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.
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Consideration
This grandiose Christ hymn comes from the early Christian liturgy, and may have been used for Eucharist and baptism. The hymn has one descending and one ascending stanza. The contrast to the paradise story is manifest. Man Adam wants to seize the glory of God. He wants to be equal to God and destroys himself both before and now. In the man Jesus, God follows the opposite path. He comes close to us in Jesus serving us. He reverses the relationships. Jesus not only becomes equal to man, but humbled, obedient, to death on the cross. That is precisely why He is exalted and given a Name that is above all names: Kyrios, Adonai, Lord, this is a Name reserved only for God Himself.
FIRST READING Phil. 2, 5-11
He humbled Himself;
therefore God has exalted Him on high.
From the letter of the holy apostle Paul to the Christians of Philippi
Brothers and sisters,
this mind must reign among you
which animated Christ Jesus :
He who existed in divine majesty,
did not want to cling
to equality with God.
He emptied himself
and took on the existence of a slave.
He became equal to men.
And appearing as man
He humbled Himself
by becoming obedient to death,
to death on a cross.
Therefore God exalted Him on high
and granted Him the name
which is above all names.
So that at the mention of His name
every knee would bow
in heaven, on earth and under the earth ;
And every tongue would confess,
to the glory of God the Father :
Jesus Christ is Lord.
INTERLUDIUM Ps. 22(21), 26b-27, 28-30a, 31-32
Before all the crowd I will praise You, Lord.
You I thank before the eyes of the God-fearing.
The poor will eat and be satiated,
and all who seek God will praise Him,
their courage will be revived.
Then all the nations of the earth will
remember the Lord and turn to Him ;
and fall down before his face
The tribes and nations everywhere.
For to the Lord belongs the kingship,
He is the ruler over all nations.
They that rest in the earth shall worship Him.
My soul will abide before His Face,
my posterity will always be His servant.
It will tell stories of the Lord to the generation to come,
of His righteousness to those born :
this the Lord has done.
ALLELUIA John 6, 64b, 69b
Alleluia.
Your words, Lord, are spirit and life ;
Your words are words of eternal life.
Alleluia.
GOSPEL Lk. 14, 15-24
Hurry into the streets and alleys of the city,
and urgently invite the people to come in,
for my house must become full.
From the holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to
Luke
At that time, one of the table companions said to Jesus :
‘Happy all who will have their meal in the kingdom of God.’
He answered him :
‘Certainly someone gave a great meal and invited many guests.
At the hour of the meal he sent his servant
to say to the guests : Come, everything is ready.
‘But they all suddenly began to excuse themselves.
‘The first one made him say :
I have bought a field
and must necessarily go and see it ;
I beg you to excuse me.
‘A second one said :
I have bought five span oxen and need to go and try them ;
Please excuse me.
‘Yet another :
I got married so recently ; that is why I cannot come.
‘On his return home
the servant conveyed all this to his master.
‘Now the master of the house ignited in anger and ordered his servant :
Hurry to the streets and alleys of the city
and bring the poor, infirm,
blind and lame into this place.
‘When the servant said to him :
Lord, what you have commanded has happened
and still there is room,
the lord instructed his servant :
Go to the roads and courtyards
and urgently invite the people to come in, for my house must become full.
‘I tell you : None of the men who were first invited will taste of my banquet.
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Encyclical of
POPE FRANCISCUS
On brotherhood and social friendship
Above from
88. Love creates bonds from the interior of every heart and
expands existence, when it makes the person step outside himself
towards the other. We are made for love and there is in each of us
‘a kind of law of ‘ecstasy’: stepping outside oneself to find in the other an
increase in being’. Therefore, ‘at some point man must decide
to step outside himself with a leap’.
To be continued|
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The Bible text in this issue is taken from The New Bible Translation,
©Dutch Bible Society 2004/2007.
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