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
Recital
Paul continues in the role of the unsuspecting speaker. It is outrageous what he achieves here by doing what he wants to avoid, which is speaking about himself. They have clearly underestimated him. At the same time, we learn things from his life story that we would never have learned otherwise.
FIRST READING 2 Cor. 11, 18.21b-30
Day by day, the care for all the churches presses on me.
Brothers and sisters,
If so many boast of worldly privileges
so may I.
But if others dare to
– now comes the foolishness –
dare I too.
Are they Hebrews?
So am I.
Are they Israelites?
So am I.
Are they children of Abraham?
Me too.
Are they servants of Christ?
It seems madness: me even more!
I have toiled harder,
i have been imprisoned longer,
i suffered many more blows
and perils of death without number.
Five times the Jews gave me the forty-minus-one.
Three times I was beaten with sticks, once stoned.
Three times I was shipwrecked,
once I spent an entire day at sea.
Always on a journey,
dangers of rivers and dangers of robbers,
dangers from my own people and from the pagans,
dangers in cities and in the desert,
dangers on the sea,
dangers in the midst of false brethren:
With toil and toils, many sleepless nights,
hunger and thirst, often without food,
in cold and nakedness.
And apart from everything else:
Day after day, the care for all the congregations weighs on me.
No one is weak or I am too.
No one falls down
or it seizes me in the soul.
Still, if there is to be praise
i will glory in my weakness.
INTERLUDIUM Ps. 34(33), 2-3, 4-5, 6-7
To the pious who cry out the Lord listens
and rescues them from every need.
The Lord I will praise every day,
his praise is always on my lips.
My spirit is proud of the Lord’s favour,
let every one who hears it rejoice.
Glorify the Lord together with me
and let us worship His Name in unison.
I went to the Lord and He heard me,
He saved me from all that I feared.
Abide in Him, then you will become happy,
for He will not fail you.
Those crying out in distress, to them the Lord listens
and rescues them from their misery.
ALLELUIA John 15, 15b
Alleluia.
I have called you friends, says the Lord,
for I have communicated to you all
what I have heard from the Father.
Alleluia.
GOSPEL Mt 6:19-23
Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
At that time, Jesus said to his disciples:
“Do not gather treasures on earth ,
where they perish through moth and worm
and where thieves break in to steal ;
but gather treasures in heaven,
where they do not perish by moth or worm
and where thieves do not break in to steal.
Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
The lamp of the body is the eye.
So when your eye is bright
all your body will be enlightened.
If, however, your eye is bad
then all your body is dark.
If therefore even your inner light is darkness,
then how bad will the darkness be!”
Laudato Si
Encyclical of
POPE FRANCISCUS
On caring for the common home
The question of water
27. Other indicators of the current situation are related to the
depletion of natural resources. We know very well the impossibility
to maintain the current level of consumption of the most
developed countries and the richest sectors of society, where the
habit of wasting and throwing away reaches unheard-of levels.
Certain extreme limits of exploitation of the planet have already been crossed,
without solving the problem of poverty.
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 and Sundays
Laudato Si Official english translation
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