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.
Introducion
It is a familiar event:
The day after All Saints‘ Day, we celebrate All Souls’ Day.
We remember all our dear departed who have gone before us
and know ourselves connected to them, even beyond death.
Our faith in the resurrection
makes us say that Love is stronger than death.
Our God is a God of the living, not of the dead.
Today we add to our litany of saints
– aloud or in silence –
the names of people we have known.
We ask them: pray for us,
that we too may be secured in his Love.
FIRST READING Isaiah 25,6a.7-9
From the prophet Isaiah
On that day the LORD of the heavenly powers will
on this mountain will set up a banquet for all nations.
On this mountain He will tear the veil
that lies over the peoples and the cloth that covers all nations.
God the LORD will destroy death forever;
He will wipe away the tears from all faces,
and remove the disgrace of his people from all the earth.
For so the LORD has decreed.
On that day people will say:
This is our God.
We hoped in Him and He has saved us.
This is the LORD in whom we had put our trust: let us be glad and rejoice
for the salvation He has brought us.
SECOND READING Apocalypse 21,1-5a,6b-7
From the revelation of the holy apostle John.
I, John, saw
a new heaven and a new earth;
the first heaven and the first earth were gone
and the sea no longer existed.
And I saw the holy City, the new Jerusalem,
of God coming down from heaven,
beautiful as a bride adorned before her husband.
Then I heard a mighty voice calling from the throne:
‘Behold here God’s dwelling among men!
He will dwell with them,
they shall be His people,
and He, God-with-him, will be their God.
He will wipe away all tears from their eyes
and death will be no more;
no mourning, no weeping, no sorrow shall there be
for all the old has passed away.’
And he who is seated on the throne spoke:
‘Behold, I make all things new.
I am the Alpha and the Omega,
The Origin and the End.
Whoever is thirsty, I will give him to drink for nothing
from the fountain of the water of life.
He who overcomes will receive all this
and I will be his God and he my son’.
GOSPEL Luke 23:44-46,50,52-53; 24:1-6a
From the holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke.
It was about the sixth hour;
darkness fell over all the region
until the ninth hour
because the sun gave no more light.
The veil of the temple tore in the middle.
Then Jesus cried out in a loud voice:
‘Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit’.
Having said this, He gave up the ghost.
Now there was a certain Joseph,
a member of the High Council,
a benevolent and righteous man.
This one went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.
Having taken it off the cross
he wrapped it in a shroud.
Then he laid Him in a tomb
which had been carved in stone
in which no one had ever been laid before.
On the first day of the week, however
the women went to the tomb very early in the morning,
with the fragrant spices they had prepared.
They found the stone rolled away from the tomb,
went in
but did not find the body of the Lord Jesus there.
While they did not know what to make of that,
suddenly two men stood before them
in a bright white robe.
When they were overcome with terror,
bowed their heads to the ground,
the men asked her:
‘Why do you seek the living among the dead?
He is not here, He is risen.’
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Fratelli tutti
Encyclical of
POPE FRANCISCUS
On Fraternity and Social Friendship
85. For Christians, the words of Jesus have another,
transcendent, dimension. They imply that we must recognise Christ himself
in every abandoned or excluded brother or sister
(cf.Mat 25, 40.45). In fact, faith complements the recognition of the other with
outrageous motivations, because those who believe can come to recognise
that God|loves every human being with an infinite love and that ‘He thereby grants him an
infinite dignity’. Added to this, we believe that
Christ shed His blood for all and for each and therefore
no one remains outside his universal love. And if we go to the final source
go, which is the inner life of God, we encounter a communion
of three Persons, the origin and perfect model of every life
in communion. Theology continues to enrich itself by contemplating
this great truth.
To be continued
All days 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 and Sundays
Fratelli tutti Official English translation
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