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
We read the beautiful penitential prayer from Baruch. It seems the author has reworked and expanded the prayer from Daniel 9. Here the Palestinian Jews are speaking. In the form of a prayer, Jewish history from the exodus to ’today’ is recalled with the failings of all, kings, priests, prophets and people. This ’today’ is placed by modern exegesis not in the exile but much later.
FIRST READING Bar. I, 15-22
We have sinned against the Lord our God.
From the prophet Baruch
The Lord our God is just,
but we, Judeans and citizens of Jerusalem,
our kings and nobles,
our priests and prophets and our forefathers
now stand before Him full of shame:
We have sinned against the Lord our God.
Disobedient we were;
we have not listened to Him
and did not live according to His precepts.
From the time the Lord our God
led our ancestors out of Egypt until today
we were disobedient to Him;
in our levity we have not listened to Him.
Thus to this day
the calamities and curses afflict us,
which the Lord had his servant Moses proclaim
at the exodus of our ancestors from Egypt
to the land of milk and honey.
We have not listened
to the words of the prophets
whom the Lord our God had sent us.
We stubbornly went our own way,
served other gods
and did what displeases the Lord our God.
INTERLUDIUM Ps. 79(78), 1-2, 3-5, 8, 9
God of our salvation, for your Name’s sake, deliver us.
God, pagans have been forced into your inheritance,
they have desecrated your holy temple
and made your city a ruin.
Your servants they have killed,
their corpses lie as carrion for the birds,
the wild animals eat their flesh.
Like water their blood flowed from the walls
and no one was there to bury them.
We arouse the mockery of our neighbours,
those around us smite at us.
How long, Lord, wilt Thou remain eternally wroth
and let Thou burn Thy wrath like fire?
Let us not atone for past sins,
come to meet us with Thy mercy,
for we are but weak men.
Ah help us, God of our salvation, for your name’s sake,
deliver us, forgive our sins.
ALLELUIA II Thess. 2, 14
Alleluia.
God has called us
through the proclamation of the gospel,
that we might obtain the glory
of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Alleluia.
GOSPEL Lk. 10, 13-16
Whoever rejects Me, rejects Him who sent Me.
From the holy gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke
At that time Jesus said:
“Woe to you, Chórazin, woe to you, Betsáïda!
Tyre and Sidon would long since, sitting down in sackcloth and ashes,
repented,
had happened to them the miracles
that have taken place with you.
Yes, the fate of Tyre and Sidon
will be easier to bear in judgment
than yours.
And thou, Capernaum,
will you sometimes be exalted to heaven?
Down to the underworld you will sink.
Whoever listens to thee, listens to Me;
and whoever rejects you, rejects Me.
He who rejects Me
rejects Him who sent Me.”
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Laudato Si
Encyclical of
POPE FRANCISCUS
On caring for the common home
142. If everything is interrelated, the quality of a society’s
institutions of a society entails consequences for the environment and
the quality of human life: “Any damage to solidarity and
friendship damages the environment”. In this sense, a social
ecology necessarily has an institutional dimension and reaches
gradually the various other dimensions, starting with the family
as a basic social cell through the local community and the nation to
international life. Within each social layer and between the
different layers, the institutions that regulate human
relationships. Anything that harms these institutions brings harmful
effects, such as the loss of freedom, injustice and
violence. Several countries are governed by a shaky institutional
system to the detriment of the suffering of the people and to the benefit of
those who earn from this state of affairs. Both within the state administration
as well as in the various sections of civil society or in the
relations of the inhabitants among themselves, one observes with extraordinary
regularity unlawful behaviour. Laws may in a proper form
be drafted, but they often remain a dead letter. Can one then
hope that legislation and standards concerning the environment are really
effective? We know, for example, that countries with clear
forest protection legislation remain silent witnesses
of its regular violation. Moreover, what happens in one region
happens directly or indirectly affects other regions. For instance
drug use in affluent societies causes a constant or growing
demand for products coming from impoverished regions, where
behaviour degenerates, lives are destroyed and people end up ruining the environment
ruined.
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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