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
The more we read in Scripture, the more it appears that Jesus’ action is framed in a long tradition. What God began in the people of Israel is continued in Jesus of Nazareth. In him, we see the Father at work.
From time immemorial, Christianity has proclaimed the double commandment of love of God and love of neighbour. They cannot be separated. No other commandment is more preeminent than these two. The first letter of John puts this even more sharply. There is only one commandment, for no one can claim to love God if he does not love his neighbour.
FIRST READING I John 4:19-5:4
He who loves God must also love his brother.
From the first letter of the holy apostle John
Friends,
We love because God first loved us.
But if anyone says he loves God
while he hates his brother,
he is a liar.
For if he does not love his brother whom he sees,
he cannot love God
whom he has never seen.
This commandment, then, we have received from Him :
he who loves God
must also love his brother.
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Saviour
is a child of God.
Well, he who loves the father
also loves the child.
If we are to love God and keep his commandments
then we must also love God’s children.
That is our yardstick.
Loving God means
keeping his commandments,
and his commandments are not difficult to keep
for everyone born of God
overcomes the world.
And the weapon with which we overcome the world
is none other than our faith.
INTERLUDIUM Ps 72(71), 2, 14, 15 bc, 17
Him all the princes of the earth honour
and all nations serve Him.
My God grant the king thy wisdom,
the king’s son your justice.
He may rule your people justly,
your poor with equity.
Princes of Tarsis, from distant shores,
send gifts,
Arab rulers and Etiopes pay Him cents.
In grateful prayer they will remember Him,
Blessing Him every day.
Forever His name remain praised,
in honour as long as there are days.
His name be a blessing to all tribes,
among all peoples with praise.
ALLELUIA Lk. 4, 18-19.
Alleluia.
The Lord has sent me
to bring to the poor the Good News,
and to make known to prisoners their release.
Alleluia.
GOSPEL Lk. 4, 14-22a
The word of Scripture which thou hast heard
is now fulfilled.
From the holy gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to
Luke
At that time Jesus returned
in the power of the Spirit returned to Galilee
and people spoke of Him throughout the region.
He was now acting as a teacher in their synagogues
and was universally praised.
This is also how He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up.
According to His custom, He went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day
and stood up to read aloud.
They handed Him the scroll of the prophet Isaiah.
He opened the scroll
and found the place where it was written :
The spirit of the Lord has come upon me ,
because He has anointed me.
He has sent me
to bring the Good News to the poor,
to make known to prisoners their release
and to the blind that they may see ;
to let the oppressed go to freedom,
to proclaim a year of grace from the Lord.
Thereupon He rolled the book closed,
handed it back to the servant and sat down.
In the synagogue, all eyes were tense on Him.
Then He began to address them :
“The Scripture word which ye have just heard
is now fulfilled.”
All expressed their assent to Him
and marvelled,
that words, so full of grace flowed from His mouth.
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Laudato Si
Encyclical of
Pope Francis
On caring for the common home
239. For us Christians, belief in a one God, who forms a
trinitarian communion, leads to the idea that the whole of reality in
itself bears a truly Trinitarian stamp. Saint Bonaventure came
to say that sinless man could discover how every creature
“bears witness that God is Trinitarian”. The reflection of the
Trinity could be recognised in nature, “when neither that book was obscure
to man, nor man’s eye was clouded”.
The Franciscan saint teaches us that every creature carries within itself a truly Trinitarian structure, which is so real that it could be spontaneously
contemplated, if man’s gaze were not limited, obscure and dim.
In this way, he points us to the challenge of trying to read reality trinitarian.
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 Official English translation