Mass Readings

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
August 13, 2006

(Mass Readings from the New Calendar)
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A reading from the First Book of Kings

Elijah went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. He asked that he might die: ‘It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my ancestors.’
Then he lay down under the broom tree and fell asleep. Suddenly an angel touched him and said to him, ‘Get up and eat.’
He looked, and there at his head was a cake baked on hot stones, and a jar of water. He ate and drank, and lay down again.
The angel of the Lord came a second time, touched him, and said, ‘Get up and eat, otherwise the journey will be too much for you.’
He got up, and ate and drank; then he went in the strength of that food for forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.

I will bless the Lord at all times;
his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
My soul makes its boast in the Lord;
let the humble hear and be glad.

Look to him, and be radiant;
so your faces shall never be ashamed.
This poor soul cried, and was heard by the Lord,
and was saved from every trouble.

A reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Ephesians

Brethren,
Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God,
with which you were marked with a seal for the day of redemption.
Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice,
and be kind to one another, tender–hearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you.
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children,
and live in love,
as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us,
a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

V. The Lord be with you.

R. And also with you.

V. A reading from the Holy Gospel according to John.

R. Glory to you, O Lord.

The Jews began to murmur about him because he said,
‘I am the bread that came down from heaven.’
They were saying, ‘Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, “ I have come down from heaven?”’
Jesus answered them,
‘Do not murmur among yourselves.
No one can come to me
unless drawn by the Father who sent me;
and I will raise him up on the last day.
It is written in the prophets,
“And they shall all be taught by God.”
Everyone who has heard from the Father
and learned,
comes to me.
Not that anyone has seen the Father
except the one who is from God;
he has seen the Father.
Truly truly, I tell you,
he who believes has eternal life.
I am the bread of life.
Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness,
and they died.
This is the bread that comes down from heaven,
so that a man may eat of it and not die.
I am the living bread that came down from heaven.
If any one eats of this bread, he will live for ever;
and the bread that I will give
for the life of the world
is my flesh.’

Short Pause: V. The Word of the Lord.; R. Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

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