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Sunday, August 4, 2019
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Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Gloria – Creed
First Reading
Ecclesiastes 1:2; 2:21-23
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2Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.
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21because sometimes a man who has toiled with wisdom and knowledge and skill must leave all to be enjoyed by a man who did not toil for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.
22What has a man from all the toil and strain with which he toils beneath the sun?
23For all his days are full of pain, and his work is a vexation; even in the night his mind does not rest. This also is vanity.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 90:3-6, 12-14, 17
3Thou turnest man back to the dust, and sayest, "Turn back, O children of men!"
4For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night.
5Thou dost sweep men away; they are like a dream, like grass which is renewed in the morning:
6in the morning it flourishes and is renewed; in the evening it fades and withers.
12So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.
13Return, O LORD! How long? Have pity on thy servants!
14Satisfy us in the morning with thy steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
17Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish thou the work of our hands upon us, yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
Second Reading
Colossians 3:1-5, 9-11
1If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
2Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.
3For you have died, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
4When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
5Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
9Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old nature with its practices
10and have put on the new nature, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.
11Here there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scyth'ian, slave, free man, but Christ is all, and in all.
Gospel
Luke 12:13-21
13One of the multitude said to him, "Teacher, bid my brother divide the inheritance with me."
14But he said to him, "Man, who made me a judge or divider over you?"
15And he said to them, "Take heed, and beware of all covetousness; for a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions."
16And he told them a parable, saying, "The land of a rich man brought forth plentifully;
17and he thought to himself, `What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?'
18And 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.
19And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.'
20But God said to him, `Fool! This night your soul is required of you; and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?'
21So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."
