Invitation
May I hereby draw your attention to
the daily reading of the Gospel?
This invitation wants to share with You the joy
of the Gospel. Everyone, no one excepted,
can experience that joy by opening their hearts
to the healing power of God’s word.
Available every morning from 7 a.m.
Opening word
We are sanctified in Jesus Christ through baptism in the Spirit.
So we are here together to thank and praise God for that,
to confess that Jesus is the Son of God
and in turn to be light to all.
Open our hearts that this grace and joy may grow.
FIRST READING Isa 49:3.5-6
I will make you a light to the Gentiles, so that my salvation will go to the borders of the earth.
From the prophet Isaiah
The Lord had said to me:
“My servant art thou,
Israel, through whom I am going to find My glory.”
From the mother’s womb He had formed me into His servant
to bring Jacob back to Him
and save Israel from destruction.
I stand with the Lord in honour
and my God is my strength.
Now, however, He has said:
“Thou art not only my servant
to raise up Jacob’s tribes
and to bring back the rest of Israel.
“I now also make thee a light unto the Gentiles ,
so that my salvation may go to the borders of the earth.”
Responsorial Ps 40(39), 2 and 4ab, 7-8a, 8b-9, 10
Refrain
Behold I come, Lord, to do your will.
With great confidence I have hoped in the Lord
And He heeded me.
He put in my mouth a new song,
a song to our God.
Thou hast wanted no sacrifice or gift,
Thou hast opened my ear.
Thou askest no burnt offering, no peace offering from me,
so I said, “Yes, I come!”
For it is written of me in the scroll
that I accomplish thy will.
My God, it is what I want,
your law is written in my heart.
To many I have made your righteousness known,
I did not keep my lips closed, Lord, you know it.
SECOND READING I Cor. 1, 1-3
Grace and peace to you because of God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Beginning of the holy apostle Paul’s first letter to the Christians of Corinth
From Paul,
called by God’s will to be an apostle of Christ Jesus,
and of our brother Sostenes
to the Church of God at Corinth,
to those who, sanctified in Christ Jesus,
are destined to a holy life,
together with all those
who everywhere call upon the name of Jesus Christ,
their Lord and ours.
Grace and peace to you
because of God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!
Verse for the Gospel John 1, 14a.12b
Alleluia.
The Word became flesh and dwelt among us.
To all who accepted Him,
He gave the ability to become children of God.
GOSPEL Jn.1, 29-34
Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.
From the holy gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John
At that time
John the Baptist saw Jesus coming towards him
and said:
“Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.
“This one it is of whom I said:
Behind me comes a man who is before me,
for He was before me.
“Nor did I know Him
but that He might be revealed to Israel,
therefore I came to baptise with water.”
John further testified:
“I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove
and He remained upon Him.
“Neither did I know Him,
but Who had sent me to baptise with water,
He had spoken to me:
On whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending and abiding,
it is He who baptises with the Holy Spirit.
“I myself have seen it, and I have testified:
This is the Son of God.”
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Laudato Si
Encyclic by
POPE FRANCIS
On caring for the common home
51. Inequality affects not only individuals, but whole nations, and forces us to think about an ethic of international relations. There is indeed a real “ecological imperative”, especially between North and South, linked to trade imbalances with ecological consequences, and to the disproportionate use that some countries have made of natural resources throughout history. The export of certain raw materials to meet the demand of the markets of the industrialised North has caused localised damage, such as mercury poisoning in gold mines or sulphur poisoning in copper mines. In particular, one must count the use of the environmental space of the entire planet to store the gas waste that has accumulated over two centuries and caused a situation that now affects all countries of the world. The warming caused by the massive consumption of some rich countries is affecting the poorest countries of the world, especially in Africa, where the rise in temperature along with drought is having disastrous effects on the yield of cultures. Added to this is the damage caused by the export of solid and liquid toxic waste to developing countries and by the polluting activities of companies, which do in less developed countries what they cannot do in the countries that provide the capital: “We note that the companies that operate in this way are often multinationals that do here what they cannot do in developed countries or so-called first-world countries. When they cease operations and withdraw, they generally leave behind great harm to people and the environment, such as unemployment, villages without life, depletion of some natural resources, deforestation, impoverishment of local agriculture and livestock, craters, ruined hills, polluted rivers and some social works that cannot be sustained.”
To be continued
The Bible text in this issue is taken from The New Bible Translation,
©Dutch Bible Society 2004/2007.
Considerations from Liturgical suggestions for weekdays and Sundays
Laudato Si Official English translation
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