Liturgical Readings for : Sunday, 3rd March, 2019
Today's Readings
Léachtaí Gaeilge
FIRST READING
A reading from the Book of Ecclesiasticus 27:4-7
In a shaken sieve the rubbish is left behind, so too the defects of a man appear in
his talk. The kiln tests the work of the potter, the test of a man is in his
conversation. The orchard where the tree grows is judged on the quality of its
fruit, similarly a man’s words betray what he feels. Do not praise a man before
he has spoken, since this is the test of men.
The Word of the Lord.
RESPONSORIAL PSALM: Psalm 91
Response It is good to give you thanks, O Lord.
1. It is good to give thanks to the Lord
to make music to your name, O Most High,
to proclaim your love in the morning
and your truth in the watches of the night. Response
2. The just will flourish like the palm-tree
and grow like a Lebanon cedar. Response
3. Planted in the house of the Lord
they will flourish in the courts of our God,
still bearing fruit when they are old,
still full of sap, still green,
to proclaim that the Lord is just.
In him, my rock, there is no wrong. Response
SECOND READING:
1 Corinthians 15:54-58
When this perishable nature has put on imperishability, and when this mortal
nature has put on immortality, then the words of scripture will come true: Death
is swallowed up in victory. Death, where is your victory? Death, where is your
sting? Now the sting of death is sin, and sin gets its power from the Law. So let
us thank God for giving us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Never give in then, my dear brothers, never admit defeat; keep on working at
the Lord’s work always, knowing that, in the Lord, you cannot be labouring in
vain.
The Word of the Lord.
Gospel Acclamation
Acts 16: 14
Alleluia, alleluia!
Open our heart, O Lord,
to accept the words of your Son.
Alleluia!
or Phil 2:15-16
Alleluia, alleluia!
you will shine in the world like bright stars
because you are offering it the word of life.
Alleluia!
GOSPEL:
Luke 6: 39-45
Jesus told a parable to his disciples, ‘Can one blind man guide another? Surely
both will fall into a pit? The disciple is not superior to his teacher; the fully
trained disciple will always be like his teacher. Why do you observe the splinter
in your brother’s eye and never notice the plank in your own? How can you say
to your brother, “Brother, let me take out the splinter that is in your eye”, when
you cannot see the plank in your own? Hypocrite! Take the plank out of your
own eye first, and then you will see clearly enough to take out the splinter that
is in your brother’s eye.
‘There is no sound tree that produces rotten fruit, nor again a rotten tree that
produces sound fruit. For every tree can be told by its own fruit: people do not
pick figs from thorns, nor gather grapes from brambles. A good man draws
what is good from the store of goodness in his heart; a bad man draws what is
bad from the store of badness. For a man’s words flow out of what fills his heart.
The Gospel of the Lord.
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