Invitation
May I draw your attention to
The daily reading of the Gospel
This invitation seeks to convey the joy
of the Gospel. Everyone, without exception
can experience that joy by opening his or her heart
to the healing power of God’s word.
Available every day.
Consideration
Jesus invites his disciples
to be great in humility.
He is perhaps the only one who can and should ask this.
After all, he himself always chose last place
and did not feel too big to kneel before a child.
Jesus, the servant par excellence
also invites us to become servants of all, taking up the least among us
and include the least among us.
Let us grow in becoming small
and be so strongly united with Jesus
in service and humility.
FIRST READING Wis. 2, 12.17-20
Let us condemn him to a shameful death.
From the book of Wisdom.
The unbelievers say:
‘We want to attack the pious
because he is a burden to us
and an accusation of our lukewarmness.
‘He accuses us
that we do not keep the law ,
and he accuses us of our disciplinarianism.
‘Let us see if his words are true
and let us take as evidence
what happens at his death.
‘For if the righteous man is a child of God ,
God will come to his aid
and deliver him from the clutches of his enemy.
‘Shall we subject him to a humiliating test
to discover by torture how meek he is, and to convince us of his patience .
And convince us of his patience.
‘Let us condemn him to a shameful death ;
for for his sake he enjoys special protection.’
Responsorial Ps 54(53), 3-4, 5, 6 and 8
Refrain
It is the Lord who preserves my life.
God, stand by me with your Name,
defend me with Your strength.
Hear, O God, my supplication.
Hear what my mouth says to you.
Overconfident men attack me
brutally deprive me of my life,
without a thought of God.
Yet it is God who helps me,
the Lord who preserves my life.
I will eagerly offer sacrifices to you,
I will praise your beneficent name, Lord.
SECOND READING James 3:16-4:3
Righteousness is the fruit of peace. Whoever pursues peace will reap it.
From the letter of the holy apostle James
Brothers and sisters,
Where envy and honour reign,
there is also unrest
and all kinds of inferior practices.
The wisdom from above is pure above all,
but also peaceful, gentle,
always open to reason,
rich in mercy and fruits of good deeds,
impartial and sincere.
Justice is the fruit of peace
and only those who pursue peace will reap it.
Where do these quarrels and strife come from?
Surely only from your own passions
Which do not leave you at peace?
You desire things you cannot have.
You kill and are jealous
And you cannot reach your goal.
Then you struggle and struggle.
You have nothing
Because you don’t pray.
And when you pray
You don’t get it
Because you pray wrongly,
with the intention
To spend what you get on evil lusts.
Gospel verse Cf. 2 Thess. 2, 14
Alleluia.
God has called us
through the proclamation of the gospel
To acquire the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Alleluia.
GOSPEL Mk 9:30-37
The Son of Man is betrayed. Whoever wants to be first must be the servant of all.
From the holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to
Mark
In those days Jesus and his disciples went away from the mountain
and passed through Galilee
but he did not want anyone to know
because he was teaching his disciples.
He said to them:
‘The Son of Man has been betrayed into the hands of men.
people
and they will kill him;
but three days after his death he will rise’.
They did not understand these words
but refused to question him.
They arrived in Capernaum
and once they were in the house, Jesus questioned them:
‘What were you talking about on the road?’.
But they remained silent, for they had
they had been arguing about the question of
who was the greatest.
Then He sat down,
called the twelve and said to them:
‘If anyone wants to be first
he must be the last of all
and the servant of all.
He took a child and put him in their midst;
He embraced him and said to them:
‘Whoever takes such a child in his arms in My Name ,
receives Me;
and whoever lifts Me up
receives not Me, but Him who sent Me’.
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Fratelli tutti
Encyclical of
POPE FRANCISCUS
On brotherhood and social friendship
Shameless aggression
44. Even as individuals maintain their comfortable consumerist isolation, they can choose a form of constant and febrile bonding that encourages remarkable hostility, insults, abuse, defamation and verbal violence destructive of others, and this with a lack of restraint that could not exist in physical contact without tearing us all apart. Social aggression has found unparalleled room for expansion through computers and mobile devices.
Continued
Every day at 1 am
The Bible text in this issue is taken from The New Translation of the Bible,
©Dutch Bible Society 2004/2007.
Reflections on liturgical suggestions for weekdays and Sundays
Fratelli tutti Official English Translation
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