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.
Considerations
God loves us. He has loved us first. Our love echoes his love, and we are asked to share this love with all. But God’s love, manifested in Jesus, went out especially to the most outcast and the little ones. The gospel lists them: the possessed, the lame, all those suffering from illness and pain. The love Jesus shows them demands a response from us.ord is, after all, a word to be fulfilled every day. How does my response sound in practice?
FIRST READING I John 3, 22-4, 6
Examine the spirits whether they are from God.
From the first letter of the holy apostle John
Friends,
We receive from God all that we ask
because we keep His commandments
and do what is pleasing to Him.
And this is His commandment :
to believe wholeheartedly in his Son Christ
and loving one another as He has commanded us.
Whoever keeps his commandments
abides in God
and God abides in him.
And that He dwells in us
we know by the Spirit He has given us.
Friends,
do not trust every spirit.
Examine the spirits whether they come from God,
for among those who have gone out into the world
are many false prophets.
By this you recognise the Spirit of God :
every spirit
who confesses that Jesus Christ truly became man
is of God ;
but every spirit that casts down Jesus
is not of God
and that is the actual ,antichrist’.
You have been told that he would come
but he is already in the world, already now.
Children,
you belong to God
and ye are stronger than the lying prophets,
for He who inspires you
is mightier than he who controls the world.
They belong to the world,
therefore they also derive their teachings from the world
and the world listens to them.
But we belong to God
and those who really know God
listens to us.
Those who do not belong to God
refuses to listen to us.
Thus we discern the spirit of truth
from the spirit of error.
INTERLUDIUM Ps. 2, 7-8, 10-11
I give you the nations as an inheritance.
This is the decree of the Lord :
He spake unto me : thou art my son,
i have begotten thee this day.
Ask Me, I give thee the nations as an inheritance,
give thee the earth for a possession.
Be wise now, ye princes,
rulers of the earth, know what ye do!
Serve the Lord with awe,
kiss His trembling feet.
ALLELUIA Mt 4:16
Alleluia.
The people who sat in darkness
has beheld a great light ;
and over those who sat in the land of the shadow of death
have sat,
over them a light has risen;
Alleluia.
GOSPEL Mt 4:12-17. 23-25
The kingdom of heaven is at hand.
From the holy gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to
Matthew
When Jesus learned that John had been captured,
he fled to Galilee.
However, passing by Nazareth
he settled in Capernaum, on the shore of the lake,
in the border region of Zebulun and Naphtali,
that the word of the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled:
“Land of Zebulon, land of Naftali ,
lying by the sea, Overjordan :
Galilee of the Gentiles !
“The people who sat in darkness
beheld a great light ;
and over those
who sat in the land of the shadow of death ,
over them a light has risen.”
From then on, Jesus began preaching and saying :
“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
Jesus went around all over Galilee,
acting as a teacher in their synagogues,
preaching the Good News of the Kingdom
and cured all diseases and ailments among the people.
His fame went out over all Syria
and they brought to Him all who were in a bad state,
who were afflicted with many diseases and pains,
the possessed, those suffering from falling sickness and the lame.
And He healed them.
Great crowds from Galilee and Dekápolis
from Jerusalem, Judea and the Overjordan
joined Him.
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Laudato Si
Encyclical of
Pope Francis
On care for the common home
236. In the Eucharist, creation finds its greatest exaltation. The
grace palpably manifested reaches an astonishing
expression, when the incarnate God Himself goes so far as to allow Himself to be eaten by His creature. The Lord, at the height of the
mystery of the Incarnation, to reach us inwardly through a piece of matter.
Not from above, but from within, so that we ourselves
could meet Him in our world. In the Eucharist the fullness is already realised
and she is the vital centre of the universe, a centre overflowing
of love and inexhaustible life. United with the incarnate
Son, who is present in the Eucharist , all the cosmos gives thanks
to God. Indeed, the Eucharist is in itself an act of cosmic
love: “Yes, cosmic! For even if the Eucharist is celebrated at the
small altar of a village church, in a sense it is always celebrated at
the altar of the world”. The Eucharist unites heaven and earth,
embraces and permeates all creation. The world, which has emerged from God’s hands has come forth, returns to Him in joyful and full adoration:
in the Eucharistic bread “creation is directed towards deification, the holy wedding, unification with the Creator Himself”.That is why
the Eucharist is also a source of light and motivation for our concern for
the environment and gives us direction to be custodians of all creation.
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.
Laudato Si English translation