Liturgy Planning
Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Liturgy Planning
Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
June 16, 2024
Year B - Lectionary [92]
First Reading
I will plant a shoot on the high mountain of Israel | Ezekiel 17:22-24
The Lord says this:
‘From the top of the cedar,
from the highest branch I will take a shoot
and plant it myself on a very high mountain.
I will plant it on the high mountain of Israel.
It will sprout branches and bear fruit,
and become a noble cedar.
Every kind of bird will live beneath it,
every winged creature rest in the shade of its branches.
And every tree of the field will learn that I, the Lord, am the one
who stunts tall trees and makes the low ones grow,
who withers green trees and makes the withered green.
I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will do it.’
Responsorial
It is good to give you thanks, O Lord. | Psalm 91(92):2-3, 13-16
It is good to give thanks to the Lord,
to make music to your name, O Most High,
to proclaim your love in the morning
and your truth in the watches of the night.
It is good to give you thanks, O Lord.
The just will flourish like the palm tree
and grow like a Lebanon cedar.
It is good to give you thanks, O Lord.
Planted in the house of the Lord
they will flourish in the courts of our God,
still bearing fruit when they are old,
still full of sap, still green,
to proclaim that the Lord is just.
In him, my rock, there is no wrong.
It is good to give you thanks, O Lord.
Second Reading
We want to be exiled from the body and make our home with the Lord | 2 Corinthians 5:6-10
We are always full of confidence when we remember that to live in the body means to be exiled from the Lord, going as we do by faith and not by sight – we are full of confidence, I say, and actually want to be exiled from the body and make our home with the Lord. Whether we are living in the body or exiled from it, we are intent on pleasing him. For all the truth about us will be brought out in the law court of Christ, and each of us will get what he deserves for the things he did in the body, good or bad.
Gospel Acclamation
Alleluia, alleluia!
I call you friends, says the Lord,
because I have made known to you
everything I have learnt from my Father.
Alleluia!
or:
Alleluia, alleluia!
The seed is the word of God, Christ the sower;
whoever finds this seed will remain for ever.
Alleluia!
John 15:15
Gospel
The kingdom of God is a mustard seed growing into the biggest shrub of all | Mark 4:26-34
Jesus said to the crowds: ‘This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man throws seed on the land. Night and day, while he sleeps, when he is awake, the seed is sprouting and growing; how, he does not know. Of its own accord the land produces first the shoot, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. And when the crop is ready, he loses no time: he starts to reap because the harvest has come.’
He also said, ‘What can we say the kingdom of God is like? What parable can we find for it? It is like a mustard seed which at the time of its sowing in the soil is the smallest of all the seeds on earth; yet once it is sown it grows into the biggest shrub of them all and puts out big branches so that the birds of the air can shelter in its shade.’
Using many parables like these, he spoke the word to them, so far as they were capable of understanding it. He would not speak to them except in parables, but he explained everything to his disciples when they were alone.
Psalms
Psalm 91/92: It Is Good to Give You Thanks
Composer: O'Carroll, Kevin
Publisher: IND
Psalm 92: Lord, It Is Good
Composer: Guimont, Michel
Publisher: GIA
Hymns & Songs
A New Hymn of Praise
Publisher: Veritas
Come to the Water
Composer: Foley SJ, John
Text: Foley SJ, John
Publisher: New Dawn Music
Confitemini Domino / Come and Fill
Composer: Berthier, Jacques
Text: Taize Community
Publisher: GIA
I Am the Vine
Composer: Warner, Steven C.
Text: John 15: 1-8
Publisher: WLP
Make of Our Hands a Throne
Composer: Warner, Steven C.
Text: Cyril of Jerusalem
Publisher: WLP
May the Goodness of the Lord
Composer: McDonagh
Publisher: IND
Now the Green Blade Rises
Composer: French Carol
Text: Crum, John M.
Publisher: GIA
Praise and Thanksgiving
Composer: Gaelic
Text: Bayly, Albert F.
Publisher: GIA
Psalm 145: We Are Fed by the Hand of the Lord
Composer: Kirner, Karen Schneider / Warner, Steven C.
Publisher: WLP
Restless is the Heart
Composer: Farrell, Bernadette
Publisher: OCP
Seed, Scattered and Sown
Composer: Feiten, Dan
Text: Feiten, Dan
Sow the Word
Composer: Zavelli, J. Keith / Janco, Steven R.
Text: Zavelli, J. Keith / Janco, Steven R.
Publisher: GIA
We Plow the Fields and Scatter
Text: Traditional
We Walk by Faith
Composer: Haugen, Marty
Text: Alford, Henry
Publisher: GIA