25th Sunday in Ordinary Time\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Liturgical Colour: Green.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Entrance Antiphon<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am the salvation of the people, says the Lord.
Should they cry to me in any distress,
I will hear them, and I will be their Lord for ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Collect<\/p>\n\n\n\n
O God, who founded all the commands of your sacred Law
upon love of you and of our neighbour,
grant that, by keeping your precepts,
we may merit to attain eternal life.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First reading
Wisdom 2:12,17-20 \u00b7
The wicked prepare to ambush the just man<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The godless say to themselves:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018Let us lie in wait for the virtuous man, since he annoys us
and opposes our way of life,
reproaches us for our breaches of the law
and accuses us of playing false to our upbringing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018Let us see if what he says is true,
let us observe what kind of end he himself will have.
If the virtuous man is God\u2019s son, God will take his part
and rescue him from the clutches of his enemies.
Let us test him with cruelty and with torture,
and thus explore this gentleness of his
and put his endurance to the proof.
Let us condemn him to a shameful death
since he will be looked after \u2013 we have his word for it.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 53(54):3-6,8<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Lord upholds my life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
O God, save me by your name;
by your power, uphold my cause.
O God, hear my prayer;
listen to the words of my mouth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Lord upholds my life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For proud men have risen against me,
ruthless men seek my life.
They have no regard for God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Lord upholds my life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But I have God for my help.
The Lord upholds my life.
I will sacrifice to you with willing heart
and praise your name for it is good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Lord upholds my life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Second reading
James 3:16-4:3
The wisdom that comes from above makes for peace<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wherever you find jealousy and ambition, you find disharmony, and wicked things of every kind being done; whereas the wisdom that comes down from above is essentially something pure; it also makes for peace, and is kindly and considerate; it is full of compassion and shows itself by doing good; nor is there any trace of partiality or hypocrisy in it. Peacemakers, when they work for peace, sow the seeds which will bear fruit in holiness.
Where do these wars and battles between yourselves first start? Isn\u2019t it precisely in the desires fighting inside your own selves? You want something and you haven\u2019t got it; so you are prepared to kill. You have an ambition that you cannot satisfy; so you fight to get your way by force. Why you don\u2019t have what you want is because you don\u2019t pray for it; when you do pray and don\u2019t get it, it is because you have not prayed properly, you have prayed for something to indulge your own desires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gospel Acclamation
cf 2 Thessalonians 2:14<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Alleluia, alleluia!
God has called us with the gospel
to share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Alleluia!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gospel
Mark 9:30-37
Anyone who welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jesus and his disciples made their way through Galilee; and he did not want anyone to know, because he was instructing his disciples; he was telling them, \u2018The Son of Man will be delivered into the hands of men; they will put him to death; and three days after he has been put to death he will rise again.\u2019 But they did not understand what he said and were afraid to ask him.
They came to Capernaum, and when he was in the house he asked them, \u2018What were you arguing about on the road?\u2019 They said nothing because they had been arguing which of them was the greatest. So he sat down, called the Twelve to him and said, \u2018If anyone wants to be first, he must make himself last of all and servant of all.\u2019 He then took a little child, set him in front of them, put his arms round him, and said to them, \u2018Anyone who welcomes one of these little children in my name, welcomes me; and anyone who welcomes me welcomes not me but the one who sent me.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prayer over the Offerings<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Receive with favour, O Lord, we pray,
the offerings of your people,
that what they profess with devotion and faith
may be theirs through these heavenly mysteries.
Through Christ our Lord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Communion Antiphon
Ps 118: 4-5<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You have laid down your precepts to be carefully kept;
may my ways be firm in keeping your statutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Or:
Jn 10: 14<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am the Good Shepherd, says the Lord;
I know my sheep, and mine know me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prayer after Communion<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Graciously raise up, O Lord,
those you renew with this Sacrament,
that we may come to possess your redemption
both in mystery and in the manner of our life.
Through Christ our Lord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For practical reasons, the readings at Mass are relatively short while the First Readings in the Office of Readings are longer. Here, for your private study, are passages from the Office of Readings that contain the readings you have just heard at Mass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wisdom 1:16,2:10-24
Foolish thoughts of the impious against the just<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The godless call with deed and word for Death,
counting him friend, they wear themselves out for him,
with him they make a pact,
and are fit to be his partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018As for the virtuous man who is poor, let us oppress him;
let us not spare the widow,
nor respect old age, white-haired with many years.
Let our strength be the yardstick of virtue,
since weakness argues its own futility.
Let us lie in wait for the virtuous man, since he annoys us
and opposes our way of life,
reproaches us for our breaches of the law
and accuses us of playing false to our upbringing.
He claims to have knowledge of God,
and calls himself a son of the Lord.
Before us he stands, a reproof to our way of thinking,
the very sight of him weighs our spirits down;
his way of life is not like other men\u2019s,
the paths he treads are unfamiliar.
In his opinion we are counterfeit;
he holds aloof from our doings as though from filth;
he proclaims the final end of the virtuous as happy
and boasts of having God for his father.
Let us see if what he says is true,
let us observe what kind of end he himself will have.
If the virtuous man is God\u2019s son, God will take his part
and rescue him from the clutches of his enemies.
Let us test him with cruelty and with torture,
and thus explore this gentleness of his
and put his endurance to the proof.
Let us condemn him to a shameful death
since he will be looked after \u2013 we have his word for it.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is the way they reason, but they are misled,
their malice makes them blind.
They do not know the hidden things of God,
they have no hope that holiness will be rewarded,
they can see no reward for blameless souls.
Yet God did make man imperishable,
he made him in the image of his own nature;
it was the devil\u2019s envy that brought death into the world,
as those who are his partners will discover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Copyright \u00a9 1996-2021 Universalis Publishing Limited: see www.universalis.com. Scripture readings from the Jerusalem Bible are published and copyright \u00a9 1966, 1967 and 1968 by Darton, Longman & Todd, Ltd and Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc, and used by permission of the publishers. Text of the Psalms: Copyright \u00a9 1963, The Grail (England). Used with permission of A.P. Watt Ltd. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
25th Sunday in Ordinary Time\u00a0 Liturgical Colour: Green. Entrance Antiphon I am the salvation of the people, says the Lord.Should they cry to me in any distress,I will hear them, and I will be their Lord for ever. Collect O God, who founded all the commands of your sacred Lawupon love of you and of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomaspatrick.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140"}],"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=2140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thomaspatrick.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2141,"href":"https:\/\/thomaspatrick.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140\/revisions\/2141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomaspatrick.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomaspatrick.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomaspatrick.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}