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.”’

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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.

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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.’

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