Wednesday – Our Lady of Mount Carmel

Patron saint of sailors

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.

FIRST READING Ex. 3, 1-6. 9-12
The angel of the Lord appeared in a fire
that flared up from a thorn bush.

In those days
moses was herding the flock of his father-in-law Jitro,
the priest of Midian.
Once he drove the flock far into the desert
and came to the mountain of God, Horeb.
Then the angel of the LORD appeared to him
in a fire that flared up from a thorn bush.
Moses watched and saw that the thorn bush was
was ablaze and yet not burning.
He thought:
“I will go out and investigate that strange phenomenon.
How come that thorn bush is not burning?”
The LORD saw him approach to look.
And from within the thorn bush, God called out to him:
“Moses, Moses.”
“Here I am,” he replied.
Then the LORD spoke:
“Come no nearer, take off thy sandals ,
for the place where you stand is holy ground.”
And He continued:
“I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham,
the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.”
Then Moses covered his face
for he dared not look up to God.
God also spoke to Moses:
“The lamentation of the Israelites has now come to Me
and I have also seen
how much the Egyptians oppress them.
So go there, I am sending you to Pharaoh.
Thou must lead My people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.”
But Moses spoke to God:
“Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh
and that I should lead the Israelites out of Egypt?”
God answered him:
“I will assist you, and this is the sign
that it is I who send thee:
When thou hast led the people out of Egypt ,
you shall worship Me on this mountain.”

INTERLUDIUM    Ps. 103(102), 1-2, 3-4, 6-7

The Lord is merciful and benevolent.

Glorify, my soul, the Lord,
his holy Name from the depth of thy being !
Glorify, my soul, the Lord,
forget not his benefits !

It is He who forgives you your debts,
who heals thee from thy afflictions.
It is He who saves you from destruction,
who surrounds you with his favour and mercy.

The Lord is just in all He does,
He brings justice to the oppressed.
He made His ways known to Moses,
He showed His works to Israel’s sons.

ALLELUIA    Ps. 95(94), 8ab

Alleluia.
Listen today to the voice of the Lord
and be not obstinate.
Alleluia

GOSPEL       Mt 11:25-27
These things hast Thou, Father,
kept hidden from the wise and prudent
but revealed to children.

At a certain moment, Jesus took the floor and spoke:
“I praise Thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth,
because Thou hast
have kept hidden from the wise and prudent ,
but have revealed them to children.
Yes, Father, so it has pleased Thee.
Everything has been put into My hands by My Father.
No one knows the Son unless the Father,
and no one knows the Father unless the Son
and he to whom the Son will reveal Him.”

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Laudato Si

Encyclical of

POPE FRANCISCUS

On caring for the common home

VI. The weakness of responses
53. This situation cause the groaning of sister earth, which
unites with the moaning of the abandoned people of the world,
with a lament that demands of us a different course. Never have we
treated and damaged our common home so badly as in the
last two centuries. On the contrary, we are called to become instruments of God
the Father, so that our planet may be the planet He
dreamed of when He created it, and responds to His plan of
peace, beauty and fullness. The problem is that we do not yet have
the necessary culture to face this crisis and it is
necessary to form leaderships that show ways and thus answer
the needs of current generations, all of them included, without endangering the
future generations at risk. It becomes necessary to
create a system of standards that contains inviolable boundaries and ensures the
protection of ecosystems, before the new forms
of power derived from the techno-economic paradigm
end up destroying not only politics but also freedom and justice.

To be continued
Every day at 1 am