Introduction: This is the ‘Table of contents’ of a book titled ‘Every Week God Speaks We Respond’, Cycle A, intended to be published in English by Reverend John T. B. Trong (Gioan Trần Bình Trọng). The book was published in Vietnamese in the US in 2007 and re-published in Viet Nam in 2010.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Dedicated to

From audience and readers

Acknowledgements

Contents

About the author

Preface

Advent Season, Year A:

1^st Sunday: Wake up

2^nd Sunday: Response to the call of repentance

3^rd Sunday: Should we look for another?

4^th Sunday: Seeking to find God in the solitude of soul

Christmas Season, Year A:

Vigil Mass: A, B, C: Following God’s small way.

Midnight Mass: A, B, C: How does Jesus’ birth influence our lives?

Dawn Mass: A, B, C: How was the First Christmas celebrated?

Day Mass: A, B, C: Dual nature of the Word incarnate

Epiphany: Seeking the One deserving of worship and praise.

Lenten Season, Year A:

Ash Wednesday (A, B, C): Living the spirit of Lent

1^st Sunday : ‘Lead us not into temptation’

2^nd Sunday: Following Jesus to the mountain of soul

3^rd Sunday: Asking for the living water

4^th Sunday: Asking to see things in the light of faith

5^th Sunday: Asking to rise

Palm/Passion Sunday: Seeking to do God’s will

Paschal Triduum: Year A, B, C:

Holy Thursday: Eucharist unites priesthood and Service

Good Friday: Love transforms one’s suffering and cross

Easter Vigil: Celebrating the risen Christ & Congratulating the newly baptized

Easter Sunday: Christ is risen for He appears to the disciples.

Easter Season, Year A:

2^nd Sunday: To believe is to trust one who is trustworthy

3^rd Sunday: Recognizing God’s presence

4^th Sunday: Asking to remain in the sheepfold

5^th Sunday: Following Jesus: the way, the truth and the life

6^th Sunday: Believing in Jesus’ promise to send his spirit

7^th Sunday: Praying for the glory of God’s name

Ascension of the Lord: ‘I am with you until the end of the world’

Pentecost Sunday: Obstacles to the activity of the Holy Spirit

Ordinary Sundays of the Year A:

Trinity Sunday: Jesus reveals the mystery of the Trinity out of his love for us

Corpus Christi: Whoever eats this bread has eternal life

02^nd Sunday: Recognzing one’s Catholic identity

03^rd Sunday: For repentance for sins including division

04^th Sunday: Living the Beatitudes

05^th Sunday: Being ‘the salt of the earth and the light of the world’.

06^th Sunday: Living the spirit of the law

07^th Sunday: Living according the law of mercy

08^th Sunday: Trusting in God’s providential plan

09^th Sunday: Building spiritual home on rock

10^th Sunday: The sick need a physician

11^th Sunday: Asking for more laborers

12^th Sunday: ‘Do not be afraid’

13^th Sunday: Doing things in the name of God

14^th Sunday: How to come to Jesus to be rereshed

15^th Sunday: That the Word of God may bear fruit

16^th Sunday: Coexisting with weeds among wheat

17^th Sunday: Wishing and choosing the heavenly values

18^th Sunday: Cooperating to feed the hungry

19^th Sunday: God is there when we cry out for help

20^th Sunday: Saving grace comes to the gentiles

21^st Sunday: ‘I will build my church on this rock’

22^nd Sunday: Denying self and taking up one’s cross to follow Jesus

23^rd Sunday: Correcting faults as Jesus taught

24^th Sunday: To forgive in order to be forgiven

25^th Sunday: Being satisfied with what God has given

26^th Sunday: Following the will of God by deed

27^th Sunday: Called to work in God’s vineyard

28^th Sunday: Accepting the invitation to attend the wedding

29^th Sunday: Repaying to Ceasar and to God

30^th Sunday: In order to love God and neighbor, one must love self

31^st Sunday: Thoughts, words and actions must match

32^nd Sunday: Preparing oil for the lamp of soul

33^rd Sunday: Investing what God has given

Christ the King Sunday: Facing the judgment throne

Solemnities and major Feasts falling on Sundays:

Mary, Mother of God (S: 01/01: A): Mary is also our Mother ...

Baptism of the Lord (F:A): Baptism marks the mission of the suffering servant of Yahweh

Presentation of the Lord (F: 02/02: A, B, C): Two examples of obedience and sacrifice

Nativity of John the Baptist (S: 06/24: A, B, C): Called to prepare the way and to bear witness to the Messiah

SS. Peter and Paul (S: 06/29: A, B, C): In honor of the two pillars of the Church

Transfiguration of the Lord (F: 08/06: A, B, C): Asking to contemplate God’s presence

Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (S: 08 /15): A  ‘My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord’

Exaltation of the Holy Cross (F: 09/14: A, B, C): By your holy cross, you have redeemed the world’

All Saints (S: 11/01: A, B, C): Asking to be in the list of the chosen

All Souls (Special: 11/02: A): May the souls of the faithful departed rest in peace

Dedication of the Lateran Basilica (F: 11/09: A, B, C): Entering God’s temple

Immaculate Conception (S: 12/08: A): Reborn in freedom from the original sin

Holy Family (F: A): Following the example of the model family.

Special days’ Celebration for East and South East Asian people:

Lunar New Year’s End: In thanksgiving for the past year

Lunar New Year’s Eve: Asking for New Year’s blessing

Lunar New Year Day: Celebrating the Lunar New Year according to God’s providential plan

2^nd Day of Lunar New Year: Remembering ancestors, grand-parents and parents in prayers

3^rd Day of Lunar New Year: Asking God to sanctify our works

Thanksgiving Day: Living the spirit of gratitude

Andrew Dung-Lac, priests, martyrs and his companions: They have been hated for they do not belong to the world

Bibliography

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