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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 from 1 a.m.
Opening word
After the resurrection of the Lord
everything becomes different for the disciples.
They live from the abundance He gives
and from the love He bestows on them.
In the power of the Holy Spirit
they proclaim that He lives and gives life.
The Lord also fills us with His love and His Spirit
when we come together to listen to His Word
and do what He has instructed.
Let us celebrate, confess and receive Him
to live and speak even more strongly in His Name.
FIRST READING Acts 5 .27b-32.40b-41
To all this we are witnesses but also the Holy Spirit.
From the Acts of the Apostles
In those days the high priest questioned the apostles:
‘Did we not expressly forbid you
to teach in the name of Jesus?
By your doing, all Jerusalem is full of your teaching.
Moreover, you want to charge us with that man’s blood.
‘But Peter and the other apostles replied:
‘One must obey God more than men.
The God of our fathers raised Jesus to life,
to whom you have offended
by putting Him on the cross.
God has exalted Him as Guide and Saviour
at his right hand
to give to Israel
repentance and remission of sins.
Of all this we are witnesses,
but also the Holy Spirit
whom God has given to those who obey Him.’
But the apostles were forbidden to speak in the name of Jesus
and set them free.
They left the High Council,
delighted that they had been found worthy
to suffer defamation for the sake of Jesus’ name.
RESPONSORIAL Ps 30(29) 2 and 4, 5 and 6, 11 and12a and 13b
Refrain
Thee will I praise, Lord, for thou hast delivered me.
Thee will I praise, Lord, for Thou hast delivered me,
Thou hast not let my enemies triumph.
Lord, from the kingdom of the dead Thou hast delivered my soul,
Thou hast set me free from those who descend to the grave.
Sing to the Lord then with me, all his pious ones,
and give thanks to His Name which is highly exalted.
His wrath lasts short, but His mercy lifelong,
the evening brings weeping, the morning joy.
Lord, listen and have mercy on me,
my God, stand by me with thy help.
Thou hast turned my mourning lament into a dance of joy,
Thee will I praise, Lord my God, for ever.
SECOND READING Apok. 5, 11-14
Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and riches.
From the Revelation of the holy apostle John
I, John, watched
and heard the voice of countless angels around the throne
and the voice of living creatures and of the elders;
and their number was ten thousand ten thousand
and thousands of thousands of thousands;
and they cried aloud:
‘Worthy is the Lamb that was slain
to receive the power and the riches,
wisdom and strength,
and honour and glory and praise.’
And every creature in heaven and on earth
and under the earth and in the sea,
the whole universe I heard crying out:
‘To Him who is seated on the throne
And to the Lamb
be praise and honour and glory and power
throughout the ages of ages!’
And the four living creatures said:
‘Amen.’
And the elders fell down in adoration.
Verse for the Gospel Lk. 24,26
Alleluia.
Didn’t the Messiah have to suffer all that
to enter into his glory?
Alleluia
GOSPEL Jn 21:1- 19 or 21:1-14
Jesus stepped closer, took the bread and gave it to them and so did the fish.
From the holy gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John
At that time Jesus appeared once more to the disciples
at the lake of Tiberias.
The appearance proceeded as follows:
’there were gathered together:
Simon Peter, Tomas who is also called Dídymus,
Natánael from Cana in Galilee,
the sons of Zebedee and two more of his disciples.
Simon Peter said to them:
‘I am going fishing!’
They replied:
‘Then we will go with you.’
So they set out and climbed into the boat
but they caught nothing that night.
When morning was already dawning
Jesus was standing on the beach,
but the disciples did not know it was Jesus.
Jesus addressed them:
‘Friends, do you sometimes have some fish?’
‘Nay!’
they said.
Then He commanded them:
‘Cast out the net to the right of the boat,
there you will catch something.’
After they had done so,
they were no longer able to retrieve the net
because of the great quantity of fish.
At that, the disciple whom Jesus loved dearly said to Peter:
‘It is the Lord!”When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord
he put on his outer garment
– for he was wearing only a lower garment –
and jumped into the lake.
The other disciples came by boat,
for they were not far from the shore,
only about two hundred cubits,
and dragged the net with the fish behind them.
When they had stepped ashore
they saw that a charcoal fire had been laid out
with fish on it and bread.
Jesus spoke to them:
‘Get some of the fish that you have just caught.’
Simon Peter went back on board
and dragged the net ashore.
It was full of big fish, one hundred and fifty-three,
and although there were so many, the net did not tear.
Jesus said to them:
‘Come and have breakfast.’
Knowing that it was the Lord
none of the disciples dared to ask Him:
‘Who art Thou?’
Jesus stepped closer,
took the bread and gave it to them,
and so did the fish.
Now this was the third time Jesus had appeared to the disciples
since He had risen from the dead.
(After breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter:
‘Simon, son of John,
dost thou love Me more than these love Me?’
Simon replied:
‘Yes Lord,
Thou knowest that I love Thee.’
Jesus said to him:
‘Pasture My lambs.’
A second time He said to him:
‘Simon, son of John, do you love Me?’
And this one answered:
‘Yes Lord, Thou knowest that I love Thee.’
Jesus resumed:
‘Shepherd My sheep.’
For the third time, Jesus asked:
‘Simon, son of John, do you love Me?’
Now Peter was grieved,
because He asked him a third time:
Do you love Me?
and he said to Him:
‘Lord, Thou knowest all things; Thou knowest that I love Thee.’
Thereupon Jesus said to him:
‘Pasture My sheep.
Verily, verily, I say unto thee:
When thou wast young
did thou put thy girdle upon thyself and go whithersoever thou wouldest,
but when thou art old thou shalt stretch forth thy hands,
and another shall girdle thee
and take thee whither thou wilt not.’
With this He alluded to death
through which Peter would glorify God.
And after these words, He told him:
‘Follow Me.’
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Fratelli tutti
Encyclical of
POPE FRANCISCUS
On brotherhood and social friendship
267. Let me stress that ‘it is inconceivable that states today
cannot have at their disposal means other than the death penalty to protect the
lives of other persons from an unjust aggressor’. Particularly serious are
the so-called extrajudicial or
extrajudicial executions, which are ‘deliberate killings perpetrated by
some states and their representatives and which are often intended to be
pass for clashes with criminals or are presented as
undesirable consequences of a reasonable, necessary and proportionate use
of force to enforce the law’.
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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