Saint Carolus Borromeo was bishop of Milan.He was born on
2 October 1538 and died on 4 November 1584.
Invitation
May I draw your attention to
the daily Gospel reading
This invitation wants to share with you 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
Knowing Paul’s relationships with the Philippians, it is not surprising that friendship is a major theme in this letter. What a series of kind words follow one another here: love, community, cordiality, compassion, joy, unity of thought, unity in love, togetherness, unanimity. At the same time, this reading is a prelude to tomorrow’s beautiful Christological hymn.
FIRST READING Phil 2, 1-4
Make my joy complete with your unanimity.
From the letter of the holy apostle Paul to the Christians of Philippi
Brothers and sisters,
as exhortations in Christ and discourses in love have some force,
if fellowship in spirit,
if cordiality and compassion mean anything to you,
then make my joy complete with your unity of thought,
your unity in love,
your unity and unanimity.
Do not indulge in partiality and vanity
but in humility consider the other higher than yourself.
Let no one be concerned only with his own interests
but the interests of others.
INTERLUDIUM Ps. 131(130), 1, 2, 3
With you, O Lord, I am safe;
Protect me in your peace.
My heart is not haughty, O Lord
My eyes do not look conceited.
Nor do I strive for great deeds
Higher than I can reach.
The storms are calm within me
And peaceful is my spirit.
Like a child in its mother’s womb,
So safe do I feel.
Take refuge, O Israel, in the Lord
From now until eternity.
ALLELUIAH Mt 4:4b
Alleluia.
Man does not live by bread alone
but from all that proceeds from the mouth of God.
Alleluia.
GOSPEL Lk 14:12-14
Invite not your friends, but the poor and the sick.
From the holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to
Luke
In those days Jesus said to the Pharisee
who had invited him to the table:
‘When you give a meal or supper ,
do not invite your friends, your brothers and your relatives
or your rich neighbours.
‘It may be that they in turn invite you, and you will receive it back.
And so you will receive it back.
‘But if you give a guest meal ,
then invite the poor, the sick, the lame and the blind.
‘Happy you will be
for they will not be able to give it back to you.
‘It will be given back to you
at the resurrection of the righteous’.
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Fratelli tutti
Encyclical by
POPE FRANCISCUS
On brotherhood and social friendship
CHAPTER THREE
Imagining and creating an open world
87. Man is made in such a way that he does not
realise, develop and find his own fullness,
‘but by the sincere gift of himself’. And in the same way, he comes
to recognition of his own deepest truth only in the encounter with others:
‘I communicate effectively with myself only to the extent that I communicate with the other’.
This explains why no one
can experience the value of life without concrete faces for loving.
Here is a secret of authentic human existence
because life exists where there is unity, community,
brotherhood and it is a life stronger than death,
when it is built on true relationships and bonds of loyalty. On the contrary, there is no
life in which one pretends to be alone of oneself and live as an island:
in these attitudes, death prevails’.
Continued from
Every day at 1 am
The Bible text of this issue is taken from The New Bible Translation,
Netherlands Bible Society 2004/2007.
Considerations of liturgical suggestions for weekdays and Sundays
Fratetelli tutti Official English Translation
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