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 their hearts
to the healing effect of God’s word.
Available every day
Opening words
The Advent season is over: Our hearts are full of joy.
We wish each other a blessed Christmas!
On this high feast we celebrate with so many in this world
that God is born among us in a human child.
With shepherds and angels we may praise and thank Him,
rejoice for the salvation and light
that Christ brings into our world.
In the midst of the dark night, God comes to visit us.
Do we too pay homage to that newborn,
to Jesus who brings peace to the whole earth.
Glorie, all glory to God in the highest.
FIRST READING Isa 52:7-10
All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
From the prophet Isaiah
How sweet the feet of the messenger of joy on the mountains,
who announces peace,
proclaiming good news,
who comes to proclaim salvation,
who says to Zion, Thy God reigns!
Hear!
Thy tower-guards lift up their voice,
they rejoice at the same time
for they see, face to face,
the return of the Lord to Zion.
Break forth into jubilation, all together,
the ruins of Jerusalem,
for the Lord has comforted his people;
He has redeemed Jerusalem.
The Lord has bared his holy arm
before the eyes of all nations;
and all the ends of the earth
have beheld the salvation of our God.
Responsorial Psalm 98(97), 1, 2-3ab, 3cd-4, 5-6
Refrain
All the earth beheld
what our God did for us.
Sing unto the Lord a new song
because He did wonders.
His hand was strong,
the power of his holy arm.
The Lord revealed his salvation,
He showed justice to the nations.
He remained mindful of His mercy,
His faithfulness to the house of Israel.
All the earth beheld
what our God did for us.
Glorify the Lord, all nations,
be glad, rejoice and sing.
Sing to the Lord with the zither,
with the zither and the psaltery.
Let the trumpet and the trombone sound
and dance to the Lord thy King.
SECOND READING Heb 1, 1-6
God has spoken to us through the Son.
From the letter to the Hebrews
Brothers and sisters,
After God had spoken
many times and in many different ways
to our fathers through the prophets,
He has now spoken, at the end of the age
to us through the Son,
whom He has made heir of all that exists
and through whom He created the universe.
He is the radiance of God’s glory
and the image of his being.
He sustains everything by his mighty word,
and having accomplished the cleansing of sins
He has set himself down
at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
exalted far above the angels,
as He also surpasses them
in the dignity which has become his portion.
Has God ever said to an angel :
“Thou art my Son;
I have begotten thee this day?” Or :
“I will be a father to Him, and He shall be My son?”
However, when He
leads the Firstborn into the world again, He says :
“All the angels of God must pay homage to Him.”
Verse for the Gospel
Alleluia.
We stand in the full light of this holy day:
Come, let us worship the Lord.
For today a great light has come down to earth.
Alleluia.
GOSPEL John 1, 1-18
The Word became flesh and dwelt among us.
Beginning of the holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to
John
In the beginning was the Word
and the Word was with God
and the Word was God.
This was in the beginning with God.
All things were made through Him
and without Him nothing has become
of what has become.
In Him was life
and that life was the light of men.
And the light shines in the darkness
but the darkness did not accept it.
There arose a man, a sent from God ;
his name was John.
He came to testify,
to bear witness of the light
that all might come to faith through him.
Not he was the light
but he was to be a witness of the Light.
The true Light,
which enlightens every man,
came into the world.
He was in the world ;
the world had become through Him
and yet the world did not recognise Him.
He came into his own, but his own people did not accept him.
To all, however, who did accept Him,
those who believe in his name
He gave the ability
to become children of God;
they are not of blood
nor of the lust of the flesh
or the will of man,
but born of God.
The Word became flesh
and dwelt among us.
We have beheld his glory,
such glory
as the Only Begotten receives from the Father,
full of grace and truth.
We have John’s testimony concerning Him when he exclaimed :
“It was He of whom I said:
He who comes after me is before me,
for He was earlier than I was.”
Of his fullness we have all received ;
grace upon grace.
If the Law was given through Moses,
grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
No one has ever seen God ;
the Only Begotten God
who is in the bosom of the Father,
He has made Him known.
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Laudato Si
Encyclic of
POPE FRANCIS
On Care of the Common Home
ECOLOGY OF DAILY LIFE
147. Authentic development includes efforts to bring about an integral improvement in the quality of human life, and this entails considering the setting in which people live their lives. These settings influence the way we think, feel and act. In our rooms, our homes, our workplaces and neighbourhoods, we use our environment as a way of expressing our identity. We make every effort to adapt to our environment, but when it is disorderly, chaotic or saturated with noise and ugliness, such overstimulation makes it difficult to find ourselves integrated and happy.
To be continued
The Bible text in this edition is taken from The New Bible Translation,
©Netherlands Bible Society 2004/2007.
Recitals from Liturgical suggestions for the week days and Sundays
Laudato Si Official English translation
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