Readings at Mass Tuesday 14 September 2021

 Readings at Mass

Tuesday 14 September 2021 (The Exaltation of the Holy Cross – Feast)

24th Week in Ordinary Time 

Liturgical Colour: White.

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First reading

Numbers 21:4-9

On the way through the wilderness the people lost patience. They spoke against God and against Moses, ‘Why did you bring us out of Egypt to die in this wilderness? For there is neither bread nor water here; we are sick of this unsatisfying food.’

    At this God sent fiery serpents among the people; their bite brought death to many in Israel. The people came and said to Moses, ‘We have sinned by speaking against the Lord and against you. Intercede for us with the Lord to save us from these serpents.’ Moses interceded for the people, and the Lord answered him, ‘Make a fiery serpent and put it on a standard. If anyone is bitten and looks at it, he shall live.’ So Moses fashioned a bronze serpent which he put on a standard, and if anyone was bitten by a serpent, he looked at the bronze serpent and lived.

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Philippians 2:6-11

His state was divine,

yet Christ Jesus 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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Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 77(78):1-2,34-38

Response: Never forget the deeds of the Lord.

Give heed, my people, to my teaching;

    turn your ear to the words of my mouth.

I will open my mouth in a parable

    and reveal hidden lessons of the past.

When he slew them then they would seek him,

    return and seek him in earnest.

They would remember that God was their rock,

    God the Most High their redeemer.

But the words they spoke were mere flattery;

    they lied to him with their lips.

For their hearts were not truly with him;

    they were not faithful to his covenant.

Yet he who is full of compassion

    forgave them their sin and spared them.

So often he held back his anger

    when he might have stirred up his rage.

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When a Feast of the Lord falls on a weekday, there is no reading after the Psalm and before the Gospel.

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Gospel Acclamation

Alleluia, alleluia!

We adore you, O Christ, 

and we bless you;

because by your cross 

you have redeemed the world.

Alleluia!

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Gospel

John 3:13-17

Jesus said to Nicodemus:

‘No one has gone up to heaven

except the one who came down from heaven,

the Son of Man who is in heaven;

and the Son of Man must be lifted up

as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert,

so that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.

Yes, God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son,

so that everyone who believes in him may not be lost

but may have eternal life.

For God sent his Son into the world

not to condemn the world,

but so that through him the world might be saved.’

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Scripture readings from the Jerusalem Bible, Text of the Psalms from The Grail