{"id":1684,"date":"2020-09-24T10:54:03","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T00:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thomaspatrick.org.au\/?p=1684"},"modified":"2020-09-24T10:54:05","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T00:54:05","slug":"readings-at-mass-sunday-27th-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomaspatrick.org.au\/readings-at-mass-sunday-27th-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Readings At Mass: Sunday 27th September"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sunday 27 September 2020<\/strong>
Readings at Mass
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First reading<\/strong>
Ezekiel 18:25-28\u00a0\u00b7<\/strong>
When the sinner renounces sin, he shall certainly live<\/em>

The word of the Lord was addressed to me as follows: \u2018You object, \u201cWhat the Lord does is unjust.\u201d Listen, you House of Israel: is what I do unjust? Is it not what you do that is unjust? When the upright man renounces his integrity to commit sin and dies because of this, he dies because of the evil that he himself has committed. When the sinner renounces sin to become law-abiding and honest, he deserves to live. He has chosen to renounce all his previous sins; he shall certainly live; he shall not die.\u2019

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Responsorial Psalm<\/strong>
Psalm 24(25):4-9<\/strong>
Remember your mercies, O Lord.
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Lord, make me know your ways.
Lord, teach me your paths.
Make me walk in your truth, and teach me:
for you are God my saviour.
Remember your mercies, O Lord.
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Remember your mercy, Lord,
and the love you have shown from of old.
Do not remember the sins of my youth.
In your love remember me,
because of your goodness, O Lord.
Remember your mercies, O Lord.
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The Lord is good and upright.
He shows the path to those who stray,
He guides the humble in the right path,
He teaches his way to the poor.
Remember your mercies, O Lord.
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Second reading<\/strong>
Philippians 2:1-11\u00a0\u00b7<\/strong>
Be united in your love<\/em>

If our life in Christ means anything to you, if love can persuade at all, or the Spirit that we have in common, or any tenderness and sympathy, then be united in your convictions and united in your love, with a common purpose and a common mind. That is the one thing which would make me completely happy. There must be no competition among you, no conceit; but everybody is to be self-effacing. Always consider the other person to be better than yourself, so that nobody thinks of his own interests first but everybody thinks of other people\u2019s interests instead. In your minds you must be the same as Christ Jesus:
His state was divine,
yet he did not cling
to his equality with God
but emptied himself
to assume the condition of a slave,
and became as men are;
and being as all men are,
he was humbler yet,
even to accepting death,
death on a cross.
But God raised him high
and gave him the name
which is above all other names
so that all beings in the heavens,
on earth and in the underworld,
should bend the knee at the name of Jesus
and that every tongue should acclaim
Jesus Christ as Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.

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Gospel Acclamation<\/strong>
John 10:27<\/strong>
Alleluia, alleluia!
My sheep listen to my voice, says the Lord;
I know them, and they follow me.
Alleluia!

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Gospel<\/strong>
Matthew 21:28-32<\/strong>
Tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you

<\/em>Jesus said to the chief priests and elders of the people, \u2018What is your opinion? A man had two sons. He went and said to the first, \u201cMy boy, you go and work in the vineyard today.\u201d He answered, \u201cI will not go,\u201d but afterwards thought better of it and went. The man then went and said the same thing to the second who answered, \u201cCertainly, sir,\u201d but did not go. Which of the two did the father\u2019s will?\u2019 \u2018The first\u2019 they said. Jesus said to them, \u2018I tell you solemnly, tax collectors and prostitutes are making their way into the kingdom of God before you. For John came to you, a pattern of true righteousness, but you did not believe him, and yet the tax collectors and prostitutes did. Even after seeing that, you refused to think better of it and believe in him.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sunday 27 September 2020Readings at Mass____________________ First readingEzekiel 18:25-28\u00a0\u00b7When the sinner renounces sin, he shall certainly live The word of the Lord was addressed to me as follows: \u2018You object, \u201cWhat the Lord does is unjust.\u201d Listen, you House of Israel: is what I do unjust? Is it not what you do that is unjust? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomaspatrick.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomaspatrick.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomaspatrick.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomaspatrick.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomaspatrick.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thomaspatrick.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1685,"href":"https:\/\/thomaspatrick.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions\/1685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomaspatrick.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomaspatrick.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomaspatrick.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}