Tuesday – Church dedication festival of the Basilica of Mary the Superior

One of Rome’s seven pilgrimage churches.
The most important of more than 80 churches dedicated to Mary

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.

Opening word

Israel is clearly inculcated that the causes of all misery are sin and idolatry. Now the idols prove powerless. The second part promises Israel’s restoration. The time of the unruly rulers is over. Out of their midst comes a new ruler, who is an intermediary between God and the people.

FIRST READING           Num. 12.1=13
Moses is my confidant. How hast thou dared to turn against my servant?

From the Book of Numbers
In those days Miriam and Aaron turned against Moses,
because he had taken a Kusite woman :
he had indeed married a Kusite.
They said :
”Did the Lord speak only through Moses?
”Has He not also spoken through us?”
The Hee heard that
and because Moses was and very humble man,
the humblest of all the people on earth,
the Lord immediately said to Moses, Aaron and Miriam :
“”Go with you three to the tent of meeting.””
The three of them went there.
Now the Lord descended in a column of cloud,
sat down at the entrance of the tent
and called Aaron and Miriam, both of whom stepped forward.
He said :
“”Listen to what I have to say.
”To your prophets I make Me known in visions
and I speak to them in dreams.
“”With My servant Moses I do not.
“”He is My confidant, in all My house.
“”With him I speak from mouth to mouth,
clearly and not in riddles.
“”He beholds the stature of the Lord.
“”How hast thou dared to turn against My servant Moses?”
Wrathfully, the Lord departed from them.
The cloud had not yet departed from the tent of meeting,
or Miriam was full of a rash ; it looked like snow.
When Aaron turned to Miriam, there stood a leper.
Aaron said to Moses :
“‘Ah lord, let us not suffer
for the sin we committed in our folly.
“‘Do not let Miriam be like a stillborn child
that comes half-dead from its mother’s womb.””
Moses cried out to the Lord :
“”O God, make her well again!””

INTERLUDIUM           Ps 51(50), 3-4, 5-6a, 6bc-7, 12-13

God, have mercy on me in your mercy,
deliver my sinfulness in your mercy.

Wash my guilt utterly from me,
cleanse me from all my sins.

I acknowledge my wrongdoing,
always I have my offence before me.
Towards Thee alone have I sinned,
what opposes Thee I have done.

So art Thou righteous in Thy judgement,
the verdict Thou dost pronounce is just.
Ah, laden with guilt was I born,
guilty was it that my mother received me.

Create in me a pure heart, my God,
give me again a resolute spirit.
Will not cast me away from Your Face,
do not take away your Holy Spirit from me.

ALLELUIA       John 19,27

Alleluia.
My sheep listen to My voice, says the Lord ;
and I know them and they follow Me.
Alleluia

GOSPEL                 Mt 14:22-36

If it is You, Lord,
tell me to come to You by water.

From the Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew

After the multiplication of bread, Jesus forced his disciples
to get into the boat and sail to the other side already,
while He would send the people home.
When He had sent the people away
he went up the mountain to pray in solitude.
Night was falling and He was there alone.
The boat was already many stadia from the shore
and was ravaged by the waves,
for they had headwinds.
On the fourth watch of the night
he came on foot across the lake to them.
But when the disciples saw Him going this way across the lake,
they became upset because they thought they saw a ghost
and they began to cry out in fear.
But Jesus immediately said to them :
“Rest assured, it is I. Do not fear.”
“Lord – answered Peter –
if it is You ,
then tell me to come to Thee by water.”
To which Jesus spoke :
“Come!”
Peter got out of the boat and walked across the water towards Jesus.
But when he noticed how fierce the wind was he became afraid ;
he began to sink and cried out :
“Lord, save me!”
Immediately Jesus reached out His hand
and took hold of him, saying to him :
“Little believer, why have you doubted ?
” After they got into the boat, the wind died down.
The occupants threw themselves down before Him and said :
“Truly, Thou art the Son of God.”
When they had crossed over
they reached the shore at Gennésaret.
When the men of that region recognised Him,
they spread the news of His coming throughout the region
and brought Him all their sick.
They begged Him
if they could at least touch the hem of His robe.
And all who did so became healthy.
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Laudato Si

Encyclical of

POPE FRANCISCUS

On the care of the common home

73. The writings of the prophets invite us in difficult
moments to regain strength by looking to the mighty God who
created the universe. The infinite power of God does not lead us to
us to lack His fatherly tenderness, because in Him
affection and power unite. In reality, every healthy
spirituality simultaneously involves receiving divine love and worshipping with
confidently worshipping the Lord for His infinite power. In the Bible, the
God who delivers and saves is the same as the God who created the universe,
and these two modes of divine action are closely and inseparably
interconnected. “Ah, God my Lord! Thou hast created the heavens and the
earth made in thy great power, with raised arm. Nothing is impossible
for Thee […] Thou hast brought thy people, Israel, out of Egypt with signs and
miracles” (Jer. 32, 17.21). “The Lord is a God of eternity; He has
created the farthest corners of the earth. He is neither weary nor exhausted,
his insight cannot be fathomed. To the weary He gives strength again,
to the powerless an abundance of strength” (Isa 40:28b-29).
To be continued
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