Friday – Sacred Heart of Jesus

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
Even when his love is misunderstood, God remains faithful. For even after his death, Jesus remains a source of divine life: Blood and water flow from his side. In the sacraments of Baptism (water) and Eucharist (blood), this stream of life comes to us: Jesus wants to take up residence in our hearts to make them like his. To remain rooted in love: this is also Paul’s prayer. Let us gratefully look up to the crucified one. Because for us too, the day is near when you will draw water from the well of salvation with a clean heart (Is 12:3).

Thus speaks the LORD God:
“I seek my flock and visit my own sheep.
Just as a shepherd looks after his flock ,
and goes among his sheep when they are scattered,
so I will look after my sheep
and bring them to safety, however far they have strayed
as a result of fog and mist.
I will gather them together from all nations,
and drive them together from all nations,
to lead them to their own ground;
I will make them graze on Israel’s mountains,
in their own valleys and inhabited regions.
I will pasture them on fat ground,
high on the mountains is their pasture land;
there they may rest and graze
on grassy ground and fat pastures,
on the mountains of Israel.
I will pasture my sheep, I myself will let them rest,
speaks the LORD God.
The stray sheep I will seek,
gather the scattered sheep,
bind up the wounded animals,
make the weak strong again,
and watch over the healthy and strong animals.
I will make them graze in abundance.”

RESPONSORIAL          Ps. 23 (22), 1-3a, 3bc-4ab, 4cd-5ab, 5cd-6ab, 6cd

ENTREBILLO
The Lord is my shepherd, nothing do I lack.

The Lord is my shepherd, nothing am I lacking,
He makes me graze on green fields.
He brings me to water, where I can rest,
He gives me fresh courage again.

He guides my steps along straight paths
for His Name’s sake.
Though my path lead through dark gorges,
i fear no evil wherever You lead me.

Thy rod and Thy staff
give me courage and confidence.
You invite me to Your table
to the annoyance of my combatants.

With oil thou anointest my head
my cup is overflowing.
Prosperity and blessing never leave me
every day of my life.

The house of the Lord shall be my dwelling
for all times to come.

SECOND READING             Rom. 5, 5-11
God proves his love for us.

Brothers and sisters,

God’s love has been poured out in our hearts
by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
For Christ died for wicked people at the appointed time,
when we ourselves were still completely helpless.
One will not easily find someone
who gives his life for a righteous person,
though perhaps someone
be able to obtain this from himself in a particular case.
God, however, proves his love for us precisely by this,
that Christ died for us
while we were still sinners.
All the more surely we will escape wrath
once we are justified by his blood,
thanks to Him.
When we were enemies,
we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son;
all the more surely, once reconciled,
be saved by His life.
And not only that:
Already now we rejoice in God
through Jesus Christ our Lord
through whom we have received reconciliation.

VERS FOR THE EVANGELY          John 10.14

Alleluia.
I am the good Shepherd, says the Lord;
I know mine, and mine know Me.
Alleluia.

Gospel                 Lk. 15, 3-7
Share in my joy, for my sheep who were lost, I have found.

At that time, Jesus held out to the Pharisees and scribes
this parable:
“If anyone among you has a hundred sheep
and loses one of them ,
let him not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness
to look for the lost one
until he finds it?
And when he finds it he joyfully lays it on his shoulders
and he goes home, calls his friends and neighbours together
and says to them:
Share in my joy,
for my sheep that was lost I have found.
I say to you:
so shall there be more joy in heaven
over one sinner who repents
than over ninety-nine righteous people
who need no repentance.”

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Laudato Si

Encyclical of

POPE FRANCISCUS

On caring for the common home

34. It probably bothers us when we become aware of
the extinction of a mammal or a bird because of their greater visibility.
But for ecosystems to function properly, there are also
mushrooms, algae, worms, small insects, reptiles and the innumerable
variety of microorganisms are necessary. Some few few numerous species,
which usually go unnoticed, play a fundamental critical
role in stabilising the equilibrium of a concrete place. Man must
indeed intervene, when a geosystem enters a critical phase,
but today, the level of human intervention in a reality as
complex reality like nature such that the disasters caused by human,
make a new intervention by them
necessitate, so that human activity becomes ubiquitous with
all the risks involved. This creates a vicious circle in which the intervention
of man to solve a difficulty often ends up making the situation
worse. Many birds and insects going extinct based on
toxic pesticides created by technology, for example, are
useful for agriculture itself, and their disappearance will have to be
compensated with yet another technological intervention, which is likely to have
result in new harmful effects. The efforts of
scholars and technicians trying to solve man-made problems
solve are laudable and sometimes admirable. But
when we look at the world, we note that this level of
human intervention, often in the service of money and consumerism,
in reality ensures that the earth we live on is becoming less rich and
beautiful, increasingly bounded and grey, while at the same time the development
of technology and supply for consumption limitless
continues to increase. Thus it seems that we delude ourselves that an irrepeatable and
unrecoverable beauty to be replaced by another, which is
created by us.

To be continued
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