Weekly Bulletin for Sunday, August 01, 2010

The Ninth Sunday after Trinity

Divine Office

Order of service for Morning and Evening Prayer.

Services and Events

Opening Prayer

Almighty God,
who sent your Holy Spirit
to be the life and light of your Church:
open our hearts to the riches of your grace,
that we may bring forth the fruit of the Spirit
in love and joy and peace;
through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.

First Reading

Ecclesiastes 1.2,12-14;2.18-23
A reading from the book of Ecclesiastes.

Vanity of vanities, says the Teacher,
vanity of vanities! All is vanity.
12 I, the Teacher, when king over Israel in Jerusalem,
13 applied my mind to seek and to search out by wisdom
all that is done under heaven;
it is an unhappy business that God has given to human beings to be busy with.
14 I saw all the deeds that are done under the sun;
and see, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
18 I hated all my toil in which I had toiled under the sun,
seeing that I must leave it to those who come after me –
19 and who knows whether they will be wise or foolish?
Yet they will be master of all for which I toiled
and used my wisdom under the sun.
This also is vanity.
20 So I turned and gave my heart up to despair
concerning all the toil of my labours under the sun,
21 because sometimes one who has toiled with wisdom and knowledge and skill
must leave all to be enjoyed by another
who did not toil for it.
This also is vanity and a great evil.
22 What do mortals get from all the toil and strain
with which they toil under the sun?
23 For all their days are full of pain,
and their work is a vexation;
even at night their minds do not rest.
This also is vanity.

Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 49.1-12
R My mouth, O Lord, shall speak of wisdom.

1 Hear this, all you peoples;
hearken, all you who dwell in the world,
you of high degree and low, rich and poor together.
2 My mouth shall speak of wisdom,
and my heart shall meditate on understanding. R
3 I will incline my ear to a proverb
and set forth my riddle upon the harp.
4 Why should I be afraid in evil days,
when the wickedness of those at my heels surrounds me,
5 The wickedness of those
who put their trust in their goods,
and boast of their great riches? R
6 We can never ransom ourselves,
or deliver to God the price of our life;
7 For the ransom of our life is so great,
that we should never have enough to pay it,
8 In order to live for ever and ever,
and never see the grave. R
9 For we see that the wise die also;
like the dull and stupid they perish
and leave their wealth to those who come after them.
10 Their graves shall be their homes for ever,
their dwelling places from generation to generation,
though they call the lands after their own names. R
11 Even though honoured, they cannot live for ever;
they are like the beasts that perish.
12 Such is the way of those
who foolishly trust in themselves,
and the end of those who delight in their own words. R

Second Reading

Colossians 3.1-11
A reading from the letter of Paul to the Colossians.

1 If you have been raised with Christ,
seek the things that are above,
where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
2 Set your minds on things that are above,
not on things that are on earth,
3 for you have died,
and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
4 When Christ who is your life is revealed,
then you also will be revealed with him in glory.
5 Put to death, therefore, whatever in you is earthly:
fornication, impurity, passion,
evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry).
6 On account of these
the wrath of God is coming on those who are disobedient.
7 These are the ways you also once followed,
when you were living that life.
8 But now you must get rid of all such things –
anger, wrath, malice, slander,
and abusive language from your mouth.
9 Do not lie to one another,
seeing that you have stripped off the old self with its practices
10 and have clothed yourselves with the new self,
which is being renewed in knowledge
according to the image of its creator.
11 In that renewal there is no longer Greek and Jew,
circumcised and uncircumcised,
barbarian, Scythian,
slave and free;
but Christ is all and in all!

Acclamation

Alleluia! Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Alleluia!

Gospel

Luke 12.13-21
Hear the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke.

13 Someone in the crowd said to Jesus,
‘Teacher, tell my brother to divide the family inheritance with me.’
14 But he said to him,
‘Friend, who set me to be a judge or arbitrator over you?’
15 And he said to the crowd,
‘Take care! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed;
for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of possessions.’
16 Then he told them a parable:
‘The land of a rich man produced abundantly.
17 And he thought to himself,
“What should I do, for I have no place to store my crops?”
18 Then he said, “I will do this:
I will pull down my barns and build larger ones,
and there I will store all my grain and my goods.
19 And I will say to my soul,
‘Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years;
relax, eat, drink, be merry.’”
20 But God said to him,
“You fool!
This very night your life is being demanded of you.
And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?”
21 So it is with those who store up treasures for themselves
but are not rich towards God.’

Closing Prayer

Holy Father,
who gathered us here around the table of your Son
to share this meal with the whole household of God:
in that new world
where you reveal the fullness of your peace,
gather people of every race and language
to share in the eternal banquet
of Jesus Christ our Lord.