Liturgy Planning
Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Liturgy Planning
Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
August 18, 2024
Year B - Lectionary [119]
First Reading
Wisdom builds her house and invites all to eat her bread there | Proverbs 9:1-6
Wisdom has built herself a house,
she has erected her seven pillars,
she has slaughtered her beasts, prepared her wine,
she has laid her table.
She has despatched her maidservants
and proclaimed from the city’s heights:
‘Who is ignorant? Let him step this way.’
To the fool she says,
‘Come and eat my bread,
drink the wine I have prepared!
Leave your folly and you will live,
walk in the ways of perception.’
Responsorial
Taste and see that the Lord is good. | Psalm 33(34):2-3,10-15
I will bless the Lord at all times,
his praise always on my lips;
in the Lord my soul shall make its boast.
The humble shall hear and be glad.
Taste and see that the Lord is good.
Revere the Lord, you his saints.
They lack nothing, those who revere him.
Strong lions suffer want and go hungry
but those who seek the Lord lack no blessing.
Taste and see that the Lord is good.
Come, children, and hear me
that I may teach you the fear of the Lord.
Who is he who longs for life
and many days, to enjoy his prosperity?
Taste and see that the Lord is good.
Then keep your tongue from evil
and your lips from speaking deceit.
Turn aside from evil and do good;
seek and strive after peace.
Taste and see that the Lord is good.
Second Reading
Be filled not with wine, but with the Spirit | Ephesians 5:15-20
Be very careful about the sort of lives you lead, like intelligent and not like senseless people. This may be a wicked age, but you redeem it. And do not be thoughtless but recognise what is the will of the Lord. Do not drug yourselves with wine, this is simply dissipation; be filled with the Spirit. Sing the words and tunes of the psalms and hymns when you are together, and go on singing and chanting to the Lord in your hearts, so that always and everywhere you are giving thanks to God who is our Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Gospel Acclamation
Alleluia, alleluia!
He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood
lives in me, and I live in him,
says the Lord.
Alleluia!
John 6:56
Gospel
My flesh is real food and my blood is real drink | John 6:51-58
Jesus said to the crowd:
‘I am the living bread which has come down from heaven.
Anyone who eats this bread will live for ever;
and the bread that I shall give is my flesh,
for the life of the world.’
Then the Jews started arguing with one another: ‘How can this man give us his flesh to eat?’ they said. Jesus replied:
‘I tell you most solemnly,
if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood,
you will not have life in you.
Anyone who does eat my flesh and drink my blood
has eternal life,
and I shall raise him up on the last day.
For my flesh is real food
and my blood is real drink.
He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood
lives in me
and I live in him.
As I, who am sent by the living Father,
myself draw life from the Father,
so whoever eats me will draw life from me.
This is the bread come down from heaven;
not like the bread our ancestors ate:
they are dead,
but anyone who eats this bread will live for ever.’
Psalms
Psalm 145: We Are Fed by the Hand of the Lord
Composer: Kirner, Karen Schneider / Warner, Steven C.
Publisher: WLP
Psalm 34: Taste and See (Dean)
Composer: Dean, Stephen
Publisher: OCP
Psalm 34: Taste and See (Kendzia)
Composer: Kendzia
Text: Taste and see the goodness of the Lord. Oh, taste and see the goodness of the Lord.
Publisher: OCP
Psalm 34: Taste and See (Kirner/Warner)
Composer: Warner, Steven C. / Kirner, Karen Schneider
Psalm 63: Your Love Is Finer Than Life
Composer: Haugen, Marty
Publisher: GIA
Hymns & Songs
All Who Hunger
Composer: Moore, Bob
Text: Dunstan, Sylvia
Publisher: GIA
Come and Eat This Living Bread
Text: Glover, Rob
Publisher: GIA
Eat This Bread
Composer: Berthier, Jacques
Text: Taize Community
Publisher: GIA
Gather Us Together
Composer: Alstott, Owen
Text: Alstott, Owen
Publisher: OCP
Gift of Finest Wheat
Composer: Kreutz, Robert E.
Text: Westendorf, Omer
I Am the Bread of Life / Yo Soy el Pan de Vida
Composer: Toolan, Suzanne
Text: Toolan, Suzanne
Publisher: GIA
I Received the Living God
Composer: Jacob, Clement
Text: Bernard, Geoffrey
Publisher: WLP
Make of Our Hands a Throne
Composer: Warner, Steven C.
Text: Cyril of Jerusalem
Publisher: WLP
May You Cling to Wisdom
Composer: Warner, Steven C.
Text: Proverbs 4
Publisher: WLP
My Soul Is at Rest
Composer: Berthier, Jacques
Text: Berthier, Jacques
Publisher: GIA
Now Let Us From this Table Rise
Publisher: GIA
Now in This Banquet
Composer: Haugen, Marty
Text: Haugen, Marty
Publisher: GIA
One Bread, One Body
Composer: Foley SJ, John
Text: Foley SJ, John
Publisher: GIA
Sent Forth by God’s Blessing
Composer: Traditional Welsh folk melody
Text: Westendorf, Omer
Publisher: WLP
Taste and See (Moore)
Composer: Moore, James E.
Text: Moore, James E.
Publisher: GIA
We Are the Light of the World
Composer: Greif, Jean A.
Text: Greif, Jean A.