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
OPENING WORD
Every Sunday we gather together
as disciples of the Lord.
We want to listen to his clear voice
in which God’s love resounds so wonderfully.
We want to grow in that love
and feed on words full of awe
and with the life Jesus breaks and shares for us.
Do we open our hearts and all our lives to that grace
and pray for God’s mercy and compassion.
FIRST READING Deut. 18, 15-20
I will raise up a prophet and put my words in his mouth.
From the book of Deuteronomy
Moses spoke to the people and said:
“From among your own brethren the Lord your God will
raise up a prophet as I am ,
to whom ye must listen.
“For thou didst this at the Horeb
on the day of the meeting to the Lord thy God.
“Then thou didst say:
Let me hear no more the voice of the Lord my God
And see no more that great fire ,
lest I die.
“Then the Lord said to me:
They are right,
“I will raise up from among their brethren a prophet
as thou art.
“I will put My words in his mouth
and he will say to them all that I command him.
“And from him who does not heed
to the words he speaks in My name,
I myself will demand an account.
“Is there a prophet who delights
to speak in My name
without being instructed by Me,
or who speaks in the name of other gods,
then he must die, that prophet.”
RESPONSORIAL Ps. 95(94), 1-2, 6-7, 8-9
Refrain
Listen today to God’s voice;
Be not obstinate.
Come, let us greet the Lord with jubilation,
to the Rock of our salvation.
Let us appear before Him with a song of praise,
Honour Him with songs.
Come, we prostrate ourselves adoringly,
we kneel down before Him who created us.
He is our God and we are His people,
He is the shepherd and we his flock.
So listen today to his voice:
“Be not obstinate as once in Meriba,
where your fathers wanted to defy Me
Though they had seen my deeds.”
SECOND READING 1 Cor 7:32-35
Those who keep their hearts free can have care for the things of the Lord to
be holy.
From the letter of the holy apostle Paul to the Christians of
Corinth
Brothers and sisters,
I would that ye were without care.
He who is not married has care for the cause of the Lord,
how he can please the Lord.
But the married one has concern for earthly things
and wants to please his wife,
and his attention is divided.
The woman who no longer has a husband,
and the unmarried girl
have concern for the things of the Lord,
to be holy in body and spirit.
The married woman devotes her cares to earthly things
and she wants to please her husband.
All this I say for your sake,
not to restrict your freedom;
I am concerned only with honour
and for an undivided devotion to the Lord.
Verse for the Gospel Mt 4:16
Alleluia.
The people who sat in darkness ,
has beheld a great light,
and over those who sat
in the shadow of death,
a light has risen.
Alleluia.
GOSPEL Mk. 1, 21-28
He taught them with authority.
From the holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to
Mark
At that time Jesus and his disciples came to Capernaum,
and on the next Sabbath He went to the synagogue
where He acted as a teacher.
The people were beside themselves with amazement at His teaching,
for He was not teaching them like the scribes
but as one in authority.
There was in their synagogue precisely a man
who was in the power of an unclean spirit
and began to shout loudly:
“Jesus of Nazareth, what hast Thou to do with us?
“Thou hast come to plunge us into ruin.
“I know who Thou art: the Holy One of God.”
Jesus added to him:
“Be silent and depart from him.”
The unclean spirit shook him to and fro,
gave another loud cry and went out of him.
All were so amazed that they asked among themselves:
“What does that mean anyway?
“A new teaching with authority!
“He commands the unclean spirits and they obey Him.”
Quickly his fame spread in all directions
all over the region of Galilee.
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Laudato Si
Encyclic of
POPE FRANCIS
On caring for the common home
180. One cannot think of uniform recipes because there are specific problems and constraints of each country and region. It is true that political realism can also call for transitional measures and transitional technologies, provided they are accompanied by planning and an acceptance of gradual binding commitments, but at the same time, there is always much to be done at national and local level, for example promoting forms of energy saving. This involves favouring ways of industrial production with the greatest energy efficiency and lower consumption of raw materials, removing from the market products that are inefficient or more polluting from an energy point of view. We can also mention here good transport management or construction and conversion techniques in buildings, which reduce energy consumption and the level of pollution. On the other hand, local politics can focus on a change in consumption, the development of a waste and recycling economy, on the protection of certain species and the programming of diversified agriculture with an alternation of cultures. It is possible to favour an agricultural improvement of poor regions through investments in rural infrastructures, in the organisation of the local or national market, in irrigation systems, in the development of sustainable agricultural techniques. One can facilitate forms of cooperation and communal organisation that protect the interests of small producers and save local ecosystems from looting. There is much one can do!
To be continued
The Bible text in this edition is taken from The New Bible Translation, ©Dutch Bible Society 2004/2007.
Considerations from Liturgical suggestions for weekdays and Sundays
Laudato Si Official English translation
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