This is the last week of this liturgical year that both the Ordinary and Extraordinary Rites are on the same "counting" (ordinal) week.
For the Ordinary Rite, they continue the ordinal counting up to the start of Lent; for the Extraordinary, next Sunday marks the start of the Septuagesima Season, the season before Lent. Septuagesima means relates to 70 days before Easter (it's not exactly 70 days). More on Septuagesima in a later posting.
The Gospel for This Week
Ordinary Rite
Luke 5:1-11 - The Miracle of the Fishes - Peter, James and John, after fishing all night and catching nothing, Jesus told Peter to put out the nets again. Reluctantly, Peter does so - and the catch is so large it begins sinking his boat and he calls to his partners, James and John, the Sons of Zebedee, to help him. Peter (then still called Simon) said to Jesus that he was not worthy - but Jesus told him, "From now on I will make you fishers of men."
Extraordinary Rite
Matthew 13:24-30 - The Parable of the Cockle Sown Among the Wheat - A parable of the Kingdom of Heaven. The farmer and his men had just sown wheat in the field and while they slept an enemy came in and spread cockle among the wheat. This deed was discovered when the seedlings began sprouting up and the men said to the farmer, should we remove the cockle? The farmer said "No, lest perhaps gathering up the cockle, you root up the wheat also together with it. Suffer both to grow together until the harvest, and in the time of the harvest, I will say to the reapers: Gather up first the cockle and bind it into bundles to burn, but the wheat, gather ye into my barn.
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