SIXTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
19th July 2020
Entrance Antiphon
See, I have God for my help, the Lord sustains my soul. I will sacrifice to you with willing heart, and praise your name, O Lord, for it is good.
Collect
Show favour, O Lord, to your servants and mercifully increase the gifts of your grace,that, made fervent in hope, faith & charity, they may be ever watchful in keeping your commands. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the HolySpirit, one God, for ever and ever.
FIRST READING
A reading from the book of Wisdom. 12:13. 16-19
After sin you will grant repentance
There is no god, other than you, who cares for everything, to whom you might have to prove that you never judged unjustly. Your justice has its source in strength, your sovereignty over all makes you lenient to all. You show your strength when your sovereign power is questioned and you expose the insolence of those who know it; but, disposing of such strength, you are mild in judgement, you govern us with great lenience, for you have only to will, and your power is there. By acting thus you have taught a lesson to your people how the virtuous man must be kindly to his fellow men, and you have given your sons the good hope that after sin you will grant repentance.
This is the word of the Lord
RESPONSORIAL PSALM Ps 85:5-6. 9-10. 15-16. Rv5
R. O Lord, you are good and forgiving
- O Lord you are good and forgiving
Full of love to all who call
Give heed, O Lord, to my prayer
And attend to the sound of my voice
R. O Lord, you are good and forgiving
- All the nations shall come to adore you
And glorify your name, O Lord
For you are great and do marvellous deeds
You who alone are God
R. O Lord, you are good and forgiving
- But you, God of mercy and compassion
Slow to anger, O Lord
Abounding in love and truth
Turn and take pity on me
R. O Lord, you are good and forgiving
SECOND READING
A reading from the letter of St Paul to the Romans. 8:26-27
The Spirit expresses our plea in a way that could never be put into words
The Spirit comes to help us in our weakness. For when we cannot choose words in order to pray properly, the Spirit himself expresses our plea in a way that could never be put into words, and God who knows everything in our hearts knows perfectly well what he means, and that the pleas of the saints expressed by the Spirit are according to the mind of God.
This is the word of the Lord.
Gospel Acclamation
Alleluia, alleluia!
May the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ enlighten the eyes of our mind,
So that we can see what hope his call holds for us.
Alleluia!
GOSPEL READING
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew. 13:24-30
Let them both grow till the harvest
Jesus put a parable before the crowds, ‘The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who showed good seed in his field. While everybody was asleep his enemy came, sowed darnel all among the wheat, and made off. When the new wheat sprouted and ripened, the darnel appeared as well. The owners servants went to him and said, ‘ Sir, was it not good seed that you sowed in your field? If so, where does the darnel come from?’ ‘Some enemy has done this’ he answered. And the servants said, ‘Do you want us to go and weed it out?’ But he said, ‘No, because when you weed out the darnel you might pull up the wheat with it. Let them both grow till the harvest, and at harvest time I shall say to the reapers: First collect the darnel and tie it in bundles to be burnt, then gather the wheat unto my barn’
This is the Gospel of the Lord.
Prayer over the Offerings
O God, who is the one perfect sacrifice brought to completion varied offerings of the law, accept, we pray, this sacrifice from your faithful servants and make it holy, as you blessed the gifts of Abel, so that what each has offered to the honor of your majesty may benefit the salvation of all, through Christ our Lord.
Communion Antiphon
The Lord, the gracious, the merciful has made a memorial of his wonder he gives food to those who fear him.
Or
Behold, I stand at the door and knock, says the Lord. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door to me, I will enter his house and dine with him, and he with me.
Prayer after Communion
Graciously be present to your people, we pray, O Lord, and lead those you have imbued with heavenly mysteries, to pass from former ways to newness I’d life, Through Christ our Lord.
