John of Capestrano was a minor brother, who helped in the
popular preaching of the 15th century. He was canonised in 1690
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
Christians are free people. They can choose that freedom, by submitting to God’s word and will. That seems a strange condition: how can a Christian be free when he must submit? Paul reminds us of what precedes this choice: our life in sin and evil, our weaknesses that enslave us and: were we really so happy then? Do they make us happy? God gives us time to reflect, to discover how great the slavery we sometimes live in is, how the evil we succumb to actually does not increase our freedom, but rather limits it. To deliver us from this slavery, the Lord has come.
FIRST READING Rom. 6:19-23
Now you have been freed from sin and have become servants of God.
From the letter of the holy apostle Paul to the Christians of Rome
Brothers and sisters,
Speaking to weak people,
i express myself very humanly.
As ye formerly put your limbs
in the service of impurity
and ever greater impiety,
so must ye now employ them in the service of righteousness
unto your sanctification.
When ye were slaves to sin
ye were free in the service of righteousness.
What advantage had ye then
of deeds of which thou art now ashamed?
For the end of them is death.
But now,
freed from sin and made servants of God,
ye reap holiness and finally eternal life.
For the wages of sin is death,
but the gift of God is eternal life
in Christ Jesus our Lord.
INTERLUDIUM Ps. 1, 1-2, 3, 4, 6
Happy is the man who puts his hope in the Lord
(Ps. 40(39), 5a)
Happy is the man who refuses to do
what wicked men counsel him;
who does not go the ways of sinners,
does not sit in the midst of mockers;
but who finds his happiness in the Lord’s law,
contemplating it day and night.
He is like a tree, planted by the water
which bears fruit in its time;
in summer his leaves do not wither,
but all that he does brings him prosperity.
The wicked do not fare so;
the wind blows them away like chaff.
For the Lord watches the way of the dishes,
the way of sinners is a dead end.
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. 12, 49-53
Do you think that I have come to bring peace on earth?
Nay say I unto you, rather division.
From the holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke
At that time, Jesus said to his disciples:
“Fire have I come to bring on earth ,
and how I desire that it should already blaze!
I must undergo a baptism ,
and how oppressed I feel until it is accomplished.
Do you think I have come to bring peace on earth?
No, I tell you, just division.
For from now on five shall be divided into one house;
three shall stand against two
and two against three;
the father to the son and the son to the father;
the mother to the daughter
and the daughter toward the mother,
the mother-in-law towards her daughter-in-law
and the daughter-in-law towards the mother-in-law.”
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Laudato Si
Encyclical of
POPE FRANCISCUS
On caring for the common home
162. The difficulty of taking this challenge seriously is linked
to an ethical and cultural decay that accompanies the ecological crisis
involves. Postmodern man is in constant danger of becoming individualistic
and many current social problems must be related
to the selfish search for immediate gratification,
with the crises surrounding family and society and with the difficulty of
truly acknowledging fellow human beings. Often one has to deal with an
excessive and short-sighted consumption by parents that harms children.
Children experiencing increasing difficulties in acquiring a home of their own
acquire and start a family. Moreover, this inability to
think seriously about future generations is linked to our inability
broadening our horizons and thinking of all those who are
being excluded from further development. Do we not only think of
the poor of the future, it is also good to think of the poor of today,
who live only few years on this earth and can no longer
wait. Therefore, “apart from loyal intergenerational solidarity, there is
also an urgent moral need to renew solidarity within the same
generation”.
To be continued
Every day at 1 am
he Bible text in this edition is taken from The New Bible Translation,
©Dutch Bible Society 2004/2007.
Considerations from Liturgical suggestions for weekdays
Laudato Si Official English translation
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