Mass Readings
Solemnity of Saint Clare of Assisi
Patronal Feast Day

FIRST READING: Deuteronomy 10:8-9
(From the Common of Holy Men and Women: Religious, Lectionary No. 737.4)

Moses summoned all of Israel and said to them:
“At that time the Lord set apart the tribe of Levi
to carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord,
to be in attendance before the Lord
and minister to him,
and to give blessings in his name,
as they have done to this day.

For this reason,
Levi has no share in the heritage with his brothers;
the Lord himself is his heritage,
as the Lord, your God, has told him.”

 

RESPONSORIAL PSALM: Psalm 16:1b-2a,5,7-8,11
(From the Proper of Saints: Saint Clare, Lectionary No. 619)

R. You are my inheritance, O Lord.

Keep me, O God, for in you I take refuge.
I say to the Lord, “My Lord are you.”
O Lord, my allotted portion and my cup,
you it is who hold fast my lot.

R. You are my inheritance, O Lord.

I bless the Lord who counsels me;
even in the night my heart exhorts me.
I set the Lord ever before me;
with him at my right hand
I shall not be disturbed.

R. You are my inheritance, O Lord.

You will show me the path to life,
fullness of joys in your presence,
the delights at your right hand forever.

R. You are my inheritance, O Lord.

 

SECOND READING: Philippians 3:8-14
(From the Proper of Saints: Saint Clare, Lectionary No. 619)

Brothers and sisters:
I consider everything as a loss
because of the supreme good of knowing
Christ Jesus my Lord.
For his sake I have accepted the loss of all things
and I consider them so much rubbish,
that I may gain Christ and be found in him,
not having any righteousness of my own based on the law
but that which comes through faith in Christ
the righteousness from God, depending on faith
to know him and the power of his resurrection
and the sharing of his sufferings
by being conformed to his death,
if somehow I may attain
the resurrection from the dead.

It is not that I have already taken hold of it
or have already attained perfect maturity,
but I continue my pursuit
in hope that I may possess it,
since I have indeed been taken possession of by Christ Jesus.
Brothers and sisters, I for my part
do not consider myself to have taken possession.
Just one thing: forgetting what lies behind
but straining forward to what lies ahead,
I continue my pursuit toward the goal,
the prize of God’s upward calling, in Christ Jesus.

 

ALLELUIA: cf Matthew 5:3
(From the Proper of Saints: Saint Clare, Lectionary No. 619)
R. Alleluia, alleluia.

Blessed are the poor in spirit;
the Kingdom of heaven is theirs!

 

GOSPEL: Matthew 19:27-29
(From the Proper of Saints: Saint Clare, Lectionary No. 619)

Peter said to Jesus,
“We have given up everything and followed you.
What will there be for us?”
Jesus said to them,
“Amen, I say to you that you who have followed me,
in the new age,
when the Son of Man is seated on his throne of glory,
will yourselves sit on twelve thrones,
judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
And everyone who has given up houses or brothers or sisters
or father or mother or children or lands
for the sake of my name
will receive a hundred times more,
and will inherit eternal life.