Saturday

11

September

St. Deiniol

(d. 584)

Green / White

He was the first Bishop of Bangor. He may have been consecrated in 545 by St. David.

Entrance Antiphon: Ps 118: 137, 124

You are just, O Lord, and your judgment is right; treat your servant in accord with your merciful love.

Collect

O God, by whom we are redeemed and receive adoption, look graciously upon your beloved sons and daughters, that those who believe in Christ may receive true freedom and an everlasting inheritance. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.

First reading: 1 Timothy 1:15-17

Here is a saying that you can rely on and nobody should doubt: that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. I myself am the greatest of them; and if mercy has been shown to me, it is because Jesus Christ meant to make me the greatest evidence of his inexhaustible patience for all the other people who would later have to trust in him to come to eternal life. To the eternal King, the undying, invisible and only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Psalm 112(113):1-7

R/     May the name of the Lord be blessed for evermore!

1.     Praise, O servants of the Lord, praise the name of the Lord! May the name of the Lord be blessed both now and for evermore!

2.     From the rising of the sun to its setting praised be the name of the Lord! High above all nations is the Lord, above the heavens his glory.

3.     Who is like the Lord, our God, who has risen on high to his throne yet stoops from the heights to look down, to look down upon heaven and earth? From the dust he lifts up the lowly, from the dung heap he raises the poor.

Gospel Acclamation: Jn14:6

Alleluia, alleluia! I am the Way, the Truth and the Life, says the Lord; No one can come to the Father except through me. Alleluia!

Gospel: Luke 6:43-49

Jesus said to his disciples: ‘There is no sound tree that produces rotten fruit, nor again a rotten tree that produces sound fruit. For every tree can be told by its own fruit: people do not pick figs from thorns, nor gather grapes from brambles. A good man draws what is good from the store of goodness in his heart; a bad man draws what is bad from the store of badness. For a man’s words flow out of what fills his heart. Why do you call me, “Lord, Lord,” and not do what I say? Everyone who comes to me and listens to my words and acts on them – I will show you what he is like. He is like the man who when he built his house dug, and dug deep, and laid the foundations on rock; when the river was in flood it bore down on that house but could not shake it, it was so well built. But the one who listens and does nothing is like the man who built his house on soil, with no foundations: as soon as the river bore down on it, it collapsed; and what a ruin that house became!’

Prayer over the Offerings

O God, who give us the gift of true prayer and of peace, graciously grant that through this offering, we may do fitting homage to your divine majesty and, by partaking of the sacred mystery, we may be faithfully united in mind and heart. Through Christ our Lord.

Communion Antiphon: Cf. Ps 41: 2-3

Like the deer that yearns for running streams, so my soul is yearning for you, my God; my soul is thirsting for God, the living God.

Prayer after Communion

Grant that your faithful, O Lord, whom you nourish and endow with life through the food of your Word and heavenly Sacrament, may so benefit from your beloved Son’s great gifts, that we may merit an eternal share in his life. Who lives and reigns for ever and ever.

Meditation

When we examine ourselves, we are moved to thank the Lord for his mercies on us. We are called to be merciful to others because of God’s mercy on us. There is so much wickedness in the world and vengeance because we forget so quickly how merciful God has been to us. Those who remember God’s mercy are always good and merciful towards others. By their fruits we shall know them, for a good man draws what is good from the store of goodness in his heart; and a bad man does the same. A man’s words flow out of what fills his heart.