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
Paul makes it clear to us that the wisdom of the world is worthless to penetrate to eternal life. We need God’s wisdom, given by Christ to his Church. In the eyes of the world, however, this is ‘foolishness’. For the world regularly sees Peter’s fishing net as an oppression, a restriction on human freedom. Yet the Lord has never forced anyone to follow Him. The Church’s offer is solely an invitation. Even as Jesus asks the unexpected of the most unexpected, He does irrational, miraculous things: Let us then simply trust Him.
FIRST READING I Cor 3:18-23
All things are yours, but you are Christ’s
and Christ is God’s.
From the holy apostle Paul’s first letter to the Christians
of Corinth
Brothers and sisters,
Let no one delude himself.
If anyone among you thinks he is wise
– namely, wise according to the standards of this age
which is passing away –
then he must become foolish to learn true wisdom.
The wisdom of this world is foolishness before God.
After all, it is written :
‘He catches the wise in their own cunning’.
and elsewhere :
‘The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise,
He knows how worthless they are.’
Therefore, let no one seek salvation from men.
For everything is yours,
whether it be Paul or Apollos or Cephas,
world, life or death,
present or future,
everything is yours,
but ye are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.
INTERLUDIUM Ps. 24(23), 1-2, 3-4ab, 5-6
To God belongs the earth and all that is upon it.
To God belongs the earth and all that is upon it,
the disk of the earth and all that dwells upon it;
For He founded her on the water,
established her on the sea.
Who shall ascend the mountain of the Lord,
who shall stand in his sanctuary ?
Who is pure of hands and pure of heart,
sets not his sights on what is evil.
He will be blessed by the Lord,
rewarded by God, his redeemer.
So does the generation that turns to Him,
that stands before the face of Jacob’s God.
ALLELUIA John 14, 23
Alleluia.
If any man love Me ,
he will keep My word ;
my Father will love him
And We will come to him.
Alleluia.
GOSPEL Lk. 5, 1-11
They left everything to follow Him.
From the holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to
Luke
On a certain day
Jesus stood on the shore of the Lake of Gennesaret,
while the people were urging Him
to hear the word of God.
He now saw two boats lying on the shore of the lake ;
the fishermen had gone out and were washing their nets.
He got into one of the boats, Simon’s
and asked him to go a little way off shore.
He sat down
and from the boat He continued His teaching to the people.
When He had finished His speech, He said to Simon :
‘Now sail to the deep
and cast out your nets for the catch.’
Simon replied :
‘Master ,
all night we toiled without catching anything ;
but at your word I will cast out the nets.’
They did so and caught such a mass of fish in their nets
that these threatened to rip.
So they beckoned to their mate in the other boat
to come and help them.
When they had come
they filled both boats to the brim.
On seeing this
Simon Peter fell at Jesus’ feet and said :
‘Lord, depart from me
for I am a sinful man.’
Dismay had taken hold of him
and of all who were with him,
because of the catch they had made.
So it also happened to James and John, the sons of Zebedee,
who were working with Simon.
Jesus, however, spoke to Simon :
‘Do not be afraid ,
from now on you will catch people.’
They brought the boats ashore
and left everything behind to follow Him.
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Fratelli tutti
Encyclical of
POPE FRANCISCUS
On brotherhood and social friendship
27. Paradoxically, there are ancestral fears that have never been overcome by
technological progress ; on the contrary, they have
managed to hide and have gained strength behind new technologies
managed to gain momentum. Even today, behind the walls of the old city there is the
abyss, the region of the unknown, the desert. What comes from there
is not reliable, because it is not known, not trusted, not
belongs to the village. It is the territory of what is ‘barbaric’, against which
one must defend oneself at all costs. Consequently, there are
new barriers of self-defence erected, so that no longer the
world exists and only ‘my’ world, and so that many no longer
be regarded as human beings with inalienable
dignity and simply become ‘those’. ‘The temptation to create a culture of
making walls, putting up walls, walls in the heart, walls on earth
to prevent this encounter with other cultures, with other people ,
rises again. And whoever erects a wall, whoever builds a wall, will
end up as slaves within the walls he has built,
without horizons. Because he lacks this otherness’.
To be continued
Every morning 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 and Sundays
Fratelli tutti Official English translation
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