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
In the letter to the Christians of Colossae, there is talk of a doctrine of error. It has remained unclear exactly what this new teaching entailed. Much points to excessive worship of angels or of cosmic, heavenly powers, to the detriment of faith in Christ. Paul points to faith in Christ: Those who believe in Him need have no fear; it is in Him that everything is created, including the so-called cosmic powers. He exists before everything, and everything exists in Him. For those who believe in Him, there is one firm certainty: Christ! He frees the world – He frees us – from ‘delusions’: from ideological submission and superstition, from our idol cult and our addictions. What do we want to be freed from? Do we give that question a place in our prayers?
FIRST READING Col 2:6-15
God has made you alive with Him.
He has forgiven us all our sins.
From the holy apostle Paul’s letter to the Christians of Colossae
Brothers and sisters,
Ye have accepted the Christ as Jesus the Lord.
So this is how you must live with Him:
Rooted in Him, built on Him,
leaning on the faith you have been taught,
while your heart overflows with gratitude.
Be on your guard, take care not to be carried away
by worthless, deceitful theories,
purely human fabrications,
that glorify the so-called elements of the universe
but fight Christ.
For in Christ
is the deity bodily present in all its fullness,
and in Him you partake of that fullness.
He is the head
to whom all dominions and powers are subject.
In Him also ye are circumcised,
not in a physical sense, by physical intervention,
but with the Christ-circumcision: Baptism.
In baptism ye are buried with Him,
but also risen with Him,
through your faith in the power of God
which raised Him from the dead.
You too who were dead as a result of your sins
and your moral turpitude
god has made alive again with Him.
He has forgiven us all our sins.
He has torn up the charter,
which testified against us with its onerous provisions.
He has destroyed it and nailed it to the cross.
He has disarmed the dominions and powers
and put them on public display.
He has triumphed over them by the cross.
INTERLUDIUM Ps. 145(144), 1-2, 8-9, 10-11
The Lord is concerned for every man.
You I want to praise, my God and King,
glorifying your Name forever.
You I want to praise every day,
glorifying your Name forever.
The Lord is full of love and compassion,
longsuffering and most gracious.
The Lord is concerned for every human being,
merciful to all that He made.
Your works will praise You, Lord,
thy pious shall praise Thee.
They praise the glory of Your rule,
thy power they proclaim.
ALLELUIA Ps 119(118), 135
Alleluia.
Let your Face shine before your servant, Lord,
show me your dispositions.
Alleluia.
GOSPEL Lk. 6, 12-19
Jesus spent the night in prayer.
He chose 12 disciples,
to whom He also gave the name of apostle.
From the holy gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke
In those days Jesus went to the mountains to pray
and spent the night there in prayer to God.
At daybreak, He called His disciples to Himself
and chose 12, to whom He also gave the name of apostle:
Simon, to whom He gave the name Peter,
his brother Andrew,
James and John,
Philip and Bartholomew,
Matthew and Tomas,
James the son of Alphaeus,
Simon nicknamed ‘Zealot’,
Judas the brother of James
and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.
Together with them He descended,
but He remained standing on level ground.
There was a numerous group of His disciples there
and a large crowd of people from all over the Jewish land,
from Jerusalem and from the coastal land of Tyre and Sidon.
They had come to hear Him
and to be healed of their ills.
And those tormented by unclean spirits found healing.
All the crowd made efforts to touch Him,
for there went out from Him a power that healed all.
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Laudato Si
Encyclical of
POPE FRANCISCUS
On caring for the common home
108. There is no possibility of choosing a different cultural paradigm
and turn to technology as a mere tool. The
technocratic paradigm has become so dominant today that it is
difficult to abandon its means, and it is even more difficult to use its means
of it without being dominated by its logic.
It goes against the culture to choose a lifestyle with ends
that can be at least in part independent of technology,
costs and its globalising and massifying power. Technology
after all, tends to ensure that nothing remains outside its iron
logic and “man, who is the protagonist in this, knows that in
last resort neither utility nor prosperity, but domination87
is at stake; about domination in the extreme sense of the word”.
“Technology grapples with both the elements of nature and human
existence”. Thus the decision-making capacity, the most authentic
freedom and the space for alternative creativity of the individual
restricted.
To be continued
Every day at 2 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 Englishh translation
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