Polish nun, visionary and mystic
Born on 25 August 1905
Died on 5 October 1938
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
Doesn’t the end of the book of Job – after yesterday’s reading – bring an anticlimax? A happy ending like in a not-so-good American film? Perhaps the question will be resolved if we open the Bible. The beginning and end of the book are written in prose. Perhaps a very old story (frame story). Reading the beginning and end one after the other, one has the traditional view. Job is tried, Job submits, Job is rewarded in this life. The long middle section is poetry and differs in language, style and content from the prose text. Perhaps this is a later inserted text by an author who wrestles very seriously with traditional teaching and wants to probe the mystery of God’s policy.
FIRST READING Job 42, 1-3.5-6.12-17
Now have my eyes beheld Thee.
Therefore I recant my words.
From the Book of Job
Then it happened
That Job gave to the Lord the following answer :
‘I have acknowledged that Thou hast all power ;
nothing that Thou wilt is refused Thee.
‘Therefore I spoke in stupidity ,
about things too wonderful for my understanding.
‘From hearsay I had heard about Thee ;
‘Therefore I recant my words, and do penance in dust and ashes.’
Then the Lord blessed Job, even more than before,
and he received fourteen thousand sheep,
a thousand herd of cattle and a thousand donkeys.
He also got seven sons and three daughters.
The first he named Jemina,
the second Kesia and the third Keren-Happuk.
There were no women to be found in all the land,
as beautiful as the daughters of Job,
and their father gave them an inheritance as well as to her brothers.
After that, Job lived another hundred and forty years,
and he saw his children and grandchildren
to the fourth generation.
Then Job died, very old and tired of life.
INTERLUDIUM Ps 119(118), 66, 71, 75, 91, 125, 130
Let your Face shine before your servant, Lord.
Grant me then insight and wisdom,
For in your commandments I put my hope.
The affliction was a benefit to me :
Thus I learned what Thou disposes.
Righteous is what Thou determinest, Lord, I know,
Thou hast punished me justly.
As Thou hast ordained, so be it for ever,
for all that exists serves Thee.
Thy servant am I, give me understanding
To know what Thou dost ordain.
The interpretation of Thy words gives clarity,
give wisdom to the inexperienced.
ALLELUIA Ps. 130(129), 5
Alleluia.
In the Lord I put my hope,
In his word I trust.
Alleluia.
GOSPEL Lk. 10, 17-24
Rejoice because your names are recorded in heaven.
From the Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to
Luke
At that time the seventy-two disciples returned
returned full of joy and said :
‘Lord, even the devils
submit to us through your Name.’
Jesus told them :
‘I saw Satan falling from heaven like a thunderbolt.
‘I have given you power
To tread on serpents and scorpions,
to rule over all the power of the enemy;
and nothing shall be able to harm thee.
‘Yet you must not rejoice at the fact
That the devils are subject to thee ,
but rejoice
because your names are recorded in heaven.’
At that hour He rejoiced, filled with the Holy Spirit,
and He spoke :
‘I praise Thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth ,
because Thou hast hidden these things
From the wise and understanding ,
but have revealed them to children.
‘Yes, Father,
so it has pleased Thee.
‘All things have been given to Me by My Father.
‘No one knows who the Son is unless the Father ;
and who the Father is unless the Son
and he to whom the Son will reveal Him.’
Thereupon He turned to His disciples separately
and He said to them :
‘Happy are the eyes that see what ye see.
‘I say to you :
Many prophets and kings longed to see what ye see
but they have not seen it;
and to hear what ye hear
but they heard it not.’
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Fratelli tutti
Encyclical of
POPE FRANCISCUS
On brotherhood and social friendship
The background
57. This parable contains a background of centuries. Shortly after the story
of the creation of the world and of man, the Bible shows the challenge
of interrelationships. Cain eliminates his brother Abel and God’s
question echoes, ‘Where is your brother Abel?’ (Gen. 4:9). The answer is
the same as what we often give: ‘Am I then my brother’s keeper?
(Ibid.). With his answer, God challenges any type of determinism or fatalism
that purports to justify indifference
as the only possible answer. Instead, it allows us to create a different
culture that directs us to overcome enmities and take on the
care for each other.
To be continued
Every day at 1 am
The Bible text in this issue is taken from The New Bible Translation,
©Dutch Bible Society 2004/2007.
Considerations from Liturgical suggestions for weekdays
Fratelli tutti Official English translation
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