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
Christ was a friend to all people, without exception. All who, wherever in the world, love Christ, together form one great community that seeks to imitate him in mutual friendship. From that communion, they can contribute to the healing of the wounds from which humanity suffers. Without imposing themselves, they can promote global solidarity, excluding no nation and no person. Sometimes this community in mutual friendship is very visible, for instance at international meetings. But such events are only occasional. Yet everywhere on earth you can find a small particle of this community, however shabby. It is impossible to live your faith all alone. Faith always begins with an experience of community, with the realisation that Christ is the source of unlimited unity. Local communities, parishes, prayer groups, churches are meant to constantly grow in friendship! They should become places of warm welcome and support for one another, caring for the small and weak, for strangers and for those who do not share our ideals.
(Frère Aloïs, Taizé 2014)
FIRST READING 2 Sam. 6, 12b-15. 17-19
David and all the Israelites
brought over the ark of the Lord under cheers.
From the second Book of Samuel
In those days
David brought the ark of God
from the house of Obededom
joyfully to the city of David.
After the bearers of the ark had taken six steps,
David offered a fattened bull.
On the way, he danced enthusiastically before the Lord,
clad only in a linen breastcloth.
So David and all the Israelites brought
under cheers and trumpet blasts brought over the ark of the Lord.
She was carried into the city and brought into her place
right in the middle of the tent that David had set up for it.
Then David dedicated fire and victims to the Lord.
After dedicating the fire and victims
he blessed the people with the name of God,
the Lord of the heavenly powers.
To all those present, to all the Israelites who were gathered there,
men and women,
he left a flat loaf of bread,
a lump of dates and a sultana cake.
Thereupon everyone went home.
INTERLUDIUM Ps. 24(23), 7, 8, 9, 10
Who is this King of glory ?
The Lord is the King of glory.
Gates, lift up your cornices,
open, ancient doors :
the King of glory must enter.
Who is this King of glory ?
The Lord, the strong, the mighty,
the Lord, the hero in battle.
Gates, lift up your cornices,
open, ancient doors :
the King of glory must enter.
Who is this King of glory ?
The Lord of heavenly powers,
He is the King of glory.
ALLELUIA Ps. 119(118), 36a, 29b
Alleluia.
My heart be set on what You ordain, Lord ;
Give me Thy law as my guide.
Alleluia.
GOSPEL Mk. 3, 31-35
My brother and my sister and my mother
are those who fulfil the will of God.
From the holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark
Once Jesus’ mother and his brothers came ,
and while they remained outside,
they sent someone to call to Him.
There were many people around Him, who relayed the message :
“Your mother and your brothers out there are asking for You.”
Jesus answered them in reply :
“Who is my mother ,
who are my brothers?”
And as He passed His gaze
over the people sitting in a circle around Him, He said :
“Behold my mother and my brothers.
“For my brother and my sister and my mother are those
who fulfil the will of God.”
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Laudato Si
Encyclic of
POPE FRANCIS
On caring for the common home
175. The same logic, which makes it difficult to take drastic decisions to reverse the trend of global warming, is the one that makes it impossible to achieve the goal of eradicating poverty. We need a global, more responsible response that simultaneously includes reducing pollution and addressing the development of poor countries and regions. While maintaining a management peculiar to bygone eras, the 21st century is experiencing a loss of power of nation states, especially as the economic-financial dimension with transnational characteristics tends to dominate politics. In this context, the development of stronger and efficiently organised institutions becomes indispensable, with powers determined impartially through agreements between national governments and with the power to sanction. As Benedict XVI has said in the line already developed by the Church’s social teaching, “In order to guide the world economy, to sanitise the economies affected by the crisis, to prevent a worsening of the crisis and resulting imbalances, to achieve appropriate integral disarmament, security and peace, to ensure the protection of the environment and to regulate migratory flows, a truly political world authority is necessary, as already outlined by my predecessor, Blessed Pope John XXIII”. 4 In this perspective, diplomacy takes on unprecedented importance to promote international strategies to prevent worse problems that will eventually affect all.
To be continued
The Bible text in this issue 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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