Friday – Saint Louis IX – Saint Joseph Calasanz, pr.

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 that joy by opening their hearts
to the healing power of God’s word.

Available every day.

Consideration

The book of Ruth forms an idyllic novella. What is striking is the openness with which the people of God accept all who come to faith. Ruth chooses the people and the God of Israel: Where you go, I go; where you stay, I stay. Your people are my people, your God my God. By her choice, she, who was once a pagan woman, becomes the matriarch of Israel: she will give birth to the father of David, Israel’s greatest king – not coincidentally in Bethlehem. For the first time in the history of God and man, this place appears. Therefore, do not read the story of Ruth as the first page of the Christmas story.

 

FIRST READING          Ruth 1, 1.3-6. 14b-16.22
Noömi, with Ruth,
the Moabite, returned back to Bethlehem.

Beginning of the book of Ruth

In the time of the judges, a famine broke out in the land.
A man, Elimélek, moved away from Bethlehem in Judah
and he settled as a stranger in the plains of Moab,
together with his wife Noömi and his two sons.
Elimélek died
and his wife Noömi remained behind with her two sons.
These both married a Moabite woman:
one woman’s name was Orpah, the other Ruth.
For about ten years they lived there.
Then both the sons also died
and Noömi was left alone,
deprived of both her children and her husband.
Together with her daughters-in-law
she departed from the plains of Moab,
for she had heard
that the Lord had cared about the fate of his people
and was feeding them again.

Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye,
but Ruth clung to her.
Noömi said:
“Your sister-in-law is returning
to her people and her gods.
Go with her anyway!”
But Ruth replied:
“Stop urging me to leave you and return ,
so far from thee.
Where thou goest, I go;
where thou remainest, I remain.
Thy people are my people, thy God is my God.”
So Noömi returned,
together with her daughter-in-law Ruth, the Moabite,
returned from the plains of Moab.
They arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.

INTERLUDIUM            Ps. 146(145), 5-6, 7, 8-9a, 9bc-10

The Lord I will praise all my life.
Alleluia.

Happy he who seeks help from Jacob’s God,
puts his hope in God the Lord;
On Him who made heaven and earth,
the sea and all that lives there.

The Lord always keeps His word,
He gives justice to the oppressed.
The Lord gives bread to those who are hungry,
He sets captives free.

The Lord opens the eyes of the blind,
He raises up the brokenhearted.
The Lord loves the righteous,
The Lord preserves the displaced.

The Lord gives support to orphans and widows,
but sinners he lets go astray.
The Lord is king for ever,
your God, Zion, rules over all generations.

 

ALLELUIA            Jak. 1, 21

Alleluia.
Accept with meekness the word of God
which was planted in you,
and has the power
to save your souls.
Alleluia.

 

GOSPEL                 Mt 22:34-40
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart,
all your soul and all your mind.

 

From the holy gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew

At that time when the Pharisees learned
that Jesus had gagged the Sadducees,
they gathered together, and one of them, a lawgiver,
asked Jesus to put Him to the test:
“Master, what is the chief commandment in the Law?”
He answered him:
“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God
with all your heart, all your soul and all your mind.
This is the main and first commandment.
The second, equivalent to it:
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
On these two commandments hangs all the Law and the Prophets.”

________________________________________________________

Laudato Si

Encyclic by

POPE FRANCIS

On caring for the common home

25. Climate change is a global problem with serious environmental, social, economic, distributional and political implications and represents one of the most important challenges facing humanity today. The most serious effects are likely to fall on developing countries in the coming decades. Many poor people live in places affected by warming-related phenomena, and their livelihoods depend heavily on natural reserves and so-called ecosystem services, such as agriculture, fisheries and forest resources. They have no other available economic means and other resources that allow them to adapt to climate impacts or cope with catastrophic situations, and they have little access to social services and protection. For example, climate change causes migrations of animals and plants that cannot always adapt and this in turn affects the productive resources of the poorest, who, however, are obliged to leave in great uncertainty about the future of their lives and of their children. Tragic is the increase in migrants fleeing the misery exacerbated by environmental degradation, who are not recognised as refugees in international conventions and bear the burden of a life they have left behind without any legal protection. Unfortunately, there is a general indifference towards these tragedies, which continue to take place in different parts of the world. The lack of reaction towards these tragedies of our brothers and sisters is a sign of the loss of that sense of responsibility for our peers on which every civilised society is based.

To be continued

 

The Bible text in this issue is taken from The New Translation of the Bible,
©Dutch Bible Society 2004/2007.
Considerations from Liturgical suggestions for weekdays and Sundays
Laudato Si Official English translation
_____________________________________________________________________________

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 that joy by opening their hearts
to the healing power of God’s word.

Available every day.

Consideration

The book of Ruth forms an idyllic novella. What is striking is the openness with which the people of God accept all who come to faith. Ruth chooses the people and the God of Israel: Where you go, I go; where you stay, I stay. Your people are my people, your God my God. By her choice, she, who was once a pagan woman, becomes the matriarch of Israel: she will give birth to the father of David, Israel’s greatest king – not coincidentally in Bethlehem. For the first time in the history of God and man, this place appears. Therefore, do not read the story of Ruth as the first page of the Christmas story.

 

FIRST READING          Ruth 1, 1.3-6. 14b-16.22
Noömi, with Ruth,
the Moabite, returned back to Bethlehem.

Beginning of the book of Ruth

In the time of the judges, a famine broke out in the land.
A man, Elimélek, moved away from Bethlehem in Judah
and he settled as a stranger in the plains of Moab,
together with his wife Noömi and his two sons.
Elimélek died
and his wife Noömi remained behind with her two sons.
These both married a Moabite woman:
one woman’s name was Orpah, the other Ruth.
For about ten years they lived there.
Then both the sons also died
and Noömi was left alone,
deprived of both her children and her husband.
Together with her daughters-in-law
she departed from the plains of Moab,
for she had heard
that the Lord had cared about the fate of his people
and was feeding them again.

Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye,
but Ruth clung to her.
Noömi said:
“Your sister-in-law is returning
to her people and her gods.
Go with her anyway!”
But Ruth replied:
“Stop urging me to leave you and return ,
so far from thee.
Where thou goest, I go;
where thou remainest, I remain.
Thy people are my people, thy God is my God.”
So Noömi returned,
together with her daughter-in-law Ruth, the Moabite,
returned from the plains of Moab.
They arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.

INTERLUDIUM            Ps. 146(145), 5-6, 7, 8-9a, 9bc-10

The Lord I will praise all my life.
Alleluia.

Happy he who seeks help from Jacob’s God,
puts his hope in God the Lord;
On Him who made heaven and earth,
the sea and all that lives there.

The Lord always keeps His word,
He gives justice to the oppressed.
The Lord gives bread to those who are hungry,
He sets captives free.

The Lord opens the eyes of the blind,
He raises up the brokenhearted.
The Lord loves the righteous,
The Lord preserves the displaced.

The Lord gives support to orphans and widows,
but sinners he lets go astray.
The Lord is king for ever,
your God, Zion, rules over all generations.

 

ALLELUIA            Jak. 1, 21

Alleluia.
Accept with meekness the word of God
which was planted in you,
and has the power
to save your souls.
Alleluia.

 

GOSPEL                 Mt 22:34-40
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart,
all your soul and all your mind.

 

From the holy gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew

At that time when the Pharisees learned
that Jesus had gagged the Sadducees,
they gathered together, and one of them, a lawgiver,
asked Jesus to put Him to the test:
“Master, what is the chief commandment in the Law?”
He answered him:
“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God
with all your heart, all your soul and all your mind.
This is the main and first commandment.
The second, equivalent to it:
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
On these two commandments hangs all the Law and the Prophets.”

________________________________________________________

Laudato Si

Encyclic by

POPE FRANCIS

On caring for the common home

25. Climate change is a global problem with serious environmental, social, economic, distributional and political implications and represents one of the most important challenges facing humanity today. The most serious effects are likely to fall on developing countries in the coming decades. Many poor people live in places affected by warming-related phenomena, and their livelihoods depend heavily on natural reserves and so-called ecosystem services, such as agriculture, fisheries and forest resources. They have no other available economic means and other resources that allow them to adapt to climate impacts or cope with catastrophic situations, and they have little access to social services and protection. For example, climate change causes migrations of animals and plants that cannot always adapt and this in turn affects the productive resources of the poorest, who, however, are obliged to leave in great uncertainty about the future of their lives and of their children. Tragic is the increase in migrants fleeing the misery exacerbated by environmental degradation, who are not recognised as refugees in international conventions and bear the burden of a life they have left behind without any legal protection. Unfortunately, there is a general indifference towards these tragedies, which continue to take place in different parts of the world. The lack of reaction towards these tragedies of our brothers and sisters is a sign of the loss of that sense of responsibility for our peers on which every civilised society is based.

To be continued

 

The Bible text in this issue is taken from The New Translation of the Bible,
©Dutch Bible Society 2004/2007.
Considerations from Liturgical suggestions for weekdays and Sundays
Laudato Si Official English translation
_____________________________________________________________________________

 

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 that joy by opening their hearts
to the healing power of God’s word.

Available every day.

Consideration

The book of Ruth forms an idyllic novella. What is striking is the openness with which the people of God accept all who come to faith. Ruth chooses the people and the God of Israel: Where you go, I go; where you stay, I stay. Your people are my people, your God my God. By her choice, she, who was once a pagan woman, becomes the matriarch of Israel: she will give birth to the father of David, Israel’s greatest king – not coincidentally in Bethlehem. For the first time in the history of God and man, this place appears. Therefore, do not read the story of Ruth as the first page of the Christmas story.

 

FIRST READING          Ruth 1, 1.3-6. 14b-16.22
Noömi, with Ruth,
the Moabite, returned back to Bethlehem.

Beginning of the book of Ruth

In the time of the judges, a famine broke out in the land.
A man, Elimélek, moved away from Bethlehem in Judah
and he settled as a stranger in the plains of Moab,
together with his wife Noömi and his two sons.
Elimélek died
and his wife Noömi remained behind with her two sons.
These both married a Moabite woman:
one woman’s name was Orpah, the other Ruth.
For about ten years they lived there.
Then both the sons also died
and Noömi was left alone,
deprived of both her children and her husband.
Together with her daughters-in-law
she departed from the plains of Moab,
for she had heard
that the Lord had cared about the fate of his people
and was feeding them again.

Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye,
but Ruth clung to her.
Noömi said:
“Your sister-in-law is returning
to her people and her gods.
Go with her anyway!”
But Ruth replied:
“Stop urging me to leave you and return ,
so far from thee.
Where thou goest, I go;
where thou remainest, I remain.
Thy people are my people, thy God is my God.”
So Noömi returned,
together with her daughter-in-law Ruth, the Moabite,
returned from the plains of Moab.
They arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.

INTERLUDIUM            Ps. 146(145), 5-6, 7, 8-9a, 9bc-10

The Lord I will praise all my life.
Alleluia.

Happy he who seeks help from Jacob’s God,
puts his hope in God the Lord;
On Him who made heaven and earth,
the sea and all that lives there.

The Lord always keeps His word,
He gives justice to the oppressed.
The Lord gives bread to those who are hungry,
He sets captives free.

The Lord opens the eyes of the blind,
He raises up the brokenhearted.
The Lord loves the righteous,
The Lord preserves the displaced.

The Lord gives support to orphans and widows,
but sinners he lets go astray.
The Lord is king for ever,
your God, Zion, rules over all generations.

 

ALLELUIA            Jak. 1, 21

Alleluia.
Accept with meekness the word of God
which was planted in you,
and has the power
to save your souls.
Alleluia.

 

GOSPEL                 Mt 22:34-40
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart,
all your soul and all your mind.

 

From the holy gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew

At that time when the Pharisees learned
that Jesus had gagged the Sadducees,
they gathered together, and one of them, a lawgiver,
asked Jesus to put Him to the test:
“Master, what is the chief commandment in the Law?”
He answered him:
“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God
with all your heart, all your soul and all your mind.
This is the main and first commandment.
The second, equivalent to it:
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
On these two commandments hangs all the Law and the Prophets.”

________________________________________________________

Laudato Si

Encyclic by

POPE FRANCIS

On caring for the common home

25. Climate change is a global problem with serious environmental, social, economic, distributional and political implications and represents one of the most important challenges facing humanity today. The most serious effects are likely to fall on developing countries in the coming decades. Many poor people live in places affected by warming-related phenomena, and their livelihoods depend heavily on natural reserves and so-called ecosystem services, such as agriculture, fisheries and forest resources. They have no other available economic means and other resources that allow them to adapt to climate impacts or cope with catastrophic situations, and they have little access to social services and protection. For example, climate change causes migrations of animals and plants that cannot always adapt and this in turn affects the productive resources of the poorest, who, however, are obliged to leave in great uncertainty about the future of their lives and of their children. Tragic is the increase in migrants fleeing the misery exacerbated by environmental degradation, who are not recognised as refugees in international conventions and bear the burden of a life they have left behind without any legal protection. Unfortunately, there is a general indifference towards these tragedies, which continue to take place in different parts of the world. The lack of reaction towards these tragedies of our brothers and sisters is a sign of the loss of that sense of responsibility for our peers on which every civilised society is based.

To be continued

 

The Bible text in this issue is taken from The New Translation of the Bible,
©Dutch Bible Society 2004/2007.
Considerations from Liturgical suggestions for weekdays and Sundays
Laudato Si Official English translation
_____________________________________________________________________________