Saturday – Our Lady on Saturday

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
Once we were estranged from God, but now that we have been reconciled to Him in Christ, we have to live differently. We might assume that it is up to us to draw near to God, that He expects a sacrifice from us so that what once went wrong between Him and us can be made good. The New Testament, however, shows how different our God is. It is He who comes to us, and it is He who gives us His Son on the cross, the sacrifice offered to us. It is the common thread throughout the gospels: God is the totally Other. He seeks man. Let us find ourselves ?

FIRST READING       Col 1:21-23

Now God has reconciled you to himself ;
He wants you to appear as holy men
without blemish or blame before him.

From the letter of the holy apostle Paul to the Christians of
Colossae

Brothers and sisters,

You too were once alienated from God
and hostile to Him
and your deeds were evil.
But now God has reconciled you to Himself
in Christ’s mortal body
through his death,
for He wants you as holy men,
without blemish or blame
before Him.
But then ye must also remain firm and unwavering in the faith
and let not the hope
which is promised to you in the gospel.
This is the message
which is proclaimed to all creatures under heaven
and of which I, Paul, have become the servant.

INTERLUDIUM           Ps. 54(53), 3-4, 6, 8

It is God who helps me.

God, stand by me with your Name,
stand up for me with Your power.
Listen, O God, to my supplication,
hear what my mouth tells Thee.

It is God who helps me,
the Lord who preserves my life.
Sacrifice will I offer to Thee with all my heart,
praise, O Lord, Your beneficent Name.

ALLELUIA         Ps. 119(118), 88

Alleluia.
Be merciful to me and let me live, Lord,
then I will remain faithful to what You ordain.
Alleluia.

GOSPEL           Lk. 6:1-5

Why do you do something that is not allowed on Sabbath ?

From the holy gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to
Luke

Once Jesus went through the cornfields on a Sabbath
and to eat, his disciples picked ears of corn
which they rubbed out with their hands.
Some Pharisees asked :
“Why are you doing something that is not allowed on the Sabbath?”
Jesus answered them in reply :
“Have you not then read what David did
when he and his companions went hungry ?
“How he entered the house of God,
took the showbread and ate it
and also gave of them to his companions,
whereas surely only the priests are allowed to eat from it ?”
And He added :
“The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”

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Laudato Si

Encyclical of

POPE FRANCISCUS

On caring for the common home

105. One tends to the view that “any increase of power is simply
progress; increase in security, utility, well-being, vitality, fullness of
values” as if reality, goodness and
truth would spontaneously blossom out of the power of technology and
the economy itself. In fact, “modern man has not been raised to a right
use of power”,for the immense technical growth has not coincided
gone with a development of human beings in responsibility, values
and conscience. Always, man tends to develop a limited self-knowledge of his
own limits. As a result, it is possible that today
humanity does not see the seriousness of the challenges it faces
and “the possibility of man misusing his power
is constantly increasing” when “there are no standards for freedom ,
but only for perceived demands of utility and security”.
Man is not fully autonomous. His freedom becomes ill, when he
surrenders to the blind forces of the unconscious, of immediate
needs, of selfishness, of brutal violence. In this sense, the
man unprotected exposed to his own power, which continues to grow
without having instruments to control it. He may have at his disposal
superficial mechanisms, but we can argue that
man lacks a solid ethic, culture and spirituality that
truly set him limits and contain him within a clear self-control
curb

To be continued
Every day at 1 am