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 excepted,
can experience this joy by opening his heart
to the healing effect of God’s word.
Available every day
Consideration
Creation is imperfectly: ordered from within, but sometimes chaotic and incomprehensible. Like us, it eagerly looks forward to redemption: It is focused on, it expects, it anticipates God’s glory, his glory. In this tension-filled expectation, man has a task to fulfil. Because man is a child of God, he is able to express the hope and conviction that God’s glory is coming one day. Living in this expectation, we must not close our eyes to suffering and injustice, to illness and pain, oppression and death.
FIRST READING Rom 8:18-25
Creation, too, longs fervently
for the revelation of God’s children.
From the letter of the holy apostle Paul to the Christians of Rome
Brothers and sisters,
I am convinced that the sufferings of this present time do not outweigh the glory
of which we await revelation.
Even the creation
also longs fervently for the revelation of God’s children.
For it is subject to a meaningless existence,
not because it wants to be
but by the will of Him who subjected it.
But it is not without hope,
for creation too
will be redeemed from the bondage of mortality
and share in the glorious freedom of the children of God.
We know that the whole of nature groans and suffers labor pains all the time.
And not only they, – also we
who have already received the first fruits of the Spirit,
we too sigh over our own fate
as long as we are still waiting for the redemption of our bodies.
In this hope we are saved.
But one does not speak of hope
when one beholds the object of his hope already :
Who expects what he sees?
As our hope is in the unseen
our hope must be accompanied by steadfastness.
INTERLUDIUM Ps. 126(125), 1-2ab, 2cd-3, 4-5, 6
Great was the thing that God the Lord did.
The Lord brought back Zion’s exiles :
It was as if we were dreaming.
Then all mouths laughed
and every tongue rejoiced.
Then they said among the nations :
Wonderful is the Lord’s doing to them.
Great is the Lord’s doing to us,
that’s why we’re so happy.
Turn now our fate for the better, Lord,
as a brook does in the south desert.
Those who sow under tears
They reap with gladness.
Full of care they go out
with sackcloth laden ;
but return singing
laden with their sheaves.
ALLELUIA Ps. 145(144), 13cd
Alleluia.
True is God in all his words
and holy in all that he does.
Alleluia.
GOSPEL Lk. 13, 18-21
The seed grew and became a great tree.
From the Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to
Luke
At that time Jesus said :
“What is the kingdom of God like?
What shall I compare it to?
“It is like a mustard seed that someone sowed in his garden;
it grew and became a great tree
and the birds of the air nested in its branches.”
Jesus also said :
“To what shall I liken the kingdom of God?
“It is like yeast,
which a woman put into three measures of flour
until the whole of them were fermented.”
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Laudato Si
Encyclic of
POPE FRANCIS
On the Care of the Common Home
92. Moreover, when our hearts are authentically open to universal communion, this sense of fraternity excludes nothing and no one. It follows that our indifference or cruelty towards fellow creatures of this world sooner or later affects the treatment we mete out to other human beings. We have only one heart, and the same wretchedness which leads us to mistreat an animal will not be long in showing itself in our relationships with other people. Every act of cruelty towards any creature is “contrary to human dignity”. We can hardly consider ourselves to be fully loving if we disregard any aspect of reality: “Peace, justice and the preservation of creation are three absolutely interconnected themes, which cannot be separated and treated individually without once again falling into reductionism”. Everything is related, and we human beings are united as brothers and sisters on a wonderful pilgrimage, woven together by the love God has for each of his creatures and which also unites us in fond affection with brother sun, sister moon, brother river and mother earth.
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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