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5 August 2018 - Trinity 10 (OT18)
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Today’s Hymns: 205 - Glorious things of thee are spoken; 252 - Guide me, O … ; 332 - I
the Lord of sea and sky; 689 - Thy hand O God has guided; (Mass setting: Rizza 955)
COLLECT: that?’ not knowing what it was. God’s way, in the goodness and
‘That’ said Moses to them ‘is the holiness of the truth.
Let your merciful ears, O Lord, be bread the Lord gives you to eat.’
open to the prayers of your humble This is the word of the Lord.
servants; and that they may obtain This is the word of the Lord. Ephesians 4
their petitions make them to ask Exodus 16
such things as shall please you; GOSPEL
through Jesus Christ your Son our
Lord, who is alive and reigns with
RESPONSORIAL PSALM A reading from the Holy Gospel
you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, The Lord gave them bread from according to St John.
one God, now and for ever. Amen heaven.
So when the crowd saw that neither
The things we have heard and Jesus nor his disciples were there, they
understood, themselves got into the boats and
the things our fathers have told us, went to Capernaum looking for Jesus.
FIRST READING these we will not hide from their When they found him on the other
children side of the lake, they said to him,
The First reading is from the book of ‘Rabbi, when did you come here?’
but will tell them to the next
Exodus. generation: R/ Jesus answered them, ‘Very truly, I tell
you, you are looking for me, not
The whole community of the sons of The glories of the Lord because you saw signs, but because
Israel began to complain against and his might you ate your fill of the loaves. Do not
Moses and Aaron in the wilderness and the marvellous deeds work for the food that perishes, but
he has done, for the food that endures for eternal
and said to them, ‘Why did we not
Yet he commanded the clouds above life, which the Son of Man will give
die at the Lord’s hand in the land of
and opened the gates of heaven. you. For it is on him that God the
Egypt, when we were able to sit Father has set his seal.’ Then they said
down to pans of meat and could eat He rained down manna
for their food, to him, ‘What must we do to perform
bread to our heart’s content! As it is, the works of God?’ Jesus answered
and gave them bread from heaven. R/
you have brought us to this them, ‘This is the work of God, that
wilderness to starve this whole Mere men ate the bread of angels. you believe in him whom he has sent.’
company to death!’ He sent them abundance of food; So they said to him, ‘What sign are
Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Now So he brought them to his holy land, you going to give us then, so that we
I will rain down bread for you from to the mountain which his right hand may see it and believe you? What
the heavens. Each day the people had won. R/ work are you performing? Our
Psalm 78 ancestors ate the manna in the
are to go out and gather the day’s
wilderness; as it is written, “He gave
portion; I propose to test them in them bread from heaven to eat.” ’
this way to see whether they will Then Jesus said to them, ‘Very truly, I
follow my law or not. SECOND READING tell you, it was not Moses who gave
‘I have heard the complaints of the you the bread from heaven, but it is
sons of Israel. Say this to them, A reading from the letter of Paul to my Father who gives you the true
“Between the two evenings you shall the Ephesians. bread from heaven. For the bread of
eat meat, and in the morning you God is that which comes down from
shall have bread to your heart’s I want to urge you in the name of heaven and gives life to the world.’
content. Then you will learn that I, the Lord, not to go on living the They said to him, ‘Sir, give us this
the Lord, am your God.”’ aimless kind of life that pagans live. bread always.’
Now that is hardly the way you have Jesus said to them, ‘I am the bread of
And so it came about: quails flew
learnt from Christ, unless you failed life. Whoever comes to me will never
up in the evening, and they covered
to hear him properly when you were be hungry, and whoever believes in me
the camp; in the morning there was will never be thirsty.
a coating of dew all round the camp. taught what the truth is in Jesus.
When the coating of dew lifted, You must give up your old way of This is the Gospel of the Lord.
there on the surface of the desert life; you must put aside your old John 6
was a thing delicate, powdery, as self, which gets corrupted by
fine as hoarfrost on the ground. following illusory desires. Your mind
When they saw this, the sons of must be renewed by a spiritual
Israel said to one another, ‘What is revolution so that you can put on
the new self that has been created in