Saint Hubert is the patron saint of hunting.
He preached the faith in Brabant and in the Ardennes
Invitation
May I hereby draw your attention to
the daily reading of the Gospel?
This invitation wishes 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 gives every human being the space and time to recognise that he is a poor sinner; to acknowledge his own inability, emptiness, weakness. Only then are we able to surrender to the gratuitousness, the unconditionality, the tenderness of God’s love. In this light, we should not regard our missteps as defeats or a personal failure. Nor should they discourage us(I will never qualify for God’s grace). The only way we may see our brokenness is with the certainty that it opens us to God’s mercy, to his forgiveness, to his grace. Our sins evoke in our hearts the longing for God’s love, and, like Paul, make us true witnesses of this love.
FIRST READING Rom. 11, 29-36
God has shut up all in disobedience
to shut up all in his mercy.
Brothers and sisters,
God knows no repentance for his gifts of grace
nor of his calling.
As you were disobedient to God in the past
but now, thanks to the disobedience of Israel,
have found mercy,
so Israel in turn disobeyed,
so that now she too may find mercy
as a result of the mercy shown to you.
Thus God has shut up all in disobedience
in order to enclose all in his mercy.
O unfathomable riches of God’s wisdom and knowledge!
How unfathomable His decisions,
how unsearchable His ways!
Who knows the thought of the Lord?
Who has been his counselor?
Who can claim recompense for what he has given God?
For of Him and through Him and for Him are all things.
To Him be the glory for ever! Amen.
INTERLUDIUM Ps. 69(68), 30-31, 33-34, 36-37
My prayer, Lord, I address to You,
now is the time of grace.
I bow under my grief ;
God, let Your help protect me.
God’s Name I will praise in my singing,
praise it gratefully everywhere.
Behold, ye ranks, and rejoice,
take courage, all of you who seek God.
God listens to what a poor person asks Him,
does not forget his prisoners.
For God will redeem Zion,
He will rebuild Judah’s cities.
His servants will dwell there,
live there on their own property.
Their offspring will inherit the land again,
God’s Name will be in honour.
ALLELUIA John 6, 64b, 69b
Alleluia.
Your words Lord are spirit and life ;
your words are words of eternal life.
Alleluia.
GOSPEL Lk. 14, 12-14
Invite not your friends, but the poor and infirm.
At that time Jesus said to the Pharisee
who had invited Him to the table:
“When ye give a luncheon or supper ,
do not invite your friends, brothers and kinsmen
nor rich neighbours.
It might be that they in turn invite thee
and so you will get it back.
But if you give a guest meal,
then invite the poor, infirm, lame and blind.
You will be happy
because they cannot repay it to thee.
It will be repaid to you
at the resurrection of the righteous.”
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Laudato Si
Encyclical by
Pope Francis
On caring for our common home
173. There is an urgent need to establish international treaties,
if we consider the weakness of local bodies to intervene
effectively in an effective way. Relations between states
must safeguard the sovereignty of each, but also establish pathways
agreed upon to avoid local catastrophes that would ultimately
harm all. Global regulatory frameworks are needed that impose
obligations and prevent unacceptable actions such as powerful
countries shifting waste and highly polluting industries.
To be continued
Every day at 1 am
The Bible text in this edition is taken from The New Bible Translation,
©Nederlands Bijbelgenootschap 2004/2007.
Considerations from Liturgical suggestions for weekdays and Sundays
Laudato Si Official English translation