Readings at Mass
Saturday 24 October 2020
Saturday of week 29 in
Ordinary Time
Saturday memorial of the
Blessed Virgin Mary
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First reading
Ephesians 4:7-16
By grace, we shall not be
children any longer
Each one of us has been
given his own share of grace, given as Christ allotted it. It was said that he
would:
When he ascended to the
height, he captured prisoners,
he gave gifts to men.
When it says, ‘he
ascended’, what can it mean if not that he descended right down to the lower
regions of the earth? The one who rose higher than all the heavens to fill all
things is none other than the one who descended. And to some, his gift was that
they should be apostles; to some, prophets; to some, evangelists; to some,
pastors and teachers; so that the saints together make a unity in the work of
service, building up the body of Christ. In this way we are all to come to
unity in our faith and in our knowledge of the Son of God, until we become the
perfect Man, fully mature with the fullness of Christ himself.
Then we shall not be children any longer,
or tossed one way and another and carried along by every wind of doctrine, at
the mercy of all the tricks men play and their cleverness in practising deceit.
If we live by the truth and in love, we shall grow in all ways into Christ, who
is the head by whom the whole body is fitted and joined together, every joint
adding its own strength, for each separate part to work according to its
function. So the body grows until it has built itself up, in love.
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Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 121(122):1-5
I rejoiced when I heard
them say: ‘Let us go to God’s house.’
I rejoiced when I heard
them say:
‘Let us go to God’s house.’
And now our feet are
standing
within your gates, O Jerusalem.
I rejoiced when I heard
them say: ‘Let us go to God’s house.’
Jerusalem is built as a
city
strongly compact.
It is there that the
tribes go up,
the tribes of the Lord.
I rejoiced when I heard
them say: ‘Let us go to God’s house.’
For Israel’s law it is,
there to praise the Lord’s name.
There were set the
thrones of judgement
of the house of David.
I rejoiced when I heard
them say: ‘Let us go to God’s house.’
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Gospel Acclamation
Ps144:13
Alleluia, alleluia!
The Lord is faithful in
all his words
and loving in all his
deeds.
Alleluia!
Or:
Ezk33:11
Alleluia, alleluia!
I take pleasure, not in
the death of a wicked man,
says the Lord,
but in the turning back
of a wicked man
who changes his ways to
win life.
Alleluia!
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Gospel
Luke 13:1-9
'Leave the fig tree one
more year'
Some people arrived and
told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with that of
their sacrifices. At this he said to them, ‘Do you suppose these Galileans who
suffered like that were greater sinners than any other Galileans? They were
not, I tell you. No; but unless you repent you will all perish as they did. Or
those eighteen on whom the tower at Siloam fell and killed them? Do you suppose
that they were more guilty than all the other people living in Jerusalem? They
were not, I tell you. No; but unless you repent you will all perish as they
did.’
He told this parable: ‘A man had a fig tree
planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it but found none. He
said to the man who looked after the vineyard, “Look here, for three years now
I have been coming to look for fruit on this fig tree and finding none. Cut it
down: why should it be taking up the ground?” “Sir,” the man replied “leave it
one more year and give me time to dig round it and manure it: it may bear fruit
next year; if not, then you can cut it down.”’
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readings from the Jerusalem Bible, Text of the Psalms from The Grail, All
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Copyright
© 1996-2020 Universalis Publishing Limited: see www.universalis.com. Scripture
readings from the Jerusalem Bible, Text of the Psalms from The Grail, All
rights reserved.
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