Local Parishes throughout the Catholic Diocese of Lexington will join dioceses across the United States in responding to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. The Holy Father has reminded us with great sorrow that “Gaza is starving.” This weekend, we will take up a special collection to support Catholic Relief Services (CRS). An organization already on the ground providing food, shelter, medical care, and other vital aid. Please keep the people of Gaza in your prayers and, if you are able, to give generously to this important effort. Thank you for your compassion and support.
Diocesan Annual Appeal
Thank you to all who turned in an Annual Appeal Card! Cards are still available on the bulletin table in the gathering area.Your gift brings joy and hope to many—supporting victims of tornadoes and floods, and helping 13 rural parishes in our Diocese continue sharing God’s love. Learn m0re at https://cdlex.org/office-of-development/diocesan-annual-appeal/
Walking with Moms in Need
This weekend, we are distributing baby bottles to help our Walking with Moms in Need ministry. Only 300 bottles were returned last year. If you still have your bottle from last year, please do not take a new one. Just fill that old one with change and return it at the end of October. Because of recent cuts in government funding, many agencies that usually help abused or abandoned moms are closing. Please be Christ’s hands and heart, and be generous in filling the bottles with your loose change. Thank you.
Newer Music This Weekend
English Masses
Misas en Español
5pm Mass Music
Music This Weekend
Sunday Readings + Lecturas de Domingo
SOLEMNITY OF THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEDICATION OF THE CHURCH
First Reading 1 Kings 8:22-23, 27-30 Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of the whole assembly of Israel, and stretching forth his hands toward heaven, he said, “LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven above or on earth below; you keep covenant and love toward your servants who walk before you with their whole heart, “Is God indeed to dwell on earth? If the heavens and the highest heavens cannot contain you, how much less this house which I have built! Regard kindly the prayer and petition of your servant, LORD, my God, and listen to the cry of supplication which I, your servant, utter before you this day. May your eyes be open night and day toward this house, the place of which you said, My name shall be there; listen to the prayer your servant makes toward this place. Listen to the petition of your servant and of your people Israel which they offer toward this place. Listen, from the place of your enthronement, heaven, listen and forgive.
Psalm Psalm 84 How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord God of Hosts!
1. My soul yearns and pines for the courts of the Lord, my heart and my flesh cry out; even the sparrow may find a home, the swallow a nest for her young; your altars, my king and my God!
2. How happy are they who may dwell in your courts, how happy when you are their strength; though they might go through the valley of death, they make it a place of springs. Your first rain will bring it to life.
3. O Lord of Hosts, hear my cry, and hearken, O God of Jacob; one day in your house is worth much more to me than ten thousand anywhere else; the Lord is my sun and my shield!
Second Reading 1 Corinthians 3:9c-11, 16-17 For we are God’s co-workers; you are God’s field, God’s building. According to the grace of God given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building upon it. But each one must be careful how he builds upon it, for no one can lay a foundation other than the one that is there, namely, Jesus Christ. Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for the temple of God, which you are, is holy.
Gospel John 2:13-22 Since the Passover of the Jews was near, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. He found in the temple area those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, as well as the money-changers seated there. He made a whip out of cords and drove them all out of the temple area, with the sheep and oxen, and spilled the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables, and to those who sold doves he said, “Take these out of here, and stop making my Father’s house a marketplace. His disciples recalled the words of scripture,“Zeal for your house will consume me.” At this the Jews answered and said to him, “What sign can you show us for doing this?” Jesus answered and said to them, “Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up.” The Jews said, “This temple has been under construction for forty-six years,* and you will raise it up in three days?” But he was speaking about the temple of his body. Therefore, when he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they came to believe the scripture and the word Jesus had spoken.
SOLEMNIDAD DEL ANIVERSARIO DE LA DEDICACIÓN DE LA IGLESIA
Primera Lectura 1 Reyes 8, 22-23. 27-30 El día de la dedicación del templo, Salomón, de pie ante el altar del Señor y en presencia de toda la asamblea de Israel, levantó los brazos al cielo y dijo esta oración: “Señor, Dios de Israel, no hay Dios como tú, ni arriba en los cielos, ni aquí abajo en la tierra. Tú eres fiel a la alianza que hiciste con tus siervos, y les muestras tu misericordia, cuando cumplen de todo corazón tu voluntad. Si ni el cielo infinito te puede contener, ¿cómo va a ser posible, Señor, que vivas en medio de los hombres y habites en esta casa que yo te he construido? Pero ciertamente atenderás a la oración de tu siervo y a su plegaria, Señor, Dios mío, y oirás el clamor y la oración que tu siervo hace hoy delante de ti: Que noche y día estén abiertos tus ojos sobre este templo, sobre este lugar, del cual has dicho: ‘Yo estaré ahí’. Escucha la oración que tu siervo te dirige en este sitio. Oye, pues, Señor, la súplica de este siervo tuyo y de tu pueblo, Israel. Cuando oren en este lugar, escúchalos desde el cielo, en donde tienes tu morada. Escúchanos y perdónanos”.
Salmo Responsorial Salmo 83, 3. 4. 5-6a y 8a. 11 R. (2) Qué agradable, Señor, es tu morada. Anhelando los atrios del Señor se consume mi alma. Todo mi ser de gozo se estremece y el Dios vivo es la causa. R. Qué agradable, Señor, es tu morada. Hasta el gorrión encuentra casa y la golondrina un lugar para su nido, cerca de tus altares, Señor de los ejércitos, Dios mío. R. Qué agradable, Señor, es tu morada. Dichosos los que viven en tu casa, te alabarán para siempre; dichosos los que encuentran en ti su fuerza, pues caminarán cada vez con más vigor. R. Qué agradable, Señor, es tu morada. Pues un día en tus atrios vale más que mil fuera de ellos; yo prefiero el umbral de la casa de mi Dios, al lujoso palacio del perverso. R. Qué agradable, Señor, es tu morada.
Segunda lectura 1 Corintios 3, 9-11. 16-17 Hermanos: Ustedes son la casa que Dios edifica. Yo, por mi parte, correspondiendo al don que Dios me ha concedido, como un buen arquitecto, he puesto los cimientos; pero es otro quien construye sobre ellos. Que cada uno se fije cómo va construyendo. Desde luego, el único cimiento válido es Jesucristo y nadie puede poner otro distinto.
¿No saben acaso ustedes que son el templo de Dios y que el Espíritu de Dios habita en ustedes? Quien destruye el templo de Dios, será destruido por Dios, porque el templo de Dios es santo y ustedes son ese templo.
Evangelio Juan 2, 13-22 Cuando se acercaba la Pascua de los judíos, Jesús llegó a Jerusalén y encontró en el templo a los vendedores de bueyes, ovejas y palomas, y a los cambistas con sus mesas. Entonces hizo un látigo de cordeles y los echó del templo, con todo y sus ovejas y bueyes; a los cambistas les volcó las mesas y les tiró al suelo las monedas; y a los que vendían palomas les dijo: "Quiten todo de aquí y no conviertan en un mercado la casa de mi Padre". En ese momento, sus discípulos se acordaron de lo que estaba escrito: El celo de tu casa me devora. Después intervinieron los judíos para preguntarle: "¿Qué señal nos das de que tienes autoridad para actuar así?" Jesús les respondió: "Destruyan este templo y en tres días lo reconstruiré". Replicaron los judíos: "Cuarenta y seis años se ha llevado la construcción del templo, ¿y tú lo vas a levantar en tres días?" Pero él hablaba del templo de su cuerpo. Por eso, cuando resucitó Jesús de entre los muertos, se acordaron sus discípulos de que había dicho aquello y creyeron en la Escritura y en las palabras que Jesús había dicho.
Mass Acclamations for Ordinary Time
Mass of Redemption For Ordinary Time at English Masses we will use this setting. Learn and hear more at www.mqhr.org/mcs