Saturday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time BVM
The Christian life is a life of radical commitment and also a life of balance, avoiding two equally bad extremes.
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Outline
I am not a person with great balance
Balance, of course, it and is not a positive value for Christians
Paul balances spiritual revelations with bodily affliction
Jesus contrasts God with the two negative relationships with mammon
Sisters, if we want to seek the kingdom, to seek God, then God will help us balance
Readings
FIRST READING
2 Corinthians 12:1–10
1 I must boast; not that it is profitable, but I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord. 2 I know someone in Christ who, fourteen years ago (whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows), was caught up to the third heaven. 3 And I know that this person (whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows) 4 was caught up into Paradise and heard ineffable things, which no one may utter. 5 About this person I will boast, but about myself I will not boast, except about my weaknesses. 6 Although if I should wish to boast, I would not be foolish, for I would be telling the truth. But I refrain, so that no one may think more of me than what he sees in me or hears from me 7 because of the abundance of the revelations. Therefore, that I might not become too elated, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, an angel of Satan, to beat me, to keep me from being too elated. 8 Three times I begged the Lord about this, that it might leave me, 9 but he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness.” I will rather boast most gladly of my weaknesses, in order that the power of Christ may dwell with me. 10 Therefore, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and constraints, for the sake of Christ; for when I am weak, then I am strong.
RESPONSE
Psalm 34:9a
9 Taste and see that the LORD is good;
blessed is the stalwart one who takes refuge in him.
PSALM
Psalm 34:8–13
8 The angel of the LORD encamps
around those who fear him, and he saves them.
9 Taste and see that the LORD is good;
blessed is the stalwart one who takes refuge in him.
10 Fear the LORD, you his holy ones;
nothing is lacking to those who fear him.
11 The rich grow poor and go hungry,
but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
12 Come, children, listen to me;
I will teach you fear of the LORD.
13 Who is the man who delights in life,
who loves to see the good days?
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
2 Corinthians 8:9
9 For you know the gracious act of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for your sake he became poor although he was rich, so that by his poverty you might become rich.
GOSPEL
Matthew 6:24–34
24 “No one can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat [or drink], or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds in the sky; they do not sow or reap, they gather nothing into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are not you more important than they? 27 Can any of you by worrying add a single moment to your life-span? 28 Why are you anxious about clothes? Learn from the way the wild flowers grow. They do not work or spin. 29 But I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was clothed like one of them. 30 If God so clothes the grass of the field, which grows today and is thrown into the oven tomorrow, will he not much more provide for you, O you of little faith? 31 So do not worry and say, ‘What are we to eat?’ or ‘What are we to drink?’ or ‘What are we to wear?’ 32 All these things the pagans seek. Your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. 33 But seek first the kingdom [of God] and his righteousness, and all these things will be given you besides. 34 Do not worry about tomorrow; tomorrow will take care of itself. Sufficient for a day is its own evil.
Notes
SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 2021 | ORDINARY TIME
SATURDAY OF THE ELEVENTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME
YEAR 1 | ROMAN MISSAL | LECTIONARY
On the same date: Saint Romuald, Abbot
First Reading 2 Corinthians 12:1–10
Response Psalm 34:9a
Psalm Psalm 34:8–13
Gospel Acclamation 2 Corinthians 8:9
Gospel Matthew 6:24–34