Italian Catholic religious
Born 21/3/1470
Died 27/1/1540 Brescia
Foundress Ursulines
Invitation
May I hereby draw your attention to
the daily reading of the Gospel?
This invitation wishes 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
The end result of Christ’s work is salvation and redemption. This is rewritten on the model of the Jewish Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur). But Christ’s highness as high priest is additionally underlined because He had to enter the heavenly sanctuary not every year, but only once.
FIRST READING Hebrews 9, 15.24-28
Christ appeared only once to cleanse sins;
if He appears a second time it will be to bring salvation
to all who look forward to Him.
From the letter to the Hebrews
Brothers and sisters,
Christ is mediator of a new covenant:
A dying has taken place
that brings deliverance from the sins
committed under the first covenant;
now those who have been called by God
receive the eternal inheritance promised to them.
For Christ did not enter the sanctuary that was
-made by human hands –
is only a symbol of the true sanctuary ;
He entered heaven itself to be there now
present with God for our sake.
Nor does He have to sacrifice Himself there again and again,
whereas the high priest, year after year
enters the Most Holy Place with blood that is not His own.
Otherwise, Christ would have had to suffer several times,
from the beginning of the world;
but in fact He appeared only once,
at the climax of history,
to absolve sins by His sacrifice.
It is man’s fate to die once
and then comes the judgement ;
so too Christ was sacrificed once
because He had taken upon Himself the sins of all ;
if He appears a second time it will be
apart from sin,
to bring salvation to all who look to Him.
INTERLUDIUM Ps. 98(97), 1, 2-3ab, 3cd-4, 5-6
Sing to the Lord a new song
Because He did wonders.
His hand asserted itself mightily,
the power of His holy arm.
His benefits He made known to us,
His justice to the nations.
Once again His goodness and faithfulness proved
in favour of Israel’s house.
All the earth beheld
what our God did for us.
Glorify the Lord, all nations,
be glad, rejoice and sing.
Sing to the Lord by the zither,
with zither and psalters.
Let trumpet and trumpet sound
And dance before the Lord your king.
ALLELUIA Ps. 119(118), 135
Alleluia.
Let your Face shine before your servant, Lord,
show me your dispositions.
Alleluia.
GOSPEL Mk. 3, 22-30
When Satan is divided, then his end has come.
From the holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark
In those days the scribes said of Jesus
That Beelzebub dwelt in Him
and that through the prince of devils He was
drove out the devils.
Jesus called them to Himself and spoke to them in parables :
How can one Satan cast out another?
‘When an empire is inwardly divided
that kingdom cannot stand.
‘When a house is inwardly divided
that house will not be able to stand.
‘And when Satan rises up against himself and is divided,
he cannot stand, but his end has come.
‘Moreover,
no one can enter the house of a strong one
to rob his household goods
if he has not first bound that strong one.
‘Only then can he empty his house.
‘Verily, I say unto you :
All sins will be forgiven to men ,
even all blasphemies they have uttered,
but if anyone blasphemes against the Holy Spirit
he will not be pardoned in eternity ;
he is encumbered with an everlasting sin.’
This because they had said :
An unclean spirit dwells in Him.
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Fratelli tutti
Encyclical of
POPE FRANCISCUS
On brotherhood and social friendship
171. I would like to stress that ‘to give each his own according to
the classical definition of justice means that no individual
or group of people should be considered omnipotent, competent to protect the
dignity and rights of other people individually or of social
groups trampled upon. The actual distribution of power –
economic, military, technological, and so on – between different
individuals and the creation of a legal system for regulating
of claims and interests achieves a limitation of power. A
global overview today, however, shows us many sham rights and
at the same time – broad sectors without protection, which are rather victims
of poor implementation of power’.
To be continued
Every day at 1 am
The Bible text in this issue is taken from The New Translation of the Bible,
©Dutch Bible Society 2004/2007.
Considerations from Liturgical suggestions for weekdays and Sundays
Fratelli tutti Official english translation
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