French saint and church teacher. Born 2 Jan 1873
at Alençon and died 30 Sep 1897 at Lisieux.
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 the Word of God.
Available every day
Consideration
We listen to Job’s complaints. With ever new images, Job expresses his incomprehension at the suffering that afflicts him. Why is life given to a man who does not know where to go? In that complaint, we hear the cry of millions of people on earth. The book of Job is not a book of days gone by. It is a book for every new age and has amazing topicality. Can faith survive any eventuality?
FIRST READING Job 3, 1-3.11-17.20-23
Why was light given to the wretched?
From the book of Job
When Job was struck by so much calamity
he opened his mouth and cursed the days of his life.
He began like this:
‘Farewell to the day in which I was born ,
and the night in which I was conceived.
‘Why did I not die in the womb ,
not suffocated in my birth?
‘Why did the knees receive me
Why did the breasts suckle me?
‘Then now I would lie, I would rest, I would sleep undisturbed
Next to kings and princes of this world,
Who brought glory back to ruined palaces;
By princes who once owned much gold
And had houses laden with silver.
‘Oh, if I had not been laid on earth like a child born sick,
Like a child who never saw the light of life.
‘There the lust of the wicked is silent,
There rests their restlessness.
‘Why give light to the unhappy?
Life to the bitter?
‘They wait for death that does not come;
They desire death more than a hidden treasure.
‘Happy would they be with their end,
‘Happy ending in the grave.
‘Why is life given
To a man who does not know where to go,
Now that God shuts him out?’
INTERLUDIUM Ps. 88(87), 2-3, 4-5, 6, 7-8
May my supplication reach you, O Lord.
Lord my God, every day I cry to you
Night after night I come to You complaining.
Let my supplication penetrate to You,
hear my urgent cry.
For my soul is saturated with pain,
I now stand before the realm of the dead.
I am regarded as a man going to the grave,
like a grey-haired man at the end of his strength.
Under the shadows I have my abode,
a fallen man buried.
There is no one left to think of him,
from Thy care he is gone forever.
In a pit Thou hast cast me down
In the darkness of a deep cavern.
Heavily Thy wrath presses upon me,
In the torrent of Thy wrath I am buried.
Alleluia Ps. 27(26), 11
Alleluia.
Show me Your way, O Lord, in the face of opposition,
lead me on level paths.
Alleluia.
GOSPEL Lk. 9, 51-56
Jesus resolutely accepts the journey to Jerusalem.
From the holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to
Luke
When the days of his exaltation
approached their fulfilment,
Jesus resolutely accepted the journey to Jerusalem.
and sent messengers ahead of him.
They came on their journey to a Samaritan village to prepare for his stay there.
To prepare for his stay there.
But the Samaritans did not welcome him
because Jerusalem was the goal of their journey.
When the disciples James and John heard this, they asked, ‘What are you doing there?
They asked:
‘Lord, do you want us to send down fire from heaven to destroy them?
To destroy them.
But He turned around and rebuked them in a stern tone.
Then they went to another village.
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Fratelli tutti
Encyclical of
POPE FRANCISCUS
On brotherhood and social love
53. We forget that “there is no worse form of alienation than to feel uprooted, belonging to no one. A land will be fruitful, and its people bear fruit and give birth to the future, only to the extent that it can foster a sense of belonging among its members, create bonds of integration between generations and different communities, and avoid all that makes us insensitive to others and leads to further alienation”.
Continued
Every day at 1 am
The Bible text of this issue is taken from The New Translation of the Bible,
©Dutch Bible Society 2004/2007.
Considerations of liturgical suggestions for weekdays and Sundays
Fratelli tutti Official English translation
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