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Saturday, June 21, 2014
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St. Aloysius Gonzaga, Religious (Memorial)
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Second Option
First Reading
2 Chronicles 24:17-25
17Now after the death of Jehoiʹada the princes of Judah came and did obeisance to the king; then the king harkened to them.
18And they forsook the house of the LORD, the God of their fathers, and served the Asheʹrim and the idols. And wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their guilt.
19Yet he sent prophets among them to bring them back to the LORD; these testified against them, but they would not give heed.
20Then the Spirit of God took possession of Zechariʹah the son of Jehoiʹada the priest; and he stood above the people, and said to them, “Thus says God, ‘Why do you transgress the commandments of the LORD, so that you cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken the LORD, he has forsaken you.’ ”
21But they conspired against him, and by command of the king they stoned him with stones in the court of the house of the LORD.
22Thus Joʹash the king did not remember the kindness which Jehoiʹada, Zechariʹah’s father, had shown him, but killed his son. And when he was dying, he said, “May the LORD see and avenge!”
23At the end of the year the army of the Syrians came up against Joʹash. They came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all their spoil to the king of Damascus.
24Though the army of the Syrians had come with few men, the LORD delivered into their hand a very great army, because they had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers. Thus they executed judgment on Joʹash.
25When they had departed from him, leaving him severely wounded, his servants conspired against him because of the blood of the son of Jehoiʹada the priest, and slew him on his bed. So he died; and they buried him in the city of David, but they did not bury him in the tombs of the kings.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 89:4-5, 29-34
3Thou hast said, “I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David my servant:
4‘I will establish your descendants for ever, and build your throne for all generations.’ ” Selah
28My steadfast love I will keep for him for ever, and my covenant will stand firm for him.
29I will establish his line for ever and his throne as the days of the heavens.
30If his children forsake my law and do not walk according to my ordinances,
31if they violate my statutes and do not keep my commandments,
32then I will punish their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with scourges;
33but I will not remove from him my steadfast love, or be false to my faithfulness.
Gospel
Matthew 6:24-34
24“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
25“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink, nor about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
26Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
27And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his span of life?
28And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin;
29yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
30But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O men of little faith?
31Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’
32For the Gentiles seek all these things; and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.
33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well.
34“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.
First Reading
1 John 5:1-5
1Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God, and every one who loves the parent loves the child.
2By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments.
3For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.
4For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith.
5Who is it that overcomes the world but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 16:1-2, 5, 7-8, 11
1Preserve me, O God, for in thee I take refuge.
2I say to the LORD, “Thou art my Lord; I have no good apart from thee.”
5The LORD is my chosen portion and my cup; thou holdest my lot.
7I bless the LORD who gives me counsel; in the night also my heart instructs me.
8I keep the LORD always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
11Thou dost show me the path of life; in thy presence there is fulness of joy, in thy right hand are pleasures for evermore.
Gospel
Matthew 22:34-40
34But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadʹducees, they came together.
35And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, to test him.
36“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?”
37And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.
38This is the great and first commandment.
39And a second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
40On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets.”