Saturday 9 August 2014
Saturday
of week 18 in Ordinary Time
Readings at Mass
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First reading
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Habakkuk
1:12-2:4 ©
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Are not you, from ancient times the
Lord,
my God, my Holy One, who never dies?
O Lord, you have made this people an
instrument of justice,
set it firm as a rock in order to
punish.
Your eyes are too pure to rest on
wickedness,
you cannot look on at tyranny.
Why do you look on while men are
treacherous,
and stay silent while the evil man
swallows a better man than he?
You treat mankind like fishes in the
sea,
like creeping, masterless things.
A people, these, who catch all on
their hook,
who draw them with their net,
in their dragnet gather them,
and so, triumphantly, rejoice.
At this, they offer a sacrifice to
their net,
and burn incense to their dragnet,
for providing them with luxury
and lavish food.
Are they then to empty their net
unceasingly,
slaughtering nations without pity?
I will stand on my watchtower,
and take up my post on my
battlements,
watching to see what he will say to
me,
what answer he will make to my
complaints.
Then the Lord answered and said,
‘Write the vision down,
inscribe it on tablets
to be easily read,
since this vision is for its own
time only:
eager for its own fulfilment, it
does not deceive;
if it comes slowly, wait,
for come it will, without fail.
‘See how he flags, he whose soul is
not at rights,
but the upright man will live by his
faithfulness.’
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Psalm
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Psalm
9A:8-13 ©
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You will never forsake those who
seek you, O Lord.
The Lord sits enthroned for ever.
He has set up his throne
for judgement;
he will judge the world with
justice,
he will judge the peoples
with his truth.
You will never forsake those who
seek you, O Lord.
For the oppressed let the Lord be a
stronghold,
a stronghold in times of
distress.
Those who know your name will trust
you;
you will never forsake
those who seek you.
You will never forsake those who
seek you, O Lord.
Sing psalms to the Lord who dwells
in Zion.
Proclaim his mighty
works among the peoples,
for the Avenger of blood has
remembered them,
has not forgotten the
cry of the poor.
You will never forsake those who
seek you, O Lord.
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Gospel Acclamation
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cf.Ep1:17,18
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Alleluia, alleluia!
May the Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ
enlighten the eyes of our mind,
so that we can see what hope his
call holds for us.
Alleluia!
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Or
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cf.2Tim1:10
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Alleluia, alleluia!
Our Saviour Jesus Christ abolished
death
and he has proclaimed life through
the Good News.
Alleluia!
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Gospel
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Matthew
17:14-20 ©
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A man came up to Jesus and went down
on his knees before him. ‘Lord,’ he said ‘take pity on my son: he is a lunatic
and in a wretched state; he is always falling into the fire or into the water.
I took him to your disciples and they were unable to cure him.’ ‘Faithless and
perverse generation!’ Jesus said in reply ‘How much longer must I be with you?
How much longer must I put up with you? Bring him here to me.’ And when Jesus
rebuked it the devil came out of the boy who was cured from that moment.
Then the disciples came
privately to Jesus. ‘Why were we unable to cast it out? they asked. He
answered, ‘Because you have little faith. I tell you solemnly, if your faith
were the size of a mustard seed you could say to this mountain, “Move from here
to there,” and it would move; nothing would be impossible for you.’
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