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 Saturday of week 30 in Ordinary Time

Prayer to make Spiritual Communion: At your feet, O my Jesus I bow down and offer you the repentance of my contrite heart, which abysses itself into its nothingness and Your holy presence. I adore you in the Sacrament of Your love, the ineffable Eucharist. I wish to receive you in the poor home that my heart offers you. In anticipation of the happiness of sacramental communion, I want to possess you in spirit. Come to me, oh my Jesus, that I may come to you. May Your love inflame my whole being, for life and death. I believe in you, I hope in you, I love you. So be it. Amen

First reading
Philippians 1:18b-26

‘To me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.’

Brothers and Sisters: In every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in that I rejoice. Yes, and I will rejoice, for I know that through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ this will turn out for my deliverance, as it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage, now as always, Christ will be honoured in my body, whether by life or by death. For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. If I am to live in the flesh, that means fruitful labour for me. Yet which I shall choose I cannot tell. I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better. But to remain in the flesh is more necessary on your account. Convinced of this, I know that I will remain and continue with you all, for your progress and joy in the faith, so that in me you may have ample cause to glory in Christ Jesus, because of my coming to you again.

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Responsorial Psalm
Ps 42(41):2. 3. 5b-d. ℟3a

My soul is thirsting for the living God.

Like the deer that yearns

for running streams,

so my soul is yearning

for you, my God.

My soul is thirsting for the living God.

My soul is thirsting for God,

the living God;

when can I enter and appear

before the face of God?

My soul is thirsting for the living God.

For I would go to the place

of your wondrous tent,

all the way to the house of God,

amid cries of gladness and thanksgiving,

the throng keeping joyful festival.

My soul is thirsting for the living God.

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Gospel Acclamation	Matthew 11:29ab

Alleluia, alleluia.

Take my yoke upon you, says the Lord,

and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart.

Alleluia.

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Gospel	Luke 14:1, 7-11

‘Everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.’

One Sabbath, when Jesus went to dine at the house of a ruler of the Pharisees, they were watching him carefully.

  Now he told a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the places of honour, saying to them, ‘When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in a place of honour, lest someone more distinguished than you be invited by him, and he who invited you both will come and say to you, “Give your place to this person”, and then you, with shame, will take the lowest place. But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when your host comes he may say to you, “Friend, move up higher.” Then you will be honoured in the presence of all who sit at table with you. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.’