Catholic Missal of the day: Saturday, August 5 2017

Saturday of the Seventeenth week in Ordinary Time

Saturday of the Seventeenth week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

Book of Leviticus

25,1.8-17.

]The LORD said to Moses on Mount Sinai,
]"Seven weeks of years shall you count--seven times seven years--so that the seven cycles amount to forty-nine years.
]Then, on the tenth day of the seventh month let the trumpet resound; on this, the Day of Atonement, the trumpet blast shall re-echo throughout your land.
]This fiftieth year you shall make sacred by proclaiming liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, when every one of you shall return to his own property, every one to his own family estate.
]In this fiftieth year, your year of jubilee, you shall not sow, nor shall you reap the aftergrowth or pick the grapes from the untrimmed vines.
]Since this is the jubilee, which shall be sacred for you, you may not eat of its produce, except as taken directly from the field.
]"In this year of jubilee, then, every one of you shall return to his own property.
]Therefore, when you sell any land to your neighbor or buy any from him, do not deal unfairly.
]On the basis of the number of years since the last jubilee shall you purchase the land from him; and so also, on the basis of the number of years for crops, shall he sell it to you.
]When the years are many, the price shall be so much the more; when the years are few, the price shall be so much the less. For it is really the number of crops that he sells you.
]Do not deal unfairly, then; but stand in fear of your God. I, the LORD, am your God."

Psalm

Psalms

67(66),2-3.5.7-8.

]May God have pity on us and bless us;
may he let his face shine upon us.
]So may your way be known upon earth;
among all nations, your salvation.
]May the nations be glad and exult
because you rule the peoples in equity;
the nations on the earth you guide.
]The earth has yielded its fruits;
God, our God, has blessed us.
]May God bless us,
and may all the ends of the earth fear him!

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew

14,1-12.

]Herod the tetrarch heard of the reputation of Jesus
]and said to his servants, "This man is John the Baptist. He has been raised from the dead; that is why mighty powers are at work in him."
]Now Herod had arrested John, bound (him), and put him in prison on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip,
]for John had said to him, "It is not lawful for you to have her."
]Although he wanted to kill him, he feared the people, for they regarded him as a prophet.
]But at a birthday celebration for Herod, the daughter of Herodias performed a dance before the guests and delighted Herod
]so much that he swore to give her whatever she might ask for.
]Prompted by her mother, she said, "Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist."
]The king was distressed, but because of his oaths and the guests who were present, he ordered that it be given,
]and he had John beheaded in the prison.
]His head was brought in on a platter and given to the girl, who took it to her mother.
]His disciples came and took away the corpse and buried him; and they went and told Jesus.

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