19-20
9 you cleared a space for
it, it took root and filled the whole country.
12 Why have you broken
down its fences? Every passer-by plucks its grapes,
13 boars from the forest
tear at it, wild beasts feed on it.
14 God Sabaoth, come back,
we pray, look down from heaven and see, visit this vine;
15 protect what your own
hand has planted.
16 They have thrown it on
the fire like dung, the frown of your rebuke will destroy them.
19 God Sabaoth, bring us
back, let your face shine on us and we shall be safe.
Second Reading
PHILIPPIANS 4:6-9
6 Never worry about
anything; but tell God all your desires of every kind in prayer and petition
shot through with gratitude,
7 and the peace of God
which is beyond our understanding will guard your hearts and your thoughts in
Christ Jesus.
8 Finally, brothers, let
your minds be filled with everything that is true, everything that is
honourable, everything that is upright and pure, everything that we love and
admire -- with whatever is good and praiseworthy.
9 Keep doing everything
you learnt from me and were told by me and have heard or seen me doing. Then
the God of peace will be with you.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
MATTHEW 21:33-43
33 'Listen to another
parable. There was a man, a landowner, who planted a vineyard; he fenced it
round, dug a winepress in it and built a tower; then he leased it to tenants
and went abroad.
34 When vintage time drew
near he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his produce.
35 But the tenants seized
his servants, thrashed one, killed another and stoned a third.
36 Next he sent some more
servants, this time a larger number, and they dealt with them in the same way.
37 Finally he sent his son
to them thinking, "They will respect my son."
38 But when the tenants
saw the son, they said to each other, "This is the heir. Come on, let us
kill him and take over his inheritance."
39 So they seized him and
threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.
40 Now when the owner of
the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?'
41 They answered, 'He will
bring those wretches to a wretched end and lease the vineyard to other tenants
who will deliver the produce to him at the proper time.'
42 Jesus said to them,
'Have you never read in the scriptures: The stone which the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone; this is the Lord's doing and we marvel at it?
43 'I tell you, then, that
the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a people who will
produce its fruit.'
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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