Saturday, 14 July,
2018
15th Sunday of
Ordinary Time – Year B
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
AMOS 7:12-15
12 To Amos himself
Amaziah said, 'Go away, seer, take yourself off to Judah, earn your living
there, and there you can prophesy!
13 But never again will
you prophesy at Bethel, for this is a royal sanctuary, a national temple.'
14 'I am not a prophet,'
Amos replied to Amaziah, 'nor do I belong to a prophetic brotherhood. I am
merely a herdsman and dresser of sycamore-figs.
15 But Yahweh took me as
I followed the flock, and Yahweh said to me, "Go and prophesy to my people
Israel."
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 85:9-14
9 His saving help is
near for those who fear him, his glory will dwell in our land.
10 Faithful Love and
Loyalty join together, Saving Justice and Peace embrace.
11 Loyalty will spring
up from the earth, and Justice will lean down from heaven.
12 Yahweh will himself
give prosperity, and our soil will yield its harvest.
13 Justice will walk
before him, treading out a path.
Second Reading
EPHESIANS 1:3-14
3 Blessed be God the
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all the spiritual
blessings of heaven in Christ.
4 Thus he chose us in
Christ before the world was made to be holy and faultless before him in love,
5 marking us out for
himself beforehand, to be adopted sons, through Jesus Christ. Such was his
purpose and good pleasure,
6 to the praise of the
glory of his grace, his free gift to us in the Beloved,
7 in whom, through his
blood, we gain our freedom, the forgiveness of our sins. Such is the richness
of the grace
8 which he has showered
on us in all wisdom and insight.
9 He has let us know
the mystery of his purpose, according to his good pleasure which he determined
beforehand in Christ,
10 for him to act upon when
the times had run their course: that he would bring everything together under
Christ, as head, everything in the heavens and everything on earth.
11 And it is in him that
we have received our heritage, marked out beforehand as we were, under the plan
of the One who guides all things as he decides by his own will,
12 chosen to be, for the
praise of his glory, the people who would put their hopes in Christ before he
came.
13 Now you too, in him,
have heard the message of the truth and the gospel of your salvation, and
having put your trust in it you have been stamped with the seal of the Holy
Spirit of the Promise,
14 who is the pledge of
our inheritance, for the freedom of the people whom God has taken for his own,
for the praise of his glory.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
MARK 6:7-13
7 Then he summoned the
Twelve and began to send them out in pairs, giving them authority over unclean
spirits.
8 And he instructed
them to take nothing for the journey except a staff -- no bread, no haversack,
no coppers for their purses.
9 They were to wear
sandals but, he added, 'Don't take a spare tunic.'
10 And he said to them,
'If you enter a house anywhere, stay there until you leave the district.
11 And if any place does
not welcome you and people refuse to listen to you, as you walk away shake off
the dust under your feet as evidence to them.'
12 So they set off to
proclaim repentance;
13 and they cast out
many devils, and anointed many sick people with oil and cured them.
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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