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Sheaves of Wheat , Van Gogh  [ Web Gallery of Art ] For Readings and Reflections for the 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A,  click on the following:   Sixteenth  Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A The Harvest ,  Émile Bernard  [ Web Gallery of Art ] When our weeping’s over, He will bid us welcome, We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves. An old Protestant hymn from the USA,   Bringing in the Sheaves , performed in Cape Town (Kapstadt), South Africa.  The hymn is based on Psalm 126 [125]:6. They go out, they go out, full of tears,  carrying seed for the sowing;  they come back, they come back, full of song,  carrying their sheaves.

Young Jew as Christ , Rembrandt, c.1648 Staatliche Museen, Berlin [ Web Gallery of Art ] Jesus Christ is the face of the Father's mercy. ( Pope Francis ) Universal: EXPERIENCING GOD’S MERCY That all may experience the mercy of God, who never tires of forgiving. The Holy Family with Angels , Rembrandt, 1645 The Hermitage, St Petersburg [ Web Gallery of Art ] And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth. ( John 1:14 ) Evangelization: FAMILIES That families, especially those who suffer, may find in the birth of Jesus a sign of certain hope. Intentions and videos from the website of the Apostleship of Prayer.

The Sower , November 1888, Arles; Vincent van Gogh   Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam [ Web Gallery of Art ] Readings  (New American Bible: Philippines, USA) Readings   (Jerusalem Bible: Australia, England & Wales, India [optional], Ireland, New Zealand, Pakistan, Scotland, South Africa)  [This link is to the readings for the Vigil Mass and for the Mass on Sunday] Gospel  Matthew 13:24-43 (or 13:24-30)   ( New Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition , Canada)  Jesus put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to someone who sowed good seed in his field;   but while everybody was asleep, an enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and then went away.   So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared as well.   And the slaves of the householder came and said to him, ‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? Where, then, did these weeds come from?’ ...

The Prodigal Son , 1651-55, Salvator Rosa [ Web Gallery of Art ] Luke 15:11-32 Readings   (New American Bible: Philippines, USA)                                   Readings   (Jerusalem Bible: Australia, England & Wales, India [optional], Ireland, New Zealand, Pakistan, Scotland, South Africa) Gospel  Luke 15:1-32 [1-10, short form]  (Revised Standard Version – Catholic Edition) Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear Jesus. And the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, "This man receives sinners and eats with them." So he told them this parable: "What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one which is lost, until he finds it? And when he has found i...