Invitation
May I draw your attention to the daily reading of the Gospel?
This invitation aims to share with you the joy of the Gospel.
Everyone, without exception,
can experience that joy by opening their hearts
to the healing power of God’s word.
Available every day.
Consideration
Today’s reading is so rich and so full of references to the Old and New Testaments that we must make a choice. Let us then take theliving stone thatis Christ himself. This is a reference to Isaiah (8:14). It remains a painful realisation that the Jewish people stumbled over what was meant to be their very foundation. That stone becomes a living stone, and all believers are living stones of the spiritual temple, the Church, which replaces the destroyed temple of Jerusalem. This is in harmony with the spiritualisation of the concept of the temple in the New Testament.
First Reading 1 Pet. 2:2–5, 9–12
You are a royal priesthood, a holy nation,
called to proclaim the glorious deeds
of Him who has called you.
From the First Letter of Saint Peter the Apostle
Brothers and sisters,
Be like newborn children,
eager for the spiritual, unadulterated milk
that will bring you to maturity for salvation.
For you have already tasted the sweetness of the Lord.
Come to Him,
the living stone,
rejected by men,
but chosen and precious in God’s sight.
Let yourselves also,
as living stones,
be incorporated into the building of the spiritual temple.
Offer spiritual sacrifices, as a holy priesthood,
which are pleasing to God
through Jesus Christ.
For you are a chosen race,
a royal priesthood,
a holy nation, God’s own people,
called to proclaim the glorious deeds of Him
who has called you out of darkness
into His marvellous light:
you,
once not a people,
now God’s people;
once without mercy,
now shown mercy.
Dear friends,
I urge you,
as strangers and exiles, to abstain
from sinful desires that wage war against the soul.
Lead an exemplary life amongst the Gentiles;
then those who now slander you as evildoers,
upon closer inspection, will glorify God for your good deeds
on the day He comes to judge.
RESPONSORIAL Ps. 100(99), 2, 3, 5
Rejoice in the Lord, all nations
or: Alleluia
Rejoice in the Lord, all nations,
serve the Lord with gladness,
come before Him with joy.
Truly, the Lord is God,
He is the Creator and Master,
we are His flock, His people.
He is gracious to us,
His mercy is endless,
faithful from generation to generation.
ALLELUIA Col . 3, 16a, 17c
Alleluia.
May the word of Christ
dwell among you in all its richness;
give thanks to God the Father through Him.
Alleluia.
GOSPEL Mk 10, 46-52
Rabbi, make me see!
From the Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to
Mark
At that time, when Jesus,
accompanied by his disciples and a large crowd,
was leaving Jericho,
a blind beggar was sitting by the roadside,
Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus.
As soon as he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth,
he began to cry out loudly:
“Jesus, Son of David,
have mercy on me!”
Many rebuked him, telling him to be quiet,
but he cried out all the more:
“Son of David, have mercy on me!”
Jesus stopped and said:
“Call him here.”
They called out to the blind man:
“Take heart!
Get up, He is calling you.”
He threw off his cloak,
jumped to his feet and came to Jesus.
Jesus asked him:
“What do you want Me to do for you?”
The blind man answered Him:
“Rabbi, let me see!”
And Jesus said to him:
“Go; your faith has healed you.”
Immediately he could see
and he joined Him on His journey.
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Laudato Si
Encyclical of
Pope Francis
On care for our common home
129. If we are to continue to provide employment, it is essential to promote an economy that favours a diversity of production and creativity in enterprise. For example, there is a wide variety of small-scale food production systems that continue to feed the majority of the world’s population, using a limited amount of land
and water and producing less waste, whether on
small plots of arable land and in vegetable gardens, through hunting and the harvesting
of forest products, or through small-scale fishing. Large-scale operations force
small farmers, particularly in the agricultural sector, to sell their land or to
abandon their traditional production methods. Attempts by some of them to develop other, more diversified forms of production prove futile due to the difficulty of accessing regional or global markets, or because the sales and transport infrastructure serves the interests of large corporations. The authorities have the right and the responsibility to take measures that provide clear and robust support for small producers and the diversification of production. An economic freedom from which all truly benefit may sometimes make it necessary to set limits on those who possess the most resources and financial power. A purely
theoretical economic freedom, where circumstances prevent many from actually benefiting from it, and access to work is reduced, becomes a contradictory narrative that does politics no credit. Entrepreneurship, which is a noble vocation aimed at producing wealth and improving the world for all,
can be a highly fruitful method of giving a boost to the region in which the activities
take place, especially if one understands that the creation
of jobs forms an indispensable part of serving the common good.
To be continued
Every day at 1 am
The Bible text in this edition is taken fromThe New Bible Translation,
©Nederlands Bijbelgenootschap 2004/2007.
Reflections from Liturgical Suggestions for Weekdays and Sundays
Laudato Si Official english translation