They are more to be desired than gold, than the purest of gold and sweeter are they than honey, than honey from the comb. The decrees of the Lord are truth and all of them just. The fear of the Lord is holy, abiding for ever. The command of the Lord is clear, it gives light to the eyes. The precepts of the Lord are right, they gladden the heart. The rule of the Lord is to be trusted, it gives wisdom to the simple. The law of the Lord is perfect, it revives the soul. You shall not covet your neighbour’s wife, or his servant, man or woman, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is his.’ |Ps 19:7-8 Rm 13:8-10 ℟. ‘You shall not covet your neighbour’s house. ‘You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour. ‘Honour your father and your mother so that you may have a long life in the land that the Lord your God has given to you. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that these hold, but on the seventh day he rested that is why the Lord has blessed the sabbath day and made it sacred. You shall do no work that day, neither you nor your son nor your daughter nor your servants, men or women, nor your animals nor the stranger who lives with you. For six days you shall labour and do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath for the Lord your God. ‘Remember the sabbath day and keep it holy. ‘You shall not utter the name of the Lord your God to misuse it, for the Lord will not leave unpunished the man who utters his name to misuse it. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God and I punish the father’s fault in the sons, the grandsons, and the great-grandsons of those who hate me but I show kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. ‘You shall not make yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything in heaven or on earth beneath or in the waters under the earth you shall not bow down to them or serve them. He said, ‘I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. This site copyright © 1996-2023 Universalis Publishing Ltd.įriday of week 16 in Ordinary Time First reading Exodus 20:1-17+ The Law given at Sinai Do you believe this?’ ‘Yes, Lord,’ she said ‘I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, the one who was to come into this world.’ ![]() If anyone believes in me, even though he dies he will live, and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Martha said to Jesus, ‘If you had been here, my brother would not have died, but I know that, even now, whatever you ask of God, he will grant you.’ ‘Your brother’ said Jesus to her ‘will rise again.’ Martha said, ‘I know he will rise again at the resurrection on the last day.’ Jesus said: ‘I am the resurrection and the life. ![]() When Martha heard that Jesus had come she went to meet him. Many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to sympathise with them over their brother. Gospel John 11:19-27 I am the resurrection and the life Strong lions suffer want and go hungry but those who seek the Lord lack no blessing. The angel of the Lord is encamped around those who revere him, to rescue them. This poor man called, the Lord heard him and rescued him from all his distress. Look towards him and be radiant let your faces not be abashed. I sought the Lord and he answered me from all my terrors he set me free. I will bless the Lord at all times, his praise always on my lips in the Lord my soul shall make its boast. God is love and anyone who lives in love lives in God, and God lives in him. We ourselves have known and put our faith in God’s love towards ourselves. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him, and he in God. We ourselves saw and we testify that the Father sent his Son as saviour of the world. We can know that we are living in him and he is living in us because he lets us share his Spirit. No one has ever seen God but as long as we love one another God will live in us and his love will be complete in us. ![]() My dear people, since God has loved us so much, we too should love one another. God’s love for us was revealed when God sent into the world his only Son so that we could have life through him this is the love I mean: not our love for God, but God’s love for us when he sent his Son to be the sacrifice that takes our sins away. Anyone who fails to love can never have known God, because God is love. ![]() My dear people, let us love one another since love comes from God and everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God. Saints Martha, Mary and Lazarus First reading 1 John 4:7-16 Let us love one another, since love comes from God
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