Saturday, 04 August,
2018
18th Sunday of
Ordinary Time – Year B
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
EXODUS 16:2-4, 12-15
2 And the whole
community of Israelites began complaining about Moses and Aaron in the desert
3 and said to them,
'Why did we not die at Yahweh's hand in Egypt, where we used to sit round the
flesh pots and could eat to our heart's content! As it is, you have led us into
this desert to starve this entire assembly to death!'
4 Yahweh then said to
Moses, 'Look, I shall rain down bread for you from the heavens. Each day the
people must go out and collect their ration for the day; I propose to test them
in this way to see whether they will follow my law or not.
12 'I have heard the
Israelites' complaints. Speak to them as follows, "At twilight you will
eat meat, and in the morning you will have bread to your heart's content, and
then you will know that I am Yahweh your God." '
13 That evening, quails
flew in and covered the camp, and next morning there was a layer of dew all
round the camp.
14 When the layer of dew
lifted, there on the surface of the desert was something fine and granular, as
fine as hoarfrost on the ground.
15 As soon as the
Israelites saw this, they said to one another, 'What is that ?' not knowing
what it was. 'That', Moses told them, 'is the food which Yahweh has given you
to eat.
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 78:3-4, 23-24,
25, 54
3 What we have heard
and know, what our ancestors have told us
4 we shall not conceal
from their descendants, but will tell to a generation still to come: the
praises of Yahweh, his power, the wonderful deeds he has done.
23 Even so he gave
orders to the skies above, he opened the sluice-gates of heaven;
24 he rained down manna
to feed them, he gave them the wheat of heaven;
25 mere mortals ate the
bread of the Mighty, he sent them as much food as they could want.
54 He brought them to
his holy land, the hill-country won by his right hand;
Second Reading
EPHESIANS 4:17, 20-24
17 So this I say to you
and attest to you in the Lord, do not go on living the empty-headed life that
the gentiles live.
20 Now that is hardly
the way you have learnt Christ,
21 unless you failed to
hear him properly when you were taught what the truth is in Jesus.
22 You were to put aside
your old self, which belongs to your old way of life and is corrupted by
following illusory desires.
23 Your mind was to be
renewed in spirit
24 so that you could put
on the New Man that has been created on God's principles, in the uprightness
and holiness of the truth.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
JOHN 6:24-35
24 When the people saw
that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into those boats and
crossed to Capernaum to look for Jesus.
25 When they found him
on the other side, they said to him, 'Rabbi, when did you come here?'
26 Jesus answered: In
all truth I tell you, you are looking for me not because you have seen the
signs but because you had all the bread you wanted to eat.
27 Do not work for food
that goes bad, but work for food that endures for eternal life, which the Son
of man will give you, for on him the Father, God himself, has set his seal.
28 Then they said to
him, 'What must we do if we are to carry out God's work?'
29 Jesus gave them this
answer, 'This is carrying out God's work: you must believe in the one he has
sent.'
30 So they said, 'What
sign will you yourself do, the sight of which will make us believe in you? What
work will you do?
31 Our fathers ate manna
in the desert; as scripture says: He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'
32 Jesus answered them:
In all truth I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven,
it is my Father who gives you the bread from heaven, the true bread;
33 for the bread of God
is the bread which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.
34 'Sir,' they said, 'give
us that bread always.'
35 Jesus answered them:
I am the bread of life. No one who comes to me will ever hunger; no one who
believes in me will ever thirst.
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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