Liturgy Planning
Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Liturgy Planning
Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
September 8, 2024
Year B - Lectionary [128]
First Reading
Isaiah 34:4-7 | The blind shall see, the deaf hear, the dumb sing for joy
Say to all faint hearts,
‘Courage! Do not be afraid.
Look, your God is coming,
vengeance is coming,
the retribution of God;
he is coming to save you.’
Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened,
the ears of the deaf unsealed,
then the lame shall leap like a deer
and the tongues of the dumb sing for joy;
for water gushes in the desert,
streams in the wasteland,
the scorched earth becomes a lake,
the parched land springs of water.
Responsorial
Psalm 145(146):7-10 | My soul, give praise to the Lord. or Alleluia!
It is the Lord who keeps faith for ever,
who is just to those who are oppressed.
It is he who gives bread to the hungry,
the Lord, who sets prisoners free.
My soul, give praise to the Lord.
or
Alleluia!
It is the Lord who gives sight to the blind,
who raises up those who are bowed down.
It is the Lord who loves the just,
the Lord, who protects the stranger.
My soul, give praise to the Lord.
or
Alleluia!
The Lord upholds the widow and orphan
but thwarts the path of the wicked.
The Lord will reign for ever,
Zion’s God, from age to age.
My soul, give praise to the Lord.
or
Alleluia!
Second Reading
James 2:1-5 | God chose the poor according to the world to be rich in faith
My brothers, do not try to combine faith in Jesus Christ, our glorified Lord, with the making of distinctions between classes of people. Now suppose a man comes into your synagogue, beautifully dressed and with a gold ring on, and at the same time a poor man comes in, in shabby clothes, and you take notice of the well-dressed man, and say, ‘Come this way to the best seats’; then you tell the poor man, ‘Stand over there’ or ‘You can sit on the floor by my foot-rest.’ Can’t you see that you have used two different standards in your mind, and turned yourselves into judges, and corrupt judges at that?
Listen, my dear brothers: it was those who are poor according to the world that God chose, to be rich in faith and to be the heirs to the kingdom which he promised to those who love him.
Gospel Acclamation
Alleluia, alleluia!
Speak, Lord, your servant is listening:
you have the message of eternal life.
Alleluia!
John 6:68
or:
Alleluia, alleluia!
Jesus proclaimed the Good News of the kingdom
and cured all kinds of sickness among the people.
Alleluia!
Matthew 4:23
Gospel
Mark 7:31-37 | 'He makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak'
Returning from the district of Tyre, Jesus went by way of Sidon towards the Sea of Galilee, right through the Decapolis region. And they brought him a deaf man who had an impediment in his speech; and they asked him to lay his hand on him. He took him aside in private, away from the crowd, put his fingers into the man’s ears and touched his tongue with spittle. Then looking up to heaven he sighed; and he said to him, ‘Ephphatha’, that is, ‘Be opened.’ And his ears were opened, and the ligament of his tongue was loosened and he spoke clearly. And Jesus ordered them to tell no one about it, but the more he insisted, the more widely they published it. Their admiration was unbounded. ‘He has done all things well,’ they said ‘he makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak.’
Psalms
Psalm 145: We Are Fed by the Hand of the Lord
Composer: Kirner, Karen Schneider / Warner, Steven C.
Publisher: WLP
Psalm 146: I Will Praise the Lord All My Days
Composer: Isele, David Clark
Publisher: GIA
Psalm 146: Lord, Come and Save Us
Composer: Haugen, Marty
Publisher: GIA
Psalm 63: Your Love Is Finer Than Life
Composer: Haugen, Marty
Publisher: GIA
Hymns & Songs
Amazing Grace
Text: Newton, John / Rees, John
Publisher: GIA
Christ, Be Our Light
Composer: Farrell, Bernadette
Text: Farrell, Bernadette
Publisher: OCP
City of God
Composer: Schutte, Dan
Text: Schutte, Dan
Publisher: OCP
Come to the Water
Composer: Foley SJ, John
Text: Foley SJ, John
Publisher: New Dawn Music
Gather Us In
Composer: Haugen, Marty
Text: Haugen, Marty
Publisher: GIA
God of Day and God of Darkness
Composer: The Sacred Harp
Text: Haugen, Marty
Publisher: GIA
God, Whose Giving Knows No Ending
Composer: The Sacred Harp
Text: Edwards, Robert L.
I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light
Composer: Thomerson, Kathleen
Text: Thomerson, Kathleen
Publisher: GIA
May the Still Small Voice of God
Composer: Warner, Steven C.
Publisher: IND
Only This I Want
Composer: Schutte, Dan
Text: Schutte, Dan
Publisher: OCP
Open My Eyes
Composer: Manibusan, Jesse
Text: Mark 8:22-25
Publisher: OCP
Open the Eyes of My Heart
Composer: Baloche, Paul
Text: Baloche, Paul
Those Who Love and Those Who Labor
Composer: Gaelic folk hymn
Text: Dearmer, Geoffrey
Publisher: GIA
Though the Mountains May Fall
Composer: Schutte, Dan
Text: Schutte, Dan
Publisher: OCP
We Gather Together
Composer: Traditional Dutch Melody
Text: Westendorf, Omer
Publisher: WLP
We Walk by Faith
Composer: Haugen, Marty
Text: Alford, Henry
Publisher: GIA