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
In its way, Johanns’ letter says the same thing as Paul’s letter to the Romans. The initiative is with God. He first loved us. In Jesus, God has shown that love. God has sent his Son. In the gospel, we see Jesus at work. He gives shape to God’s love. Love goes out to the other. It feels compassion, but it also acts. Jesus teaches because people do not know God’s message. Jesus feeds them because they are hungry. His message goes to the total human being: charity must also be shown in actions. Something to think about, both for me personally and for the community I belong to.
FIRST READING I John 4, 7-10
Love comes from God.
From the first letter of the holy apostle John
Friends,
Let us love one another
for love comes from God.
Everyone who loves
is a child of God and knows God.
Man without love does not know God
for God is love.
And the love that is God
has revealed itself among us
in that He sent His only Son into the world
to bring us life.
In this, love consists :
Not we have loved God
but He has loved us,
and He sent His Son
to erase our sins through the sacrifice of His life.
INTERLUDIUM Ps. 72(71), 2, 3-4ab, 7-8
Him all the princes of the earth honour
and all nations serve Him.
My God, grant the king thy wisdom,
the king’s son thy justice.
May He rule your people justly,
your poor with equity.
Then peace flows down from the mountains,
and from the hills justice.
He will protect the lowly people,
redeem the sons of the poor.
Justice will blossom in his days
and prosperity everywhere till the end of the months.
Reign He will rule from sea to sea,
from the River to the border of the earth.
ALLELUIA Lk. 7, 16
Alleluia.
A great prophet has risen among us;
God has mercifully looked down on his people.
Alleluia.
GOSPEL Mk. 6, 34-44
Through the multiplication of bread
jesus reveals himself as a prophet.
From the holy gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to
Mark
At that time Jesus saw a great multitude.
he felt pity for them,
for they were like sheep without a shepherd ;
and He began to teach them at length.
When it was already late
his disciples came to Him and said :
“This place is lonely and it is already late.
“Send them away to go to the hooves and villages
in the surrounding area and buy food there.”
But He answered them in reply :
“Just give them food.”
They told Him thereupon :
“Should we then go and buy bread for two hundred denarii
to feed them?”
He said to them :
“How many loaves ye have?
“Go and see.”
After getting up to speed, they said :
“Five, and two fishes.”
Now He ordered them to say
that all were to sit down in groups on the green grass.
They sat down in groups of a hundred and of fifty.
He took the five loaves and two fish,
raised his eyes to heaven,
pronounced the blessing,
broke the loaves and gave them to his disciples
to present them to the people ;
he also divided the two fish among everyone.
All ate until they were satisfied.
They collected in lumps and what was left of fish
twelve full baskets.
They were five thousand men who had eaten of the loaves.
Laudato Si
Encyclical of
POPE FRANCISCUS
On caring for the common home
237. On Sundays, participation in the Eucharist has a special importance.
This day, like the Jewish Sabbath, counts as the day of the restoration of man’s
relationship of man with God, with himself, with others and with the world.
Sunday is the day of resurrection, the “first day” of the new
creation, of which the risen Lord is the firstfruits, guaranteeing the
final transformation of all created reality.
Moreover, this day proclaims “man’s eternal rest with God”.
In this way, Christian spirituality brings the value of rest and
celebration. Man tends to regard contemplative rest
as unfruitful and useless, forgetting that so to
the work one performs is deprived of the most important thing: its meaning.
We are called to include in our actions a dimension of receptivity
and disinterestedness, which is different from simply doing nothing.
It concerns a different way of acting, which is part of
our being. In this way, human action is not only preserved
from empty activism, but also from unbridled insatiability and
a silenced consciousness that leads to pursuing only one’s own gain.
The law of Sunday rest required abstaining from work
on the seventh day, for “then also thy ox and thy ass may rest, and
may the son of thy bondwoman and the stranger catch his breath” (Ex.
23, 12). Rest provides a broadening of the field of vision that allows one to
to recognise again the rights of the other. Thus, the day of rest, whose
centrepiece is the Eucharist, spreads its light throughout the week and
encourages us to make care for nature and the poor our own.
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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