Saturday, 16th June,
2018
11th Sunday of
Ordinary Time – Year B
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
EZEKIEL 17:22-24
22 "The Lord Yahweh
says this: From the top of the tall cedar tree, from the highest branch I shall
take a shoot and plant it myself on a high and lofty mountain.
23 I shall plant it on
the highest mountain in Israel. It will put out branches and bear fruit and
grow into a noble cedar tree. Every kind of bird will live beneath it, every
kind of winged creature will rest in the shade of its branches.
24 And all the trees of
the countryside will know that I, Yahweh, am the one who lays the tall tree low
and raises the low tree high, who makes the green tree wither and makes the
withered bear fruit. I, Yahweh, have spoken, and I will do it." '
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 92:2-3, 13-14,
15-16
2 to proclaim your
faithful love at daybreak, and your constancy all through the night,
3 on the lyre, the
ten-stringed lyre, to the murmur of the harp.
13 Planted in the house
of Yahweh, they will flourish in the courts of our God.
14 In old age they will
still bear fruit, will remain fresh and green,
15 to proclaim Yahweh's
integrity; my rock, in whom no fault can be found.
Second Reading
2 CORINTHIANS 5:6-10
6 We are always full of
confidence, then, realising that as long as we are at home in the body we are
exiled from the Lord,
7 guided by faith and
not yet by sight;
8 we are full of
confidence, then, and long instead to be exiled from the body and to be at home
with the Lord.
9 And so whether at
home or exiled, we make it our ambition to please him.
10 For at the judgement
seat of Christ we are all to be seen for what we are, so that each of us may
receive what he has deserved in the body, matched to whatever he has done, good
or bad.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
MARK 4:26-34
26 He also said, 'This
is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the land.
27 Night and day, while
he sleeps, when he is awake, the seed is sprouting and growing; how, he does
not know.
28 Of its own accord the
land produces first the shoot, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.
29 And when the crop is
ready, at once he starts to reap because the harvest has come.'
30 He also said, 'What
can we say that the kingdom is like? What parable can we find for it?
31 It is like a mustard
seed which, at the time of its sowing, is the smallest of all the seeds on
earth.
32 Yet once it is sown
it grows into the biggest shrub of them all and puts out big branches so that
the birds of the air can shelter in its shade.'
33 Using many parables
like these, he spoke the word to them, so far as they were capable of
understanding it.
34 He would not speak to
them except in parables, but he explained everything to his disciples when they
were by themselves.
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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