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
When we come together for the Eucharist,
we celebrate communion with God, our Father,
and with Jesus, his Son.
For this, Jesus uses the beautiful image
of the vine and the tendrils.
The vinedresser is God himself.
He hopes for rich and ripe fruit.
Apart from Him, we are nobody.
Sometimes we do detach ourselves
and need connection back.
Then let us connect through Him.
FIRST READING Acts 9:26-31
He told them how he had seen the Lord on the road.
From the Acts of the Apostles
At that time Paul did,
arriving in Jerusalem,
attempted to join the disciples,
but all were afraid of him
because they could not believe he was a disciple.
Barnabas resented his fate,
brought him to the apostles
and told them
how Paul on the road had
had seen
and had spoken to him,
and how he had acted boldly in Damascus
in the name of Jesus.
Henceforth in Jerusalem, Paul dealt with them regularly
while he acted fearlessly in the name of the Lord.
He spoke and disputed with the Hellenists.
The latter tried to kill him.
When the brothers found this out,
they took him away to Caesarea
and made him leave for Tarsus.
Now the Church enjoyed peace throughout Judea, Galilee and Samaria;
it was more and more confirmed in the fear of the Lord
and steadily increased in number
through the consolation of the Holy Spirit.
Responsorial Ps. 22(21), 26-27, 28 and 30, 31-32
Refrain
Before all the multitude I will praise You.
For all the multitude I will praise Thee,
among the God-fearing I will give You thanks.
The poor shall eat and be satiated,
and all who seek God will praise Him,
their courage will be revived.
Then all the nations of the earth will
remember the Lord and turn to Him.
And down shall fall before him
The tribes and nations everywhere.
They that rest in the earth shall worship Him,
To Him shall all who descend into the dust bow.
My soul shall dwell before him,
my descendants will always be His servants.
It will tell stories of the Lord to the generation to come,
of his righteousness to those born,
this the Lord has done.
SECOND READING 1 Jn 3:18-24
This is his commandment: that we believe and love.
From the first letter of the holy apostle John
Friends,
we are not to love with words and slogans
but with concrete deeds.
That is our measure;
thereby we gain the certainty
that we belong to the true God.
Then we can also reassure our
we may ease our conscience,
even if it condemns us,
for God is greater than our hearts
and He knows everything.
Dear friends,
since our conscience need not condemn us thus,
we may deal freely with God;
we receive from Him all that we ask,
because we keep His commandments
and do what is pleasing to Him.
And this is His commandment:
to believe wholeheartedly in His Son Christ
and loving one another as He has commanded us.
Whoever keeps His commandments ,
abides in God
and God abides in him.
And that He dwells in us ,
we know by the Spirit He has given us.
Verse for the Gospel John 15, 4a.5b
Alleluia.
Abide in Me, and I will abide in you, says the Lord;
He who abides in Me bears much fruit.
Alleluia.
GOSPEL Jn 15:1-8
He who abides in Me while I abide in him, he bears much fruit.
From the holy gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to
John
At that time, Jesus said to his disciples:
“I am the true vine
and My Father is the vine grower.
“Every vine on Me that bears no fruit ,
He cuts off;
and every one that does bear fruit ,
He purifies, that it may bear more fruit.
“Thou art already pure
thanks to the word that I have spoken to you.
“Abide in Me,
then I abide in you.
“Just as the vine cannot bear fruit by itself
but only if it abides on the vine,
neither do ye if ye abide not in Me.
“I am the vine, ye are the tendrils.
“He who abides in Me while I abide in him ,
he beareth much fruit,
for apart from Me ye can do nothing.
“If anyone does not abide in Me ,
he is cast away as a vine and withers;
one brings them together, throws them into the fire and they burn up.
“If ye abide in Me, and My words abide in you ,
then ask what ye want and ye shall have it.
“By this my Father is glorified:
That ye bear rich fruit;
so shall ye be My disciple.”
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APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION LAUDATE DEUM
FROM THE HOLY FATHER
POPE FRANCISCUS
TO ALL PEOPLE
OF GOOD WILL
22. The natural resources needed by technology, such as lithium, silicon and so many
others, are certainly not unlimited, but the main problem is the ideology that underlies
underlying obsession: increasing human power beyond anything
imaginable, with non-human reality being just a resource at its
at its disposal. Everything that exists is no longer a gift for which we should be grateful
should be, that we should appreciate and cherish, and instead becomes a slave,
prey to every whim of the human mind and its faculties.
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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