TWENTY FIRST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME C Lectionary #123

What tools do we need to interpret the signs of the times? How do we read the newspaper with Christian understanding?

Isaiah 66:18–21. Later Judaism had to deal with the horror of the Exile in Babylon . Some writers saw it as God's punishment for sin. In this reading, the “third Isaiah” (Trito-Isaiah) saw the Exile as a way to proclaim God's glory in foreign lands and to draw all the nations back to Israel when the exiles returned.

Psalm of the Day: Ps (116) 117

This shortest psalm in the Psalter is a hymn inviting the nations to recognize YHWH as God.

Go Out and Tell All the World (Ash) GP 260/SP5 60/MI-BB

Go Out to All the World (Alstott) JS 93

Go Out to All the World (Guimont) LPMG 138

Go Out to All the World (Haas) GC 112

Go Out to All the World (Hruby) WC 414

Go Out to All the World (Hruby/Hughes) PMB 704/PRM C91

Go Out to All the World (Peloquin/Gelineau) WOR 927/RS 157/LPGG 896

Go Out to All the World (Schiavone) LP 155

Go Out to the Whole World (Moffatt/Murray) CBW 138

Laudate Dominum (Berthier) WOR 519/GC 525/RS 660

Vayan por el Mundo Entero ( Montgomery ) FYC 255

Suggested Common Psalm

Ps 66, Let All the Earth Cry Out

Hebrews 12:5–7, 11–13. How do Christians under persecution understand their suffering? The author of this letter suggests that it is divine discipline, the kind of punishment that a loving father would mete out to a child for correction.

Luke 13:22–30. It is clear that Jesus had a challenging understanding of the Torah, one that required intense dedication. At the same time, he seems to have shared “third Isaiah's” view that salvation is wider than Israel .

Songs for the Liturgy

A Multitude Comes from the East and the West (1,G) WOR 688

All Are Welcome (1,G) GC 753/RS 846/WC 861/WS 615/MI-BB

All People That on Earth Do Dwell (1,G) WOR 670/MI-BB/GP 535/WC 879/CBW 578/LMGM 304/JS 604/GC 747/RS 849/PMB 480/WS 649

All That Is Hidden (G) MI-BB/JS 762/GP 585

All the Earth (1,G) MI-BB/WC 881/PMB 484/WS 646

All the Ends of the Earth (1,G) GP 683/GC 95/MI-BB/WC 404, 405/JS 77, 78, 79, 595/LMGM 504, 505/CBW 548/RS 135, 136, 137/PMB 161/WS 310

As the Grains of Wheat (1,G) GC 825/RS 921

At the Table of the World (1,G) WC 648/PMB 301/WS 443

Bless the Feast (1,G) MI-BB/JS 519/GC 752/GP 532

Canticle of the Turning (G) GC 556/RS 678

Come, Host of Heaven's High Dwelling Place (1,G) GC 751

Come to the House (1,G) GP 531

Diverse in Culture, Nation, Race (1,G) GC 739/RS 837

*From All That Dwell below the Skies (1,Ps,G) WOR 521/WC 888/MI-BB/JS 603/GP 682/PMB 483/WS 651

From East and West (1,G) GP 567

Gather Us In (1,G) WOR 665/GC 744/MI-BB/WC 860/RS 850/CBW 587/WS 617

Gathered as One (1,G) PMB 464/WS 614

God's Holy Mountain (1) WC 862/PMB 467

I Was Glad (1,G) LMGM 303

In Christ There Is a Table Set for All (1,G) GC 749/RS 916

In Christ There Is No East or West (1,G) WOR 659/MI-BB/GP 565/WC 761/CBW 529/LMGM 301/JS 850/GC 738/RS 836/PMB 391/WS 535

Jubilate Deo (1,G) WOR 555/GC 555/BB/JS 167/RS 667, 693/CBW 572/WC 882/WS 638

*Laudate Dominum (1,Ps,G) WOR 519/GC 525/WC 521/JS 436/RS 660/CBW 570

Let All the People Praise Thee (1,G) LMGM 83

Let All the Peoples (1,G) JS 618

Let All the World in Every Corner Sing (1,G) WOR 536

Lift Up Your Hearts (1,G) GP 676/GC 558/MI-BB/JS 620/RS 691

Lover of Us All (1) GC 633/GP 643

Sing of the Lord's Goodness (1,Ps,G) JS 605/GC 547/MI-BB/GP 690

Sing Praise to the Lord (Ps) WOR 539/GC 545/RS 687

Song of Gathering (1,G) GC 740

This Is the Day the Lord Has Made (Ps) GC 449