CHURCH OF ST JOSEPH, PLENTONG 避 兰 圣 若 瑟 天 主 堂 LOT 2139, Jalan Bunga Raya, 81750 Plentong, Johor, Malaysia Tel/Fax: 07-386 3062 Email: stjoseph@ymail.com
Saturday, 29 June 2019
Mass Readings - Sunday, 30th June 2019
First reading 1 Kings 19:16,19-21 †
Elisha leaves the plough to follow Elijah
The Lord said to Elijah, ‘Go, you are to anoint Elisha son of Shaphat, of Abel
Meholah, as prophet to succeed you.’
Leaving there, Elijah came on Elisha son of Shaphat as he was ploughing
behind twelve yoke of oxen, he himself being with the twelfth. Elijah passed
near to him and threw his cloak over him. Elisha left his oxen and ran after
Elijah. ‘Let me kiss my father and mother, then I will follow you’ he said.
Elijah answered, ‘Go, go back; for have I done anything to you?’ Elisha
turned away, took the pair of oxen and slaughtered them. He used the
plough for cooking the oxen, then gave to his men, who ate. He then rose,
and followed Elijah and became his servant.
The Word of the Lord.
Responsorial Psalm Psalm 15(16):1-2,5,7-11
Response: O Lord, it is you who are my portion.
1. Preserve me, God, I take refuge in you.
I say to the Lord: ‘You are my God.
O Lord, it is you who are my portion and cup;
it is you yourself who are my prize.’ Response
2. I will bless the Lord who gives me counsel,
who even at night directs my heart.
I keep the Lord ever in my sight:
since he is at my right hand, I shall stand firm. Response
3. And so my heart rejoices, my soul is glad;
even my body shall rest in safety.
For you will not leave my soul among the dead,
nor let your beloved know decay. Response
4. You will show me the path of life,
the fullness of joy in your presence,
at your right hand happiness for ever. Response
Second reading Galatians 5:1,13-18 †
When Christ freed us, he meant us to remain free
When Christ freed us, he meant us to remain free. Stand firm, therefore, and
do not submit again to the yoke of slavery. My brothers, you were called, as
you know, to liberty; but be careful, or this liberty will provide an opening
for self-indulgence. Serve one another, rather, in works of love, since the
whole of the Law is summarised in a single command: Love your neighbour
as yourself. If you go snapping at each other and tearing each other to
pieces, you had better watch or you will destroy the whole community.
Let me put it like this: if you are guided by the Spirit you will be in no
danger of yielding to self-indulgence, since self-indulgence is the opposite
of the Spirit, the Spirit is totally against such a thing, and it is precisely
because the two are so opposed that you do not always carry out your good
intentions. If you are led by the Spirit, no law can touch you.
The Word of the Lord.
Gospel Acclamation IS3:9, Jn6:68
Alleluia, alleluia!
Speak, Lord, your servant is listening:
you have the message of eternal life.
Alleluia!
Gospel Luke 9:51-62
Jesus sets out for Jerusalem
As the time drew near for him to be taken up to heaven, Jesus resolutely
took the road for Jerusalem and sent messengers ahead of him. These set
out, and they went into a Samaritan village to make preparations for him,
but the people would not receive him because he was making for Jerusalem.
Seeing this, the disciples James and John said, ‘Lord, do you want us to call
down fire from heaven to burn them up?’ But he turned and rebuked them,
and they went off to another village.
As they travelled along they met a man on the road who said to him, ‘I will
follow you wherever you go.’ Jesus answered, ‘Foxes have holes and the
birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.’
Another to whom he said, ‘Follow me’, replied, ‘Let me go and bury my
father first.’ But he answered, ‘Leave the dead to bury their dead; your duty
is to go and spread the news of the kingdom of God.’
Another said, ‘I will follow you, sir, but first let me go and say goodbye to
my people at home.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Once the hand is laid on the plough,
no one who looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.’
The Gospel of the Lord.
Elisha leaves the plough to follow Elijah
The Lord said to Elijah, ‘Go, you are to anoint Elisha son of Shaphat, of Abel
Meholah, as prophet to succeed you.’
Leaving there, Elijah came on Elisha son of Shaphat as he was ploughing
behind twelve yoke of oxen, he himself being with the twelfth. Elijah passed
near to him and threw his cloak over him. Elisha left his oxen and ran after
Elijah. ‘Let me kiss my father and mother, then I will follow you’ he said.
Elijah answered, ‘Go, go back; for have I done anything to you?’ Elisha
turned away, took the pair of oxen and slaughtered them. He used the
plough for cooking the oxen, then gave to his men, who ate. He then rose,
and followed Elijah and became his servant.
The Word of the Lord.
Responsorial Psalm Psalm 15(16):1-2,5,7-11
Response: O Lord, it is you who are my portion.
1. Preserve me, God, I take refuge in you.
I say to the Lord: ‘You are my God.
O Lord, it is you who are my portion and cup;
it is you yourself who are my prize.’ Response
2. I will bless the Lord who gives me counsel,
who even at night directs my heart.
I keep the Lord ever in my sight:
since he is at my right hand, I shall stand firm. Response
3. And so my heart rejoices, my soul is glad;
even my body shall rest in safety.
For you will not leave my soul among the dead,
nor let your beloved know decay. Response
4. You will show me the path of life,
the fullness of joy in your presence,
at your right hand happiness for ever. Response
Second reading Galatians 5:1,13-18 †
When Christ freed us, he meant us to remain free
When Christ freed us, he meant us to remain free. Stand firm, therefore, and
do not submit again to the yoke of slavery. My brothers, you were called, as
you know, to liberty; but be careful, or this liberty will provide an opening
for self-indulgence. Serve one another, rather, in works of love, since the
whole of the Law is summarised in a single command: Love your neighbour
as yourself. If you go snapping at each other and tearing each other to
pieces, you had better watch or you will destroy the whole community.
Let me put it like this: if you are guided by the Spirit you will be in no
danger of yielding to self-indulgence, since self-indulgence is the opposite
of the Spirit, the Spirit is totally against such a thing, and it is precisely
because the two are so opposed that you do not always carry out your good
intentions. If you are led by the Spirit, no law can touch you.
The Word of the Lord.
Gospel Acclamation IS3:9, Jn6:68
Alleluia, alleluia!
Speak, Lord, your servant is listening:
you have the message of eternal life.
Alleluia!
Gospel Luke 9:51-62
Jesus sets out for Jerusalem
As the time drew near for him to be taken up to heaven, Jesus resolutely
took the road for Jerusalem and sent messengers ahead of him. These set
out, and they went into a Samaritan village to make preparations for him,
but the people would not receive him because he was making for Jerusalem.
Seeing this, the disciples James and John said, ‘Lord, do you want us to call
down fire from heaven to burn them up?’ But he turned and rebuked them,
and they went off to another village.
As they travelled along they met a man on the road who said to him, ‘I will
follow you wherever you go.’ Jesus answered, ‘Foxes have holes and the
birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.’
Another to whom he said, ‘Follow me’, replied, ‘Let me go and bury my
father first.’ But he answered, ‘Leave the dead to bury their dead; your duty
is to go and spread the news of the kingdom of God.’
Another said, ‘I will follow you, sir, but first let me go and say goodbye to
my people at home.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Once the hand is laid on the plough,
no one who looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.’
The Gospel of the Lord.
Saturday, 22 June 2019
Mass Readings - Sunday , 23rd June 2019
Mass Readings
Liturgical Readings for : Sunday, 23rd June, 2019
Today's Readings
Léachtaí Gaeilge
The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
FIRST READING
A reading from the Book of Genesis 14:18-20
He brought bread and wine.
Melchizedek king of Salem brought bread and wine; he was a priest
of God Most High.
He pronounced this blessing:
‘Blessed be Abram by God Most High, creator of heaven and earth,
and blessed be God Most High for handing over your enemies to
you.’
And Abram gave him a tithe of everything.
The Word of the Lord
Responsorial Psalm Ps 109
Response: You are a priest for ever, a priest like Melchizedek of old.
1. The Lord’s revelation to my Master:
‘Sit on my right:
I will put your foes beneath your feet.’
Response
2. The Lord will send from Zion
your sceptre of power:
rule in the midst of all your foes.
Response
3. A prince from the day of your birth
on the holy mountains;
from the womb before the daybreak I begot you.
Response
4. The Lord has sworn an oath he will not change.
‘You are a priest for ever,
a priest like Melchizedek of old.’
Response
SECOND READING
A reading from the first letter of St Paul to the Corinthians 11:23-26
Every time you eat this bread and drink this cup, you are proclaiming
his death.
For this is what I received from the Lord, and in turn passed on to you:
that on the same night that he was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took
some bread, and thanked God for it and broke it, and he said, ‘This
is my body, which is for you; do this as a memorial of me.’ In the
same way he took the cup after supper, and said, ‘This cup is the
new covenant in my blood. Whenever you drink it, do this as a
memorial of me.’ Until the Lord comes, therefore, every time you eat
this bread and drink this cup, you are proclaiming his death.
The Word of the Lord
Sequence
(The last three verses marked with an asterisk, constitute an optional
shorter version)
Sing forth, O Zion, sweetly sing
The praises of thy Shepherd-King,
In hymns and canticles divine;
Dare all thou canst, thou hast no song
Worthy his praises to prolong,
So far surpassing powers like thine.
Today no theme of common praise
Forms the sweet burden of thy lays-
The living, life-dispensing food
That food which at the sacred board
Unto the brethren twelve our Lord
His parting legacy bestowed.
Then be the anthem clear and strong,
Thy fullest note, thy sweetest song,
The very music of the breast:
For now shines forth the day sublime
That brings remembrance of the time
When Jesus first his table blessed.
Within our new King’s banquet-hall
They meet to keep the festival
That closed the ancient paschal rite:
The old is by the new replaced;
The substance hath the shadow chased;
And rising day dispels the night.
Christ willed what he himself had done
Should be renewed while time should run,
In memory of his parting hour:
Thus, tutored in his school divine,
We consecrate the bread and wine;
And lo – a Host of saving power.
This faith to Christian men is given
Bread is made flesh by words from heaven:
Into his blood the wine is turned:
What though it baffles nature’s powers
Of sense and sight? This faith of ours
Proves more than nature e’er discerned.
Concealed beneath the two-fold sign,—
Meet symbols of the gifts divine,
There lie the mysteries adored:
The living body is our food;
Our drink the ever-precious blood;
In each, one undivided Lord.
Not he that eateth it divides
The sacred food, which whole abides
Unbroken still, nor knows decay;
Be one, or be a thousand fed,
They eat alike that living bread
Which, still received, ne’er wastes away.
The good, the guilty share therein,
With sure increase of grace or sin,
The ghostly life, or ghostly death:
Death to the guilty; to the good
Immortal life. See how one food
Man’s joy or woe accomplisheth.
We break the Sacrament; but bold
And firm thy faith shall keep its hold;
Deem not the whole doth more enfold
Than in the fractured part resides:
Deem not that Christ doth broken lie;
‘Tis but the sign that meets the eye;
The hidden deep reality
In all its fullness still abides.
*Behold the bread of angels, sent
For pilgrims in their banishment,
The bread for God’s true children meant,
That may not unto dogs be given:
Oft in the olden types foreshowed;
In Isaac on the altar bowed,
And in the ancient paschal food,
And in the manna sent from heaven.
*Come then, good shepherd, bread divine,
Still show to us thy mercy sign;
Oh, feed us still, still keep us thine;
So may we see thy glories shine
In fields of immortality;
*O thou, the wisest, mightiest, best,
Our present food, our future rest,
Come, make us each thy chosen guest,
Co-heirs of thine, and comrades blest
With saints whose dwelling is with thee.
Gospel Acclamation
Alleluia, alleluia!
I am the living bread which has come down from heaven,
says the Lord.
Anyone who eats this bread will live for ever.
Alleluia!
GOSPEL
A reading from the Gospel according to Luke 9:11-17
They all ate as much as they wanted.
Jesus made the crowds welcome and talked to them about the
kingdom of God; and he cured those who were in need of healing.
It was late afternoon when the Twelve came to him and said, ‘Send
the people away, and they can go to the villages and farms round
about to find lodging and food; for we are in a lonely place here.’
He replied, ‘Give them something to eat yourselves.’ But they said,
‘We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we are to go
ourselves and buy food for all these people.’ For there were about
five thousand men. But he said to his disciples, ‘Get them to sit down
in parties of about fifty.’ They did so and made them all sit down.
Then he took the five loaves and the two fish, raised his eyes to
heaven, and said the blessing over them; then he broke them and
handed them to his disciples to distribute among the crowd. They all
ate as much as they wanted, and when the scraps remaining were
collected they filled twelve baskets.
The Gospel of the Lord
Liturgical Readings for : Sunday, 23rd June, 2019
Today's Readings
Léachtaí Gaeilge
The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
FIRST READING
A reading from the Book of Genesis 14:18-20
He brought bread and wine.
Melchizedek king of Salem brought bread and wine; he was a priest
of God Most High.
He pronounced this blessing:
‘Blessed be Abram by God Most High, creator of heaven and earth,
and blessed be God Most High for handing over your enemies to
you.’
And Abram gave him a tithe of everything.
The Word of the Lord
Responsorial Psalm Ps 109
Response: You are a priest for ever, a priest like Melchizedek of old.
1. The Lord’s revelation to my Master:
‘Sit on my right:
I will put your foes beneath your feet.’
Response
2. The Lord will send from Zion
your sceptre of power:
rule in the midst of all your foes.
Response
3. A prince from the day of your birth
on the holy mountains;
from the womb before the daybreak I begot you.
Response
4. The Lord has sworn an oath he will not change.
‘You are a priest for ever,
a priest like Melchizedek of old.’
Response
SECOND READING
A reading from the first letter of St Paul to the Corinthians 11:23-26
Every time you eat this bread and drink this cup, you are proclaiming
his death.
For this is what I received from the Lord, and in turn passed on to you:
that on the same night that he was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took
some bread, and thanked God for it and broke it, and he said, ‘This
is my body, which is for you; do this as a memorial of me.’ In the
same way he took the cup after supper, and said, ‘This cup is the
new covenant in my blood. Whenever you drink it, do this as a
memorial of me.’ Until the Lord comes, therefore, every time you eat
this bread and drink this cup, you are proclaiming his death.
The Word of the Lord
Sequence
(The last three verses marked with an asterisk, constitute an optional
shorter version)
Sing forth, O Zion, sweetly sing
The praises of thy Shepherd-King,
In hymns and canticles divine;
Dare all thou canst, thou hast no song
Worthy his praises to prolong,
So far surpassing powers like thine.
Today no theme of common praise
Forms the sweet burden of thy lays-
The living, life-dispensing food
That food which at the sacred board
Unto the brethren twelve our Lord
His parting legacy bestowed.
Then be the anthem clear and strong,
Thy fullest note, thy sweetest song,
The very music of the breast:
For now shines forth the day sublime
That brings remembrance of the time
When Jesus first his table blessed.
Within our new King’s banquet-hall
They meet to keep the festival
That closed the ancient paschal rite:
The old is by the new replaced;
The substance hath the shadow chased;
And rising day dispels the night.
Christ willed what he himself had done
Should be renewed while time should run,
In memory of his parting hour:
Thus, tutored in his school divine,
We consecrate the bread and wine;
And lo – a Host of saving power.
This faith to Christian men is given
Bread is made flesh by words from heaven:
Into his blood the wine is turned:
What though it baffles nature’s powers
Of sense and sight? This faith of ours
Proves more than nature e’er discerned.
Concealed beneath the two-fold sign,—
Meet symbols of the gifts divine,
There lie the mysteries adored:
The living body is our food;
Our drink the ever-precious blood;
In each, one undivided Lord.
Not he that eateth it divides
The sacred food, which whole abides
Unbroken still, nor knows decay;
Be one, or be a thousand fed,
They eat alike that living bread
Which, still received, ne’er wastes away.
The good, the guilty share therein,
With sure increase of grace or sin,
The ghostly life, or ghostly death:
Death to the guilty; to the good
Immortal life. See how one food
Man’s joy or woe accomplisheth.
We break the Sacrament; but bold
And firm thy faith shall keep its hold;
Deem not the whole doth more enfold
Than in the fractured part resides:
Deem not that Christ doth broken lie;
‘Tis but the sign that meets the eye;
The hidden deep reality
In all its fullness still abides.
*Behold the bread of angels, sent
For pilgrims in their banishment,
The bread for God’s true children meant,
That may not unto dogs be given:
Oft in the olden types foreshowed;
In Isaac on the altar bowed,
And in the ancient paschal food,
And in the manna sent from heaven.
*Come then, good shepherd, bread divine,
Still show to us thy mercy sign;
Oh, feed us still, still keep us thine;
So may we see thy glories shine
In fields of immortality;
*O thou, the wisest, mightiest, best,
Our present food, our future rest,
Come, make us each thy chosen guest,
Co-heirs of thine, and comrades blest
With saints whose dwelling is with thee.
Gospel Acclamation
Alleluia, alleluia!
I am the living bread which has come down from heaven,
says the Lord.
Anyone who eats this bread will live for ever.
Alleluia!
GOSPEL
A reading from the Gospel according to Luke 9:11-17
They all ate as much as they wanted.
Jesus made the crowds welcome and talked to them about the
kingdom of God; and he cured those who were in need of healing.
It was late afternoon when the Twelve came to him and said, ‘Send
the people away, and they can go to the villages and farms round
about to find lodging and food; for we are in a lonely place here.’
He replied, ‘Give them something to eat yourselves.’ But they said,
‘We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we are to go
ourselves and buy food for all these people.’ For there were about
five thousand men. But he said to his disciples, ‘Get them to sit down
in parties of about fifty.’ They did so and made them all sit down.
Then he took the five loaves and the two fish, raised his eyes to
heaven, and said the blessing over them; then he broke them and
handed them to his disciples to distribute among the crowd. They all
ate as much as they wanted, and when the scraps remaining were
collected they filled twelve baskets.
The Gospel of the Lord
Friday, 21 June 2019
Saturday, 15 June 2019
Mass Readings - Sunday , 16th June 2019
Liturgical Readings
Today's Readings
FIRST READING
A reading from the Book of Proverbs 8:22-31
Before earth came into being, Wisdom was born.
The Wisdom of God cries out:
The Lord created me when his purpose first unfolded,
before the oldest of his works.
From everlasting I was firmly set, from the beginning,
before earth came into being.
The deep was not, when I was born,
there were no springs to gush with water.
Before the mountains were settled, before the hills,
I came to birth;
before he made the earth, the countryside,
or the first grains of the world’s dust.
When he fixed the heavens firm,
I was there,
when he drew a ring on the surface of the deep,
when he thickened the clouds above,
when he fixed fast the springs of the deep,
when he assigned the sea its boundaries-
and the waters will not invade the shore-when he laid down the foundations of the earth,
I was by his side, a master craftsman,
delighting him day after day,
ever at play in his presence,
at play everywhere in his world,
delighting to be with the sons of men.
The word of the Lord
Responsorial Psalm Ps 8
Response:
How great is your name, O Lord our God, through all the earth!
1. When I see the heavens, the work of your hands, the moon and the stars which you arranged, what is man that you should keep him in mind, mortal man that you care for him?
Response
2. Yet you have made him little less than a god; with glory and honour you crowned him, gave him power over the works of your hand, put all things under his feet.
Response
3. All of them, sheep and cattle,
yes, even the savage beasts,
birds of the air, and fish
that make their way through the waters.
Response
SECOND READING
A reading from the letter of St Paul to the Romans 5:1-5
The love of God has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, by faith we are judged righteous and at peace with God, since it is by faith and through Jesus that we have entered this state of grace in which
we can boast about looking forward to God’s glory. But that is not all we can boast
about; we can boast about our sufferings. These sufferings bring patience, as we know, and patience brings perseverance, and perseverance brings hope, and this hope is not deceptive, because the love of God has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit which has been given us.
The Word of the Lord
Gospel Acclamation
Alleluia, alleluia!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, the God who is, who was, and who is to come
Alleluia, alleluia!
GOSPEL
A reading from the Holy Gospel according to St John 16:12-15
The Father has is mine; All the Spirit tells you will be taken from what is mine.
Jesus said to his disciples:
‘I still have many things to say to you
but they would be too much for you now.
But when the Spirit of truth comes
he will lead you to the complete truth,
since he will not be speaking as from himself but will say only what he has learnt; and he will tell you of the things to come. He will glorify me, since all he tells you will be taken from what is mine. Everything the Father has is mine; that is why I said: All he tells you will be taken from what is mine.’
The Gospel of the Lord
Today's Readings
FIRST READING
A reading from the Book of Proverbs 8:22-31
Before earth came into being, Wisdom was born.
The Wisdom of God cries out:
The Lord created me when his purpose first unfolded,
before the oldest of his works.
From everlasting I was firmly set, from the beginning,
before earth came into being.
The deep was not, when I was born,
there were no springs to gush with water.
Before the mountains were settled, before the hills,
I came to birth;
before he made the earth, the countryside,
or the first grains of the world’s dust.
When he fixed the heavens firm,
I was there,
when he drew a ring on the surface of the deep,
when he thickened the clouds above,
when he fixed fast the springs of the deep,
when he assigned the sea its boundaries-
and the waters will not invade the shore-when he laid down the foundations of the earth,
I was by his side, a master craftsman,
delighting him day after day,
ever at play in his presence,
at play everywhere in his world,
delighting to be with the sons of men.
The word of the Lord
Responsorial Psalm Ps 8
Response:
How great is your name, O Lord our God, through all the earth!
1. When I see the heavens, the work of your hands, the moon and the stars which you arranged, what is man that you should keep him in mind, mortal man that you care for him?
Response
2. Yet you have made him little less than a god; with glory and honour you crowned him, gave him power over the works of your hand, put all things under his feet.
Response
3. All of them, sheep and cattle,
yes, even the savage beasts,
birds of the air, and fish
that make their way through the waters.
Response
SECOND READING
A reading from the letter of St Paul to the Romans 5:1-5
The love of God has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, by faith we are judged righteous and at peace with God, since it is by faith and through Jesus that we have entered this state of grace in which
we can boast about looking forward to God’s glory. But that is not all we can boast
about; we can boast about our sufferings. These sufferings bring patience, as we know, and patience brings perseverance, and perseverance brings hope, and this hope is not deceptive, because the love of God has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit which has been given us.
The Word of the Lord
Gospel Acclamation
Alleluia, alleluia!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, the God who is, who was, and who is to come
Alleluia, alleluia!
GOSPEL
A reading from the Holy Gospel according to St John 16:12-15
The Father has is mine; All the Spirit tells you will be taken from what is mine.
Jesus said to his disciples:
‘I still have many things to say to you
but they would be too much for you now.
But when the Spirit of truth comes
he will lead you to the complete truth,
since he will not be speaking as from himself but will say only what he has learnt; and he will tell you of the things to come. He will glorify me, since all he tells you will be taken from what is mine. Everything the Father has is mine; that is why I said: All he tells you will be taken from what is mine.’
The Gospel of the Lord
Saturday, 8 June 2019
Saturday, 1 June 2019
Mass Readings - Sunday , 2nd June 2019
Liturgical Readings for : Sunday, 2nd June, 2019
Today's Readings
Léachtaí Gaeilge
FIRST READING
Acts of the Apostles 7:55-60
I can see the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.
Stephen, frilled with the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and
Jesus standing at God's right hand. "I can see heaven thrown open" he said "and the
Son of Man standing at the right hand of God." At this all the members of the council
shouted out and stopped their ears with their hands; then they all rushed at him, sent him out of the city and stoned him. The witnesses put down their clothes at the feet of a young man called Saul. As they were stoning him, Stephen said in invocation,
"Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." Then he knelt down and said aloud, "Lord, do not hold this sin against them"; and with these words he fell asleep.
The Word of the Lord
RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 96
Response The Lord is king, most high above all the earth.
or Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
1. The Lord is king, let earth rejoice,
the many coastlands be glad.
His throne is justice and right. Response
2. The skies proclaim his justice;
all peoples see his glory.
All you spirits, worship him. Response
3. For you indeed are the Lord
most high above all the earth
exalted far above all spirits. Response
SECOND READING
Apocalypse 22:12.14. 16-17. 20
Come, Lord Jesus.
I, John, heard a voice speaking to me:
"Very soon now, I shall be with you again, bringing the reward to be given to every man according to what he deserves. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. Happy are those who will have washed their robes clean, so that they will have the and can come through the gates into the city." I, Jesus, have sent my angel to make these revelations to you for the sake of the churches. I am of David's line, the root of David and the bright star of the morning. The Spirit and the Bride say, "Come." Let everyone who listens answer, "Come." Then let all who are thirsty come; all who want it may have the water of life, and have it free.
The one who guarantees these revelations repeats his promise: I shall indeed be with
you soon. Amen; come, Lord Jesus.
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Gospel Acclamation
Jn 14: 18
Alleluia, alleluia!
I will not leave you orphans, says the Lord;
I will come back to you,
and your hearts will be full of joy.
Alleluia!
THE GOSPEL
John 17:20-26
May they be completely one.
Jesus raised His eyes to heaven and said: ‘Holy Father, I pray not only for these, but for those also who through their words will believe in me. May they all be one.
Father, may they be one in us; as you are in me and I am in you,so that the world may
believe it was you who sent me. I have given them the glory you gave to me, that they may be one as we are one. With me in them and you in me, may they be so completely one that the world will realise that it was you who sent me and that I have loved them as much as you love me. Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they may always see the glory you have given me because you love me before the foundation of the world. Father, Righteous One, the world has not known you, but I have known you, and these have known that you have sent me. I have made your name known to them and will continue to make it known, so that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and so that I may be in them.’
The Gospel of the Lord.
Today's Readings
Léachtaí Gaeilge
FIRST READING
Acts of the Apostles 7:55-60
I can see the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.
Stephen, frilled with the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and
Jesus standing at God's right hand. "I can see heaven thrown open" he said "and the
Son of Man standing at the right hand of God." At this all the members of the council
shouted out and stopped their ears with their hands; then they all rushed at him, sent him out of the city and stoned him. The witnesses put down their clothes at the feet of a young man called Saul. As they were stoning him, Stephen said in invocation,
"Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." Then he knelt down and said aloud, "Lord, do not hold this sin against them"; and with these words he fell asleep.
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RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 96
Response The Lord is king, most high above all the earth.
or Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
1. The Lord is king, let earth rejoice,
the many coastlands be glad.
His throne is justice and right. Response
2. The skies proclaim his justice;
all peoples see his glory.
All you spirits, worship him. Response
3. For you indeed are the Lord
most high above all the earth
exalted far above all spirits. Response
SECOND READING
Apocalypse 22:12.14. 16-17. 20
Come, Lord Jesus.
I, John, heard a voice speaking to me:
"Very soon now, I shall be with you again, bringing the reward to be given to every man according to what he deserves. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. Happy are those who will have washed their robes clean, so that they will have the and can come through the gates into the city." I, Jesus, have sent my angel to make these revelations to you for the sake of the churches. I am of David's line, the root of David and the bright star of the morning. The Spirit and the Bride say, "Come." Let everyone who listens answer, "Come." Then let all who are thirsty come; all who want it may have the water of life, and have it free.
The one who guarantees these revelations repeats his promise: I shall indeed be with
you soon. Amen; come, Lord Jesus.
The Word of the Lord
Gospel Acclamation
Jn 14: 18
Alleluia, alleluia!
I will not leave you orphans, says the Lord;
I will come back to you,
and your hearts will be full of joy.
Alleluia!
THE GOSPEL
John 17:20-26
May they be completely one.
Jesus raised His eyes to heaven and said: ‘Holy Father, I pray not only for these, but for those also who through their words will believe in me. May they all be one.
Father, may they be one in us; as you are in me and I am in you,so that the world may
believe it was you who sent me. I have given them the glory you gave to me, that they may be one as we are one. With me in them and you in me, may they be so completely one that the world will realise that it was you who sent me and that I have loved them as much as you love me. Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they may always see the glory you have given me because you love me before the foundation of the world. Father, Righteous One, the world has not known you, but I have known you, and these have known that you have sent me. I have made your name known to them and will continue to make it known, so that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and so that I may be in them.’
The Gospel of the Lord.
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