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
Our world is old. Everywhere we face pollution problems. Air, water, soil, and so on, they are depleted. Perhaps that is precisely why we can dream of a new world. Have we forgotten our place in creation? Our mission in creation has often not been taken seriously. That is why cries for help sound. They invite us to reflect and should be turned into a prayer. In Jesus, the new creation breaks forth in full. Where He speaks there is new life!
FIRST READING Isa 65:17-21
The sound of weeping, the sound of crying are never heard again.
From the Prophet Isaiah
Thus speaks the Lord :
“In those days I am going to create
a new heaven
and a new earth.
“What has been before
will no longer be thought of
And it comes no more into the heart,
but ye shall delight and rejoice
always on, for what I then create.
“For I make Jerusalem a delight
and a glory of its people.
“I will delight for Jerusalem’s sake
And delight in My people.
“The sound of weeping, the sound of crying
will never be heard there again.
“There shall be no more child there,
who dies after a few days,
and there shall be no more greybeard
who shall not make his days full.
“For one dies there young,
even if one lives to be a hundred years old,
and whoever does not reach a hundred,
he shall be a cursed one.
“Then they build houses and dwell in them,
they plant vines and eat their fruit.”
Thus speaks the Lord Almighty.
INTERLUDIUM Ps. 30(29), 2, 4, 5-6, 11-12a, 13b
You I will praise, Lord, for You have delivered me,
Thou hast not let my enemies triumph.
Lord, from the kingdom of the dead Thou hast delivered my soul,
Thou hast set me free from those who descend to the grave.
Sing to the Lord then with me, all his pious ones,
and give thanks to His Name which is highly exalted.
His wrath lasts short, but His mercy lifelong,
the evening brings weeping, the morning joy.
Lord, listen and have mercy on me,
my God, stand by me with thy help.
Thou hast turned my mourning lament into a dance of joy,
Thee will I praise, Lord my God, for ever.
VERS FOR THE GOSPEL John 3, 16
So much did God love the world
That He gave His only begotten Son,
that whoever believes in Him shall not perish.
GOSPEL Jn 4:43-54
Go, your son lives.
From the holy gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to
John
At that time, Jesus left Samaria and went to Galilee.
He himself had declared
that a prophet is not held in esteem in his own father city.
Now when He came to Galilee ,
the Galileans received Him benevolently,
because they had seen all
what He had done at Jerusalem at the feast.
After all, they themselves had also been at the feast.
So He came again to Cana in Galilee
where He had turned water into wine.
There was a royal official there
whose son lay ill in Capernaum.
When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee
he went to Him and besought Him
that He would come with Him to heal his son,
for this one was dying.
“If ye see no miracle signs ,
– said Jesus to him –
then thou believest not.”
At that, the court official said :
“Lord, do come
before my child dies !”
Jesus replied :
“Go, thy son liveth.”
The man believed what Jesus told him and went away.
His servants were already meeting him on the way
with the message that his child was alive.
He asked them the hour when he got better
and they told him :
“Yesterday, at the seventh hour, the fever passed from him.”
Then the father realised
that it had happened just at the hour when Jesus had said :
Your son lives.
He himself and all his family believed.
This second sign Jesus did
after He had come from Judea to Galilee.
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Laudato Si
Encyclic of
POPE FRANCIS
On caring for the common home
223. In freedom and consciously lived sobriety is liberating. It is not less living, it is not low intensity, but totally the opposite. Those who enjoy every moment more and live it better are those who stop picking up something here and there, always looking for what they don’t have, and experience what it means to appreciate every person and every thing, learn to become familiar with the simplest realities and know how to enjoy them. In this way, they manage to limit unmet needs and reduce fatigue and anxiety. One can need little and live intensely, especially when one is able to leave room for other pleasures and finds satisfaction in fraternal encounters, service, in making full use of one’s own charisma, in music and art, in contact with nature, in prayer. Happiness requires knowing how to limit some needs that make us turn our heads, as this keeps us available for the manifold opportunities that life offers.
To be continued
The Bible text in this issue 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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