This free remembrance was introduced by Pope Innocent XI as an expression of thanks.
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
In the letter to the Christians of Colossae, there is talk of a doctrine of error. It has remained unclear exactly what this new doctrine entailed. Many points lead to excessive worship of angels or of cosmic, heavenly powers, to the detriment of faith in Christ. Paul points to faith in Christ: Those who believe in Him need to have no fear; it is in Him that everything is created, including the so-called cosmic powers. He exists before everything else, and everything exists in Him. For those who believe in Him, there is one sure thing: Christ! He frees the world – He frees us – from ‘delusions’: from ideological submission and superstition, from our idol cult and our addictions. What do we want to be freed from? Do we give that question a place in our prayers?
FIRST READING Col 2:6-15
God has made you alive with Him.
He has forgiven us all our sins.
From the letter of the holy apostle Paul to the Christians of Colossae
Brothers and sisters,
Ye have accepted the Christ as Jesus the Lord.
So this is how you must live with Him:
Rooted in Him, built on Him, leaning on the faith which ye have been taught,
while your heart overflows with thankfulness.
Be on your guard, and do not let yourselves be carried away
by worthless, deceitful theories,
purely human fantasies,
that glorify the so-called elements of the universe
but oppose Christ.
For in Christ,
the divinity is physically present in all its fullness,
and in Him you have part in that fullness.
He is the head
to whom all dominions and powers are subject.
In Him you have also been circumcised,
not in a physical sense, by a bodily operation,
but with the Christ-circumcision: The baptism.
In baptism, you are buried with Him,
but also risen with Him,
through your faith in the power of God
that raised Him from the dead.
You too, who were dead in your sins
and your moral turpitude
God has made us alive again with Him.
He has forgiven us all our sins.
He has torn up the charter
which testified against us with its onerous provisions.
He has destroyed it and nailed it to the cross.
He has disarmed the dominions and the powers
and publicly displayed them.
He has triumphed over them by the cross.
INTERLUDIUM Ps. 145(144), 1-2, 8-9, 10-11
The Lord is concerned for every human being.
I will praise you, my God and King,
glorifying your name forever.
I will praise you every day,
glorifying your name forever.
The Lord is full of love and compassion,
and longsuffering, and most gracious.
The Lord is concerned for every man,
merciful to all that He made.
Your works shall praise You, Lord,
thy pious ones shall praise thee.
They shall praise the glory of thy dominion,
thy power they proclaim.
ALLELUIA Ps. 119(118), 135
Alleluia.
Let your face shine before your servant, Lord,
Let me see your judgments.
Alleluia.
GOSPEL Lk. 6, 12-19
Jesus spent the night in prayer.
He chose twelve disciples,
to whom he also gave the name of Apostle.
From the Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke
In those days Jesus went to the mountain to pray
and spent the night there in prayer to God.
At daybreak, he called his disciples to him and chose twelve
of them, to whom He also gave the name of apostle:
Simon, to whom He gave the name Peter,
his brother Andrew,
James and John,
Philip and Bartholomew,
Matthew and Tomas,
James the son of Alphaeus,
Simon with the nickname ‘Zealot’,
Judas the brother of James
and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.
Together with them, He descended,
but He remained standing on a flat area.
There he found a large group of his disciples and a large crowd of people from the surrounding villages.
And a large crowd of people from all over the Jewish nation,
from Jerusalem and from the coastal land of Tyre and Sidon.
They had come to hear him
and to be healed of their afflictions.
And those tormented by unclean spirits found healing.
All the crowd tried to touch Him,
for there went out from him a power that healed all.
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Laudato Si
Encyclic of
POPE FRANCIS
On Care of the Common Home
DECLINE IN THE QUALITY OF HUMAN LIFE AND THE BREAKDOWN OF SOCIETY
43. Human beings too are creatures of this world, enjoying a right to life and happiness, and endowed with unique dignity. So we cannot fail to consider the effects on people’s lives of environmental deterioration, current models of development, and the throwaway culture.
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 weekdays and Sundays
Laudato Si Official English translation
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