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
An innumerable crowds of faith witnesses have preceded us. They are close to us when we want to free ourselves from everything that holds us captive. Today they encourage us to distance ourselves from evil and brokenness, from sin and addictions. They teach us to fix our eyes on the Lord Jesus: of all of them, he is the greatest witness of faith. But to fix eyes on Jesus is often to fix eyes on the cross: the pre-eminent symbol of faith, of love and surrender. When we look to that cross, our trials will be put into proper perspective.
FIRST READING Hebrews 12, 1-4
Let us run with determination the race
for which we have entered
From the letter to the Hebrews
Brothers and sisters,
Let us join the crowd of witnesses of faith,
and shake off every burden and obstacle of sin,
to run with determination the race
for which we have entered.
Behold Jesus,
the captain and finisher of our faith.
Instead of the joy that was His due
He took upon Himself a cross
and did not count the shame :
now He sits at the right side of God’s throne.
Think of Him
who had to endure so much backlash from sinners;
that will help you not to fall out and give up.
Your battle against sin has not yet cost you blood.
INTERLUDIUM Ps 22(21), 26b- 27, 28,30,31-32
All who seek God, praise Him.
For all the congregation I will praise You, Lord,
Thank You before the eyes of the God-fearing.
The poor shall 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.
They that rest in the earth shall worship Him,
And to Him shall he bow down who descends into the dust.
My soul shall dwell 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 Jn 6, 64b, 69b
Alleluia.
Your words, Lord, are spirit and life;
your words are words of eternal life
Alleluia.
GOSPEL Mk 5, 21-43
Girl, I say to you, stand up.
From the Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to
Mark
At that time, when Jesus had crossed again by boat,
many people flocked to Him.
While He was on the shore of the lake ,
there came a certain Jairus, the ruler of the synagogue.
When he saw Jesus, he fell at His feet
and begged Him urgently:
‘My little daughter may die at any moment,
come and lay your hands on her
that she may be healed and live.’
Jesus went with Him.
A dense crowd accompanied Him, pressing in from all sides.
Among them was a woman who had been suffering from haemorrhage for 12 years.
She had had much to endure from a host of doctors
and spent her entire fortune,
but to no avail;
on the contrary, things had got worse with her.
Because she had heard about Jesus ,
she pressed forward in the crowd
and touched his cloak.
For she said to herself:
‘If I can only touch his clothes ,
I will be healed.’
Immediately the bleeding stopped
and she became aware from her body
that she was cured of her ailment.
At the same moment, Jesus was aware
that a power had gone out from Him;
He turned around in the midst of the crowd and asked:
‘Who touched my clothes?’
His disciples said to Him:
‘Thou seest the crowd pressing in from all sides, and Thou askest:
Who touched Me?’
But He let His gaze wander around to see who had done so.
Knowing what had happened to her,
the woman came and threw herself down before Him, anxious and trembling
and confessed to Him the whole truth.
Then Jesus spoke to her:
‘Daughter, your faith has healed you.
‘Go in peace and be delivered from your affliction.’
He had not yet spoken or one came
from the house of the superior of the synagogue with the message:
‘Your daughter has died.
‘Wherefore wouldst thou trouble the Master any longer?’
Jesus caught what was being reported
and said to the superior of the synagogue:
‘Do not be afraid but keep believing.’
He let no one go with him
except Peter, James and John, the brother of James.
When they arrived at the house of the superior ,
He saw the mourning mass
of people weeping loudly and lamenting.
He went in and said to them:
‘Why this mourning and weeping?
‘The child has not died but is sleeping.’
Yet they laughed at Him.
But Jesus sent them all out and went
with His companions and the child’s father and mother
into the room where the child lay.
He took the child’s hand and said to her:
‘Talita koemi’;
which translated means:
Girl, get up.
Immediately the girl got up and walked around
for it was twelve years old.
And they stood dumbfounded.
He emphatically imposed on them
that no one was to find out, and added
that they should feed her.
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Fratelli tutti
Encyclical of
POPE FRANCISCUS
On brotherhood and social friendship
179. The world community has serious structural flaws that cannot be
be solved with stopgap or quick occasional solutions.
There are issues that must be changed with a fundamental
reset and a major transformation. Only sound politics could
lead in this, involving the most diverse
sectors and involve the most diverse knowledge. Thus, an
economy integrated into a political, social, cultural
project for the people, aimed at the common good, ‘open the way [to]
open to various possibilities that do not imply that human
creativity and its dream of progress are halted, but
rather channel this energy in a new way’.
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.
Reflections from Liturgical suggestions for weekdays and Sundays
Fratelli tutti Official English translation
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