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Saturday of the
Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time
July 7, 2007 (Lingkod-Makati 14th Anniversary)
1st Reading
Gn 27:1-5, 15-29
When Isaac was so old that his eyesight had failed him, he called his older
son Esau and said to him, “Son!” “Yes father!” he replied. Isaac then said,
“As you can see, I am so old that I may now die at any time. Take your
gear, therefore–your quiver and bow– and go out into the country to
hunt some game for me. With your catch prepare an appetizing dish for me,
such as I like, and bring it to me to eat, so that I may give you my special
blessing before I die.”
Rebekah had been listening while Isaac was speaking to his son Esau. So,
when Esau went out into the country to hunt some game for his father,
Rebekah [then] took the best clothes of her older son Esau that she had in
the house, and gave them to her younger son Jacob to wear; and with the
skins of the kids she covered up his hands and the hairless parts of his
neck.Then she handed her son Jacob the appetizing dish and the bread she had
prepared.
Bringing them to his father, Jacob said, “Father!” “Yes?” replied Isaac.
“Which of my sons are you?” Jacob answered his father: “I am Esau,
your first-born. I did as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my
game, so that you may give me your special blessing.” But Isaac asked, “How
did you succeed so quickly, son?” He answered, “The LORD, your God, let
things turn out well with me.” Isaac then said to Jacob, “Come closer, son,
that I may feel you, to learn whether you really are my son Esau or not.” So
Jacob moved up closer to his father. When Isaac felt him, he said, “Although
the voice is Jacob’s, the hands are Esau’s.” (He failed to identify him
because his hands were hairy, like those of his brother Esau; so in the end
he gave him his blessing.) Again he asked Jacob, “Are you really my son
Esau?” “Certainly,” Jacob replied. Then Isaac said, “Serve me your
game, son, that I may eat of it and then give you my blessing.” Jacob served
it to him, and Isaac ate; he brought him wine, and he drank. Finally his
father Isaac said to Jacob, “Come closer, son, and kiss me.” As Jacob went
up and kissed him, Isaac smelled the fragrance of his clothes. With that, he
blessed him saying,
“Ah, the fragrance of my son is like the fragrance of a field that the LORD
has blessed!
“May God give to you of the dew of the heavens And of the fertility of the
earth abundance of grain and wine.
“Let peoples serve you, and nations pay you homage; Be master of your
brothers, and may your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be those who
curse you, and blessed be those who bless you.”
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 135:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6
R. (3a) Praise the Lord for the Lord is good!
or:
R. Alleluia.
Praise the name of the LORD;
Praise, you servants of the LORD
Who stand in the house of the LORD,
in the courts of the house of our God.
R. Praise the Lord for the Lord is good!
or:
R. Alleluia.
Praise the LORD, for the LORD is good;
sing praise to his name, which we love;
For the LORD has chosen Jacob for himself,
Israel for his own possession.
R. Praise the Lord for the Lord is good!
or:
R. Alleluia.
For I know that the LORD is great;
our LORD is greater than all gods.
All that the LORD wills he does
in heaven and on earth,
in the seas and in all the deeps.
R. Praise the Lord for the Lord is good!
or:
R. Alleluia.
Gospel
Mt 9:14-17
The disciples of John approached Jesus and said, “Why do we and the
Pharisees fast much, but your disciples do not fast?”
Jesus answered them, “Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom
is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from
them, and then they will fast. No one patches an old cloak with a piece of
unshrunken cloth,for its fullness pulls away from the cloak and the tear
gets worse. People do not put new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise the
skins burst, the wine spills out, and the skins are ruined. Rather, they
pour new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.” |
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