High Feast. In the fourteenth century, this feast originating in the Netherlands would develop into a faith manifestation
Invitation
May I draw your attention to
the daily reading of the Gospel?
This invitation is to share with you the joy of the Gospel.
of the Gospel. Everyone, no one except,
can experience that joy by opening his heart
to the healing power of God’s word.
Available every day.
Opening Word
On Sacrament Day, we celebrate the self-giving of Jesus to us.
In every Eucharist, He becomes present in bread and wine,
His Body and Blood.
It is a divine mystery of love.
It makes us feel great gratitude.
God feeds us with living bread,
just as in ancient times, at the exodus from Egypt
fed his people.
With and through this food we are filled.
Let us now prepare ourselves and open our hearts
to gratefully receive this gift.
FIRST READING Deut. 8, 2-3.14b-16a
He gave you food that neither you nor your fathers had ever seen.
From the book of Deuteronomy
In those days, Moses spoke to the people:
“Keep thinking of all that journey of forty years,
which the Lord your God sent you into the desert.
“He humbled and tested you then
to get to know your disposition;
He wanted to see if you would keep His commandments or not.
“He humbled you and made you hunger,
but also gave you the manna to eat,
which neither thou nor thy fathers had ever seen.
“He wished thereby to make you realize,
that man does not live by food alone,
but from all that comes from the mouth of the Lord.
“Remember the Lord your God,
who brought you out of Egypt,
that land of bondage;
the Lord
who led you through that great and terrible desert,
full of poisonous snakes and scorpions,
through that thirsty land without water;
Who made water spring from the rock-hard rock for you;
Who gave you in the desert the manna to eat,
which your fathers had never seen.”
RESPONSORIAL Ps. 147 B (147), 12-13, 14-15, 19-20
Refrain
Praise the Lord, Jerusalem.
Praise the Lord, Jerusalem,
Zion, glorify thy God!
For He has firmly locked your gates,
your children He has blessed in you.
He lets you inhabit your land in peace
and feed you with wheat flour.
He sends forth His command over the earth
and hastens his word.
It is He who sent Jacob his word,
His law and commandments for Israel.
Never was there a person He treated like this,
He made His ways known to no other.
SECOND READING 1 Cor. 10, 16-17
One bread, one body though we are many.
From the holy apostle Paul’s first letter to the Christians
of Corinth
Brothers and sisters,
Does not the cup of blessing we bless,
fellowship with the blood of Christ?
Does not the bread which we break,
fellowship with the body of Christ?
Because the bread is one,
do we all have one body,
for we all partake of the one loaf.
Verse for the Gospel John 6:51-52
Alleluia.
I am the living bread
Who came down from heaven.
If anyone eats this bread,
he shall live forever.
Alleluia.
GOSPEL Jn. 6:51-58
My flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.
From the holy gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to
John
At that time Jesus said to the multitude of Jews:
“I am the living bread that came down from heaven.
“If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever.
“The bread that I will give is my flesh
for the sake of the life of the world.”
The Jews got into an argument with one another about this
and said:
“How can He give us His flesh to eat?”
Jesus then spoke to them:
“Verily, verily, I say unto you:
If ye eat not the flesh of the Son of man
and drink not his blood,
ye have not life in you.
“Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood,
hath everlasting life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
“For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.
“Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood,
abides in Me and I in him.
“As I was sent by the Father who lives
and live by the Father,
so also he who eats Me shall live through Me.
“This is the bread that came down from heaven.
“It is not as with the fathers who ate the manna
and nevertheless died;
he who eats this bread shall live forever.”
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Laudato Si
Encyclic of
POPE FRANCIS
On the care of the common home
194. For new models of progress to arise, there is a need to change “models of global development”;] this will entail a responsible reflection on “the meaning of the economy and its goals to correct its malfunctions and misapplications”. It is not enough to balance, in the medium term, the protection of nature with financial gain, or the preservation of the environment with progress. Halfway measures simply delay the inevitable disaster. Put simply, it is a matter of redefining our notion of progress. A technological and economic development that does not leave in its wake a better world and an integrally higher quality of life cannot be considered progress. Frequently, in fact, people’s quality of life actually diminishes – by the deterioration of the environment, the low quality of food, or the depletion of resources – amid economic growth. In this context, talk of sustainable growth usually becomes a way of distracting attention and offering excuses. It absorbs the language and values of ecology into the categories of finance and technocracy, and the social and environmental responsibility of businesses often gets reduced to a series of marketing and image-enhancing measures.
To be continued
The Bible text in this issue is taken from The New Bible Translation,
©Nederlands Bijbelgenootschap 2004/2007.
Considerations from Liturgical suggestions for weekdays and Sundays
Laudato Si Official English translation
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