The Lord is truly risen
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
On repeat, we saw how catechesis was often minimal. Nor does Paul stay that long in Philippi, Thessalonica, Berea, Athens to teach. That is why it is so surprising that he stays in Corinth for a year and a half. This unusual course of action is explained in Luke by a vision. Corinth will become an important Christian congregation and Paul is to make a special effort there. There is something else special in this text. Gallio is the brother of the philosopher and he was proconsul in 50-51. This becomes for us an important element of dating Paul’s stay in Corinth and of his first letter to the Thessalonians.
FIRST READING Acts 18:9-18
In this city, many people belong to Me.
From the Acts of the Apostles
When Paul was at Corinth
the Lord spoke to him in a night vision :
“Do not be afraid
but speak, and be not silent.
“I am with you
and no one will touch you to harm you,
for in this city many people belong to Me.”
For a year and a half he stayed there
while he taught the word of God among them.
However, under the proconsulship of Gallio in Achaia
the Jews turned as one against Paul
and brought him to trial.
They declared :
“This man seeks to persuade people
to unlawful god worship.”
Paul was just about to say something
when Gallio replied to the Jews:
“If it was about some injustice or serious crime, Jews ,
i would naturally listen to you patiently.
“But are the disputes about a word ,
about names and about that Law of yours,
then ye must see for yourselves.
“On that I will not be a judge.”
He chased them away from his judgment seat.
Now all threw themselves on Sóstenes, the ruler of the synagogue,
and gave him a beating before the judgment seat.
Gallio did not care.
Paul remained there for many days,
then said goodbye to the brothers
and set sail for Syria in the company of Priscilla and Aquila.
First he had had his head hair cut off in Kenchreë
for he was under vow.
INTERLUDIUM Ps. 47(46), 2-3, 4-5, 6-7
King is God over all the earth.
or: Alleluia
All nations, clap their hands,
rejoice before God with joyful shouts.
For great is the Lord and formidable everywhere,
a mighty prince over all the earth.
Nations He delivers to us
and nations He lays at our feet.
He chooses the inheritance for us,
the pride of Jacob, his beloved.
God rises to the throne under loud cheers,
the Lord with blasts of trumpets.
Sing now to God, let sound your song,
to our King a song of praise!
ALLELUIA Jn 16:28
Alleluia.
I went forth from the Father
and come into the world ;
again I leave the world and go to the Father.
Alleluia.
GOSPEL Jn 16:20-23a
Your joy no one will be able to take away from you.
From the holy gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to
John
At that time, Jesus said to his disciples :
“Verily, verily, I say unto you :
ye shall weep and lament
while the world shall rejoice.
“Ye shall be sorrowful ,
but thy sorrow shall be turned into joy.
“When the woman goes to give birth she is sorrowful
because her hour has come ;
but when she has brought the baby into the world
she no longer thinks of the pain,
of joy that a human being has come into the world.
“So be ye also sorrowful now ,
but when I shall see thee again thy heart shall rejoice
and your joy no one will be able to take away from you.
“On that day ye shall question Me about nothing.”
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Laudato Si
Encyclical by
Pope Francis
On caring for the common home
6. My predecessor Benedict XVI renewed the invitation to
“to eliminate the structural causes of the dysfunction of the world economy
eliminate and improve the growth models that seem incapable of ensuring the
respect for the environment”. He recalled that the
world cannot be analysed by merely isolating one of its aspects
of it, because “the book of nature is one and indivisible”
and includes environment, life, sexuality, family, social relations and other aspects.
Consequently, “the decay of nature is closely related
with the culture that shapes human society”. Pope
Benedict enjoined us to recognise that the natural
environment is full of wounds caused by our irresponsible behaviour.
The social environment too has its wounds.
But all are essentially caused by the same evil, namely
by the idea that there are no indisputable truths that
guide our lives, leaving human freedom without limits.
People forget that “man is not only self-made freedom.
Man does not create himself. He is spirit and will, but he is also nature”.
With paternal concern, he invited us to recognise that
creation has been compromised “where we ourselves are the final authority ,
where it is simply our property and we only waste it for
ourselves. And the waste of creation begins where we
no longer recognise any agency above us, but see only ourselves”.
To be continued
Every day at 1 am
The Bible text in this edition is taken from The New Bible Translation,
© Dutch Bible Society 2004/2007.
Considerations from Liturgical suggestions for weekdays.
Laudato Si English translation