Saturday, July 7, 2018

TODAY IS THE FOURTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME


Entrance Antiphon            Cf. Ps 48:10-11
Your merciful love, O God, we have received in the midst of your temple. Your praise, O God, like your name, reaches the ends of the earth; your right hand is filled with saving justice.

Collect
God, who in the abasement of your Son have raised up a fallen world, fill your faithful with holy joy, for on those you have rescued from slavery to sin you bestow eternal gladness.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.

FIRST READING                Ezekiel 2:2-5
“They are a rebellious house; they will know that there has been a prophet among them.”

In those days: The Spirit entered into me and set me upon my feet; and I heard him speaking to me. And he said to me, “Son of man, I send you to the sons of Israel, to a nation of rebels, who have rebelled against me; they and their fathers have transgressed against me to this very day. The people also are impudent and stubborn: send you to them; and you shall say to them,
Thus says the Lord God,’
And whether they hear or refuse to hear
(for they are a rebellious house)
They will know that there has been a prophet among them.
The word of the Lord


RESPONSORIAL PSALM Psalm 123:1-2ab.2cdef.3-4 (R. cf. 2ef)
R. Our eyes look to the Lord, till he have mercy upon us.

To you have I lifted up my eyes,
you who dwell in the heavens.
Behold, like the eyes of slaves
on the hand of their lords. R.

Like the eyes of a servant
on the hand of her mistress,
so our eyes are on the Lord our God,
till he show us his mercy. R.

Have mercy on us, Lord, have mercy.
We are filled with contempt.
Indeed, all too full is our soul
with the scorn of the arrogant,
the disdain of the proud. R.

SECOND READING                    2 Corinthians 12:7-10
“I will boast of my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.”

A reading from the second Letter of Saint Paul to the Corinthians
Brethren: To keep me from being too elated by the abundance of revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to harass me, to keep me from being too elated. Three times I begged the Lord about this, that it should leave; but he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” I will all the more gladly boast of my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities; for when I am weak, then I am strong.
The word of the Lord.

ALLELUIA         Cf.    Luke 4:18
R. Alleluia. R. Alleluia.
V. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me; he has sent me to preach good news to the poor.
R. Alleluia.

GOSPEL   Mark          6:1-6
A prophet is not without honour, except in his own country. ”

Jesus came to his own country; and his disciples followed him. And on the sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue; and many who heard him were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get all this? What is the wisdom given to him? What mighty works are wrought by his hands! Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon, and are not his sisters here with us?”
And they took offence at him. And Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honour, except in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.” And he could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands upon a few sick people and healed them. And he marvelled because of their unbelief. And he went about among the villages teaching.
The Gospel of the Lord.

Prayer over the Offerings

May this oblation, dedicated to your name purify us, O Lord, and day by day bring our conduct closer to the life of heaven.
Through Christ our Lord.

Communion Antiphon       Ps 3 3:9
Taste and see that the Lord is good.
Blessed the man who seeks refuge in him.

Prayer after Communion
Grant, we pray, O Lord, that, having been replenished by such great gifts, we may gain the prize of salvation and never cease to praise you.
Through Christ our Lord.

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