DUST YOU ARE AND TO DUST YOU SHALL RETURN

SATURDAY WEEK 5 IN  ORDINARY TIME Universalis

‘I feel sorry for all these people'

Reading Genesis 3:9-24 The expulsion from the Garden of Eden

The Lord God called to the man. ‘Where are you?’ he asked.   ‘I heard the sound of you in the garden;’ he replied ‘I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.’ 

‘Who told you that you were naked?’ he asked ‘Have you been eating of the tree I forbade you to eat?   The man replied, ‘It was the woman you put with me; she gave me the fruit, and I ate it.’

Then the Lord God asked the woman, ‘What is this you have done?’   The woman replied, ‘The serpent tempted me and I ate.’

Then the Lord God said to the serpent, ‘Because you have done this, ‘Be accursed beyond all cattle, all wild beasts. You shall crawl on your belly and eat dust every day of your life. I will make you enemies of each other: you and the woman, your offspring and her offspring. It will crush your head and you will strike its heel.’

To the woman he said: ‘I will multiply your pains in childbearing, you shall give birth to your children in pain. Your yearning shall be for your husband, yet he will lord it over you.’

To the man he said, ‘Because you listened to the voice of your wife and ate from the tree of which I had forbidden you to eat,

‘Accursed be the soil because of you. With suffering shall you get your food from it every day of your life. It shall yield you brambles and thistles, and you shall eat wild plants. With sweat on your brow shall you eat your bread, until you return to the soil, as you were taken from it. For dust you are and to dust you shall return.’ ....

Responsorial Psalm: O Lord, you have been our refuge from one generation to the next

Gospel Mark 8:1-10 The feeding of the four thousand

A great crowd had gathered, and they had nothing to eat. So Jesus called his disciples to him and said to them, ‘I feel sorry for all these people; they have been with me for three days now and have nothing to eat. If I send them off home hungry they will collapse on the way; some have come a great distance.’ His disciples replied, ‘Where could anyone get bread to feed these people in a deserted place like this?’ He asked them, ‘How many loaves have you?’ ‘Seven’ they said. Then he instructed the crowd to sit down on the ground, and he took the seven loaves, and after giving thanks he broke them and handed them to his disciples to distribute; and they distributed them among the crowd. They had a few small fish as well, and over these he said a blessing and ordered them to be distributed also. They ate as much as they wanted, and they collected seven basketfuls of the scraps left over. Now there had been about four thousand people. He sent them away and immediately, getting into the boat with his disciples, went to the region of Dalmanutha. CDR

Loving Father, you have been our refuge from one generation to the next. You crowned us with your glory. Father we have sinned against you. You are loving, you are good and merciful. You gave us freedom of choice, most times we make wrong choices in disobedience to your commands, then in our pride we pass blames to others for the reasons of our actions. Most especially we say Satan. You Father in your goodness everything you created is good, but we your creatures destroy your works through our actions. Father relent, have mercy on us for we are dust, your breath in us is our existence.

Father according to Psalm 89 (90) "Before the mountains were born or the earth or the world brought forth,   you are God, without beginning or end. You turn men back to dust   and say: ‘Go back, sons of men.’ To your eyes a thousand years   are like yesterday, come and gone,  no more than a watch in the night. You sweep men away like a dream,  like the grass which springs up in the morning. In the morning it springs up and flowers:  by evening it withers and fades.  Make us know the shortness of our life   that we may gain wisdom of heart. Lord, relent! Is your anger for ever?  Show pity to your servants.

Lord Jesus Christ I trust in you. Lord have mercy on me. Virgin Mary pray for me. Saint Joseph pray for me. God's Holy Angels and Saints pray for me. My Angel Guardian pray for me. Guide me, protect me.

Pray the Holy Rosary.

PEE Père aimant, tu as été notre refuge d’une génération à l’autre. Tu nous as couronnés de ta gloire. Père, nous avons péché contre toi. Vous êtes aimants, vous êtes bons et miséricordieux. Vous nous avez donné la liberté de choix, la plupart du temps nous faisons de mauvais choix en désobéissant à vos ordres, puis dans notre orgueil, pour les raisons de nos actions  nous passons des blâmes aux autres. Plus particulièrement, nous disons Satan. Toi, Père dans ta bonté, tout ce que tu as créé est bon, mais nous, tes créatures, détruisons tes œuvres par nos actions. Père relâche, aie pitié de nous car nous sommes poussière, ton souffle en nous est notre existence. évangeli

Père selon 89 (90) « Avant que les montagnes ne naissent ou que la terre ou le monde ne naît, tu es Dieu, sans commencement ni fin. Vous retournez les hommes en poussière et dites : « Revenez, fils d’hommes. » À tes yeux, mille ans sont comme hier, vont et viennent, pas plus qu’une montre dans la nuit. Vous balayez les hommes comme un rêve, comme l’herbe qui jaillit le matin. Le matin, il jaillit et fleurit: le soir, il se flétrit et s’estompe. Faites-nous connaître la brièveté de notre vie afin que nous puissions acquérir la sagesse du cœur. Seigneur, relâche! Votre colère est-elle pour toujours? Montrez de la pitié à vos serviteurs. RC

Seigneur Jésus-Christ, j’ai confiance en toi. Seigneur aie pitié de moi. La Vierge Marie prie pour moi. Saint Joseph prie pour moi. Les saints anges et saints de Dieu prient pour moi. Mon Ange Gardien prie pour moi. Guidez-moi, protégez-moi.

Priez le Saint Rosaire.