The Lord has truly risen
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 except,
can experience that joy by opening in the human heart
to the healing effect of God’s word.
Available every day.
Consideration
The reading is thought-provoking. How fickle is the human heart. Jesus was triumphantly welcomed into Jerusalem and crucified a few days later. Paul and Barnabas are worshipped as gods by the mob and stoned to death some time later. The servant is no better than the master. How close glory and reviling are, but the apostles are not eager for glory. The great message of the whole missionary journey is reported to the congregation on their return. He has opened the gate of faith to the Gentiles.
FIRST READING Acts 14, 19-28
They told of all that God had accomplished with their cooperation.
From the Acts of the Apostles
In those days there came Jews from Antioch and Ikonium
who were talking down the people.
Therefore they stoned Paul
and dragged him out of the city
believing that he was dead.
But when the disciples had gathered around him
he straightened up and went back into the city.
The next day he left with Barnabas for Derbe.
After they had preached the Gospel in that city
and won many disciples,
they returned to Lystra, Ikonium and Antioch.
There they confirmed the disciples in their good condition,
urged them to persevere in the faith
and said that through many afflictions
we must enter the kingdom of God.
In each congregation, after prayer and fasting, they
appointed elders for them,
and entrusted them to the Lord
in whom they now believed.
They traveled through Pisidia to Pamphylia,
preached the word in Perge
and reached Attalia.
There they set sail for Antioch
from whence they,
recommended to God’s grace,
had gone forth to the work they had accomplished.
After their arrival they called the congregation together
and told them everything
God had accomplished with their cooperation,
and how He had opened to the Gentiles the gate of faith.
For quite some time they spent there with the disciples.
INTERLUDIUM Ps. 145(144), 10-11, 12-13ab, 21
Your works, Lord,
make your power known to men.
or : Alleluia.
Your works shall praise You, Lord,
your pious ones shall praise you.
They extol the glory of Your rule,
they shall proclaim your power.
They make known Your power to men,
the splendor of Your kingdom.
Your kingdom is a kingdom for all ages,
your reign is for every generation.
My mouth sings the praises of the Lord
and all that lives praise his name forever.
ALLELUIA John 10, 14
Alleluia.
I am the good shepherd, says the Lord.
I know my own and my own know me.
Alleluia.
GOSPEL John 14, 27-31a
My peace I give to you.
From the holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to
John
In those days Jesus said to his disciples :
“Peace I leave you;
my peace I give to you.
“Not as the world gives it do I give it to you.
“Do not let your heart be troubled or become small-minded.
“Ye have heard Me say :
I am going but I am returning to you.
“If ye would love me
you would be glad that I am going to the Father.
For the Father is greater than I.
“Now, before it happens I tell you,
that when it comes ye may believe.
“Much will I no longer speak to thee
For the prince of the world is come.
“Though he be powerless against me,
but the world must know that I love the Father
and that I act as He has commanded Me.”
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Laudato Si
Encyclic by
POPE FRANCIS
On the care of the common home
164. Since the middle of the last century, with the overcoming of many difficulties, the tendency to see the planet as a homeland and humanity as a people inhabiting a common home has become increasingly prevalent. A world of interdependence means not just understanding that the harmful effects of styles of life, production and consumption affect all, but above all ensuring that solutions are proposed from a global perspective and not just in defence of the interests of a few countries. Interdependence obliges us to think of one world, of a common project. But the same ingenuity used for enormous technical development fails to find effective forms of international management to solve the serious difficulties of environment and society. To address the fundamental problems, which cannot be solved by actions of countries individually, a global consensus becomes indispensable, leading, for example, to programme sustainable and diversified agriculture, to develop renewable and low-polluting forms of energy, to promote greater energy efficiency, to promote more adequate management of forest and marine resources, to ensure access to drinking water for all.
To be continued
The Bible text in this issue is taken from The New Bible Translation,
©Dutch Bible Society 2004/2007.
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Laudato Si Official English translation