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 that joy by opening their hearts
to the healing power of God’s word.
Available every day
Consideration
Therefore, the exhortation comes right after the description of God’s work of salvation in Christ. The exhortation continues. Paulus lists the main commandments. The main debt we can owe to someone is love. Other debts have limits. Love does not and so that debt can never be paid off. What’s more: The whole law can be reduced to that one word: ‘Charity’.
FIRST READING Rom. 13:8-10
Love fulfils the whole law.
From the Holy Apostle Paul’s letter to the Christians of Rome
Brothers and sisters,
Take care that you owe no one anything.
Your only debt remains mutual love.
He who loves his neighbour has fulfilled the law.
For the commandments :
Ye shall not commit adultery, nor kill, nor steal, nor covet,’
and all the others can be summed up in this one word :
‘Love thy neighbour as thyself’.
Love does no harm to the neighbour.
Love fulfils the whole law.
INTERLUDIUM Ps 112(111), 1-2, 4-5, 9
Well goes the man who gives away and borrows.
Alleluia.
Happy the man who is in awe of God,
who finds joy in his commandments.
His offspring will be mighty in the land,
blessed will be the generation of the pious.
He is to the pious a light in the night,
beneficent, merciful, just.
Well goes the man who gives away and borrows,
who manages his affairs honestly.
With mildness he distributes to the poor,
he will never lose his righteousness.
His power and prestige increase continually ;
the sinner will look upon it with envy.
ALLELUIA John 10, 27
Alleluia.
My sheep listen to My voice, says the Lord ;
and I know them and they follow Me.
Alleluia.
GOSPEL Lk. 14, 25-33
None of you can be my disciple
if he does not detach himself from all that he possesses.
From the holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke
When countless people went with Jesus
He turned and said to them :
“If anyone comes to Me ,
who leaves his father and mother, his wife and children,
his brothers and sisters,
yes even his own life,
he cannot be My disciple.
“If anyone does not bear his cross and follow Me
he cannot be My disciple.
“If anyone of you wants to build a tower ,
will he not first
sit down in front of it to make a budget
whether he owns enough to complete it?
“Otherwise it might happen to him,
– if he has laid the foundation
and is unable to bring the work to completion –
that all who see it will mock him and say :
That man began to build ,
but he was unable to bring the end.
“Or what king will ,
– if he wants to go to war against another king –
will not first consider whether he is strong enough
to face with ten thousand men
to one who goes up against him with twenty thousand men?
“If not ,
then, if the opponent is still far away
an envoy and asks for the terms of peace.
“Thus none of you can be my disciple
if he does not detach himself from all that he possesses.”
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Laudato Si
Encyclic of
POPE FRANCIS
On caring for the common home
100. The New Testament does not only tell us of the earthly Jesus and his tangible and loving relationship with the world. It also shows him risen and glorious, present throughout creation by his universal Lordship: “For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross” (Col 1:19-20). This leads us to direct our gaze to the end of time, when the Son will deliver all things to the Father, so that “God may be everything to every one” (1 Cor 15:28). Thus, the creatures of this world no longer appear to us under merely natural guise because the risen One is mysteriously holding them to himself and directing them towards fullness as their end. The very flowers of the field and the birds which his human eyes contemplated and admired are now imbued with his radiant presence.
To be continued
The Bible text in this edition 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
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