Saturday, 22
September, 2018
25th Sunday of
Ordinary Time – Year B
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
WISDOM 2:17-20
17 Let us see if what he
says is true, and test him to see what sort of end he will have.
18 For if the upright
man is God's son, God will help him and rescue him from the clutches of his
enemies.
19 Let us test him with
cruelty and with torture, and thus explore this gentleness of his and put his
patience to the test.
20 Let us condemn him to
a shameful death since God will rescue him -- or so he claims.'
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 54:3-4, 5, 6-8
3 Arrogant men are
attacking me, bullies hounding me to death, no room in their thoughts for God.
4 But now God is coming
to my help, the Lord, among those who sustain me.
5 May their wickedness
recoil on those who lie in wait for me. Yahweh, in your constancy destroy them.
6 How gladly will I
offer you sacrifice, and praise your name, for it is good,
7 for it has rescued me
from all my troubles, and my eye has feasted on my enemies.
Second Reading
JAMES 3:16--4:3
16 Wherever there are
jealousy and ambition, there are also disharmony and wickedness of every kind;
17 whereas the wisdom
that comes down from above is essentially something pure; it is also peaceable,
kindly and considerate; it is full of mercy and shows itself by doing good; nor
is there any trace of partiality or hypocrisy in it.
18 The peace sown by
peacemakers brings a harvest of justice.
1 Where do these wars
and battles between yourselves first start? Is it not precisely in the desires
fighting inside your own selves?
2 You want something
and you lack it; so you kill. You have an ambition that you cannot satisfy; so
you fight to get your way by force. It is because you do not pray that you do
not receive;
3 when you do pray and
do not receive, it is because you prayed wrongly, wanting to indulge your
passions.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
MARK 9:30-37
30 After leaving that
place they made their way through Galilee; and he did not want anyone to know,
31 because he was
instructing his disciples; he was telling them, 'The Son of man will be
delivered into the power of men; they will put him to death; and three days
after he has been put to death he will rise again.'
32 But they did not
understand what he said and were afraid to ask him.
33 They came to
Capernaum, and when he got into the house he asked them, 'What were you arguing
about on the road?'
34 They said nothing,
because on the road they had been arguing which of them was the greatest.
35 So he sat down,
called the Twelve to him and said, 'If anyone wants to be first, he must make
himself last of all and servant of all.'
36 He then took a little
child whom he set among them and embraced, and he said to them,
37 'Anyone who welcomes
a little child such as this in my name, welcomes me; and anyone who welcomes
me, welcomes not me but the one who sent me.'
‘The
Gospel of the Lord”
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