Petrus Chrysologus was archbishop of Ravenna.
In 1729, Pope Benedict XIII elevated him to church teacher.
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
Prayer and action are the two basic attitudes of every believer. When Moses has spoken to God in all intimacy, he descends into the world and friendly dialogue with God becomes the ground of his actions and speech. Prayer and action are not opposites; prayer is the source of our believing life, and therefore of our speaking and acting. That speaking and acting, living in the world, in turn feed our prayer. What I do in the world makes my prayer even more sincere, stronger, persistent.
Is prayer the source of my actions, and is my actions food for my prayer? Or does the balance need to be sought or restored (again?)?
FIRST READING Ex. 34, 29-35
Those who saw the glare on the face of Moses
dared not approach him.
When Moses descended Mount Sinai
with the two stone slabs, the text of the covenant,
he was unaware that his face was shining
because he had spoken to God.
But Aaron and the rest of the Israelites
did see the shine on Moses’ face,
and they dared not approach him.
But when Moses called them
aaron and all the leaders of the community came to him.
Moses reported to them.
Then all the Israelites came to him.
He held out to them everything
what the LORD had told him on Mount Sinai.
When Moses had finished his speech,
he put a cloth over his face.
And every time Moses went to the LORD to speak to Him,
he took off the cloth until he came out again.
When he then, coming out,
went to inform the Israelites what to do, he did,
so as not to let the Israelites see the glare on his face,
the cloth over his face again until he went in again to speak to the LORD.
INTERLUDIUM Ps. 99(98), 5, 6, 7, 9
Holy is He, the Lord our God.
Glorify the Lord our God,
and prostrate yourselves before His footstool,
for He is holy!
Moses and Aaron were his priests,
Samuel was among his worshippers.
They listened to His commands,
to all that He commanded them.
Glorify the Lord our God
and prostrate yourselves before His holy mountain,
for holy is He, the Lord our God.
ALLELUIA Mt 4, 4b
Alleluia.
Not from bread alone does man live,
but from all that proceeds from the mouth of God.
Alleluia.
GOSPEL Mt 13, 44-46
He went and sold everything he owned and bought that field.
From the holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to
Matthew
At that time, Jesus said to the crowd :
“The kingdom of heaven
resembles a treasure hidden in a field.
“When someone found it he hid it again
and in his joy
he went and sold everything he owned and bought that field.
“Also, the kingdom of heaven resembles
to a merchant, looking for beautiful pearls.
“When he had found a pearl of great value ,
he went and sold everything he owned and bought her.”
Laudato Si
Encyclical of
POPE FRANCISCUS
On caring for the common home
67. We are not God. The earth precedes us and is given to us.
That fact allows one to answer an accusation
levelled against Judeo-Christian thinking: it has been said that
one, starting from the story of Genesis, which invites one to subdue the earth
(cf. Gen. 1:28), would promote a savage exploitation of nature
by an image of man as ruler and destroyer. This is
not a correct interpretation of the Bible as the Church understands it. Even though
it is true that Christians have sometimes interpreted the scriptures in an incorrect way,
we must today firmly reject that
from the fact that we are created in the image of God and from the
command to subdue the earth an absolute dominion over the
other creatures may be inferred. It is important to read the biblical texts
with proper hermeneutics to read them in their context and to remember
that they invite us to “cultivate and guard the garden of the world”
(cf. Gen 2:15). While “cultivate” means to plough and
cultivate, “to guard” means to protect, care for, guard,
preserve, supervise. This implies a relationship of responsible
reciprocity between man and nature. Each community can take from the
earth what it needs for its own survival, but it also has
a duty to protect it and ensure the continuity of its fertility
for future generations. Finally, “to God belongs
the earth” (Ps. 24, 1), to Him belongs “the earth with all that is upon it” (Deut.
10, 14). This is why God rejects any pretence of absolute possession: “Sale
of land may not preclude repurchase, for the land belongs to Me; ye
are strangers and guests there” (Lev. 25, 23).
To be continued
Every day at 1 am
The Bible text in this edition is taken from The New Bible Translation,
©Nederlands Bijbelgenootschap 2004/2007.
Considerations from Liturgical suggestions for weekdays and Sundays
Laudato Si Official english translation
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