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
Recital
Were we to start the reading one verse earlier, we would get interesting biographical elements. Out of concern, Paul sent Timothy back to Thessalonica from Athens, and now this one returns with very good news. All is well with the congregation. Paul literally says he is revived. He is already looking forward to returning and this will later become a reality. Here also ends a first part of the letter.
FIRST READING I Thess. 3, 7-13
May the Lord cause you to increase abundantly
in love for one another and for all.
From the holy apostle Paul’s first letter to the Christians
of Thessalonica
Brothers and sisters,
Because of you, because of your faith,
we are filled with comfort
in all the constraints and pressures we have to endure.
We live again
now that thou dost stand firm in the Lord.
How can we thank Him worthily for thee,
for all the joy
which thou givest us before the face of our God?
Day and night we pray Him with the greatest fervour,
that we may see thee again
and complete what your faith still lacks.
May He, God our Father, and our Lord Jesus
make our way to you.
And may the Lord increase you abundantly
in love for one another and for all,
as our love also goes out to you.
He strengthen thy heart, that thou mayest be blameless in holiness
before the face of God our Father
at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
INTERLUDIUM Ps. 90(89), 3-4, 12-13, 14, 17
From now on grant us your richest blessing, Lord,
and let all our lives be happy.
That which is mortal perishes again to dust,
Thou sayest, Return, child of man!
To Thee a thousand years are one day,
as yesterday that is already past,
an hour of sleep in the night.
Teach us to value our days
and so come to wisdom of heart.
Abandon, Lord, how long wilt thou torment us ?
be yet merciful to thy servants .
Grant us from now on Your richest blessing
and let all our lives be happy.
Thy blessing, Lord God, may watch over us,
guide our hands in all they do.
ALLELUIA Ps. 25(24), 4c, 5a
Alleluia.
Teach me to know your paths, Lord;
lead me according to your word.
Alleluia.
GOSPEL Mt 24, 42-51
Be vigilant !
From the holy gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to
Matthew
At that time Jesus said to his disciples :
“Be vigilant therefore
for ye know not on what day your Lord cometh.
“Do understand this :
If the owner of the house knew
at what hour of the night the thief would come ,
he would remain vigilant and would not have his house broken into.
“Be ye therefore also prepared
because the Son of Man is coming at the hour
when ye expect it not.
“Who therefore is the faithful and wise servant ,
whom the Lord has appointed over his servants
to give them the food on time ?
“Happy that servant
if at his coming the Lord finds him busy with that.
“Verily, I say unto you :
He will appoint him over all that he possesses.
“But is that servant bad and says to himself :
My lord will stay away for some time,
and he begins to beat the other servants
and eats and drinks with drunkards ,
then the servant’s lord will come on a day
when he does not expect it, and at an hour he does not know ;
and he will quarter him
and make him share the lot of the hypocrites.
“There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth there.”
Laudato Si
Encyclical of
POPE FRANCISCUS
On caring for the common home
VII. The gaze of Jesus
96. Jesus makes biblical faith in God the Creator his own and
emphasises a fundamental fact: God is Father (cf. Mat 11:25). In the
conversations with his disciples, Jesus invited them to acknowledge the father relationship
that God has with all his creatures, and reminded them with
a touching tenderness of how each of those creatures is in his eyes
is important: “Can one not buy five sparrows for two pennies? Yet
god does not forget any of them” (Luke 12:6). “Observe the birds in the
sky: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, but
your heavenly Father feeds them” (Mat 6, 26)
To be continued
Every day at 1 am
The Bible text in this edition is taken from The New Bible Translation,
©Dutch Bible Society 2004/2007.
Considerations from Liturgical suggestions for weekdays and Sundays
Laudato Si Official English translation
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