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Saturday, September 20, 2014
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Second Option
First Reading
1 Corinthians 15:35-37, 42-49
35But some one will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?”
36You foolish man! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.
37And what you sow is not the body which is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain.
42So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable.
43It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power.
44It is sown a physical body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual body.
45Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
46But it is not the spiritual which is first but the physical, and then the spiritual.
47The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven.
48As was the man of dust, so are those who are of the dust; and as is the man of heaven, so are those who are of heaven.
49Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 56:10-14
9Then my enemies will be turned back in the day when I call. This I know, that God is for me.
10In God, whose word I praise, in the LORD, whose word I praise,
11in God I trust without a fear. What can man do to me?
12My vows to thee I must perform, O God; I will render thank offerings to thee.
13For thou hast delivered my soul from death, yea, my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.
Gospel
Luke 8:4-15
4And when a great crowd came together and people from town after town came to him, he said in a parable:
5“A sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some fell along the path, and was trodden under foot, and the birds of the air devoured it.
6And some fell on the rock; and as it grew up, it withered away, because it had no moisture.
7And some fell among thorns; and the thorns grew with it and choked it.
8And some fell into good soil and grew, and yielded a hundredfold.” As he said this, he called out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
9And when his disciples asked him what this parable meant,
10he said, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God; but for others they are in parables, so that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.
11Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
12The ones along the path are those who have heard; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, that they may not believe and be saved.
13And the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear the word, receive it with joy; but these have no root, they believe for a while and in time of temptation fall away.
14And as for what fell among the thorns, they are those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not mature.
15And as for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bring forth fruit with patience.
First Reading
First Option
Second Option
Wisdom 3:1-9
1But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and no torment will ever touch them.
2In the eyes of the foolish they seemed to have died, and their departure was thought to be an affliction,
3and their going from us to be their destruction; but they are at peace.
4For though in the sight of men they were punished, their hope is full of immortality.
5Having been disciplined a little, they will receive great good, because God tested them and found them worthy of himself;
6like gold in the furnace he tried them, and like a sacrificial burnt offering he accepted them.
7In the time of their visitation they will shine forth, and will run like sparks through the stubble.
8They will govern nations and rule over peoples, and the Lord will reign over them for ever.
9Those who trust in him will understand truth, and the faithful will abide with him in love, because grace and mercy are upon his elect, and he watches over his holy ones.
Romans 8:31-39
31What then shall we say to this? If God is for us, who is against us?
32He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, will he not also give us all things with him?
33Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies;
34who is to condemn? Is it Christ Jesus, who died, yes, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us?
35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36As it is written, “For thy sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
38For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
39nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 126:1-6
1When the LORD restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream.
2Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy; then they said among the nations, “The LORD has done great things for them.”
3The LORD has done great things for us; we are glad.
4Restore our fortunes, O LORD, like the watercourses in the Negeb!
5May those who sow in tears reap with shouts of joy!
6He that goes forth weeping, bearing the seed for sowing, shall come home with shouts of joy, bringing his sheaves with him.
Gospel
Luke 9:23-26
23And he said to all, “If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.
24For whoever would save his life will lose it; and whoever loses his life for my sake, he will save it.
25For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself?
26For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of man be ashamed when he comes in his glory and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.