Saturday 21st Week in Ordinary Time – Year II Saturday, Mass of our Lady

Send us Fan MailSaturday, 31 August 2024Saturday 21st Week in Ordinary Time – Year IISaturday, Mass of our LadyAntiphons on page 1863 (CBVM #3) and Readings on Page 1211 of the Daily Missal Entrance Antiphon.Blessed are you, O Virgin Mary, by the Lord God Most High, above all women on the earth; for he has so exalted your name, that your praise shall be undying on our lips.First Reading: 1 Corinthians 1:26-31A reading from the first Letter of Saint Paul to the Corinthians.Consider your call, brothers and sisters; not many of you were wise according to the flesh, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth; but God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong, God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. He is the source of your life in Christ Jesus, whom God made our wisdom, our righteousness and sanctification and redemption; therefore, as it is written, “Let him who boasts, boast of the Lord.”The Word of the Lord.Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 33: 12-13, 18-19, 20-21 (R. 12b)Let us now pray the Responsorial PsalmR/. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen as his heritage.Blessed the nation whose God is the Lord,the people he has chosen as his heritage.From the heavens the Lord looks forth;he sees all the children of men.Yes, the Lord’s eyes are on those who fear him,who hope in his merciful love,to rescue their souls from death,to keep them alive in famine.Our soul is waiting for the Lord.He is our help and our shield.In him do our hearts find joy.We trust in his holy name.R/. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen as his heritage. Please stand for the Gospel.Alleluia, Alleluia.A new commandment I give to you, says the Lord, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.Alleluia. Gospel: Matthew 25: 14-30A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew.At that time:Jesus told his disciples this parable:It will be as when a person going on a journey called their servants and entrusted to them their property;to one was given five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to their ability. Then they went away. The one who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them; and made five talents more. So also, the one who had the two talents made two talents more. But the one who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid the master’s money.Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them. And the one who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here I have made five talents more.’ The master said, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a little, I will set you over much; enter into the joy of your master.’ And the one also who had the two talents came forward, saying,‘Master, you delivered to me two talents; here I have made two talents more.’ The master said, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a little, I will set you ov