Saturday – Our Lady on Saturday

Invitation

May I take this opportunity to 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 heart
to the healing power of God’s word.

Available every day.

The Epistle of Jude is a late writing in the New Testament. The author looks back on the apostolic age as a closed chapter that is still remembered. Here we read the conclusion of the epistle with its beautiful doxology.

FIRST READING                         Jude 17, 20b–25

God is able to keep you from stumbling
andto present you blameless and joyful
before his glory.

From the letter of Saint Jude the Apostle

Brothers and sisters,

Remember what was foretold by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Build your lives upon your most holy faith,
pray in the power of the Holy Spirit,
keep yourselves in God’s love,
who will grant you eternal life.
Have compassion on some who are wavering,
and try to save them by snatching them from the fire.
Towards others, however, your compassion must be mixed with fear,
and even with horror at their garments defiled by sin.

To Him who is able to keep you from stumbling
and to present you blameless and joyful
before His glory,
to the one God who saves us through Jesus Christ our Lord,
be glory, majesty,
power and might,
before all eternity,
and now and for ever and ever!
Amen.

RESPONSORIAL        Ps . 63(62), 2, 3-4, 5-6

God, I seek You with great longing.

God, my God, You are,
I seek You with great longing.
My soul thirsts for You and my heart yearnsforYou,
as parched fields long for rain.

So I look up to the place where You dwell,
I contemplate Your power and Your glory.
Your grace is more precious to me than life itself,
my mouth proclaims Your praise.

I will praise You as long as I live,
stretching out my hands to You.
My soul is satisfied with nourishing food,
my mouth will thank You with joy.

ALLELUIA                    Heb. 4, 12

Alleluia.
The word of God is living and powerful,
and it penetrates to the very depths of soul and spirit.
Alleluia.                                               

 

By what authority do you do all these things?

From the Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to
Mark

At that time,
Jesus came to Jerusalem with his disciples.
As he was walking in the temple courts,
the chief priests,
the scribes and the elders came up to him,
and they asked him:
“By what authority are you doing all these things?
“And who gave you this authority?”
Jesus replied:
“I will ask you a single question
and if you answer Me,
I will in turn tell you
by what authority I do all these things.
“The baptism of John,
was it from heaven or from men?
“Answer Me that.”
They discussed it amongst themselves:
“If we say: from heaven, then He will reply:
Why then did you not believe him?
“But if we say: from men?…”
They were afraid of the people,
for everyone regarded John as a prophet.
So they answered Jesus:
“We do not know.”
Then Jesus said to them:
“Neither will I tell you
by what authority I do these things.”
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  LAUDATE SI

Encyclical of
POPE FRANCIS

131. I wish here to adopt the balanced position of Saint John Paul II,
who explicitly pointed to the benefits of
scientific and technological progress, “which bear witness to how noble
is the vocation of man to participate in the creative action of
God”, but at the same time he reminded us “that any intervention in the field
of the ecosystem cannot fail to take into account its consequences in other areas”.
He stated that the Church appreciates every contribution “from the study
and applications of molecular biology,
supplemented by other disciplines such as genetics and their technological
application in agriculture and industry”. Although he also
said that this must not pave the way for “indiscriminate genetic manipulation”,
which ignores the negative effects of such interventions. It is impossible to curb human creativity.
Just as one cannot forbid an artist from expressing his creative talent,
one cannot hinder those who possess special gifts
for scientific and technological development and whose
talents have been bestowed by God for the service of others.
At the same time, one cannot help but reconsider the aims, the effects, the
context and the ethical limitations of that human activity,
which is a form of power involving great risks.
To be continued
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