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Liturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(II).

First reading	Isaiah 65:17-21

‘No more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping and the cry of distress.’

Thus says the Lord:

‘Behold, I create new heavens

and a new earth,

and the former things shall not be remembered

or come to mind.

But be glad and rejoice for ever

in that which I create;

for behold, I create Jerusalem to be a joy,

and her people to be a gladness.

I will rejoice in Jerusalem

and be glad in my people;

no more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping

and the cry of distress.

No more shall there be in it

an infant who lives but a few days,

or an old man who does not fill out his days,

for the young man shall die a hundred years old,

and the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed.

They shall build houses and inhabit them;

they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.’

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Responsorial Psalm
Ps 30(29):2, 4. 5-6. 11, 12a,13b. ℟2a

I will extol you, Lord, for you have raised me up.

I will extol you, Lord, for you have raised me up,

and have not let my enemies rejoice over me.

O Lord, you have lifted up my soul from Sheol,

restored me to life from those who sink into the pit.

I will extol you, Lord, for you have raised me up.

Sing psalms to the Lord, you faithful ones;

give thanks to his holy name.

His anger lasts a moment; his favour all through life.

At night come tears, but dawn brings joy.

I will extol you, Lord, for you have raised me up.

Hear, O Lord, and have mercy on me;

be my helper, O Lord.

You have changed my mourning into dancing.

O Lord my God, I will thank you for ever.

I will extol you, Lord, for you have raised me up.

Gospel Acclamation	Cf. Amos 5:14

Praise and honour to you, Lord Jesus.

Seek good, and not evil, that you may live;

and so the Lord will be with you.

Praise and honour to you, Lord Jesus.

Gospel	John 4:43-54

‘Go; your son will live.’

At that time: Jesus departed Samaria for Galilee. (For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honour in his own hometown.) So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast. For they too had gone to the feast.

So he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And at Capernaum there was an official whose son was ill. When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. So Jesus said to him, ‘Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe.’ The official said to him, ‘Sir, come down before my child dies.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Go; your son will live.’ The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way. As he was going down, his servants met him and told him that his son was recovering. So he asked them the hour when he began to get better, and they said to him, ‘Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.’ The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, ‘Your son will live.’ And he himself believed, and all his household. This was now the second sign that Jesus did when he had come from Judea to Galilee.

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