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.
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Consideration
Here the Joseph story reaches the climax of its dramatic tension: The denouement and the revealing of Joseph. The purpose of the whole story is clear: The lives of the descendants of the patriarchs are saved and immediately the great promises can be continued toward their fulfillment: “God has sent me before you to keep you alive.”
FIRST READING Gen 44, 18-21. 23b-29; 45, 1-5
God has sent me to you
to keep you alive.
From the Book of Genesis
In those days Judah came up to Joseph and said:
“Lord, allow your servant
to speak a single word to thee,
without anger to your servant,
for thou art the equal of Pharaoh.
“My lord asked his servants :
Have you a father and a brother?
“We then answered our lord :
We have an old father and a young son,
who was born to him in his old age?
“Because his brother has died,
he is the only one left to his mother,
and his father loves him.
“Then you said to your servants :
Bring him to me that I may see him.
“If your youngest brother does not come with you,
you will not have to face me again.
“We have returned to your servant, our father.
and told him what my lord had said.
“And when our father asked us to go and buy food again,
we replied:
We cannot go that way.
“Only if our youngest brother goes with us,
we will leave ;
for we cannot face that man,
unless our youngest brother is with us.
“Then said thy servant our father to us:
You know that my wife
has given me only two sons.
“The one went away from me,
and I must assume that he is torn,
for I have not yet seen him again.
“If thou dost take this one also from me,
and a fatal accident should befall him,
you would make the greybeard that I am
descend into the land of the dead, wailing.
Joseph could no longer keep himself well from the rest of the bystanders and he called out:
“Send everyone away.”
So there was no one left
when Joseph revealed himself to his brothers.
He cried so loudly that the Egyptians heard it, and it became known in the house of Pharaoh.
Joseph said to his brothers :
“I am Joseph. Is Father well?”
But his brothers could not utter a word, so distressed were they at him.
But Joseph said to his brothers:
“Come closer.”
When they had come closer, he said :
“I am Joseph, the brother whom you sold into Egypt.
“You need not be so downcast
and stop blaming yourselves
that thou hast sold me hither,
for God hath sent me before thee
to keep you alive.”
INTERLUDIUM Ps. 105(104), 16-17, 18-19, 20-21
Never forget the miracles the Lord did.
The Lord sent a famine upon the land
and made the breadsticks break.
He sent a single man before them
when Joseph was sold into slavery.
His feet were bound with shackles,
his neck in a band of iron;
until what he had foretold came to pass,
the word of the Lord set him free.
The king released him from the dungeon,
and the ruler of the people set him free.
He appointed him lord of his house,
steward of all his goods.
ALLELUIA Ps. 130(129), 5
Alleluia.
In the Lord, I put my hope,
In his word I trust.
Alleluia.
GOSPEL Mt 10, 7-15
For nothing have you received, must you give?
From the Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to
Matthew
At that time Jesus said to the twelve :
“Proclaim in your journey :
The kingdom of heaven is at hand.
“Heal the sick, raise the dead,
cleanses lepers, and casts out devils.
“For nothing have you received, for nothing must you give?
“Therefore do not seek to acquire gold, silver, or copper
to fill your belts with.
“Nor procure for yourselves a bag for the journey,
not a second undergarment, not a pair of shoes or a stick,
for the labourer is worth his keep.
“When thou comest into a town or village, examine
who is worthy to receive you
and dwell there until you depart.
“When ye enter that house
give it your greeting of peace ;
and if it is worthy
may your peace be upon that house,
but if it is not worthy it,
then your peace will return to you.
“If you are not received somewhere
and does not listen to your words,
leave that house or city
and shake off the dust of your feet.
“Verily I say unto you :
On the Day of Judgment
the land of Sodom and Gomorrah
will be more bearable than for that city.”
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Laudato Si
Encyclic of
POPE FRANCIS
On Care of the Common Home
229. We must regain the conviction that we need one another, that we have a shared responsibility for others and the world, and that being good and decent is worth it. We have had enough of immorality and the mockery of ethics, goodness, faith, and honesty. It is time to acknowledge that light-hearted superficiality has done us no good. When the foundations of social life are corroded, what ensues are battles over conflicting interests, new forms of violence and brutality, and obstacles to the growth of a genuine culture of care for the environment.
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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