Saturday, 18 August,
2018
20th Sunday of
Ordinary Time – Year B
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
REVELATION 11:19;
12:1-6, 10
19 Then the sanctuary of
God in heaven opened, and the ark of the covenant could be seen inside it. Then
came flashes of lightning, peals of thunder and an earthquake and violent hail.
1 Now a great sign
appeared in heaven: a woman, robed with the sun, standing on the moon, and on
her head a crown of twelve stars.
2 She was pregnant, and
in labour, crying aloud in the pangs of childbirth.
3 Then a second sign
appeared in the sky: there was a huge red dragon with seven heads and ten
horns, and each of the seven heads crowned with a coronet.
4 Its tail swept a
third of the stars from the sky and hurled them to the ground, and the dragon
stopped in front of the woman as she was at the point of giving birth, so that
it could eat the child as soon as it was born.
5 The woman was
delivered of a boy, the son who was to rule all the nations with an iron
sceptre, and the child was taken straight up to God and to his throne,
6 while the woman escaped
into the desert, where God had prepared a place for her to be looked after for
twelve hundred and sixty days.
10 Then I heard a voice
shout from heaven, 'Salvation and power and empire for ever have been won by
our God, and all authority for his Christ, now that the accuser, who accused
our brothers day and night before our God, has been brought down.
“The
Word of the Lord”
2 I will praise Yahweh
from my heart; let the humble hear and rejoice.
3 Proclaim with me the
greatness of Yahweh, let us acclaim his name together.
10 Young lions may go
needy and hungry, but those who seek Yahweh lack nothing good.
11 Come, my children,
listen to me, I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.
12 Who among you
delights in life, longs for time to enjoy prosperity?
13 Guard your tongue
from evil, your lips from any breath of deceit.
14 Turn away from evil
and do good, seek peace and pursue it.
15 The eyes of Yahweh
are on the upright, his ear turned to their cry.
Second Reading
EPHESIANS 5:15-20
15 So be very careful
about the sort of lives you lead, like intelligent and not like senseless
people.
16 Make the best of the
present time, for it is a wicked age.
17 This is why you must
not be thoughtless but must recognise what is the will of the Lord.
18 Do not get drunk with
wine; this is simply dissipation; be filled with the Spirit.
19 Sing psalms and hymns
and inspired songs among yourselves, singing and chanting to the Lord in your
hearts,
20 always and everywhere
giving thanks to God who is our Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
JOHN 6:51-58
51 I am the living bread
which has come down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will live for ever;
and the bread that I shall give is my flesh, for the life of the world.'
52 Then the Jews started
arguing among themselves, 'How can this man give us his flesh to eat?'
53 Jesus replied to
them: In all truth I tell you, if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of man
and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
54 Anyone who does eat
my flesh and drink my blood has eternal life, and I shall raise that person up
on the last day.
55
For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.
56 Whoever eats my flesh
and drinks my blood lives in me and I live in that person.
57 As the living Father
sent me and I draw life from the Father, so whoever eats me will also draw life
from me.
58 This is the bread
which has come down from heaven; it is not like the bread our ancestors ate:
they are dead, but anyone who eats this bread will live for ever.
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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