Sunday Readings: Eleventh (11th) Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B

ELEVENTH SUNDAY OF THE YEAR – B

You can find the reflection/homily here

ENTRANCE ANTIPHON : Lord hear my voice    when I call to you. You are my help; do not cast me off, do not desert me , my saviour God.

OPENING PRAYER : Almighty God, our hope and our strength, without you we falter. Help us to follow Christ and to live according to you will.

FIRST READING          EZKIEL 17: 22-24

            The lord says this: ‘From the top o the cedar, from the  highest branch  I will take a shoot and plant it myself on a very high mountain. I will plant it on the high mountain of Israel. It will sprout branches and bear fruit, and become a noble cedar. Evry kind of bird will beneath it, every winged creature rest in the shade of its branches. And very tree of the field will learn that I the Lord, am the one. Who stunts tall tress and makes the low ones grow. Who withers green trees and makes the withered green. I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will do it.”

THE WORD OF THE LORD

LITURGICAL GESTURES AND THEIR BIBLICAL ORIGINS