Friday – St Mary Queen

Memory of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Queen of heaven and earth

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

Glorified down to her body, Mary appears to us in the glory of her Assumption as the highest and most beautiful fruit of redemption. As Mother of Him whose Kingdom knows no end, she is also for all men a mighty intercessor on their way to the glory of the children of God.
(From the Weekly Missal)

FIRST READING         Ruth 1, 1.3-6. 14b-16.22
Noömi, with Ruth,
the Moabite, back to Bethlehem.

In the time of the judges, a famine broke out in the land
a famine broke out.
A man named Elimélek moved away from Bethlehem in Judah
and he settled as a stranger in the plains of Moab,
together with his wife Noömi and his two sons.
Elimélek died
and his wife Noömi remained behind with her two sons.
These both married a Moabite woman:
one woman’s name was Orpah, the other Ruth.
For about ten years they lived there.
Then both the sons also died
and Noömi was left alone,
deprived of both her children and her husband.
Together with her daughters-in-law
she departed from the plains of Moab,
for she had heard
that the Lord had cared about the fate of his people
and was feeding them again.

Then Orpa kissed her mother-in-law goodbye,
but Ruth clung to her.
Noömi said:
“Your sister-in-law is returning
to her people and her gods.
Go with her anyway!”
But Ruth replied:
“Stop urging me to leave you and return ,
so far from thee.
Where thou goest, I go;
where thou remainest, I remain.
Thy people are my people, thy God is my God.”
So Noömi returned,
together with her daughter-in-law Ruth, the Moabite,
returned from the plains of Moab.
They arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.

INTERLUDIUM               Ps. 146(145), 5-6, 7, 8-9a, 9bc-10

The Lord I will praise all my life.
Alleluia.

Happy he who seeks help from Jacob’s God,
puts his hope in God the Lord;
on Him who made heaven and earth,
the sea with all that lives there.

The Lord always keeps His word,
he gives justice to the oppressed.
The Lord gives bread to the hungry,
captives He grants freedom.

The eyes of the blind the Lord opens,
he raises up the brokenhearted.
The Lord loves the righteous,
The Lord preserves the displaced.

The Lord gives support to orphans and widows,
but sinners he lets go astray.
The Lord is king for ever,
your God, Zion, rules over all generations.

ALLELUIA           Jak. 1, 21

Alleluia.
Accept with meekness the word of God
which was planted in you,
and has the power
to save your souls.
Alleluia.

GOSPEL        Mt 22:34-40
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart,
all your soul and all your mind.

At that time when the Pharisees learned
that Jesus had gagged the Sadducees ,
they gathered together, and one of them, a lawgiver,
asked Jesus to put Him to the test:
“Master, what is the chief commandment in the Law?”
He answered him:
“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God
with all your heart, all your soul and all your mind.
This is the main and first commandment.
The second, equivalent to it:
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
On these two commandments hangs all the Law and the Prophets.”

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Laudato Si

Encyclical of

POPE FRANCISCUS

On caring for the common home

90. This does not mean to equate all living beings and deprive human beings of
be deprived of the special value that at the same time implies a dire
responsibility. Nor does this entail a deification
of the earth, which would deprive us of the vocation to cooperate with her
cooperate with and protect its fragility. These views
would ultimately create a new imbalance in an
attempt to escape the reality that challenges us.68 One sometimes sees
an obsession to deny the human person any superiority.
However, it should fill us with concern that with the other living
beings in an irresponsible manner. But we
should be especially outraged at the tremendous inequality
that exists among us humans because we continue to tolerate the fact that
some consider themselves more worthy than others. We no longer notice
that some drag on in degrading misery, with no
opportunities to overcome them while others do not even know what
to do with what they possess, vainly flaunting a
supposed sense of superiority and reach such a level of wastefulness
that one could not possibly generalise without destroying the
planet being devastated. In fact, we continue to allow some to feel
feel more human than others, as if they were born with greater rights
lamenting the extinction of a species as if it were a mutilation”.
This does not mean to equate all living beings and deprive human beings
be deprived of the special value that at the same time implies a dire
responsibility. Nor does this entail a deification
of the earth, which would deprive us of the vocation to cooperate with her
cooperate with and protect its fragility. These views
would ultimately create a new imbalance in an
attempt to escape the reality that challenges us. One sometimes sees
an obsession to deny the human person any superiority.
However, it should fill us with concern that with the other living
beings in an irresponsible manner. But we
should be especially outraged at the tremendous inequality
that exists among us humans because we continue to tolerate the fact that
some consider themselves more worthy than others. We no longer notice
that some drag on in degrading misery, with no
opportunities to overcome them while others do not even know what
to do with what they possess, vainly flaunting a
supposed sense of superiority and reach such a level of wastefulness
that one could not possibly generalise without destroying the
planet being devastated. In fact, we continue to allow some to feel
feel more human than others, as if they were born with greater rights
were.

To be continued
Every day at 7 am