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
Here we find the apostolic apology that we also find in later letters. Paul often feels the need to defend himself and also to explicitly point out his selflessness in providing for himself. Otherwise, the affable content of yesterday continues. The relationship between Paul and the congregation of Thessalonica must have been very good (unlike Corinth).
FIRST READING I Thess. 2,9-13
While we were preaching the gospel to you,
we worked day and night.
From the first letter of the holy apostle Paul to the Christians of
of Tessalonica
Brothers and sisters,
You remember our effort and travail.
While we were preaching to you the gospel of God,
we worked day and night
so as not to be a burden to any of you.
With God you can testify
how pious and upright and blameless
we have behaved us towards you, the faithful.
You know it,
like a father we have admonished and encouraged each one of you;
we have exhorted you to lead a life worthy of God
Who calls you to the glory of his kingdom.
And therefore we thank God without ceasing
that you have received and accepted the divine word of from us :
Not as a word of men but as what it truly is :
The Word of God ;
and it remains active in you who believe.
INTERLUDIUM Ps. 139(138), 7-8, 9-10, 11-12b
Thou knowest me, Lord, and thou seest me.
Where would I ever escape thy Spirit?
Where can I hide from thy face?
Though I ascend into heaven, thou art already there,
though I descend into the realm of the dead, thou art there.
Though I borrow the wings of the dawn
and I go down across the sea :
Thy hand is there to guide me,
there also Thou dost hold me firmly.
And I say: Let darkness cover me,
let all the light be swallowed up by the night :
Then shall the darkness not be dark unto Thee,
the nights will be as bright as the days;
for You, light and darkness are equal.
ALLELUIA I Thess. 2, 13
Alleluia.
Receive the divine word,
not as the word of men
but as what indeed it is: The word of God.
Alleluia.
GOSPEL Mt 23, 27-32
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees,
sons of murderers of prophets.
From the holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to
Matthew
In those days Jesus said :
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
“You are like limestone tombs that look beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of death,
but which are full of dead bones
and all manner of uncleanness.
“So you too are like saints on the outside, but inside you are full of bones and all kinds of uncleanliness.
But inwardly ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
“Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
“You build the tombs of prophets
and adorn the tombs of the saints
and ye say :
If we had lived in the days of our fathers,
we would not have been accomplices
of the murder of the prophets!
“You therefore testify against yourselves
that ye are sons of the murderers of prophets.
“Now then,
fill up the measure of your fathers!”
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Laudato Si
Encyclic of
POPE FRANCIS
On Care of the Common Home
30. Even as the quality of available water is constantly diminishing, in some places there is a growing tendency, despite its scarcity, to privatize this resource, turning it into a commodity subject to the laws of the market. Yet access to safe drinkable water is a basic and universal human right, since it is essential to human survival and, as such, is a condition for the exercise of other human rights. Our world has a grave social debt towards the poor who lack access to drinking water, because they are denied the right to a life consistent with their inalienable dignity. This debt can be paid partly by an increase in funding to provide clean water and sanitary services among the poor. But water continues to be wasted, not only in the developed world but also in developing countries which possess it in abundance. This shows that the problem of water is partly an educational and cultural issue, since there is little awareness of the seriousness of such behaviour within a context of great inequality.
To be continued
The Bible text in this edition is taken from De Nieuwe Bijbelvertaling,
©Nederlands Bijbelgenootschap 2004/2007.
Recitals from Liturgical suggestions for the week days and Sundays
Laudato Si Official English translation
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