Saturday, 28th October,
2017
30th Sunday of Ordinary
Time – Year A
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
EXODUS 22:20-26
20 'You will not molest or
oppress aliens, for you yourselves were once aliens in Egypt.
21 You will not ill-treat
widows or orphans;
22 if you ill-treat them
in any way and they make an appeal to me for help, I shall certainly hear their
appeal,
23 my anger will be roused
and I shall put you to the sword; then your own wives will be widows and your
own children orphans.
24 'If you lend money to
any of my people, to anyone poor among you, you will not play the usurer with
him: you will not demand interest from him.
25 'If you take someone's
cloak in pledge, you will return it to him at sunset.
26 It is all the covering
he has; it is the cloak he wraps his body in; what else will he sleep in? If he
appeals to me, I shall listen. At least with me he will find compassion!
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 18:2-3, 3-4, 47,
51
2 Yahweh is my rock and
my fortress, my deliverer is my God. I take refuge in him, my rock, my shield,
my saving strength, my stronghold, my place of refuge.
3 I call to Yahweh who is
worthy of praise, and I am saved from my foes.
4 With Death's breakers
closing in on me, Belial's torrents ready to swallow me,
47 the God who gives me
vengeance, and subjects whole peoples to me,
51 And shows mercy to His
anointed, To David and his descendants forevermore.
Second Reading
First Thessalonians
1:5-10
5 because our gospel came
to you not only in words, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with
great effect. And you observed the sort of life we lived when we were with you,
which was for your sake.
6 You took us and the
Lord as your model, welcoming the word with the joy of the Holy Spirit in spite
of great hardship.
7 And so you became an
example to all believers in Macedonia and Achaia
8 since it was from you
that the word of the Lord rang out -- and not only throughout Macedonia and
Achaia, for your faith in God has spread everywhere. We do not need to tell
other people about it:
9 other people tell us
how we started the work among you, how you broke with the worship of false gods
when you were converted to God and became servants of the living and true God;
10 and how you are now
waiting for Jesus, his Son, whom he raised from the dead, to come from heaven.
It is he who saves us from the Retribution which is coming.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
MATTHEW 22:34-40
34 But when the Pharisees
heard that he had silenced the Sadducees they got together
35 and, to put him to the
test, one of them put a further question,
36 'Master, which is the
greatest commandment of the Law?'
37 Jesus said to him, 'You
must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with
all your mind.
38 This is the greatest
and the first commandment.
39 The second resembles
it: You must love your neighbour as yourself.
40 On these two
commandments hang the whole Law, and the Prophets too.'
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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