Mass Readings - Sunday, 10th March 2019

Mass Readings
Liturgical Readings for :
Sunday, 10th March, 2019

Today's Readings
Léachtaí Gaeilge

FIRST READING
A reading from the Book of Deuteronomy 26: 4-10
The creed of the chosen people.

Moses said to the people: ‘The priest shall then take the pannier from your
hand and lay it before the altar of the Lord your God. Then, in the sight of
the Lord your God, you must make this pronouncement:
“My father was a wandering Aramaean. He went down into Egypt to find
refuge there, few in numbers; but there he became a nation, great, mighty,
and strong. The Egyptians ill-treated us, they gave us no peace and
inflicted harsh slavery on us.
But we called on the Lord the God of our fathers. The Lord heard our voice
and saw our misery, our toil and our oppression;
and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with mighty hand and outstretched
arm, with great terror, and with signs and wonders.
He brought us here and gave us this land, a land where milk and honey
flow. Here then I bring the first-fruits of the produce of the soil that you, the
Lord, have given me.” ‘You must then lay them before the Lord your God,
and bow down in the sight of the Lord your God.’

The Word of the Lord


Responsorial Psalm Ps 90 
Response: Be with me, O Lord, in my distress.

1. He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High and abides in the shade of the Almighty says to the Lord: ‘My refuge,
my stronghold, my God in whom I trust!’

Response

2. Upon you no evil shall fall,
no plague approach where you dwell.
For you has he commanded his angels,
to keep you in all your ways.

Response

3. They shall bear you upon their hands
lest you strike your foot against a stone.
On the lion and the viper you will tread
and trample the young lion and the dragon.

Response

4. His love he set on me, so 1 will rescue him protect him for he knows my name.
When he calls 1 shall answer: ‘I am with you.’ I will save him in distress and give him glory.

Response


SECOND READING 
A reading from the letter of St Paul to the Romans 10: 8-13
The creed of the Christian. 

Scripture says: The word, that is the faith we proclaim, is very near to you,
it is on your lips and in your heart. If your lips confess that Jesus is Lord
and if you believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, then
you will be saved. By believing from the heart you are made righteous; by
confessing with your lips you are saved. When scripture says: those who
believe in him will have no cause for shame, it makes no distinction
between Jew and Greek: all belong to the same Lord who is rich enough,
however many ask his help, for everyone who calls on the name of the
Lord will be saved.

The Word of the Lord 


Gospel Acclamation Mt 4:4 
Praise to you, O Christ, King of eternal glory!
Man does not live on bread alone
but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.
Praise to you, O Christ, King of eternal glory!


GOSPEL
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke 4:1-13
Jesus was led by the Spirit through the wilderness, being tempted there. 

Filled with the Holy Spirit, Jesus left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit
through the wilderness, being tempted there by the devil for forty days.
During that time he ate nothing and at the end he was hungry. Then the
devil said to him, ‘If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to turn into a
loaf.’ But Jesus replied, ‘Scripture says: Man does not live on bread alone.’
Then leading him to a height, the devil showed him in a moment of time all
the kingdoms of the world and said to him, ‘I will give you all this power and
the glory of these kingdoms, for it has been committed to me and I give it to
anyone I choose. Worship me, then, and it shall all be yours.’ But Jesus
answered him, ‘Scripture says: You must worship the Lord your God, and
serve him alone.’
Then he led him to Jerusalem and made him stand on the parapet of the
Temple. ‘If you are the Son of God,’ he said to him ‘throw yourself down
from here, for scripture says: “He will put his angels in charge of you to
guard you,” and again, “They will hold you up on their hands in case you
hurt your foot against a stone.'”
But Jesus answered him, ‘It has been said: You must not put the Lord your
God to the test.’ Having exhausted all these ways of tempting him, the devil
left him, to return at the appointed time.

The Gospel of the Lord