Saturday, 21 July,
2018
16th Sunday of
Ordinary Time – Year B
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
JEREMIAH 23:1-16
1 'Disaster for the
shepherds who lose and scatter the sheep of my pasture, Yahweh declares.
2 This, therefore, is
what Yahweh, God of Israel, says about the shepherds who shepherd my people,
"You have scattered my flock, you have driven them away and have not taken
care of them. Right, I shall take care of you for your misdeeds, Yahweh declares!
3 But the remnant of my
flock I myself shall gather from all the countries where I have driven them,
and bring them back to their folds; they will be fruitful and increase in
numbers.
4 For them I shall
raise up shepherds to shepherd them and pasture them. No fear, no terror for
them any more; not one shall be lost, Yahweh declares!
5 Look, the days are
coming, Yahweh declares, when I shall raise an upright Branch for David; he
will reign as king and be wise, doing what is just and upright in the country.
6 In his days Judah
will triumph and Israel live in safety. And this is the name he will be called,
'Yahweh-is-our-Saving-Justice.' "
7 'So, look, the days
are coming, Yahweh declares, when people will no longer say, "As Yahweh
lives who brought the Israelites out of Egypt,"
8 but, "As Yahweh
lives who led back and brought home the offspring of the House of Israel from
the land of the north and all the countries to which he had driven them, to
live on their own soil." '
9 On the prophets. My
heart is broken within me, I tremble in all my bones; I am like a drunken man,
like a man overcome with wine, because of Yahweh and his holy words:
10 'For the country is
full of adulterers; yes, because of a curse, the country is in mourning and the
pasturage in the desert has dried up; they are prompt to do wrong, make no
effort to do right.
11 Yes, even prophet and
priest are godless, I have detected their wickedness in my own House, Yahweh
declares.
12 Because of this,
their way will prove treacherous going for them; in the darkness where they are
driven, there they will fall. For I shall bring disaster on them, when the year
for punishing them comes, Yahweh declares.
13 'In the prophets of
Samaria I have seen insanity: they prophesied in the name of Baal and led my
people Israel astray.
14 But in the prophets
of Jerusalem I have seen something horrible: adultery, persistent lying, such
abetting of the wicked that no one renounces his wickedness. To me they are all
like Sodom and its inhabitants are like Gomorrah.
15 So this is what
Yahweh Sabaoth says about the prophets, "Now I shall give them wormwood to
eat and make them drink poisoned water, since from the prophets of Jerusalem
godlessness has spread throughout the land."
16 'Yahweh Sabaoth says
this, "Do not listen to what those prophets prophesy to you; they are
deluding you, they retail visions of their own, and not what comes from
Yahweh's mouth.
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 23:1-3, 3-4,
5, 6
1 [Psalm Of David]
Yahweh is my shepherd, I lack nothing.
2 In grassy meadows he
lets me lie. By tranquil streams he leads me
3 to restore my spirit.
He guides me in paths of saving justice as befits his name.
4 Even were I to walk
in a ravine as dark as death I should fear no danger, for you are at my side.
Your staff and your crook are there to soothe me.
5 You prepare a table
for me under the eyes of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup brims
over.
6 Kindness and faithful
love pursue me every day of my life. I make my home in the house of Yahweh for
all time to come.
Second Reading
EPHESIANS 2:13-18
13 But now in Christ
Jesus, you that used to be so far off have been brought close, by the blood of
Christ.
14 For he is the peace
between us, and has made the two into one entity and broken down the barrier
which used to keep them apart, by destroying in his own person the hostility,
15 that is, the Law of
commandments with its decrees. His purpose in this was, by restoring peace, to
create a single New Man out of the two of them,
16 and through the
cross, to reconcile them both to God in one Body; in his own person he killed
the hostility.
17 He came to bring the
good news of peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near.
18 Through him, then, we
both in the one Spirit have free access to the Father.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
MARK 6:30-34
30 The apostles rejoined
Jesus and told him all they had done and taught.
31 And he said to them,
'Come away to some lonely place all by yourselves and rest for a while'; for
there were so many coming and going that there was no time for them even to
eat.
32 So they went off in
the boat to a lonely place where they could be by themselves.
33 But people saw them
going, and many recognised them; and from every town they all hurried to the
place on foot and reached it before them.
34 So as he stepped
ashore he saw a large crowd; and he took pity on them because they were like
sheep without a shepherd, and he set himself to teach them at some length.
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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