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.
Consideration
Again, the author quotes masterfully from the Old Testament, namely from Psalm 95: ‘Listen today to his voice’. He adds: ‘Speak courage to one another, every day, as long as that “present” lasts’. This is a wonderful reference to the liturgical ‘present’ , the ‘hodie’ of the liturgy. It is always ‘now “ in the liturgy. the Word of God was spoken, but is also always spoken again ”now’ to us, every time we read it. We need to become more aware of this in order to open up to God’s word ‘now’.
FIRST READING Hebrews 3, 7-14
Speak courage to one another, every day, as long as the ‘present’ lasts.
From the letter to the Hebrews
Brothers and sisters,
Listen to what the Holy Spirit says:
‘Today, when ye hear his voice ,
be not obstinate
as in the days of rebellion,
on the day of the challenge in the desert,
where your fathers challenged me
and put me to the test
even though they had seen My work for forty years.
‘Therefore I became wrathful against that generation
and I said : Always their hearts wander ;
my ways they have not wanted to know.
‘And I swore in My wrath :
Never shall they enter into My rest.’
Take care, brothers and sisters,
that no one among you has such an evil and faithless disposition,
that leads to apostasy from the living God.
Encourage one another
every day, as long as that ‘present’ lasts,
so that no one through sin
to such obstinacy.
For we have become Christ’s partakers,
provided we keep our initial trust
unshaken to the end.
INTERLUDIUM Ps. 95(94), 6-7, 8-9, 10-11
Listen today to the voice of the Lord,
and be not obstinate.
Come, let us fall to the earth in adoration,
kneel down before Him who created us.
He is our God and we are his people,
He is the shepherd and we his flock.
So listen to his voice this day:
Be not obstinate as once in Meriba,
as at Mass in the desert;
where your fathers wanted to defy Me
Although they had seen my deeds.
Forty years this people opposed Me:
I said : Surely they are a wandering people,
they know not my ways.
Therefore I have sworn in wrath:
Never will they find rest with Me.
ALLELUIA Ps. 27(26), 11
Alleluia.
Show me your way, Lord, in the face of opposition,
Lead me along smooth paths.
Alleluia.
GOSPEL Mk. 1, 40-45
Immediately the leprosy disappeared and the man was cleansed.
From the holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to
Mark
Once a leper came to Jesus
Who fell on his knees and begged Him :
‘If Thou wilt, Thou canst cleanse me.’
Moved by compassion, He reached out His hand,
touched him and spoke to him :
‘I will, become clean.’
Immediately the leprosy disappeared and he was cleansed.
As He sent him away, He admonished him emphatically :
‘Take care not to say anything to anyone ,
but go and show yourself to the priest
and offer for your cleansing what Moses has prescribed,
to give them proof.’
Once he left
the man began telling his story everywhere in public
and publicised it,
with the result
that Jesus could no longer enter the city openly ,
but stayed outside in lonely places.
Still, people came to Him from all sides.
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Fratelli tutti
Encyclical of
POPE FRANCISCUS
On fraternity and social friendship
160. Closed populist groups distort the word ‘people’,
since what they are talking about is in fact not a real people.
After all, the category of ‘people’ is open. A living, dynamic people with a
future is a people that remains constantly open to new
syntheses by taking in what is different. It does so not by
denying itself, but rather by a willingness to be set in motion
and questioned, to be expanded and enriched by others
and so she can develop.
To be continued
Every day at 7 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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