Sunday Mass
FIRST READING: Prophet Isaiah 6:1-8
Here I am, send me.
In the year of King Uzziah’s death I saw the Lord seated on a high throne;
his train filled the sanctuary; above him stood seraphs, each one with six wings.
And they cried out one to another in this way,
‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts. His glory fills the whole earth.’
The foundations of the threshold shook with the voice of the one who cried out
and the Temple was filled with smoke. I said:
‘What a wretched state I am in!
I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips
and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have looked at the King, the Lord of hosts.’
Then one of the seraphs flew to me, holding in his hand a live coal which he had taken from the altar with a pair of tongs. With this he touched my mouth and said:
‘See now, this has touched your lips, your sin is taken away, your iniquity is purged.
Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying: ‘Whom shall I send? Who will be our messenger?’
I answered, ‘Here I am, send me.
The Word of the Lord.
Psalm 137
Response: - Before the angels I will bless you, O Lord.
1. I thank you, Lord, with all my heart, you have heard the words of my mouth.
Before the angels I will bless you. I will adore before your holy temple. - Response
2. I thank you for your faithfulness and love which excel all we ever knew of you.
On the day I called, you answered; you increased the strength of my soul. - Response
3. All earth’s kings shall thank you when they hear the words of your mouth.
They shall sing of the Lord’s ways: ‘How great is the glory of the Lord!’ - Response
4. You stretch out your hand and save me, your hand will do all things for me.
Your love, O Lord, is eternal, discard not the work of your hand. - Response
SECOND READING: St Paul to the Corinthians 15: 3-8. 11
I preach what they preach, and this is what you all believed.
Brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, the gospel that you received and in which you are firmly established because the gospel will save you only if you keep believing exactly what I preached to you
– believing anything else will not lead to anything.
Well then, in the first place, I taught you what I had been taught myself, namely that Christ died for our sins, in accordance with the scriptures; that he was buried; and that he was raised to life on the third day, in accordance with the scriptures; that he appeared first to Cephas and secondly to the Twelve. Next he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers at the same time, most of whom are still alive, though some have died; then he appeared to James, and then to all the apostles;
and last of all he appeared to me too; it was as though I was born when no one expected it.
But what matters is that I preach what they preach, and this is what you all believed.
The Word of the Lord.
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION : Jn 15: 15
Alleluia, alleluia!
I call you friends, says the Lord,
because I have made known to you everything I have learnt from my Father.
Alleluia!
GOSPEL : Luke 5: 1-11
They left everything and followed him.
Jesus was standing one day by the Lake of Gennesaret, with the crowd pressing round him listening to the word of God, when he caught sight of two boats close to the bank. The fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. He got into one of the boats-it was Simon’s-and asked him to put out a little from the shore. Then he sat down and taught the crowds from the boat.
When he had finished speaking he said to Simon,
‘Put out into deep water and pay out your nets for a catch’.
‘Master,’ Simon replied ‘we worked hard all night long and caught nothing,
but if you say so, I will pay out the nets for a catch.’
And when they had done this they netted such a huge number of fish that their nets began to tear, so they signalled to their companions in the other boat to come and help them; when these came, they filled the two boats to sinking point.
When Simon Peter saw this he fell at the knees of Jesus saying,
‘Leave me, Lord; I am a sinful man.’ For he and all his companions were completely overcome by the catch they had made; so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were Simon’s partners.
But Jesus said to Simon,
‘Do not be afraid; from now on it is men you will catch’.
Then, bringing their boats back to land, they left everything and followed him.
The Gospel of the Lord.
Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
Readings from The Jerusalem Bible © 1966 by Darton Longman & Todd Ltd and Doubleday and Company Ltd.
Psalm © The Grail (England) published by HarperCollins.
Understanding the Liturgical Cycle
The Lectionary is arranged into two cycles, one for Sundays and one for weekdays. The Sunday cycle is divided into three years, labeled A, B, and C. 2005 was Year A, 2006 was Year B, 2007 was Year C, and so on. The Liturgical Year begins on the 1st Sunday of Advent (usually late November) and ends with the Feast of Christ the King.
In Year A, we read mostly from the gospel of Matthew. In Year B, we read the gospel of Mark and chapter 6 of the gospel of John. In Year C, we read the gospel of Luke. The gospel of John is read during the Easter season in all three years.
The first reading, usually from the Old Testament, reflects important themes from the gospel reading. The second reading is usually from one of the epistles, a letter written to an early church community. These letters are read semi-continuously. Each Sunday, we pick up close to where we left off the Sunday before, though some passages are never read.
The weekday cycle is divided into two years, Year I and Year II. Year I is read in odd-numbered years (2003, 2005, etc.) and Year II is used in even-numbered years (2002, 2004, etc.) The gospels for both years are the same. During the year, the gospels are read semi-continuously, beginning with Mark, then moving on to Matthew and Luke. The gospel of John is read during the Easter season. For Advent , Christmas, and Lent , readings are chosen that are appropriate to the season. The first reading on weekdays may be taken from the Old or the New Testament. Typically, a single book is read semi-continuously (i.e. some passages are not read) until it is finished and then a new book is started.
Year (2024) is Year B Sundays / Year II Weekdays
Year (2025) is Year C Sundays / Year I Weekdays