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Year 2 Weekday
Reading. (11/6/10)
Friday
of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time
Solemnity of Most Sacred Heart
of Jesus
Reading 1
Thus
says the Lord GOD:
I
myself will look after and tend my sheep.
As a
shepherd tends his flock
when he
finds himself among his scattered sheep,
so will I
tend my sheep.
I
will rescue them from every place where they were scattered
when it
was cloudy and dark.
I
will lead them out from among the peoples
and
gather them from the foreign lands;
I
will bring them back to their own country
and
pasture them upon the mountains of Israel
in the
land's ravines and all its inhabited places.
In
good pastures will I pasture them,
and on
the mountain heights of Israel
shall be
their grazing ground.
There
they shall lie down on good grazing ground,
and in
rich pastures shall they be pastured
on the
mountains of Israel.
I
myself will pasture my sheep;
I
myself will give them rest, says the Lord GOD.
The
lost I will seek out,
the
strayed I will bring back,
the
injured I will bind up,
the sick
I will heal,
but the sleek
and the strong I will destroy,
shepherding them rightly.
R.
(1) The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.
The
LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
In
verdant pastures he gives me repose;
beside
restful waters he leads me;
he
refreshes my soul.
R.
The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.
He
guides me in right paths
for his
name's sake.
Even
though I walk in the dark valley
I
fear no evil; for you are at my side
with your
rod and your staff
that give
me courage.
R.
The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.
You
spread the table before me
in the
sight of my foes;
you
anoint my head with oil;
my cup
overflows.
R.
The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.
Only
goodness and kindness follow me
all the
days of my life;
and I
shall dwell in the house of the LORD
for years
to come.
R.
The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.
Brothers
and sisters:
The
love of God has been poured out into our hearts
through
the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.
For
Christ, while we were still helpless,
died at
the appointed time for the ungodly.
Indeed,
only with difficulty does one die for a just person,
though
perhaps for a good person
one might
even find courage to die.
But
God proves his love for us
in that
while we were still sinners Christ died for us.
How
much more then, since we are now justified by his blood,
will we
be saved through him from the wrath.
Indeed,
if, while we were enemies,
we were
reconciled to God through the death of his Son,
how much
more, once reconciled,
will we
be saved by his life.
Not
only that,
but we
also boast of God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
through whom we have now received reconciliation.
Jesus
addressed this parable to the Pharisees and scribes:
"What
man among you having a hundred sheep and losing one of them
would not
leave the ninety-nine in the desert
and go
after the lost one until he finds it?
And
when he does find it,
he sets
it on his shoulders with great joy
and, upon
his arrival home,
he calls
together his friends and neighbours and says to them,
'Rejoice with me because I have found my
lost sheep.'
I
tell you, in just the same way
there will be
more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents
than over
ninety-nine righteous people
who have no need of repentance."
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