Saturday, 30 June,
2018
13th Sunday of
Ordinary Time – Year B
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
WISDOM 1:13-15,
2:23-24
13 For God did not make
Death, he takes no pleasure in destroying the living.
14 To exist -- for this
he created all things; the creatures of the world have health in them, in them
is no fatal poison, and Hades has no power over the world:
15 for uprightness is
immortal.
23 For God created human
beings to be immortal, he made them as an image of his own nature;
24 Death came into the
world only through the Devil's envy, as those who belong to him find to their
cost.
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 30:2, 4, 5-6,
11, 12, 13
2 Yahweh, my God, I
cried to you for help and you healed me.
4 Make music for
Yahweh, all you who are faithful to him, praise his unforgettable holiness.
5 His anger lasts but a
moment, his favour through life; In the evening come tears, but with dawn cries
of joy.
6 Carefree, I used to
think, 'Nothing can ever shake me!'
11 You have turned my
mourning into dancing, you have stripped off my sackcloth and clothed me with
joy.
12 So my heart will sing
to you unceasingly, Yahweh, my God, I shall praise you for ever.
Second Reading
2 CORINTHIANS 8:7, 9,
13-15
7 More, as you are rich
in everything-faith, eloquence, understanding, concern for everything, and love
for us too -- then make sure that you excel in this work of generosity too.
9 You are well aware of
the generosity which our Lord Jesus Christ had, that, although he was rich, he
became poor for your sake, so that you should become rich through his poverty.
13 It is not that you
ought to relieve other people's needs and leave yourselves in hardship; but
there should be a fair balance-
14 your surplus at
present may fill their deficit, and another time their surplus may fill your
deficit. So there may be a fair balance;
15 as scripture says: No
one who had collected more had too much, no one who collected less had too
little.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
MARK 5:21-43
21 When Jesus had
crossed again in the boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered round him
and he stayed by the lake.
22 Then the president of
the synagogue came up, named Jairus, and seeing him, fell at his feet
23 and begged him
earnestly, saying, 'My little daughter is desperately sick. Do come and lay
your hands on her that she may be saved and may live.'
24 Jesus went with him
and a large crowd followed him; they were pressing all round him.
25 Now there was a woman
who had suffered from a haemorrhage for twelve years;
26 after long and
painful treatment under various doctors, she had spent all she had without
being any the better for it; in fact, she was getting worse.
27 She had heard about
Jesus, and she came up through the crowd and touched his cloak from behind,
thinking,
28 'If I can just touch
his clothes, I shall be saved.'
29 And at once the
source of the bleeding dried up, and she felt in herself that she was cured of
her complaint.
30 And at once aware of
the power that had gone out from him, Jesus turned round in the crowd and said,
'Who touched my clothes?'
31 His disciples said to
him, 'You see how the crowd is pressing round you; how can you ask, "Who
touched me?" '
32 But he continued to look
all round to see who had done it.
33 Then the woman came
forward, frightened and trembling because she knew what had happened to her,
and she fell at his feet and told him the whole truth.
34 'My daughter,' he
said, 'your faith has restored you to health; go in peace and be free of your
complaint.'
35 While he was still
speaking some people arrived from the house of the president of the synagogue
to say, 'Your daughter is dead; why put the Master to any further trouble?'
36 But Jesus overheard
what they said and he said to the president of the synagogue, 'Do not be
afraid; only have faith.'
37 And he allowed no one
to go with him except Peter and James and John the brother of James.
38 So they came to the
house of the president of the synagogue, and Jesus noticed all the commotion,
with people weeping and wailing unrestrainedly.
39 He went in and said
to them, 'Why all this commotion and crying? The child is not dead, but
asleep.'
40 But they ridiculed
him. So he turned them all out and, taking with him the child's father and
mother and his own companions, he went into the place where the child lay.
41 And taking the child
by the hand he said to her, 'Talitha kum!' which means, 'Little girl, I tell
you to get up.'
42 The little girl got
up at once and began to walk about, for she was twelve years old. At once they
were overcome with astonishment,
43 and he gave them
strict orders not to let anyone know about it, and told them to give her
something to eat.
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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