Our Lady Of The Sacred Heart Church

Liturgical Readings for: Sunday, 25th July, 2010

Liturgical notes:
St James, apostle is not celebrated this year.

Next Sunday’s Readings
Léachtaí Gaeilge
FIRST READING:         Genesis 18: 20-32

The Lord said, ‘How great an outcry there is against Sodom and Gomorrah! How grievous is their sin! I propose to go down and see whether or not they have done all that is alleged in the outcry against them that has come up to me. I am determined to know.’

The men left there and went to Sodom while Abraham remained standing before Yahweh. Approaching him he said, ‘Are you really going to destroy the just man with the sinner? Perhaps there are fifty just men in the town. Will you really overwhelm them, will you not spare the place for the fifty just men in it? Do not think of doing such a thing: to kill the just man with the sinner, treating just and sinner alike! Do not think of it! Will the judge of the whole earth not administer justice?’ Yahweh replied, ‘If at Sodom I find fifty just men in the town, I will spare the whole place because of them’.

Abraham replied, ‘I am bold indeed to speak like this to my Lord, I who am dust and ashes. But perhaps the fifty just men lack five: will you destroy the whole city for five?’ ‘No,’ he replied ‘I will not destroy it if I find forty five just men there.’ Again Abraham said to him, ‘Perhaps there will only be forty there’. ‘I will not do it’ he replied ‘for the sake of the forty.’

Abraham said, ‘I trust my Lord will not be angry, but give me leave to speak: perhaps there will only be thirty there’. ‘I will not do it’ he replied ‘if I find thirty there.’ He said, ‘I am bold indeed to speak like this, but perhaps there will only be twenty there’. ‘I will not destroy it’ he replied ‘for the sake of the twenty.’ He said,  ‘I trust my Lord will not be angry if I speak once more: perhaps there will only be ten’.  ‘I will not destroy it’ he replied ‘for the sake of the ten.’

RESPONSORIAL PSALM: Ps 137
Response On the day I called,
you answered me, 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 Read the rest of this entry »