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
This Sunday’s gospel invites us
not to be too quick to judge others.
After all, we are often very quick to criticise,
but at the same time we fail to see and acknowledge our own shortcomings.
Moreover, we often judge others
based on rumours and first impressions.
If we learn to look at others with God’s gaze,
we will grow in mildness, patience and mercy.
In this celebration, let us look at the treasure of our hearts
and refresh ourselves in the source of goodness that God wants to be for us.
FIRST READING Sir. 27, 4-7
Praise no man before he has spoken.
From the book of Wisdom of Jesus Sirach
When one shakes the sieve, the chaff remains.
Thus in speaking one discovers man’s evil.
The potter’s work is tested by the furnace,
and man by what he says in conversation.
By the fruit of the tree one recognises the orchard,
and by man’s words his disposition.
Therefore praise no man before he has spoken,
for only by this can one judge a man.
Response Psalm Ps. 92(91), 2-3, 13-14, 15-16
Refrain
How glorious it is to praise the Lord.
How glorious it is to praise the Lord,
to praise Your Name, Most High.
To report Your goodness every morning
and all through the night Your faithfulness.
The pious shoot up like palm trees,
thriving like cedars of Lebanon;
They are planted at the house of the Lord,
they blossom in God’s court.
Even when they are already old they bear fruit,
they remain succulent and fresh.
They show how righteous the Lord is,
my Rock, in Him there is no injustice.
SECOND READING 1 Cor. 15:54-58
God gives us victory through Jesus Christ.
From the holy apostle Paul’s first letter to the Christians of Corinth
Brothers and sisters,
When the perishable is clothed with immortality
and the mortal with immortality,
then the word of Scripture will be fulfilled:
‘Death has been devoured,
victory has been won!
‘Death, where is thy victory?
‘Death, where is thy sting?’
The sting of death is sin
and the power of sin is the law.
But thanks be to God,
who gives us the victory
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Therefore, beloved brothers and sisters,
be steadfast and unshaken
and always continue the work of the Lord;
surely ye know that your effort, thanks be to Him, is not in vain.
Verse for the Gospel Phil. 2, 15-16
Alleluia.
Shine like stars in the universe,
hold fast to the word that gives life.
Alleluia.
GOSPEL Lk. 6, 39-45
What the heart is full of, the mouth overflows with.
From the holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke
At that time, Jesus held out this parable to his disciples:
‘Can sometimes one blind man lead the other?
‘Do not then both fall into the pit?
‘The disciple is not above his master ;
but he will be fully formed if he is like his master.
‘Why do you look at the mote in your brother’s eye
and why dost thou heed not the beam in thine own eye?
‘How can you say to your brother:
Brother, let me take the mote out of thy eye,
while you do not notice the beam in your own eye?
‘Hypocrite,
first remove the beam from your own eye,
then you will see clearly enough
to be able to remove the mote
that is in your brother’s eye.
‘There is no good tree that brings forth diseased fruit
Nor a sick tree that brings forth good fruit.
‘For a tree is known by its fruits;
One does not pluck figs from thorns,
one does not harvest grapes from a bramble.
‘A good man brings forth goodness
from the treasure of goodness in his heart;
but an evil man brings forth evil
from his treasure of wickedness;
for what the heart is full of, the mouth overflows with it.’
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Fratelli tutti
Encyclical of
POPE FRANCISCUS
On brotherhood and social friendship
205. In this globalised world ‘the media can help us
to make us feel closer to each other; they can help to give us a
renewed sense of the unity of the human family
perception, which encourages solidarity and a serious commitment to
a more dignified life. […] In this regard, especially today, the
communication networks help us, now that they have reached an unprecedented development
In particular, the internet can offer greater opportunities for
encounter and solidarity among all, and this is a good thing; it is a
gift from God’. However, it is necessary to constantly monitor whether
the current forms of communication actually direct us towards a
generous encounter, on the honest search for the full truth, on
service, on closeness to the least, on commitment to promote the
common good. At the same time, we ‘may’ – and on this point
pointed out by the bishops of Australia – not accept a digital world
designed to exploit our weakness and bring out the worst in
people to the outside world’.
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
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