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Year C. (23/5/10)
Pentecost
Sunday
Mass during the Day
Reading 1
When
the time for Pentecost was fulfilled,
they were all in one place together.
And suddenly there came from
the sky
a noise like a strong driving wind,
and it filled the entire house in which they were.
Then there appeared to them
tongues as of fire,
which parted and came to rest on each one of them.
And they were all filled with
the Holy Spirit
and began to speak in different tongues,
as the
Spirit enabled them to proclaim.
Now
there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven
staying in Jerusalem.
At this sound, they gathered
in a large crowd,
but they were confused
because each one heard them speaking in his own language.
They were astounded, and in
amazement they asked,
“Are not all these people who
are speaking Galileans?
Then how does each of us hear
them in his native language?
We are Parthians,
Medes, and Elamites,
inhabitants of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia,
Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia,
Egypt and the districts of
Libya near Cyrene,
as well as travelers from Rome,
both Jews and converts to Judaism, Cretans and Arabs,
yet we hear them speaking in our own tongues
of the mighty acts of God.”
Responsorial Psalm
R. (cf. 30) Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth.
or:
R. Alleluia.
Bless the LORD, O my soul!
O LORD, my God, you are great
indeed!
How manifold are your works,
O LORD!
the earth is full of your creatures;
R. Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth.
or:
R. Alleluia.
May the glory of the LORD
endure forever;
may the LORD be glad in his works!
Pleasing to him be my theme;
I will be glad in the LORD.
R. Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth.
or:
R. Alleluia.
If you take away their
breath, they perish
and return to their dust.
When you send forth your
spirit, they are created,
and you renew the face of the earth.
R. Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth.
or:
R. Alleluia.
1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13 or Rom 8:8-17
Reading 2
Brothers and sisters:
No one can say, “Jesus is
Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.
There are different kinds of
spiritual gifts but the same Spirit;
there are different forms of service but the same Lord;
there are different workings but the same God
who produces all of them in everyone.
To each individual the
manifestation of the Spirit
is given for some benefit.
As a body is one though it
has many parts,
and all the parts of the body, though many, are one body,
so also Christ.
For in one Spirit we were all
baptized into one body,
whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free persons,
and we were all given to drink of one Spirit.
or
Brothers and sisters:
Those who are in the flesh
cannot please God.
But you are not in the flesh;
on the contrary, you are in the spirit,
if only the Spirit of God dwells in you.
Whoever does not have the
Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
But if Christ is in you,
although the body is dead because of sin,
the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
If the Spirit of the one who
raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you,
the one who raised Christ from the dead
will give life to your mortal bodies also,
through his Spirit that dwells in you.
Consequently, brothers and
sisters,
we are not debtors to the flesh,
to live according to the flesh.
For if you live according to
the flesh, you will die,
but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the
body,
you will live.
For those who are led by the
Spirit of God are sons of God.
For you did not receive a
spirit of slavery to fall back into fear,
but you received a Spirit of adoption,
through whom we cry, “Abba, Father!”
The Spirit himself bears
witness with our spirit
that we are children of God,
and if children, then heirs,
heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ,
if only we suffer with him
so that we may also be glorified with him.
Jn
20:19-23 or Jn 14:15-16, 23b-26
Gospel
On the evening of that first
day of the week,
when the doors were locked, where the disciples were,
for fear of the Jews,
Jesus came and stood in their
midst
and said to them, “Peace be with you.”
When he had said this, he
showed them his hands and his side.
The disciples rejoiced when
they saw the Lord.
Jesus said to them again,
“Peace be with you.
As the Father has sent me, so
I send you.”
And when he had said this, he
breathed on them and said to them,
“Receive the Holy Spirit.
Whose sins you forgive are
forgiven them,
and whose sins you retain are retained.”
or
Jesus said to his disciples:
“If you love me, you will
keep my commandments.
And I will ask the Father,
and he will give you another Advocate to be with you
always.
“Whoever loves me will keep
my word,
and my Father will love him,
and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him.
Those who do not love me do
not keep my words;
yet the word you hear is not mine
but that of the Father who sent me.
“I have told you this while I
am with you.
The Advocate, the Holy Spirit
whom the Father will send in my name,
will teach you everything
and remind you of all that I told you.”
Pentecost Sunday
At the Vigil Mass
Reading 1
Acts 11:1-9 or Ex 19:3-8a, 16-20b
or Ez 37:1-14 or Jl
3:1-5
The
whole world spoke the same language, using the same words.
While the people were
migrating in the east,
they came upon a valley in the land of Shinar and settled
there.
They said to one another,
“Come, let us mold bricks and
harden them with fire.”
They used bricks for stone,
and bitumen for mortar.
Then they said, “Come, let us
build ourselves a city
and a tower with its top in the sky,
and so make a name for ourselves;
otherwise
we shall be scattered all over the earth.”
The
LORD came down to see the city and the tower
that the people had built.
Then the LORD said: “If now,
while they are one people,
all speaking the same language,
they have started to do this,
nothing will later stop them from doing whatever they presume
to do.
Let us then go down there and
confuse their language,
so that one will not understand what another says.”
Thus the LORD scattered them
from there all over the earth,
and they stopped building the city.
That is why it was called
Babel,
because there the LORD confused the speech of all the world.
It was from that place that he scattered them all over the earth.
or
Moses
went up the mountain to God.
Then the LORD called to him
and said,
“Thus shall you say to the house
of Jacob;
tell the Israelites:
You have seen for yourselves
how I treated the Egyptians
and how I bore you up on eagle wings
and brought you here to myself.
Therefore, if you hearken to
my voice and keep my covenant,
you shall be my special possession,
dearer to me than all other people,
though all the earth is mine.
You shall be to me a kingdom
of priests, a holy nation.
That is what you must tell
the Israelites.”
So Moses went and summoned
the elders of the people.
When he set before them
all that the LORD had ordered him to tell them,
the people all answered together,
“Everything the LORD has said, we will do.”
On
the morning of the third day
there were peals of thunder and lightning,
and a heavy cloud over the mountain,
and a very loud trumpet blast,
so that all the people in the camp trembled.
But Moses led the people out
of the camp to meet God,
and they stationed themselves at the foot of the
mountain.
Mount Sinai was all wrapped
in smoke,
for the LORD came down upon it in fire.
The smoke rose from it as
though from a furnace,
and the whole mountain trembled violently.
The trumpet blast grew louder
and louder, while Moses was speaking,
and God
answering him with thunder.
When
the LORD came down to the top of Mount Sinai,
he
summoned Moses to the top of the mountain.
or
The
hand of the LORD came upon me,
and he led me out in the spirit of the LORD
and set me in the center of the plain,
which was now filled with bones.
He made me walk among the
bones in every direction
so that I saw how many they were on the surface of the
plain.
How dry they were!
He asked me:
Son of man, can these bones
come to life?
I answered, “Lord GOD, you
alone know that.”
Then he said to me:
Prophesy over these bones,
and say to them:
Dry bones,
hear the word of the LORD!
Thus says the Lord GOD to
these bones:
See! I will bring
spirit into you, that you may come to life.
I will put sinews upon you, make flesh grow over you,
cover you with skin, and put spirit in you
so that you may come to life and know that I am the
LORD.
I, Ezekiel, prophesied as I
had been told,
and even as I was prophesying I heard a noise;
it was a rattling as the bones came together, bone
joining bone.
I saw the sinews and the
flesh come upon them,
and the skin cover them, but there was no spirit in them.
Then the LORD said to me:
Prophesy to the spirit,
prophesy, son of man,
and say to the spirit: Thus says the Lord GOD:
From the four winds come, O
spirit,
and breathe into these slain that they may come to life.
I prophesied as he told me,
and the spirit came into them;
they came alive and stood upright, a vast army.
Then he said to me:
Son of man, these bones are
the whole house of Israel.
They have been saying,
“Our bones are dried up,
our hope is lost, and we are cut off.”
Therefore, prophesy and say
to them: Thus says the Lord GOD:
O my people, I will open your
graves
and have you rise from them,
and bring you back to the land of Israel.
Then you shall know that I am
the LORD,
when I open your graves and have you rise from them,
O my people!
I will put my spirit in you
that you may live,
and I will settle you upon your land;
thus you shall know that I am the LORD.
I have promised, and I will do it, says the LORD.
or
Thus
says the LORD:
I will pour out my spirit
upon all flesh.
Your sons and daughters shall
prophesy,
your old men shall dream dreams,
your young men shall see visions;
even upon the servants and the handmaids,
in those days, I will pour out my spirit.
And I will work wonders in
the heavens and on the earth,
blood, fire, and columns of smoke;
the sun will be turned to darkness,
and the moon to blood,
at the coming of the day of the LORD,
the great and terrible day.
Then everyone shall be
rescued
who calls on the name of the LORD;
for on Mount Zion there shall be a remnant,
as the LORD has said,
and in Jerusalem survivors
whom the LORD shall call.
Ps 104:1-2, 24,
35, 27-28, 29, 30
Responsorial Psalm
R. (cf. 30) Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth.
or:
R. Alleluia.
Bless the LORD, O my soul!
O LORD, my God, you are great
indeed!
You are clothed with majesty
and glory,
robed in light as with a cloak.
R. Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth.
or:
R. Alleluia.
How manifold are your works,
O LORD!
In wisdom you have wrought
them allC
the earth is full of your creatures;
bless the LORD, O my soul! Alleluia.
R. Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth.
or:
R. Alleluia.
Creatures all look to you
to give them food in due time.
When you give it to them,
they gather it;
when you open your hand, they are filled with good things.
R. Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth.
or:
R. Alleluia.
If you take away their
breath, they perish
and return to their dust.
When you send forth your
spirit, they are created,
and you renew the face of the earth.
R. Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth.
or:
R. Alleluia.
Reading 2
Brothers and sisters:
We know that all creation is
groaning in labor pains even until now;
and not only that, but we ourselves,
who have the firstfruits of the
Spirit,
we also groan within ourselves
as we wait for adoption, the redemption of our bodies.
For in hope we were saved.
Now hope that sees is not
hope.
For who hopes for what one
sees?
But if we hope for what we do
not see, we wait with endurance.
In the same way, the Spirit
too comes to the aid of our weakness;
for we do not know how to pray as we ought,
but the Spirit himself intercedes with inexpressible groanings.
And the one who searches
hearts
knows what is the intention of the Spirit,
because he intercedes for the holy ones
according to God’s will.
Gospel
On the last and greatest day
of the feast,
Jesus stood up and exclaimed,
“Let anyone who thirsts come
to me and drink.
As Scripture says:
Rivers of living water
will flow from within him who
believes in me.”
He said this in reference to
the Spirit
that those who came to believe in him were to receive.
There was, of course, no
Spirit yet,
because Jesus had not yet been glorified.
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