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 day.
Opening word
As the disciples gathered on the first day of the week
to commemorate the resurrection of Jesus,
so the Lord has also called us together today.
He will open the scriptures for us and break bread for us.
Jesus himself comes into our midst as a living Lord.
He wants to walk with us and show us the way to true life.
Let us open our hearts to that grace
and pray that God helps us to do so
when we turn to Him and ask for his mercy.
FIRST READING Acts 2, 14.22-23
It was impossible that He was held by the kingdom of the dead.
From the Acts of the Apostles
On the day of Pentecost, Peter stepped forward with the eleven
and raised his voice
to address the word to the crowd:
“All of you, inhabitants of Judah, and you who dwell in Jerusalem ,
do know this, and listen attentively to my words.
“Jesus the Nazarene was a man
whose mission to you was ratified by God.
“For you yourselves know the mighty deeds, wonders and signs,
which God has performed among you through Him:
Him who according to God’s appointed counsel and foreknowledge
is delivered up,
thou hast by the hand of the wicked
nailed to the cross and killed.
“But God raised Him up to life
having loosed the snares of death ;
for it was impossible
that He should be held by them.
“Aiming at Him nevertheless David says:
The Lord I had before me, always by,
He is at my right hand, lest I should falter;
Therefore there is joy in my heart
and my mouth rejoices with joy;
yea, my body also shall find rest in hope,
because Thou wilt not leave my soul to the kingdom of the dead
and Thou wilt not let thy holy One see corruption.
“Ways to life Thou hast made known to me,
Thou wilt fill me with joy before thy face.
Brothers and sisters,
I may freely say to you of the patriarch David
that he died and was buried;
for we have his grave with us to this day.
“Well,
because he was a prophet ,
and knew that God had sworn him an oath
that He would cause one of his descendants to sit on his throne ,
he said with a glance into the future
on the resurrection of Christ,
that He was not left to the kingdom of the dead
and that his body did not see decay.
“This Jesus God has resurrected
and of this we are all witnesses.
“Exalted at God’s right hand
He received the promised Holy Spirit from the Father
and poured it out, as ye see and hear.”
Responsorial Psalm Ps 16(15), 1-2a and 5, 7-8, 9-10a, 10b-11
Refrain
Show us, Lord, the way of life.
Preserve me, God, to Thee do I take refuge;
Thou art my Lord, I acknowledge it.
The Lord is my inheritance, my drink from the cup
He holds my destiny in his hand.
I thank the Lord who has always guided me,
He speaks into my heart even at night.
Always I keep my eyes on the Lord,
I do not fall for He is beside me.
Therefore I am calm and happy of heart
and without care my mind is,
my body can rest safely.
My soul Thou dost not leave to the kingdom of the dead.
Thou wilt not abandon thy servant to corruption.
Thou wilt show me the way of life
to find all my joy with Thee,
perpetual happiness at thy side.
SECOND READING 1 Peter 1:17-21
Thou art redeemed by the precious blood of Christ, the Lamb without blemish.
From the first letter of the holy apostle Peter
Dearly beloved,
God whom ye call Father,
is also the impartial judge of all our deeds;
therefore be in awe of Him,
as long as ye live here in exile.
Ye know that ye are not with perishable things,
such as gold and silver, from the meaningless existence
which thou hadst inherited from thy fathers.
Thou art redeemed by the precious blood of Christ,
the Lamb without spot or flaw,
Who was chosen before the foundation of the world,
but only appeared at the end of time,
for your sake.
Through Him you believe in God,
Who raised Him from the dead
and has given Him glory;
therefore your faith in God is also hope in God.
Verse for the Gospel . Lk. 24:32
Alleluia.
Lord Jesus, open to us the scriptures:
Make our hearts burn as You speak to us.
Alleluia.
GOSPEL Lk. 24,13-35
They recognised Him by the breaking of bread.
From the holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke
At that time
there were two of Jesus’ disciples on their way to a village
which was called Emmaus
and which was a good 11 kilometres from Jerusalem.
They were talking to each other about everything that had occurred.
While they were talking like this
and exchanging thoughts,
Jesus himself came up to them
and He walked with them.
But their eyes were prevented from recognising Him.
He asked them:
“What is this conversation that ye are having among yourselves on the road?”
With a depressed face, they remained standing.
One of them, whose name was Kléopas,
took the floor and spoke to Him:
“Art thou then the only stranger in Jerusalem ,
that Thou knowest not what has happened there these days?”
He asked them:
“What then?”
They answered Him:
“That with Jesus the Nazarene,
a man who was prophet,
mighty in deed and word
in the sight of God and of all the people;
how our high priests and government officials
handed Him over
to have Him condemned to death
and how they beat Him to the cross.
“And we lived in hope ,
that He would be the one who was going to redeem Israel!
“But with all this, it is already the third day
since those things happened.
“Well did a few women from among us
confused us;
they had been to the tomb in the early morning,
but had not found his body,
and they came to say
that they had also had an apparition of angels
who declared that He was alive again.
“Thereupon some of us went to the tomb
and they found it as the women had said,
but they did not see Him.”
Now He spoke to them:
“O unwise ones, who are so slow of heart
in believing all that the prophets have said!
“Did not the Messiah have to suffer all that
in order to enter into his glory?”
Beginning with Moses, He explained to them from all the prophets
what related to Him in all the scriptures.
Thus they came to the village where they were going,
but He pretended that He had to go further.
They urged Him:
“Stay with us, for it is already evening and the day is drawing to a close.”
Then He went in to stay with them.
As He dined with them, He took bread,
pronounced the blessing,
broke it and reached out to them.
Now their eyes opened and they recognised Him,
but He disappeared from their faces.
Then they said to each other:
“Did not our hearts burn within us ,
as He spoke to us on the way and opened the scriptures to us?”
They immediately got up and returned to Jerusalem.
There they found the eleven gathered with the people of their group.
These declared:
“The Lord has truly risen,
He has appeared to Simon.”
And they, for their part, told what had happened on the road
and how He was recognised by them
at the breaking of bread.
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Laudato Si
Encyclic of
POPE FRANCIS
On caring for the common home
148. Admirable is the creativity and generosity of people and groups who are able to reverse the limitations of the environment by changing the adverse effects of conditioning and learning to give direction to their existence in the midst of disorder and uncertainty. In some places, for example, where the facades of buildings have deteriorated greatly, there are people who take care of the interiors of their homes with great dignity or feel at ease because of people’s cordiality and friendship. The positive and benevolent social life of the residents spreads light in an apparently unlivable environment. Sometimes the human ecology that the poor manage to develop amid so many constraints is commendable. The sense of suffocation caused by residential agglomerations and spaces of high population density is combated, when human relationships of closeness and warmth develop, when communities form, when the limitations of the environment are offset in the inwardness of each person who feels included in a net of communication and connection. Thus, whatever place ceases to be a hell and becomes the context of a dignified life.
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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