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
God’s Spirit is invoked a dozen times in today’s reading, in various terms. Because the Holy Spirit lives in us, working in each of us, it is possible to have a new heart. Because human life is finite, weak and unbest,enduring, we need the life-giving power of God’s Spirit. In other words, the Holy Spirit is not a “dead person” whom we are “preserved” in the heart, but a living person, possessing such power that He could raise Jesus from the dead! It is this power that prevents us from being carried away by our weakness: God’s Spirit is active in each of us, and !gives us the life that overcomes evil !
FIRST READING Rom. 8:1-11
The Spirit of Godest
who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you.
Brothers and sisters,
For those who are in Christ Jesus
there is now no longer any judgment.
The ‘law’ of the Spirit who gives life in Christ Jesus
has set you free from the dominion of sin and death.
What the law could not do,
powerless as it was through the flesh,
god did by sending his Son
in the form of the flesh of sin
and for the sake of sin:
He has in the flesh itself sentenced sin,
that the requirement of the law might be fulfilled through us,
who live not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Those who live according to the flesh
lust after what the flesh wants.
Those who are led by the Spirit
allude to the things of the Spirit.
The striving of the flesh ends in death,
the striving of the Spirit leads to life and peace.
For the desire of the flesh is hostile to God.
It does not submit to God’s law,
it cannot even do so;
and those who live according to the flesh
cannot please God.
But your existence is not controlled by the flesh
but by the Spirit,
because the Spirit of God dwells in you.
Should anyone not have the Spirit of Christ
then he does not belong to Him.
If Christ is in you
your body remains consecrated to death by sin,
but your spirit lives
thanks to righteousness.
And if the Spirit
of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you,
he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead,
will also one day quicken your mortal body
by the power of His Spirit dwelling in you.
INTERLUDIUM Ps. 24(23), 1-2, 3-4ab, 5-6
This is the generation that turns to the Lord,
that stands before the face of Jacob’s God.
To God belongs the earth and all that is upon it,
the globe and all that dwells therein;
for He founded her on the water,
established her on the sea.
Who shall ascend the mountain of the Lord,
who shall stand in his sanctuary?
Who is pure of hands and pure of heart,
sets not his sights on what is evil.
He will be blessed by the Lord,
rewarded by God, his redeemer.
So does the generation that turns to Him,
that stands before the face of Jacob’s God.
ALLELUIA Ps. 119(118), 135
Alleluia.
Let your Face shine before your servant, Lord,
show me your dispositions.
Alleluia.
GOSPEL Lk 13:1-9
If you do not repent
ye shall all perish in like manner.
At that time some people were with Jesus
who told Him what had happened to the Galileans,
whose blood Pilate had
with that of their sacrificial animals.
To this Jesus said:
“Do you think that among all the Galileans
only these people were sinners ,
because they suffered that fate?
Absolutely not, I tell you.
But if ye do not repent ,
you will all perish in such a manner.
Or those eighteen who were killed
because the tower at the Silóam fell on them:
do you think that those alone were guilty
among all the people who lived in Jerusalem?
Absolutely not, I tell you.
But if ye do not come to repentance
ye shall all perish in like manner.”
Then He told this parable:
“Someone had a fig tree planted in his vineyard;
he came looking to see if there was fruit on it, but found nothing.
Then he said to the vineyard owner:
‘For three years now I have come to look for fruit on this fig tree
but I find none.
Cut it down! To what does he still exhaust the ground?
But the man answered him:
Lord, let it stand this year;
let me first turn over the ground around it
and put manure on it.
Perhaps next year it will bear fruit;
if not, you can cut it down.”
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Laudato Si
Encyclical of
POPE FRANCISCUS
On caring for the common home
Environmental dialogue in international politics
164. From the middle of the last century, after overcoming
many difficulties, there has been an increasing tendency to regard the planet as a homeland and humanity as a people inhabiting a
common home. A world of interdependence
does not simply mean understanding that the harmful effects of
lifestyles, production and consumption affect all, but above all
ensuring that solutions are proposed from a global
perspective and not just in defence of the interests of
a few countries. Interdependence obliges us to think of one world
thinking, of a common project. But the same reason that
used for massive technical development fails to
find effective forms of international management to solve the serious
difficulties of environment and society. To address the fundamental
problems, which cannot be solved by actions of countries individually,
a global consensus becomes indispensable, which
leads, for example, to sustainable and diversified agriculture
plan, renewable and low-polluting forms of energy
develop, encourage greater efficiency in energy,
promote more appropriate management of forest and marine resources, and
ensure access to drinking water for all.
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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