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
God has called and created us into life.
In Jesus, his Son,
he made us understand that he is with us
every day of our lives.
Jesus’ words and actions healed people
and made a new future possible.
The hopeful message He brought,
we carry in our hearts
as a precious guide for our lives.
The encounter with Him in this Eucharist
makes this day a holy day.
This is a day to celebrate who God is to us
and to remember who we are before God.
FIRST READING Deut. 5, 12-15
Remember that ye were slaves in Egypt.
From the book of Deuteronomy
This is what the Lord says:
“Keep the Sabbath :
which shall be holy unto you
As the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.
“Six days you may work and perform all your labour
but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God.
“Then you may not do any labour,
thyself not, thy son not, thy daughter not,, 3-4, 5-6ab, 6c-8a, 10-11ab
not thy ox, not thy ass, not thy other cattle
nor the stranger within thy gates.
“Then your slave and your slave girl can rest as well as yourself.
“Remember that ye were slaves in Egypt
and that the Lord thy God with strong hand
and upraised arm from that land.
“Therefore He commanded you to keep the Sabbath.”
Responsorial Ps. 81(80) 3-4, 5-6ab, 6c-8a, 10-11ab
Refrain
Hail the Lord, our strength.
Let your songs be heard, strike the cymbals,
play your zither and lyre.
Let sound the horn on new moon;
On full moon our feast day.
As it was established for Israel,
commanded by Jacob’s God.
As He commanded the people of Joseph
When He went to war against Egypt.
Now I hear a voice I have never heard:
I have taken the burden from your shoulders.
Thy hands left the carrying baskets;
thou hast called Me, I have delivered thee.
Never may there be a foreign God with thee,
worship no gods from other lands.
For I am the Lord, your only God,
who led you out of Egypt.
SECOND READING 2 Cor. 4, 6-11
The life of Jesus is revealed in your bodies.
From the holy apostle Paul’s second letter to the Christians of Corinth
Brothers and sisters,
The same God who said:
“Light must shine out of darkness”
has gone up as a light in our hearts,
to make the knowledge shine of his glory
which lies over the face of Christ.
But we carry this treasure in earthen pots;
clearly showing
that this oversized power comes from God and not from us.
We are assailed on all sides
yet do not get stuck;
we see no way out
but are never at our wit’s end;
we are hunted
but not abandoned;
we are knocked down
but do not die from it.
Always we carry the dying of Jesus in our bodies,
because the life of Jesus
must be revealed in our bodies.
Constantly our life is handed over to death
for Jesus’ sake
so that the life of Jesus
would reveal itself in our mortal existence.
Verse for the Gospel John 17, 17b.a
Alleluia.
Your word, Lord, is truth
Consecrate us to You in truth.
Alleluia.
GOSPEL Mk. 2, 23-28
The Sabbath was made for the sake of man but not man for the Sabbath.
From the holy gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark
Once Jesus went through the cornfields on a Sabbath
and His disciples, while going, began to pick ears of wheat.
The Pharisees said to Him :
“Why are they doing something on the Sabbath that is not lawful?”
He answered them in reply :
“Hast thou never read what David did, when he was in want
and he and his companions went hungry ?
“How he under the high priest Abjatar
went into the house of God
and ate of the showbread, which only the priests are allowed to eat,
and how he also gave of it to his companions?”
And He added :
“The Sabbath was made for the sake of man
but not man for the sake of the Sabbath.
So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”
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APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION LAUDATE DEUM
FROM THE HOLY FATHER
POPE FRANCISCUS
TO ALL PEOPLE
OF GOOD WILL
57. I consider it essential to point out that “seeking only a technical
solution to every environmental problem that arises amounts to separating what is in
reality connected and masking the true and deepest problems
of the global system”. It is true that adaptation efforts are needed with the
view of irreversibly evil developments in the short term . Also, some interventions
and technological developments that allow gas emissions to be absorbed or captured have been
capture have shown promise. Nevertheless, we risk remaining trapped in the
mentality of patching things up, while beneath the surface there is an
ongoing degradation to which we continue to contribute. To assume that
all future problems can be solved by new technologies is a form
of murderous pragmatism, like pushing a snowball down a hill.
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 Deum Official English translation
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