First Reading - Is 6:1-8
In the year King Uzziah
died, I saw the Lord seated on
a high and lofty throne, with
the train of his garment filling
the temple. Seraphim were
stationed above.
They cried one to the other,
“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord
of hosts! All the earth is filled
with his glory!”
At the sound of that cry,
the frame of the door shook
and the house was filled with
smoke. Then I said, “Woe is me, I am doomed! For I am
a man of unclean lips, living
among a people of unclean
lips; yet my eyes have seen the
King, the Lord of hosts!”
Then one of the seraphim
fl ew to me, holding an ember
that he had taken with tongs
from the altar. He touched my
mouth with it, and said, “See,
now that this has touched
your lips, your wickedness is
removed, your sin purged.”
Then I heard the voice of
the Lord saying, “Whom shall
I send? Who will go for us?”
“Here I am,” I said; “send
me!”
Responsorial Psalm - Ps 138
R –In the sight of the angels
I will sing your praises,
Lord!
* I will give thanks to you,
O Lord, with all my heart,
for you have heard the words
of my mouth; in the presence
of the angels I will sing your
praise. I will worship at your
holy temple and give thanks to
your name. R.
* Because of your kindness
and your truth; for you have
made great above all things
your name and your promise.
When I called, you answered
me; you built up strength
within me. R.
* All the kings of the earth
shall give thanks to you, O
Lord, when they hear the
words of your mouth; and
they shall sing of the ways of
the Lord: “Great is the glory
of the Lord.” R.
* Your right hand saves me.
The Lord will complete what
he has done for me; your kindness, O Lord, endures forever.
Forsake not the work of your
hands. R.
Second Reading - 1 Cor 15:1-11
I am reminding you, brothers and sisters, of the Gospel
I preached to you, which you
indeed received and in which
you also stand. Through it
you are also being saved, if
you hold fast to the word I
preached to you, unless you
believed in vain. For I handed
on to you as of first importance what I also received:
that Christ died for our sins
in accordance with the Scriptures; that he was buried; that
he was raised on the third day
in accordance with the Scriptures; that he appeared to Cephas, then to the Twelve. After that, he appeared to more
than five hundred brothers
at once, most of whom are
still living, though some have
fallen asleep. After that, he appeared to James, then to all the
apostles. Last of all, as to one
born abnormally, he appeared
to me.
For I am the least of the
apostles, not fi t to be called an
apostle, because I persecuted
the Church of God. But by
the grace of God I am what I
am, and his grace to me has
not been ineffective. Indeed, I
have toiled harder than all of
them; not I, however, but the
grace of God that is with me.
Therefore, whether it be I or
they, so we preach and so you
believed.
Gospel Acclamation - Mt 4:19
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Come after me
and I will make you fishers of men.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Gospel - Lk 5:1-11
While the crowd was pressing in on Jesus and listening
to the word of God, he was
standing by the Lake of Gennesaret. He saw two boats
there alongside the lake; the
fishermen had disembarked
and were washing their nets.
Getting into one of the boats,
the one belonging to Simon,
Jesus asked him to put out a
short distance from the shore.
Then he sat down and taught
the crowds from the boat.
After he had finished
speaking, he said to Simon,
“Put out into deep water and
lower your nets for a catch.”
Simon said in reply, “Master,
we have worked hard all night
and have caught nothing, but
at your command I will lower
the nets.” When they had done
this, they caught a great number of fi sh and their nets were
tearing. They signaled to their
partners in the other boat to
come to help them. They came
and filled both boats so that
the boats were in danger of
sinking.
When Simon Peter saw
this, he fell at the knees of Jesus and said, “Depart from
me, Lord, for I am a sinful
man.” For astonishment at
the catch of fi sh they had made
seized him and all those with
him, and likewise James and
John, the sons of Zebedee,
who were partners of Simon.
Jesus said to Simon, “Do not
be afraid; from now on, you
will be catching men.” When
they brought their boats to the shore, they left everything and
followed him.
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