First Reading (Exodus 3:1-8.13-15)
I am has sent me to you.

Moses was looking after the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, priest of Midian. He led his
flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the
angel of the Lord appeared to him in the shape of a flame of fire, coming from the middle
of a bush. Moses looked; there was the bush blazing but it was not being burnt up. "I must
go and look at this strange sight," Moses said "and see why the bush is not burnt." Now the
Lord saw him go forward to look, and God called to him from the middle of the bush.
"Moses, Moses!" he said. "Here I am" he answered. "Come no nearer" he said. "Take off
your shoes, for the place on which you stand is holy ground. I am the God of your father,"
he said "the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob." At this Moses
covered his face, afraid to look at God.
And the Lord said, "I have seen the miserable state of my people in Egypt. I have heard
their appeal to be free of their slave-drivers. Yes, I am well aware of their sufferings. I mean
to deliver them out of the hands of the Egyptians and bring them up out of that land to a
land rich and broad, a land where milk and honey flow."
Then Moses said to God, "I am to go, then, to the sons of Israel and say to them, 'The God
of your fathers has sent me to you.' But if they ask me what his name is, what am I to tell
them?" And God said to Moses, "I Am who I Am. This" he added "is what you must say to
the sons of Israel: 'I Am has sent me to you.'" And God also said to Moses, "You are to say
to the sons of Israel: 'The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of
Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.' This is my name for all time; by this name
I shall be invoked for all generations to come."


Responsorial Psalm (Psalm 102)

R/ The Lord is compassion and love

1. My soul, give thanks to the Lord,
all my being, bless his holy name.
My soul give thanks to the Lord
and never forget all his blessings. R/

2. It is he who forgives all your guilt,
who heals every one of your ills,
who redeems your life from the grave,
who crowns you with love and compassion. R/

3. The Lord does deeds of justice,
gives judgement for all who are oppressed.
He made known his ways to Moses
and his deeds to Israel's sons. R/

4. The Lord is compassion and love,
slow to anger and rich in mercy.
For as the heavens are high above the earth
so strong is his love for those who fear him. R/

Second Reading (1 Corinthians 10:1-6.10-12)
The life of the people under Moses in the desert was written down to be a lesson for us.

I want to remind you, brothers and sisters, how our fathers were all guided by a cloud
above them and how they all passed through the sea. They were all baptised into Moses in
this cloud and in this sea; all ate the same spiritual food and all drank the same spiritual
drink, since they all drank from the spiritual rock that followed them as they went, and that
rock was Christ. In spite of this, most of them failed to please God and their corpses littered
the desert.
These things all happened as warnings for us, not to have the wicked lusts for forbidden
things that they had. You must never complain: some of them did, and they were killed by
the Destroyer.
All this happened to them as a warning, and it was written down to be a lesson for us who
are living at the end of the age. The man who thinks he is safe must be careful that he
does not fall.


Alleluia (Matthew 4:17)
Glory to you, O Christ, you are the Word of God! Repent, says the Lord, for the kingdom of heaven is close at hand. Glory to you, O Christ, you are the Word of God.

Gospel (Luke 13:1-9)
Unless you repent you will all perish as they did.

It was just about this time that some people arrived and told Jesus about the Galileans
whose blood Pilate had mingled with that of their sacrifices. At this he said to them, "Do
you suppose these Galileans who suffered like that were greater sinners than any other
Galileans? They were not, I tell you. No; but unless you repent you will all perish as they
did. Or those eighteen on whom the tower at Siloam fell and killed them? Do you suppose
that they were more guilty than all the other people living in Jerusalem? They were not, I
tell you. No; but unless you repent you will all perish as they did."
He told this parable: "A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking
for fruit on it but found none. He said to the man who looked after the vineyard, 'Look
here, for three years now I have been coming to look for fruit on this fig tree and finding
none. Cut it down: why should it be taking up the ground?' 'Sir,' the man replied 'leave it
one more year and give me time to dig round it and manure it: it may bear fruit next year;
if not, then you can cut it down.'"