Invitation
May I hereby call 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 his heart
to the healing effect of God’s word.
Available every day.
Opening words
Today begins the Lenten week.
It is a time of great joy,
for the Lord lives!
For fifty days
we listen to the testimony of the apostles.
We learn more and more what it means
to believe that Jesus lives.
Lent is like one long Sunday
on which we sing exuberant alleluias
and give thanks to God for being near to us in the Living One.
Let us welcome the Lord into our midst
and celebrate together the joy of the resurrection.
FIRST READING Acts 10, 34a.37-43
We ate and drank with Him after He rose from the dead.
From the Acts of the Apostles
At that time Peter took the floor and spoke:
“You know what has happened all over Judea;
how Jesus of Nazareth began his ministry in Galilee
after the baptism that John preached ,
and how God has anointed Him
with the Holy Spirit and with power.
“He went about beneficently
and healed all
who were under the duress of the devil ,
for God was with him.
“And we testify of all
He did in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem.
“Him they beat on the cross-rods and killed.
“But God raised Him up on the third day
and made Him appear,
not to all the people
but to the witnesses who had been chosen by God beforehand,
to us who ate and drank with Him
after He had risen from the dead.
“He gave us the commission to preach to the people ,
and to testify
that He is the judge appointed by God
over the living and the dead.
“Of Him all the prophets bear witness,
that everyone who believes in him
obtains forgiveness of sins through his Name.”
Responsorial Ps. 118(117), 1-2, 16ab-17, 22-23
Refrain
This is the day that the Lord has made.
We will celebrate it in gladness.
or
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.
Give thanks to the Lord, for He is merciful,
for his mercy is infinite.
Repeat it, tribes of Israel:
endless is his mercy!
The Lord intervened with a mighty hand,
the hand of the Lord has established me.
I shall not die but shall live
And universally recount the work of the Lord.
The stone which the builders despised,
has become the cornerstone.
It is the Lord who has done this,
a miracle before our eyes.
SECOND READING Col. 3, 1-4
Seek what is above, where Christ sits.
From the letter of the holy apostle Paul to the Christians of
Colossians
Brothers and sisters,
If you have been raised to life with Christ,
seek that which is above,
where Christ sits at the right hand of God.
Seek ye the heavenly, not the earthly.
For ye have died
and thy life is now hid with Christ in God.
Christ is your life,
and when He appears,
thou also shalt appear with Him in glory.
Sequence
Let us praise the Lamb of Easter,
Let us honour the Lamb of God with sacrifice.
Yes the Lamb saves the sheep,
Christ through his innocence
us poor sinners to the Father.
Death and life, oh miracle,
must fight together.
Who died, He lives, He is
our King.
Tell us, Mary,
what is it you have seen?
The tomb of Christ that was empty,
the glory of him who rose again,
angels as witnesses,
the sweatshirt and the shroud.
My hope, my Christ alive!
Behold He goeth before thee into Galilee.
Truly Christ is risen: rose from the dead;
O King, our Hero, give us peace.
Verse for the Gospel 1 Cor. 5, 7b-8a
Alleluia.
Our Paschal Lamb has been slaughtered: Christ himself.
We must celebrate our feast in the Lord.
Alleluia.
GOSPEL John 20, 1-9
For He had to rise from the dead.
From the holy gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to
John
On the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene
came to the tomb early in the morning – it was dark – and saw that the stone of the tomb
had been rolled away from the tomb.
She quickly ran to Simon Peter
and to the other, the disciple loved by Jesus,
and said to them:
“They have taken the Lord out of the tomb
and we do not know where they have laid Him down.”
Thereupon Peter and the other disciple set out for the tomb.
Together they walked on swiftly,
but the other disciple rushed ahead of Peter
and arrived first at the tomb.
Stooping down he saw the bandages lying on the ground
but he did not go inside.
Simon Peter, who was following him, also arrived at the tomb
and did enter.
He saw that the bandages were there,
but the sweat cloth that had covered his head,
was not with the bandages,
but rolled up separately in another place.
Then the other disciple
who had first arrived at the tomb, went in;
He saw and believed
for they had not yet understood
what was written,
that He should rise from the dead.
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Laudato Si
Encyclic of
POPE FRANCIS
On the care of the common home
134. Although we do not have definitive proof of the damage that transgenic crops could cause in humans, and in some regions their use has brought about economic growth that has helped solve some problems, one encounters important difficulties that should not be trivialized. In many regions, as a result of the introduction of these cultures, one observes a concentration of productive land in the hands of the few, due to the “progressive disappearance of small producers, who, as a result of the loss of agricultural land, have been obliged to withdraw from direct production.” The most vulnerable among them become temporary workers, and many farm workers end up moving to miserable settlements in the cities. The proliferation of these cultures destroys the complex fabric of ecosystems, reduces diversity in production and affects the present or future of regional economies. In several countries, one sees a tendency toward the development of oligopolies in the production of seeds and other products necessary for cultivation, and the dependence becomes worse, if one thinks of the production of infertile seeds, which could eventually force farmers to buy them from the producing companies.
To be continued
The Bible text in this issue is taken from The New Bible Translation,
©Netherlands Bible Society 2004/2007.
Considerations from Liturgical Suggestions for Weekdays and Sundays
Laudato Si Official English translation
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