Sunday Readings: FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT YR. ‘A’ 30/03/2014
ENTRANCE ANTIPHON Rejoice, Jerusalem! Be glad for her, you who love her; rejoice with her, you who mourned for her, and you will find contentment at her consoling breasts OPENING PRAYER Father of peace, we are joyful in your Word, your Son Jesus Christ, who reconciles us to you. Let us hasten towards Easter with the eagerness of faith and love. FIRST READING A reading from the first book of Samuel 16: 1, 6-7, 10-13 Theme: David is anointed king of Israel. The Lord said to Samuel: “Fill your horn with oil and go, I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem, for I have chosen myself a king among his sons.” When…
SUNDAY READINGS: FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT YEAR A 22/12/2013
ENTRANCE ANTIPHON Drop down dew from above, you heavens, and let the clouds rain down the Just One; let the earth be opened and bring forth a Saviour. OPENING PRAYER Pour forth, we beseech you, O Lord, your grace into our hearts, that we, to whom the Incarnation of Christ your Son was made known by the message of an Angel, may by his Passion and Cross be brought to the glory of his Resurrection. Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. FIRST READING A reading from the prophet Isaiah 7, 10-14 Theme: The maiden is with child Once again the…
SUNDAY READINGS – 30th SUNDAY OF THE YEAR (c) 27/10/2013
OPENING PRAYER Almighty and ever-living God, strengthen our faith, hope and love. May we do with loving hearts what you ask of us and come to share the life you promise. FIRST READING A reading from the book of Ecclesiasticus 35: 12 – 14. 16 – 19 Theme: The humble Man’s prayer pierces the clouds. The Lord is a judge who is no respecter of personages. He shows no respect of personages to the detriment of a poor man, He listens to the plea of the injured party. He does not ignore the orphan’s supplication, nor the widow’s as she pours out her story. The man who with his whole heart serves God will be…
SUNDAY READINGS: 29th SUNDAY OF THE YEAR (c) 20/10/2013
OPENING PRAYER Almighty and ever-living God, our source of power and inspiration, give us strength and joy in serving you as followers of Christ. FIRST READING A reading from the book of Exodus 17:8-13 Theme: As long as Moses kept his arms raised, Israel had the advantage. The Amalekites came and attacked Israel at Rephidim. Moses said to Joshua, “pick out men for yourself, and tomorrow morning march out to engage Amalek. I, meanwhile, will stand on the hilltop, the staff of God in my hand.” Joshua did as Moses told him and marched out to engage Amalek, while Moses and Aaron and Hur went up to the top of the hill. As long…
SUNDAY READINGS: 28th SUNDAY OF THE YEAR (c) 13/10/2013
OPENING PRAYER Lord, our help and guide, make your love the foundation of lives. May our love for you express itself in our eagerness to do good for others. First Reading A reading from the second book of the Kings 5:14 – 17 Theme: Naama returned to Elisha and acknowledged the Lord. Naaman the leper went down and immersed himself seven times in the Jordan, as Elisha had told him to do. And his flesh became clean once more like the flesh of a little child. Returning to Elisha with his whole escort, he went in and stood before him. “Now I know”, he said, “that there is no God in all the earth…
Sunday Readings: TWENTIETH SUNDAY OF THE YEAR (C) 18/8/2013
Opening Prayer God our Father, may we love you in all things and above all things and reach the joy you have prepared for us beyond all our imaging. First Reading A reading from the prophet Jeremiah 38:4-6. 8-10 Theme: You have borne me to be a man of dissension for all the land The king’s leading men spoke to the king. “Let Jeremiah be put to death: he is unquestionably disheartening the remaining soldiers in the city, 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,…
Sunday Readings: NINETEENTH SUNDAY OF THE YEAR (C) 11/8/2013
OPENING PRAYER Almighty and ever-living God, your Spirit made us your children, confident to call you Father. Increase your Spirit within us and bring us to our promised inheritance. FIRST READING A reading from the book of Wisdom 18:6-9 Theme: By the same act with which you took vengeance on our foes you made us glorious by calling us to you. That night had been foretold to our ancestors, so that, once they saw what kind of oaths they had put their trust in, they would joyfully take courage. This was the expectation of your people, the saving of the virtuous and the ruin of their enemies; for by the same act with which…
