5th Sunday in Ordinary Time
- Year C
The following are prayerful resources rather than a liturgy.
- The gospel for the day
- Some optional questions for reflection
- Prayers of Intercession
- Cluster Prayer
- The gospel of the week ahead with commentary
Having used our prayer resources, you might want simply to reflect yourself on them and how that might flow into your coming week. Some people have found it very helpful to meet with others and share their thoughts.
If you are interested in joining a small group to share your thoughts and feelings about God's Word from any of the resources you have watched please email us. cluster.alpha@outlook.com
Questions for reflection (framed for a group discussion)
This incident highlights that humans’ best efforts – by themselves – will not succeed. Four experienced fishermen had put in a long nightshift and caught nothing. The scale of the catch only served to emphasise the message of their self-inadequacy. Without the strong sense of our need for Jesus we simply won’t make any progress in both our relationship with the Lord and our faith journey through life.
- When have you felt inadequate to a task or role you were given?
How did you respond?*
* All second questions © The Pastoral Center
Prayers of Intercession
For Pope Francis and all Church leaders. May they be strengthened in their mission to proclaim the Gospel and lead others to Christ.
Lord in Your mercy, hear our prayer
For all world leaders and all who work for peace and unity, that they will earnestly seek ways to end the suffering caused by war and violence, injustice and inequality, prejudice and poverty.
Lord in Your mercy, hear our prayer
For all Christians. Heal our wounds, barriers and divisions so that together we may find more effective ways to heal our broken world.
Lord in Your mercy, hear our prayer
For migrants and refugees that they may find places of welcome and safety.
Lord in Your mercy, hear our prayer
For those working to protect our environment, that their efforts may help to protect the beauty of Gods creation for future generations.
Lord in Your mercy, hear our prayer
For ourselves that we may be open to Gods call, and readily respond to his invitation to follow him, actively sharing the Gospel message in our lives and communities.
Lord in Your mercy, hear our prayer
For all who are sick, housebound, vulnerable or afraid, and all on the Prayer Foundation List, especially Fr. Alex, Fr. Mike and Fr.Nick. May they feel the healing power of Christ
and find comfort and hope in his constant presence.
Lord in Your mercy, hear our prayer
For those who have died recently and those whose Anniversaries occur at this time. Especially: Leonardo Rodriguez, Andrew Muldoon, Peter O’ Connor and Elizabeth Reynolds. May they be raised with Christ to eternal life and those who mourn be comforted.
Lord in Your mercy, hear our prayer
We will now say together the prayer to be missionary disciples.
Cluster prayer
Lord continue to bless our community in this time of transition.
Help us on our journey to grow from a maintenance church to a missionary church.
Give us the courage to be missionary disciples.
Make our doors wide enough to receive all who need human love and fellowship; narrow enough to shut out all envy, pride and prejudice.
Kindle in us the fire of your love that all who come here will find joy, peace and love.
Make this a house of prayer and a gateway to your kingdom.
AMEN
Gospel for the day - 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Luke 5:1-11 ‘They left everything and followed him.’
At that time: The crowd was pressing in on Jesus to hear the word of God. He was standing by the lake of Gennesaret, and he saw two boats by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, he asked him to put out a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the people from the boat. And when he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, ‘Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.’ And Simon answered, ‘Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets.’ And when they had done this, they enclosed a large number of fish, and their nets were breaking. They signalled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink. But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, ‘Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.’ For he and all who were with him were astonished at the catch of fish that they had taken, and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, ‘Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching men.’ And when they had brought their boats to land, they left everything and followed him.
This is the gospel of the Lord. Commentary on the readings.