Remembrance of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Queen of heaven and earth
Invitation
May I hereby draw your attention to
the daily reading of the Gospel?
This invitation wishes 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
Glorified down to her body, Mary appears to us in the glory of her Assumption as the highest and most beautiful fruit of redemption. As Mother of Him whose ‘Kingdom knows no end’, she is also for all men a mighty intercessor on their way to the glory of the children of God.
FIRST READING Ez. 36, 23-28
I will give you a new heart and a new spirit within.
From the Prophet Ezekiel
Thus speaks the Lord :
“I will sanctify my great name
which is profaned among the heathen nations,
which has been profaned against them by you.
“Then shall the heathen nations acknowledge that I am the Lord
– Thus speaks God the Lord -,
when I shall prove My holiness to you before them.
“I will take you out of the heathen nations
and from all nations gather you together
and make you return to your own soil.
“I will sprinkle thee with pure water
and ye shall become clean ;
From all your uncleannesses
and from all your idols I will cleanse you.
“I will give you a new heart and a new spirit within :
your heart of stone I will take out of you
and I will give you a heart of flesh.
“My spirit I will pour into your inner being and I will work
that you may walk in accordance with My laws
and that you keep My commandments.
“Then you will dwell in the land
Which I have given unto thy fathers ,
and ye shall be my people and I your God.”
INTERLUDIUM Ps. 51(50), 12-13, 14-15, 18-19
I will sprinkle you with pure water
and thou shalt become clean from all thy uncleanness.
Create in me a pure heart, my God,
give me again a resolute spirit.
Will not cast me away from your Face,
do not take away your Holy Spirit from me.
Give me again the opulence of your blessing,
make me strong in generosity.
Then I will teach the erring your ways,
lead all the guilty back to Thee.
In gifts Thou hast no pleasure,
whatever I offer, Thou wilt not.
What I offer, God, is my penitence,
a crushed and humiliated heart Thou dost not reject.
ALLELUIA I Sam. 3, 9; John 6, 69b
Alleluia.
Speak, Lord, thy servant listens ;
Thy words are words of eternal life.
Alleluia.
GOSPEL Mt 22:1-14
Go to the crossroads
and invite whoever you find there to the wedding.
From the Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew
At that time Jesus took the word
and spoke to the high priests and the elders of the people
in parables.
He said :
“The kingdom of heaven
resembles a king who gave a wedding feast for his son.
“He sent out his servants
to call all those he had invited to the wedding,
but they would not come.
“Thereupon he sent other servants with the order :
Say to the invitees :
Behold I have prepared my meal,
my oxen and fattened cattle have been slaughtered ;
everything is ready.
“Come therefore to the wedding.
“But without caring they went away,
one to his field
the other to his business.
“The others seized his servants,
assaulted and killed them.
“Now the king ignited in wrath,
sent his troops
and had the murderers killed and their city burned.
“Then he spoke to his servants :
The wedding banquet is ready
but the invitees were not worthy.
“Go therefore to the crossroads of the roads
and invite whoever you find there to the wedding.
“His servants went to the roads
and brought with them all whom they found there
wicked as well as good,
and the wedding hall filled with guests.
“Now when the king came in
to visit the adjoining guests,
he noticed someone there
who was not dressed for a wedding.
“And he spoke to him :
Friend, how hast thou come in here
without a wedding garment ?
“But the man remained guilty of answering.
“Then the king spoke to the servants :
Bind him by the hands and feet
and cast him out into the darkness.
“There there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
“Many are called
but few chosen.”
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Encyclical of
POPE FRANCISCUS
On brotherhood and social friendship.
The end of historical consciousness
13. For the same reason, a loss of historical consciousness is also promoted
promoted, causing further disintegration. There is in culture
an advance of a kind of “deconstructionism”, in which human
freedom pretends to build everything from scratch. Only the need to
consume without limit and the accentuation of many forms of
individualism without substance remain. In this context, a
advice I gave to young people: “If someone proposes to you and
tells you to ignore history, not to cherish the treasure of the elderly
cherish, despise all that is past, and look only to the
future he offers you, might that not be an
easy way to lure you with his proposal to make you only
only do what he tells you to do? That person needs
you to be empty, uprooted, distrustful of everything, so that you can
can only trust his promises and submit to his plans
can submit. This is how ideologies of different colours work
that destroy (or deconstruct) everything that is different so that they can dominate without
opposition to dominate. To do so, they need young people who despise
despise history, reject the spiritual and human wealth that has been
passed down through the generations, who ignore everything that preceded them”.
To be continued
Every day at 1 am
The Bible text in this edition is taken from The New Bible Translation,
© Dutch Bible Society 2004/2007.
Considerations from Liturgical suggestions for weekdays.
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