Invitation
May I draw your attention to
the daily reading of the Gospel?
This invitation is intended to share the joy of the Gospel with you.
Everyone, without exception, can experience this joy
by opening their heart to the healing power
of God’s word.
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Consideration
Once again, the Bible challenges us to question ourselves. We can listen to the reading as a historical account of events, or we can discover what God wants to say to us through this reading. Solomon’s mistakes cast their shadow ahead: his marriages, which introduced new idols; his grand projects, which caused poverty; his preference for Judah at the expense of the Northern Kingdom: all the ingredients for the division of the kingdom are present. The all-too-human character of Israel has a strong symbolic value. The division of those who should have been one: who among us does not experience this kind of situation in our own lives?
FIRST READING 1 Kings 11:29-32,12-19
The Israelites broke with the house of David.
From the first book of Kings
In those days, Jeroboam was travelling from Jerusalem
and met the prophet Ahijah of Shiloh on the way.
They were alone in the field.
Ahijah was wearing a new cloak.
He took it, tore it into twelve pieces
and said to Jeroboam:
“Take ten pieces,
for thus says the Lord, the God of Israel:
I will tear ten tribes from Solomon’s kingdom
and give them to you.
One tribe will remain with him,
for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem,
the city I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel.”
So the Israelites broke with the house of David,
and so it has remained to this day.
INTERLUDIUM PSALM 81(80), 10-11ab, 12-13,14-15
I am the Lord, your only God;
listen, my people, when I warn you!
There shall be no foreign god among you,
do not worship gods of other countries.
For I am the Lord, your only God,
who brought you out of Egypt.
But Israel did not listen to my voice,
my people did not obey me.
Therefore I let them go with a hardened heart,
and they followed their own ways.
If only my people would listen to me,
if only Israel would follow my ways!
Then I would defeat their enemies
and turn my hand against their oppressors.
ALLELUIA Ps. 119(118), 36,29b
Alleluia.
May my heart be focused on what you command, O Lord;
give me your law as my guide.
Alleluia.
GOSPEL Mk 7:31-37
He makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.
From the Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark
At that time, Jesus left the region of Tyre
and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee,
in the middle of the region of Decapolis.
They brought a deaf-mute to Him
and begged Him to lay His hands on him.
Jesus took him aside, away from the crowd,
put his fingers into his ears
and touched his tongue with saliva.
Then he looked up to heaven,
sighed, and said to him, “Effata,”
which means, “Be opened.”
Immediately his ears were opened,
and the bond of his tongue was loosened
so that he spoke plainly.
Jesus forbade them to tell anyone;
but the more He forbade them,
the more loudly they proclaimed it.
Out of their minds with amazement, they exclaimed:
He has done everything,
He makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.
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Laudato Si
Encyclical of
Pope Francis
On Care for Our Common Home
The issue of water
27. Other indicators of the current situation are related to the
depletion of natural resources. We are well aware of the
impossibility of maintaining the current level of consumption in the most
developed countries and the wealthiest sectors of society, where the
habit of waste and disposal has reached unprecedented levels.
Certain limits on the exploitation of the planet have already been exceeded,
without the problem of poverty having been solved.
To be continued
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The Bible text in this edition is taken fromThe New Bible Translation,
©British and American Bible Society 2004/2007.
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