Friday, February 16,
2018
Chinese New Year Mass
9:00 am Mass in English and Chinese
First Reading
ISAIAH 58:1-9
1 Shout for all you are
worth, do not hold back, raise your voice like a trumpet. To my people proclaim
their rebellious acts, to the House of Jacob, their sins.
2 They seek for me day
after day, they long to know my ways, like a nation that has acted uprightly
and not forsaken the law of its God. They ask me for laws that are upright,
they long to be near God:
3 'Why have we fasted,
if you do not see, why mortify ourselves if you never notice?' Look, you seek
your own pleasure on your fastdays and you exploit all your workmen;
4 look, the only
purpose of your fasting is to quarrel and squabble and strike viciously with
your fist. Fasting like yours today will never make your voice heard on high.
5 Is that the sort of
fast that pleases me, a day when a person inflicts pain on himself? Hanging
your head like a reed, spreading out sackcloth and ashes? Is that what you call
fasting, a day acceptable to Yahweh?
6 Is not this the sort
of fast that pleases me: to break unjust fetters, to undo the thongs of the
yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break all yokes?
7 Is it not sharing
your food with the hungry, and sheltering the homeless poor; if you see someone
lacking clothes, to clothe him, and not to turn away from your own kin?
8 Then your light will
blaze out like the dawn and your wound be quickly healed over. Saving justice
will go ahead of you and Yahweh's glory come behind you.
9 Then you will cry for
help and Yahweh will answer; you will call and he will say, 'I am here.' If you
do away with the yoke, the clenched fist and malicious words,
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 51:3-4, 5-6,
18-19
3 For I am well aware
of my offences, my sin is constantly in mind.
4 Against you, you
alone, I have sinned, I have done what you see to be wrong, that you may show
your saving justice when you pass sentence, and your victory may appear when
you give judgement,
5 remember, I was born
guilty, a sinner from the moment of conception.
6 But you delight in
sincerity of heart, and in secret you teach me wisdom.
18 In your graciousness
do good to Zion, rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.
19 Then you will delight
in upright sacrifices,-burnt offerings and whole oblations -- and young bulls
will be offered on your altar.
Gospel Reading
MATTHEW 9:14-15
14 Then John's disciples
came to him and said, 'Why is it that we and the Pharisees fast, but your
disciples do not?'
15 Jesus replied,
'Surely the bridegroom's attendants cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is
still with them? But the time will come when the bridegroom is taken away from
them, and then they will fast.
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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