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.
OPENING WORD
After the Christmas season, in the liturgy
still sound words of joy and communion.
The image of bride and bridegroom
tells us how intensely God wants to be connected to us
and the miraculous event at a wedding
reveals how Jesus is our true joy.
In this hour, let us give thanks
for this joy and connection.
The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
further invites us, with the power of the Spirit, to
to make work of communion
in the great diversity
with which people profess their faith in Christ.
May that communion be our joy today!
FIRST READING Isa 62:1-5
The bridegroom rejoices over the bride.
From the prophet Isaiah
For the sake of Zion I cannot keep silent
For the sake of Jerusalem I will not keep quiet.
For like the sun her righteousness shall shine,
her salvation burn like a torch.
The nations shall behold thy righteousness,
all kings shall see thy glory
and people will give you a new name,
a name devised by the Lord.
In the hand of the Lord you shall be a sparkling crown,
in the hand of thy God a royal diadem.
Thou shalt no more be called: ‘theForsaken’,
thy land no more: ‘Desolation’;
but thou shalt be called: ‘My Prosperity’,
thy land: ‘Married’.
For in thee hath the Lord taken his pleasure
and thy land is given to Him in marriage.
As a boy marries his maiden,
He who builds you up will marry you;
and as a bridegroom rejoices in his bride,
shall your Gog rejoice in you.
Answer Psalm Ps 96(95), 1-2a, 2b-3, 7-8a, 9=10a and c
Refrain
Report to the nations God’s wonderful deeds
Sing to the Lord a new song,
sing to the Lord, all nations.
Sing to the Lord and glorify His Name.
Proclaim his salvation all the days.
Report to the nations God’s glory
His wondrous deeds to all nations.
Homage the Lord, all tribes and nations,
hail the Lord for his glory and power,
hail the Lord for the glory of His Name.
Go and worship Him in holy garb.
Tremble before the Lord, all people of the earth,
say to one another: ‘The Lord reigns!
The nations He governs with equity’.
SECOND READING 1 Cor 12:4-11
One and the same Spirit distributes to each his gifts as He wills.
From the holy apostle Paul’s first letter to the Christians of Corinth
Brothers and sisters,
There are several gifts but only one Spirit.
There are many forms of service
but only one Lord.
There are all kinds of work
but there is only one God
who brings everything into being.
But to each of us
are communicated the revelation of the Spirit
for the good of all.
To one is given by the Spirit a word of wisdom
to another a word of knowledge by virtue of the same Spirit,
to a third, by the same Spirit, faith.
To still others the one Spirit bestows gifts
to heal diseases, to do miracles,
the gift of prophecy,
the discernment of spirits,
many languages or their interpretation.
But all are the work of one and the same Spirit,
who distributes His gifts to each one as He wills.
Verse for the gospel 2 Thess. 2, 14
Alleluia.
God has called us through the proclamation of the gospel,
to acquire the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Alleluia
EVANGELY John 2, 1-12
So at Cana in Galilee, Jesus made a beginning of signs.
From the holy gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John
At that time there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee,
at which the mother of Jesus was present.
Jesus and his disciples
were also invited to that wedding.
When the wine ran out ,
Jesus’ mother said to Him:
‘They have no more wine.’
Jesus said to her:
‘Woman, is that sometimes your business?
‘’Yet my hour has not come.’
His mother spoke to the servants:
‘’Do whatever He will tell you.‘’
Now, according to the cleansing custom of the Jews, there stood there
six stone jars,
each with a capacity of about a hundred litres.
Jesus said to them:
‘’Do those jars full of water.‘’
They filled them to the top.
Thereupon He said to them:
‘’Now scoop out some
and bring that to the table master.‘’
They did so.
The table master tasted the water
which had turned into wine.
He did not know where that wine had come from,
but the servants who had scooped the water,
they knew.
As soon as he had tasted, he called the groom and told him:
‘’Everyone first put the good wine before
and once one has drunk well, the lesser.
‘’You have kept the good wine until now.‘’
So at Cana in Galilee, Jesus began the signs
and revealed His glory.
And His disciples believed in Him.
Then He descended to Capernaum
Himself and His mother,
the brothers and His disciples;
but they stayed there only a few days.
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Fratelli tutti
Encyclical of
POPE FRANCISCUS
On brotherhood and social friendship
Values and limits of liberal visions
163. The category of people, to which a positive appreciation of the
communal and cultural ties is inherent, is usually
rejected by individualist liberal visions, in which society
is seen as merely a sum of juxtaposed interests.
They speak of respect for freedom, but without the root
of a common narrative. In certain contexts, the
accusation of populism against all those who defend the rights of the
weakest in society. In this view, the category of people is
a myth of something that does not exist in reality. Here, however, an
unnecessary polarisation created, since neither those of the people nor those
of the neighbour are purely mythical or romantic categories that the
social organisation, science and institutions of the
civil society exclude or disdain.
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 and Sundays
Fratelli tutti Official English translation
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