24th Sunday of the Year (C): 1 Timothy 1:12-17

Sunday Readings for Your Reflection: for Liturgical Years 2011 (A), 2012 (B), and 2013 (C)

24th Sunday of the Year (C), September 15, 2013

Liturgical readings
Exodus 32:7-11, 13-14
Psalm 51
1 Timothy 1:12-17
Luke 15:1-32 (short form Luke 15:1-10)

"Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners."


I thank Christ Jesus our Lord,


        who has strengthened me,


        that he has made me
          his servant
          and judged me faithful


I was once
        a blasphemer,
        a persecutor,
        a man filled with arrogance;


but


because I did not know
what I was doing in my unbelief


I have been treated
        mercifully,


        and the grace of our Lord
        has been granted me
        in overflowing measure,


        along with the faith
        and love
        which are in Christ Jesus.


You can depend on this
as worthy of full acceptance;


that Christ Jesus
came into the world


to save sinners.


Of these
I myself am the worst.


But


on that very account
I was dealt with mercifully,


so that in me,
as an extreme case,
Jesus Christ might display
        all his patience,


and that I might become


an example


to those who would later
have faith in him
and gain
everlasting life.


To the King of ages,
        the immortal,
        the invisible,
        the only God,


be honor and glory


forever and ever!


Amen.



Scripture verses from the Readings:
"So the Lord relented in the punishment he had threatened to inflict on his people." (Exodus 32)
"A heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn." (Psalm 51)
"God has treated Paul mercifully, and the grace of our Lord has been granted him in
overflowing measure." (1 Timothy)

24th Sunday of the Year (C): Exodus 32:7-11, 13-14

Sunday Readings for Your Reflection: for Liturgical Years 2011 (A), 2012 (B), and 2013 (C)

24th Sunday of the Year (C), September 15, 2013

Liturgical readings
Exodus 32:7-11, 13-14
Psalm 51
1 Timothy 1:12-17
Luke 15:1-32 (short form Luke 15:1-10)

"Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Israel."


The Lord said to Moses,


"Go down at once to your people,
whom you brought
        out of the land of Egypt,


for they have become depraved.


They have soon turned aside
from the way
        I pointed out to them,


making for themselves
        a molten calf
        and worshipping it,


        sacrificing to it
        and crying out,


        'This is your God
        O Israel,
        who brought you out
        of the land of Egypt!'


I see how stiff-necked
this people is,"


continued the Lord to Moses.


"Let me alone, then,
that my wrath may blaze up
        against them
        to consume them.


Then I will make of you
a great nation."


But Moses implored the Lord, his God,


saying,


"Why, O Lord,
should your wrath blaze up
against your own people,


whom you brought
        out of the land of Egypt


with such great power
and with so strong a hand?


Remember your servants
        Abraham,
        Isaac,
        and Israel,


and how you swore to them
by your own self,


saying,


'I will make your descendants
as numerous as the stars in the sky,


and all this land
that I promised,


I will give your descendants
as their perpetual heritage,'"


So the Lord relented
in the punishment
he had threatened
to inflict on his people.


Scripture quotes from the Sunday readings:
"So the Lord relented in the punishment he had threatened to inflict on his people." (Exodus 32)
"A heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn." (Psalm 51)
"God has treated Paul mercifully, and the grace of our Lord has been granted him in overflowing measure." (1 Timothy)

24th Sunday of the Year (C)

Sunday Readings for Your Reflection: Liturgical Years 2011 (A), 2012 (B), and 2013 (C)

24th Sunday of the Year (C), September 15, 2013

Liturgical readings
Exodus 32:7-11, 13-14
Psalm 51
1 Timothy 1:12-17
Luke 15:1-32 (short form Luke 15:1-10)

"When the Shepherd finds his lost sheep, he puts it on his shoulders in jubilation."


The tax collectors
and sinners


were all gathering around
to hear Jesus,


at which the Pharisees
and the scribes
        murmured,


"This man welcomes sinners
and eats with them."


Then he addressed
this parable to them:


"Who among you,


if he has a hundred sheep
and loses one of them,
does not leave the ninety-nine
in the wasteland
and follow the lost one
        until he finds it?


And when he finds it,
he puts it on his shoulders
in jubilation.


Once arrived home,
he invites friends
and neighbors in
        and says to them,


'Rejoice with me
because I have found
        my lost sheep.'


I tell you,


there will likewise
be more joy in heaven
over one repentant sinner
than over ninety-nine righteous people
who have no need to repent."


"What woman,


if she has ten silver pieces
and loses one
does not light a lamp
and sweep the house
in a diligent search
until she has retrieved
        what she lost?


And when she finds it,
she calls in her friends
and neighbors
        to say,


'Rejoice with me!
I have found the silver piece
        I lost.'


I tell you,
there will be the same kind of joy
before the angels of God
over one repentant sinner."



Scripture quotes from the Sunday readings:
"So the Lord relented in the punishment he had threatened to inflict on his people." (Exodus 32)
"A heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn." (Psalm 51)
"God has treated Paul mercifully, and the grace of our Lord has been granted him in overflowing measure." (1 Timothy)