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 except,
can experience this joy by opening his heart to
the healing effect of God’s word.
Available every day
CONSIDERATION
Paul continues in the role of the unsuspecting speaker. It is outrageous what he achieves here by doing what he wants to avoid, namely speaking about himself. They clearly underestimated him. At the same time, we learn things from his life story that we would never have learned otherwise.
FIRST READING 2 Cor. 11, 18.21b-30
Day after day I am burdened with the care of all the churches.
From the Second Letter of the Holy Apostle Paul to the Christians of Corinth
Brothers and sisters,
If so many boast of worldly privileges
I may do it too.
But if others dare
– Now comes the foolishness –
I also dare.
Are they Hebrews?
So am I.
Are they Israelites?
So am I.
Are they children of Abraham?
So am I.
Are they servants of Christ?
It seems madness: so am I!
I have toiled harder,
I have been a prisoner longer,
I have endured many more blows
and perils of death without number.
Five times the Jews gave me the forty-minus-one.
Three times I was beaten with sticks, and once I was stoned.
Three times I was shipwrecked,
once I spent a whole twenty-four hours on the high seas.
Always on the move,
perils of rivers and perils of robbers,
dangers from my own people and from the heathen,
perils in the cities and in the desert,
perils of the sea,
perils amid false brethren:
With toil and trouble, many sleepless nights,
hunger and thirst, often without food,
in cold and nakedness.
And apart from everything else:
Day in and day out I am burdened with the care of all the congregations.
No one is weak or I am weak.
No one falls down
or it seizes me in the soul.
If there is any praise to be had
I will boast of my weakness.
INTERLUDIUM Ps. 34(33), 2-3, 4-5, 6-7
To the pious and to the crying the Lord listens
and rescues them from every need.
I will praise the Lord every day,
His praise is always on my lips.
My spirit is proud of the Lord’s favour,
let everyone that heareth it rejoice.
Glorify the Lord together with me
and let us worship His Name together.
I went to the Lord and He heard me,
He saved me from all that I feared.
Trust in Him and you will be happy,
for He will not fail you.
Those who cry out in distress, the Lord listens to them
and delivers them from their misery.
ALLELUIA John 15, 15b
Alleluia.
I have called you friends, says the Lord,
for I have told you all
which I have heard from the Father.
Alleluia.
GOSPEL Mt 6, 19-23
Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
From the Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew
In those days Jesus said to his disciples:
“Do not gather up treasures on earth,
where moths and worm destroy them
and where thieves break in to steal;
but gather ye up treasures in heaven
where no moth or worm rots them
and where thieves do not break in to steal.
Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
The lamp of the body is the eye.
When therefore thy eye is bright
the whole body will be enlightened.
But if thine eye be evil,
then the whole body is darkness.
If therefore even thy inner light be darkness
how bad will be the darkness!
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Laudato Si
Encyclic of
POPE FRANCIS
On Care of the Common Home
Educating for the covenant between humanity and the environment
209. An awareness of the gravity of today’s cultural and ecological crisis must be translated into new habits. Many people know that our current progress and the mere amassing of things and pleasures are not enough to give meaning and joy to the human heart, yet they feel unable to give up what the market sets before them. In those countries which should be making the greatest changes in consumer habits, young people have a new ecological sensitivity and a generous spirit, and some of them are making admirable efforts to protect the environment. At the same time, they have grown up in a milieu of extreme consumerism and affluence which makes it difficult to develop other habits. We are faced with an educational challenge.
To be continued
The Bible text in this edition is taken from De Nieuwe Bijbelvertaling, ©Nederlands Bijbelgenootschap 2004/2007.
Recitals from Liturgical suggestions for weekdays and Sundays
Laudato Si Official English translation
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