Mass Reading: Sunday, 17th January 2021

FIRST READING
A reading from the first book of Samuel 3:3-10. 19
Theme: Speak, Lord, your servant is listening.

Samuel was lying in the sanctuary of the Lord where the ark of God was,
when the Lord called, ‘Samuel! Samuel!’ He answered, ‘Here I am.’ Then he
ran to Eli and said, ‘Here I am, since you called me.’ Eli said, ‘I did not call.
Go back and lie down.’ So he went and lay down. Once again the Lord called,
‘Samuel! Samuel!’ Samuel got up and went to Eli and said, ‘Here I am, since
you called me.’ He replied, ‘I did not call you, my son; go back and lie down.’
Samuel had as yet no knowledge of the Lord and the word of the Lord had
not yet been revealed to him. Once again the Lord called, the third time. He
got up and went to Eli and said, ‘Here I am, since you called me.’ Eli then
understood that it was the Lord who was calling the boy, and he said to
Samuel, ‘Go and lie down, and if someone calls say, “Speak, Lord, your
servant is listening.”’ So Samuel went and lay down in his place. The Lord
then came and stood by, calling as he had done before, ‘Samuel! Samuel!’
Samuel answered, ‘Speak, Lord, your servant is listening.’
Samuel grew up and the Lord was with him and let no word of his fall to the
ground.

The Word of the Lord.

Responsorial Psalm   Ps 39

Response Here I am, Lord! I come to do your will.

1. I waited, I waited for the Lord
and he stooped down to me;
he heard my cry.
He put a new song into my mouth,
praise of our God.

2. You do not ask for sacrifice and offerings,
but an open ear.
You do not ask for holocaust and victim.
Instead, here am I.

3. In the scroll of the book it stands written
that I should do your will.
My God, I delight in your law
in the depth of my heart.

4. Your justice I have proclaimed
in the great assembly.
My lips I have not sealed;
you know it, O Lord.

SECOND READING
A reading from the first letter of St Paul to the Corinthians 6:13-15.17-20
Theme: Your bodies are members making up the body of Christ.

The body is not meant for fornication; it is for the Lord, and the Lord for the
body. God who raised the Lord from the dead, will by his power raise us up
too.
You know, surely, that your bodies are members making up the body of
Christ; anyone who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him.
Keep away from fornication. All the other sins are committed outside the
body; but to fornicate is to sin against your own body. Your body, you know,
is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you since you received him from
God. You are not your own property; you have been bought and paid for.
That is why you should use your body for the glory of God.

The Word of the Lord.

Gospel Acclamation  1 Sam 3:9

Alleluia, alleluia!
Speak, Lord, your servant is listening:
you have the message of eternal life.
Alleluia!

Or   Jn 1: 41

Alleluia, alleluia!
We have found the Messiah which means the Christ
grace and truth have come through him.
Alleluia!

GOSPEL

A reading from the holy Gospel according to John 1:35-42

They saw where he lived, and stayed with him.

As John stood with two of his disciples, Jesus passed, and John stared hard

at him and said, ‘Look, there is the lamb of God.’ Hearing this, the two

disciples followed Jesus. Jesus turned round, saw them following and

said, ‘What do you want?‘ They answered, ‘Rabbi,’ – which means Teacher –

‘where do you live?’ ‘Come and see’ he replied; so they went and saw where

he lived, and stayed with him the rest of that day. It was about the tenth hour.

One of these two who became followers of Jesus after hearing what John had

said was Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter. Early next morning, Andrew

met his brother and said to him, ‘We have found the Messiah’ – which means

the Christ – and he took Simon to Jesus. Jesus looked hard at him and

said, ‘You are Simon son of John; you are to be called Cephas’ – meaning

Rock.

The Gospel of the Lord.

Mass Readings - Sunday, 18th August 2019

FIRST READING      Jeremiah 38:4-6. 8-10
You have borne me to be a man of dissension for all the land.

The king’s leading men spoke to the king. ‘Let this man be put to death:

he is unquestionably disheartening the remaining soldiers in the city,

and all the people too, by talking like this. The fellow does not have the

welfare of this people at heart so much as its ruin. ‘He is in your hands

as you know,’ King Zedekiah answered ‘for the king is powerless

against you.’ So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the well of

Prince Malchiah in the Court of the Guard, letting him down with ropes.

There was no water in the well, only mud, and into the mud Jeremiah sank.

Ebed-melech came out from the palace and spoke to the king. ‘My lord

king,’ he said ‘these men have done a wicked thing by treating the

prophet Jeremiah like this: they have thrown him into the well where he

will die.’ At this the king gave Ebed-melech the Cushite the following

order: ‘Take three men with you from here and pull the prophet

Jeremiah out of the well before he dies’.

The Word of the Lord


Responsorial Psalm      Ps 39
Response:   Lord, come to my aid!

1. I waited, I waited for the Lord
and he stooped down to me;
he heard my cry. Response

2. He drew me from the deadly pit,
from the miry clay.
He set my feet upon a rock
and made my footsteps firm. Response

3. He put a new song into my mouth,
praise of our God.
Many shall see and fear
and shall trust in the Lord. Response

4. As for me, wretched and poor,
the Lord thinks of me.
You are my rescuer, my help,
O God, do not delay. Response



SECOND READING      Hebrews 12: 1-4
You have borne me to be a man of dissension for all the land.

With so many witnesses in a great cloud on every side of us, we too,

then, should throw off everything that hinders us, especially the sin that

clings so easily, and keep running steadily in the race we have started.

Let us not lose sight of Jesus, who leads us in our faith and brings it to

perfection: for the sake of the joy which was still in the future, he

endured the cross, disregarding the shamefulness of it, and from now

on has taken his place at the right of God’s throne. Think of the way he

stood such opposition from sinners and then you will not give up for

want of courage. In the fight against sin, you have not yet had to keep

fighting to the point of death.

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                                    Jn 10: 27

Alleluia, alleluia!
The sheep that belong to me listen to my voice,
says the Lord,
I know them and they follow me.
Alleluia!




GOSPEL
A reading from the Gospel according to Luke 12: 49-53
I am not here to bring peace, but rather division.

Jesus said to his disciples: ‘I have come to bring fire to the earth, and

how I wish it were blazing already! There is a baptism I must still

receive, and how great is my distress till it is over! ‘

Do you suppose that I am here to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you,

but rather division. For from now on a household of five will be divided:

three against two and two against three; the father divided against the

son, son against father, mother against daughter, daughter against

mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law, daughter-in-law against

mother-in-law.

The Gospel of the Lord