FIRST READING
A reading from the book of the Prophet Isaiah 2:1-5
Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord that he may teach
us his ways so that we may walk in his paths.
The vision of Isaiah son of Amoz, concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
In the days to come
the mountain of the Temple of the Lord
shall tower above the mountains
and be lifted higher than the hills.
All the nations will stream to it,
peoples without number will come to it; and they will say:
‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
to the Temple of the God of Jacob
that he may teach us his ways
so that we may walk in his paths;
since the Law will go out from Zion,
and the oracle of the Lord from Jerusalem’.
He will wield authority over the nations
and adjudicate between many peoples;
these will hammer their swords into ploughshares,
their spears into sickles.
Nation will not lift sword against nation,
there will be no more training for war.
O House of Jacob, come,
let us walk in the light of the Lord.
The Word of the Lord
Responsorial Psalm Ps 121: 1-2,4-5,6-9, Rv v.1
Response: I rejoiced when I heard them say:
“Let us go to God’s house.”
1. I rejoiced when I heard them say:
“Let us go to God’s house.”
And now our feet are standing
within your gates, O Jerusalem.
2. It is there that the tribes go up,
the tribes of the Lord.
For Israel’s law it is,
there to praise the Lord’s name.
There were set the thrones of judgement
of the house of David.
3. For the peace of Jerusalem pray:
“Peace be to your homes!
May peace reign in your walls,
in your palaces, peace!”
4. For love of my brethren and friends
I say: “Peace upon you!”
For love of the house of the Lord
I will ask for your good.
SECOND READING
A reading from the first letter of St Paul to the Romans 13:11-14
Our salvation is even nearer.
You know ‘the time’ has come: you must wake up now: our salvation
is even nearer than it was when we were converted. The night is
almost over, it will be daylight soon – let us give up all the things we
prefer to do under cover of the dark; let us arm ourselves and
appear in the light. Let us live decently as people do in the daytime:
no drunken orgies, no promiscuity or licentiousness, and no wrangling
or jealousy. Let your armour be the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Word of the Lord
Gospel Acclamation Ps 84:8
Alleluia, alleluia!
Let us see, O Lord, your mercy and give us your saving help.
Alleluia
GOSPEL
A reading from the Gospel according to Matthew 24:37-44
Stay awake, because you do not know the day when your master is
coming.
Jesus said to his disciples: ‘As it was in Noah’s day, so will it be when
the Son of Man comes. For in those days before the Flood people
were eating, drinking, taking wives, taking husbands, right up to the
day Noah went into the ark, and they suspected nothing till the
Flood came and swept all away. It will be like this when the Son of
Man comes. Then of two men in the fields one is taken, one left; of
two women at the millstone grinding, one is taken, one left.
‘So stay awake, because you do not know the day when your
master is coming. You may be quite sure of this that if the
householder had known at what time of the night the burglar would
come, he would have stayed awake and would not have allowed
anyone to break through the wall of his house. Therefore, you too
must stand ready because the Son of Man is coming at an hour you
do not expect.’
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Saturday 30 November 2019
Saturday 23 November 2019
Mass Readings - Sundaty, 24th November 2019
FIRST READING
A reading from the second book of the Prophet Samuel 5:1-3
They anointed David King of Israel.
All the tribes of Israel then came to David at Hebron. ’Look’ they said
‘we are your own flesh and blood. In days past when Saul was our
king, it was you who led Israel in all their exploits; and the Lord said to
you, “You are the man who shall be shepherd of my people Israel, you
shall be the leader of Israel”.’
So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David
made a pact with them at Hebron in the presence of the Lord, and
they anointed David king of Israel.”’
The Word of the Lord
Responsorial Psalm Ps 121
Response:
I rejoiced when I heard them say: ‘Let us go to God’s house.’
1. I rejoiced when I heard them say:
‘Let us go to God’s house.’
And now our feet are standing
within your gates, O Jerusalem.
2. Jerusalem is built as a city
strongly compact.
It is there that the tribes go up,
the tribes of the Lord.
3. For Israel’s law it is,
there to praise the Lord’s name.
There were set the thrones of judgement
of the house of David.
SECOND READING
A reading from the first letter of St Paul to the Colossions 1:12-20
He has created a place for us in the kingdom of the Son that he loves.
We give thanks to the Father who has made it possible for you to join
the saints and with them to inherit the light. Because that is what he
has done: he has taken us out of the power of darkness and created a
place for us in the kingdom of the Son that he loves, and in him we
gain our freedom, the forgiveness of our sins.
He is the image of the unseen God and the first-born of all creation,
for in him were created all things in heaven and on earth:
everything visible and everything invisible, Thrones, Dominations,
Sovereignties, Powers – all things were created through him and for him.
Before anything was created, he existed, and he holds all things in unity.
Now the Church is his body, he is its head. As he is the Beginning,
he was first to be born from the dead, so that he should be first in every way;
because God wanted all perfection to be found in him and all things
to be reconciled through him and fo him, everything in heaven and everything
on earth, when he made peace by his death on the cross.
The Word of the Lord
Gospel Acclamation Mt 24:42
Alleluia, alleluia!
Blessings on him who comes in the name of the Lord!
Blessings on the coming kingdom of our father David!
Alleluia!
GOSPEL
A reading from the Gospel according to Luke 23:35-43
Lord remember me when you come into your kingdom.
The people stayed there watching him. As for the leaders, they jeered
at him. ‘He saved others,’ they said ‘let him save himself if he is the
Christ of God, the Chosen One.’ The soldiers mocked him too, and
when they approached to offer vinegar they said, ‘If you are the king
of the Jews, save yourself’. Above him there was an inscription: ‘This is
the King of the Jews’.
One of the criminals hanging there abused him. ‘Are you not the
Christ?’ he said. ‘Save yourself and us as well.’ But the other spoke up
and rebuked him. ‘Have you no fear of God at all?’ he said. ‘You got
the same sentence as he did, but in our case we deserved it: we are
paying for what we did. But this man has done nothing wrong. Jesus,’
he said ‘remember me when you come into your kingdom.’ ‘Indeed, I
promise you,’ he replied ‘today you will be with me in paradise.’
The Gospel of the Lord
A reading from the second book of the Prophet Samuel 5:1-3
They anointed David King of Israel.
All the tribes of Israel then came to David at Hebron. ’Look’ they said
‘we are your own flesh and blood. In days past when Saul was our
king, it was you who led Israel in all their exploits; and the Lord said to
you, “You are the man who shall be shepherd of my people Israel, you
shall be the leader of Israel”.’
So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David
made a pact with them at Hebron in the presence of the Lord, and
they anointed David king of Israel.”’
The Word of the Lord
Responsorial Psalm Ps 121
Response:
I rejoiced when I heard them say: ‘Let us go to God’s house.’
1. I rejoiced when I heard them say:
‘Let us go to God’s house.’
And now our feet are standing
within your gates, O Jerusalem.
2. Jerusalem is built as a city
strongly compact.
It is there that the tribes go up,
the tribes of the Lord.
3. For Israel’s law it is,
there to praise the Lord’s name.
There were set the thrones of judgement
of the house of David.
SECOND READING
A reading from the first letter of St Paul to the Colossions 1:12-20
He has created a place for us in the kingdom of the Son that he loves.
We give thanks to the Father who has made it possible for you to join
the saints and with them to inherit the light. Because that is what he
has done: he has taken us out of the power of darkness and created a
place for us in the kingdom of the Son that he loves, and in him we
gain our freedom, the forgiveness of our sins.
He is the image of the unseen God and the first-born of all creation,
for in him were created all things in heaven and on earth:
everything visible and everything invisible, Thrones, Dominations,
Sovereignties, Powers – all things were created through him and for him.
Before anything was created, he existed, and he holds all things in unity.
Now the Church is his body, he is its head. As he is the Beginning,
he was first to be born from the dead, so that he should be first in every way;
because God wanted all perfection to be found in him and all things
to be reconciled through him and fo him, everything in heaven and everything
on earth, when he made peace by his death on the cross.
The Word of the Lord
Gospel Acclamation Mt 24:42
Alleluia, alleluia!
Blessings on him who comes in the name of the Lord!
Blessings on the coming kingdom of our father David!
Alleluia!
GOSPEL
A reading from the Gospel according to Luke 23:35-43
Lord remember me when you come into your kingdom.
The people stayed there watching him. As for the leaders, they jeered
at him. ‘He saved others,’ they said ‘let him save himself if he is the
Christ of God, the Chosen One.’ The soldiers mocked him too, and
when they approached to offer vinegar they said, ‘If you are the king
of the Jews, save yourself’. Above him there was an inscription: ‘This is
the King of the Jews’.
One of the criminals hanging there abused him. ‘Are you not the
Christ?’ he said. ‘Save yourself and us as well.’ But the other spoke up
and rebuked him. ‘Have you no fear of God at all?’ he said. ‘You got
the same sentence as he did, but in our case we deserved it: we are
paying for what we did. But this man has done nothing wrong. Jesus,’
he said ‘remember me when you come into your kingdom.’ ‘Indeed, I
promise you,’ he replied ‘today you will be with me in paradise.’
The Gospel of the Lord
Saturday 16 November 2019
Mass Readings - Sunday, 17th November 2019
FIRST READING
A reading from the Book of Malachi 3:19-20
For you the sun of righteousness will shine out.
The day is coming now, burning like a furnace; and all the
arrogant and the evil-doers will be like stubble. The day that is
coming is going to burn them up, says the Lord, leaving them
neither root nor stalk. But for you who fear my name, the sun of
righteousness will shine out with healing in its rays.
The Word of the Lord
Responsorial Psalm Ps 97
Response: The Lord comes to rule the peoples with fairness.
1. Sing psalms to the Lord with the harp
with the sound of music.
With trumpets and the sound of the horn
acclaim the King, the Lord. Response
2. Let the sea and all within it, thunder;
the world, and all its peoples.
Let the rivers clap their hands
and the hills ring out their joy
at the presence of the Lord. Response
3. For the Lord comes,
he comes to rule the earth.
He will rule the world with justice
and the peoples with fairness. Response
SECOND READING
A reading from the second letter of St Paul to the Thessalonians 3:7-12
Do not let anyone have any food if he refused to do any work.
You know how you are supposed to imitate us: now we were not
idle when we were with you, nor did we ever have our meals at
anyone’s table without paying for them; no, we worked night and
day, slaving and straining, so as not to be a burden on any of you.
This was not because we had no right to be, but in order to make
ourselves an example for you to follow.
We gave you a rule when we were with you: not to let anyone
have any food if he refused to do any work. Now we hear that
there are some of you who are living in idleness, doing no work
themselves but interfering with everyone else’s. In the Lord Jesus
Christ, we order and call on people of this kind to go on quietly
working and earning the food that they eat.
The Word of the Lord
Gospel Acclamation Lk 21: 36
Alleluia, alleluia!
Stay awake, praying at all times for the strength to stand with
confidence before the Son of Man.
Alleluia!
Or Lk 21: 28
Alleluia, alleluia!
Stand erect, hold your heads high, because your liberation is near
at hand’.
Alleluia!
GOSPEL
A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke 21:5-19
Your endurance will win you your lives.
The Gospel of the Lord
A reading from the Book of Malachi 3:19-20
For you the sun of righteousness will shine out.
The day is coming now, burning like a furnace; and all the
arrogant and the evil-doers will be like stubble. The day that is
coming is going to burn them up, says the Lord, leaving them
neither root nor stalk. But for you who fear my name, the sun of
righteousness will shine out with healing in its rays.
The Word of the Lord
Responsorial Psalm Ps 97
Response: The Lord comes to rule the peoples with fairness.
1. Sing psalms to the Lord with the harp
with the sound of music.
With trumpets and the sound of the horn
acclaim the King, the Lord. Response
2. Let the sea and all within it, thunder;
the world, and all its peoples.
Let the rivers clap their hands
and the hills ring out their joy
at the presence of the Lord. Response
3. For the Lord comes,
he comes to rule the earth.
He will rule the world with justice
and the peoples with fairness. Response
SECOND READING
A reading from the second letter of St Paul to the Thessalonians 3:7-12
Do not let anyone have any food if he refused to do any work.
You know how you are supposed to imitate us: now we were not
idle when we were with you, nor did we ever have our meals at
anyone’s table without paying for them; no, we worked night and
day, slaving and straining, so as not to be a burden on any of you.
This was not because we had no right to be, but in order to make
ourselves an example for you to follow.
We gave you a rule when we were with you: not to let anyone
have any food if he refused to do any work. Now we hear that
there are some of you who are living in idleness, doing no work
themselves but interfering with everyone else’s. In the Lord Jesus
Christ, we order and call on people of this kind to go on quietly
working and earning the food that they eat.
The Word of the Lord
Gospel Acclamation Lk 21: 36
Alleluia, alleluia!
Stay awake, praying at all times for the strength to stand with
confidence before the Son of Man.
Alleluia!
Or Lk 21: 28
Alleluia, alleluia!
Stand erect, hold your heads high, because your liberation is near
at hand’.
Alleluia!
GOSPEL
A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke 21:5-19
Your endurance will win you your lives.
When some were talking about the Temple, remarking how it was
adorned with fine stonework and votive offerings, Jesus said, ‘All
these things you are staring at now-the time will come when not a
single stone will be left on another: everything will be destroyed’.
And they put to him this question: ‘Master,’ they said ‘when will this
happen, then, and what sign will there be that this is about to take
place?’
‘Take care not to be deceived,’ he said ‘because many will come
using my name and saying, “I am he” and, “The time is near at
hand”. Refuse to join them. And when you hear of wars and
revolutions, do not be frightened, for this is something that must
happen but the end is not so soon.’ Then he said to them, ‘Nation
will fight against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will
be great earthquakes and plagues and famines here and there;
there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven.
‘But before all this happens, men will seize you and persecute you;
they will hand you over to the synagogues and to imprisonment,
and bring you before kings and governors because of my name –
and that will be your opportunity to bear witness. Keep this
carefully in mind: you are not to prepare your defence, because I
myself shall give you an eloquence and a wisdom that none of
your opponents will be able to resist or contradict. You will be
betrayed even by parents and brothers, relations and friends; and
some of you will be put to death. You will be hated by all men on
account of my name, but not a hair of your head will be lost. Your
endurance will win you your lives.
The Gospel of the Lord
Sunday 10 November 2019
Saturday 9 November 2019
Mass Readings - Sunday, 10th November 2019
FIRST READING
A reading from the second Book of Maccabees 7:1 -2. 9-14
The King of the world will raise us up to live again for ever.
Responorial Psalm Ps 16
Response: I shall be filled, when I awake,
with the sight of your glory, O Lord.
1. Lord, hear a cause that is just,
pay heed to my cry.
Turn your ear to my prayer:
no deceit is on my lips. Response
2. I kept my feet firmly in your paths;
there was no faltering in my steps.
I am here and I call, you will hear me, O God.
Turn your ear to me; hear my words. Response
3. Guard me as the apple of your eye.
Hide me in the shadow of your wings.
As for me, in my justice I shall see your face
and be filled, when I awake, with the sight of your glory. Response
SECOND READING
A reading from the second letter of St Paul to the Thessalonians 2:16 – 3:5
May the Lord strengthen you in everything good that you do or say.
The Word of the Lord
Gospel Acclamation Lk 21: 36
Alleluia, alleluia!
Stay awake, praying at all times
for the strength to stand with confidence
before the Son of Man.
Alleluia!
Or Apoc 1: 5
Alleluia, alleluia!
Jesus Christ, is the First-born from the dead,
to him be glory and power for ever and ever.
Alleluia!
GOSPEL
A reading from the Gospel according to Luke 20: 27-38
He is God, not of the dead, but of the living.
The Gospel of the Lord
Gospel (Shorter form)
A reading from the Gospel according to Luke 20:27. 34-38
He is God, not of the dead, but of the living.
The Gospel of the Lord
A reading from the second Book of Maccabees 7:1 -2. 9-14
The King of the world will raise us up to live again for ever.
There were seven brothers who were arrested with their mother.
The king tried to force them to taste pig’s flesh, which the Law
forbids, by torturing them with whips and scourges. One of them,
acting as spokesman for the others, said, ‘What are you trying to
find out from us? We are prepared to die rather than break the
laws of our ancestors.’
With his last breath he exclaimed, ‘Inhuman fiend, you may
discharge us from this present life, but the King of the world will
raise us up, since it is for his laws that we die, to live again for ever’.
After him, they amused themselves with the third, who on being
asked for his tongue promptly thrust it out and boldly held out his
hands, with these honourable words, ‘it was heaven that gave me
these limbs; for the sake of his laws I disdain them; from him I hope
to receive them again’. The king and his attendants were
astounded at the young man’s courage and his utter indifference
to suffering.
When this one was dead they subjected the fourth to the same
savage torture. When he neared his end he cried, ‘Ours is the
better choice, to meet death at men’s hands, yet relying on
God’s promise that we shall be raised up by him; whereas for you
there can be no resurrection, no new life’.
The Word of the Lord
Responorial Psalm Ps 16
Response: I shall be filled, when I awake,
with the sight of your glory, O Lord.
1. Lord, hear a cause that is just,
pay heed to my cry.
Turn your ear to my prayer:
no deceit is on my lips. Response
2. I kept my feet firmly in your paths;
there was no faltering in my steps.
I am here and I call, you will hear me, O God.
Turn your ear to me; hear my words. Response
3. Guard me as the apple of your eye.
Hide me in the shadow of your wings.
As for me, in my justice I shall see your face
and be filled, when I awake, with the sight of your glory. Response
SECOND READING
A reading from the second letter of St Paul to the Thessalonians 2:16 – 3:5
May the Lord strengthen you in everything good that you do or say.
May our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father who has
given us his love and, through his grace, such inexhaustible
comfort and such sure hope, comfort you and strengthen you in
everything good that you do or say.
Finally, brothers, pray for us; pray that the Lord’s message may
spread quickly, and be received with honour as it was among
you; and pray that we may be preserved from the interference of
bigoted and evil people, for faith is not given to everyone. But the
Lord is faithful, and he will give you strength and guard you from
the evil one, and we, in the Lord, have every confidence that you
are doing and will go on doing all that we tell you. May the Lord
turn your hearts towards the love of God and the fortitude of
Christ.
The Word of the Lord
Gospel Acclamation Lk 21: 36
Alleluia, alleluia!
Stay awake, praying at all times
for the strength to stand with confidence
before the Son of Man.
Alleluia!
Or Apoc 1: 5
Alleluia, alleluia!
Jesus Christ, is the First-born from the dead,
to him be glory and power for ever and ever.
Alleluia!
GOSPEL
A reading from the Gospel according to Luke 20: 27-38
He is God, not of the dead, but of the living.
Some Sadducees - those who say that there is no resurrection approached
him and they put this question to him, ‘Master, we
have it from Moses in writing, that if a man’s married brother dies
childless, the man must marry the widow to raise up children for his
brother. Well then, there were seven brothers. The first, having
married a wife, died childless. The second and then the third
married the widow. And the same with all seven, they died
leaving no children. Finally the woman herself died. Now, at the
resurrection, to which of them will she be wife since she had been
married to all seven?’
Jesus replied, ‘The children of this world take wives and husbands,
but those who are judged worthy of a place in the other world
and if’ the resurrection from the dead do not marry because they
can no longer die, for they are the same as the angels, and being
children of the resurrection they are sons of God. And Moses
himself implies that the dead rise again, in the passage about the
bush where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham, the God of
Isaac and the God of Jacob. Now he is God, not of the dead, but
of the living; for to him all men are in fact alive.’
The Gospel of the Lord
Gospel (Shorter form)
A reading from the Gospel according to Luke 20:27. 34-38
He is God, not of the dead, but of the living.
Some Sadducees — those who say that there is no resurrection —
approached Jesus and they put a question to him.
Jesus replied, ‘The children of this world take wives and husbands,
but those who are judged worthy of a place in the other world
and in the resurrection from the dead do not marry because they
can no longer die, for they are the same as the angels, and being
children of the resurrection they are sons of God. And Moses
himself implies that the dead rise again, in the passage about the
bush where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham, the God of
Isaac and the God of Jacob. Now he is God, not of the dead, but
of the living; for to him all men are in fact alive.’
The Gospel of the Lord
Saturday 2 November 2019
Mass Readings - Sunday, 3rd November 2019
FIRST READING
A reading from the Book of Wisdom 11:22-12:2
You are merciful to all because you love all that exists.
In your sight the whole world is like a grain of dust that tips the scales, like a drop of morning dew falling on the ground. Yet you are merciful to all, because you can do all things and overlook men’s sins so that they can repent. Yes, you love all that exists, you hold nothing of what you have made in abhorrence, for had you hated anything, you would not have formed it. And how, had you not willed it, could a thing persist, how be conserved if not called forth by you? You spare all things because all things are yours, Lord, lover of life, you whose imperishable spirit is in all. Little by little, therefore, you correct those who offend, you admonish and remind them of how they have sinned, so that they may abstain from evil and trust in you, Lord.
The Word of the Lord.
Responsorial Psalm Ps 144 Response: I will bless your name for ever, O God my King.
1. I will give you glory, O God my King, I will bless your name for ever. I will bless you day after day and praise your name for ever. Response
2. The Lord is kind and full of compassion, slow to anger, abounding in love. How good is the Lord to all, compassionate to all his creatures.
Response
3. All your creatures shall thank you, O Lord, and your friends shall repeat their blessing. They shall speak of the glory of your reign and declare your might, O God. Response
4. The Lord is faithful in all his words and loving in all his deeds. The Lord supports all who fall and raises all who are bowed down.
Response
Second Reading
A reading from the second letter of St Paul to the Thessalonians 1:11-2:2
The name of Christ will be glorified in you and you in him.
We pray continually that our God will make you worthy of his call, and by his power fulfil all your desires for goodness and complete all that you have been doing through faith; because in this way the name of our Lord Jesus Christ will be glorified in you and you in him, by the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. To turn now, brothers, to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and how we shall all be gathered round him: please do not get excited too soon or alarmed by any prediction or rumour or any letter claiming to come from us, implying that the Day of the Lord has already arrived.
The Word of the Lord.
Gospel Acclamation
Lk 19:38
Alleluia, alleluia!
Blessings on the King who comes, in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest heavens! Alleluia!
Or Jn 3: 16
God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not be lost but may have eternal life. Alleluia!
GOSPEL
A reading from the Gospel according to Luke 19: 1-10
The Son of Man has come to seek out and save what was lost.
Jesus entered Jericho and was going through the town when a man whose name was Zacchaeus made his appearance; he was one of the senior tax collectors and a wealthy man. He was anxious to see what kind of man Jesus was, but he was too short and could not see him for the crowd; So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to catch a glimpse of Jesus who was to pass that way. When Jesus reached the spot he looked up and spoke to him: ‘Zacchaeus, come down. Hurry, because I must stay at your house today.’ And he hurried down and welcomed him joyfully. They all complained when they saw what was happening. ‘He has gone to stay at a sinner’s house’ they said. But Zacchaeus stood his ground and said to the Lord, ‘Look, sir, I am going to give half my property to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody I will pay him back four times the amount’ And Jesus said to him, ‘Today salvation has come to this house, because this man too is a son of Abraham; for the Son of Man has come to seek out and save what was lost’.
The Gospel of the Lord
A reading from the Book of Wisdom 11:22-12:2
You are merciful to all because you love all that exists.
In your sight the whole world is like a grain of dust that tips the scales, like a drop of morning dew falling on the ground. Yet you are merciful to all, because you can do all things and overlook men’s sins so that they can repent. Yes, you love all that exists, you hold nothing of what you have made in abhorrence, for had you hated anything, you would not have formed it. And how, had you not willed it, could a thing persist, how be conserved if not called forth by you? You spare all things because all things are yours, Lord, lover of life, you whose imperishable spirit is in all. Little by little, therefore, you correct those who offend, you admonish and remind them of how they have sinned, so that they may abstain from evil and trust in you, Lord.
The Word of the Lord.
Responsorial Psalm Ps 144 Response: I will bless your name for ever, O God my King.
1. I will give you glory, O God my King, I will bless your name for ever. I will bless you day after day and praise your name for ever. Response
2. The Lord is kind and full of compassion, slow to anger, abounding in love. How good is the Lord to all, compassionate to all his creatures.
Response
3. All your creatures shall thank you, O Lord, and your friends shall repeat their blessing. They shall speak of the glory of your reign and declare your might, O God. Response
4. The Lord is faithful in all his words and loving in all his deeds. The Lord supports all who fall and raises all who are bowed down.
Response
Second Reading
A reading from the second letter of St Paul to the Thessalonians 1:11-2:2
The name of Christ will be glorified in you and you in him.
We pray continually that our God will make you worthy of his call, and by his power fulfil all your desires for goodness and complete all that you have been doing through faith; because in this way the name of our Lord Jesus Christ will be glorified in you and you in him, by the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. To turn now, brothers, to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and how we shall all be gathered round him: please do not get excited too soon or alarmed by any prediction or rumour or any letter claiming to come from us, implying that the Day of the Lord has already arrived.
The Word of the Lord.
Gospel Acclamation
Lk 19:38
Alleluia, alleluia!
Blessings on the King who comes, in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest heavens! Alleluia!
Or Jn 3: 16
God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not be lost but may have eternal life. Alleluia!
GOSPEL
A reading from the Gospel according to Luke 19: 1-10
The Son of Man has come to seek out and save what was lost.
Jesus entered Jericho and was going through the town when a man whose name was Zacchaeus made his appearance; he was one of the senior tax collectors and a wealthy man. He was anxious to see what kind of man Jesus was, but he was too short and could not see him for the crowd; So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to catch a glimpse of Jesus who was to pass that way. When Jesus reached the spot he looked up and spoke to him: ‘Zacchaeus, come down. Hurry, because I must stay at your house today.’ And he hurried down and welcomed him joyfully. They all complained when they saw what was happening. ‘He has gone to stay at a sinner’s house’ they said. But Zacchaeus stood his ground and said to the Lord, ‘Look, sir, I am going to give half my property to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody I will pay him back four times the amount’ And Jesus said to him, ‘Today salvation has come to this house, because this man too is a son of Abraham; for the Son of Man has come to seek out and save what was lost’.
The Gospel of the Lord
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