by Jude Thaddeus Langeh | Sep 7, 2021 | Evangelium
Wednesday
08
September
The Nativity fo the Blessed Virgin Mary
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Adrian was a pagan officer of Nicomedia. Impressed by the courage of a group of Christians who were being tortured, he declared himself a Christian and was imprisoned with them before he was put to death. Adrian is the patron of soldiers and butchers.
Entrance Antiphon
Let us celebrate with joy the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, for from her arose the sun of justice, Christ our God.
Collect
Impart to your servants, we pray, O Lord, the gift of heavenly grace, that the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin may bring deeper peace to those for whom the birth of her Son was the dawning of salvation .Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
First reading: Micah 5:1-4
The Lord says this: But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, the least of the clans of Judah, out of you will be born for me the one who is to rule over Israel; his origin goes back to the distant past, to the days of old. The Lord is therefore going to abandon them till the time when she who is to give birth gives birth. Then the remnant of his brothers will come back to the sons of Israel. He will stand and feed his flock with the power of the Lord, with the majesty of the name of his God. They will live secure, for from then on he will extend his power to the ends of the land. He himself will be peace.
Psalm 12:6-7
R/ I exult for joy in the Lord.
1. Lord, I trust in your merciful love. Let my heart rejoice in your saving help.
2. Let me sing to the Lord for his goodness to me, singing psalms to the name of the Lord, the Most High.
Gospel Acclamation
Alleluia, alleluia! Blessed are you, holy Virgin Mary, and most worthy of all praise, for the sun of justice, Christ our God, was born of you. Alleluia!
Gospel: Matthew 1:1-16,18-23
A genealogy of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham: Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, Judah was the father of Perez and Zerah, Tamar being their mother, Perez was the father of Hezron, Hezron the father of Ram, Ram was the father of Amminadab, Amminadab the father of Nahshon, Nahshon the father of Salmon, Salmon was the father of Boaz, Rahab being his mother, Boaz was the father of Obed, Ruth being his mother, Obed was the father of Jesse; and Jesse was the father of King David. David was the father of Solomon, whose mother had been Uriah’s wife, Solomon was the father of Rehoboam, Rehoboam the father of Abijah, Abijah the father of Asa, Asa was the father of Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, Joram the father of Azariah, Azariah was the father of Jotham, Jotham the father of Ahaz, Ahaz the father of Hezekiah, Hezekiah was the father of Manasseh, Manasseh the father of Amon, Amon the father of Josiah; and Josiah was the father of Jechoniah and his brothers. Then the deportation to Babylon took place. After the deportation to Babylon: Jechoniah was the father of Shealtiel, Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel, Zerubbabel was the father of Abiud, Abiud the father of Eliakim, Eliakim the father of Azor Azor was the father of Zadok, Zadok the father of Achim, Achim the father of Eliud, Eliud was the father of Eleazar, Eleazar the father of Matthan, Matthan the father of Jacob; and Jacob was the father of Joseph the husband of Mary; of her was born Jesus who is called Christ. This is how Jesus Christ came to be born. His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph; but before they came to live together she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit. Her husband Joseph; being a man of honour and wanting to spare her publicity, decided to divorce her informally. He had made up his mind to do this when the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, ‘Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because she has conceived what is in her by the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son and you must name him Jesus, because he is the one who is to save his people from their sins.’ Now all this took place to fulfil the words spoken by the Lord through the prophet: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son and they will call him Emmanuel, a name which means ‘God-is-with-us.’
Prayer over the Offerings
May the humanity of your Only Begotten Son come, O Lord, to our aid, and may he, who at his birth from the Blessed Virgin did not diminish but consecrated her integrity, by taking from us now our wicked deeds, make our oblation acceptable to you. Through Christ our Lord.
Communion Antiphon: Is 7: 14; Mt 1: 21
Behold, the Virgin will bear a son, who will save his people from their sins.
Prayer after Communion
May your Church exult, O Lord, for you have renewed her with these sacred mysteries, as she rejoices in the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which was the hope and the daybreak of salvation for all the world. Through Christ our Lord.
Meditation
Mary was conceived and born the natural way, like any other human being. But unlike any other, she was conceived without original sin. Her family history shows that in her was the fulfilment of a plan God had formed long ago. He chose her because she would be the mother of Jesus. Celebrating the birth of the Blessed Virgin reminds us that God has a plan for each of us. We are called to be in constant discernment to know God’s will for us, and pray to him daily for the fortitude and wisdom to do what he expects of us in fulfilment of his plan.
by Jude Thaddeus Langeh | Sep 6, 2021 | Evangelium
Tuesday
07
September
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
(1090 – 1153)
Green
Bernard was born near Dijon, in France, in 1090, of a noble family. In 1112 he joined the new monastery at Cîteaux. This had been founded fourteen years before, in a bid to reject the laxity and riches of much of the Benedictine Order of the time (as exemplified by the great monasteries such as Cluny) and to return to a primitive poverty and austerity of life.
Entrance Antiphon: Ps 118: 137, 124
You are just, O Lord, and your judgement is right; treat your servant in accord with your merciful love.
Collect
O God, by whom we are redeemed and receive adoption, look graciously upon your beloved sons and daughters, that those who believe in Christ may receive true freedom and an everlasting inheritance. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
First reading: Colossians 2:6-15
You must live your whole life according to the Christ you have received – Jesus the Lord; you must be rooted in him and built on him and held firm by the faith you have been taught, and full of thanksgiving. Make sure that no one traps you and deprives you of your freedom by some second-hand, empty, rational philosophy based on the principles of this world instead of on Christ. In his body lives the fullness of divinity, and in him you too find your own fulfilment, in the one who is the head of every Sovereignty and Power. In him you have been circumcised, with a circumcision not performed by human hand, but by the complete stripping of your body of flesh. This is circumcision according to Christ. You have been buried with him, when you were baptised; and by baptism, too, you have been raised up with him through your belief in the power of God who raised him from the dead. You were dead, because you were sinners and had not been circumcised: he has brought you to life with him, he has forgiven us all our sins. He has overridden the Law, and cancelled every record of the debt that we had to pay; he has done away with it by nailing it to the cross; and so he got rid of the Sovereignties and the Powers, and paraded them in public, behind him in his triumphal procession.
Psalm 144(145):1-2,8-11
R/ How good is the Lord to all.
1. I will give you glory, O God my king,I will bless your name for ever.I will bless you day after dayand praise your name for ever.
2. The Lord is kind and full of compassion,slow to anger, abounding in love.How good is the Lord to all,compassionate to all his creatures.
3. All your creatures shall thank you, O Lord,and your friends shall repeat their blessing.They shall speak of the glory of your reignand declare your might, O God.
Gospel Acclamation: Ph2:15-16
Alleluia, alleluia! You will shine in the world like bright stars because you are offering it the word of life.Alleluia!
Gospel: Luke 6:12-19
Jesus went out into the hills to pray; and he spent the whole night in prayer to God. When day came he summoned his disciples and picked out twelve of them; he called them ‘apostles’: Simon whom he called Peter, and his brother Andrew; James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Simon called the Zealot, Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot who became a traitor. He then came down with them and stopped at a piece of level ground where there was a large gathering of his disciples with a great crowd of people from all parts of Judaea and from Jerusalem and from the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon who had come to hear him and to be cured of their diseases. People tormented by unclean spirits were also cured, and everyone in the crowd was trying to touch him because power came out of him that cured them all.
Prayer over the Offerings
O God, who give us the gift of true prayer and of peace, graciously grant that through this offering, we may do fitting homage to your divine majesty and, by partaking of the sacred mystery, we may be faithfully united in mind and heart. Through Christ our Lord.
Communion Antiphon: Ps 41: 2-3
Like the deer that yearns for running streams, so my soul is yearning for you, my God; my soul is thirsting for God, the living God.
Prayer after Communion
Grant that your faithful, O Lord, whom you nourish and endow with life through the food of your Word and heavenly Sacrament, may so benefit from your beloved Son’s great gifts that we may merit an eternal share in his life. Who lives and reigns for ever and ever.
Meditation
Jesus made an odd choice and combination of people for his apostles. A zealot was a natural enemy of a tax collector (who worked for the Romans), for example. The fishermen were uneducated, some were. There was much more diversity in the group. Each apostle had his shortcomings. Yet they were expected to walk and work with Jesus and continue his mission. In the different groups and associations in which we find ourselves in the Church, there will always be as much diversity as there was among apostles. United by our common baptism, we ought to journey together to heaven and bear witness to the reality of the Kingdom of God.
by Jude Thaddeus Langeh | Sep 6, 2021 | Agenda Biblique
07
septembre
Sainte Reine
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Le culte de cette jeune fille, orpheline de mère et instruite dans la foi chrétienne par sa nourrice, est attesté dès le 5e siècle, par une basilique érigée au-dessus de son sarcophage. On en déduit que Reine subit le martyre à l’endroit même où Vercingétorix se rendit à César.
Antienne d’ouverture : Ps 118, 137. 124
Tu es juste, Seigneur, et tes jugements sont droits: Agis pour ton serviteur selon ton amour, enseigne-moi tes volontés.
Prière d’ouverture
Dieu qui as envoyé ton Fils pour nous sauver et pour faire de nous tes enfants d’adoption, regarde avec bonté ceux que tu aimes comme un père. Puisque nous croyons au Christ, accorde-nous la vraie liberté et la vie éternelle. Par Jésus Christ.
Première lecture : Colossiens 2, 6-15
Frères menez votre vie dans le Christ Jésus, le Seigneur, tel que vous l’avez reçu. Soyez enracinés, édifiés en lui, restez fermes dans la foi, comme on vous l’a enseigné ; soyez débordants d’action de grâce. Prenez garde à ceux qui veulent faire de vous leur proie par une philosophie vide et trompeuse, fondée sur la tradition des hommes, sur les forces qui régissent le monde, et non pas sur le Christ. Car en lui, dans son propre corps, habite toute la plénitude de la divinité. En lui, vous êtes pleinement comblés, car il domine toutes les Puissances de l’univers. En lui, vous avez reçu une circoncision qui n’est pas celle que pratiquent les hommes, mais celle qui réalise l’entier dépouillement de votre corps de chair ; telle est la circoncision qui vient du Christ. Dans le baptême, vous avez été mis au tombeau avec lui et vous êtes ressuscités avec lui par la foi en la force de Dieu qui l’a ressuscité d’entre les morts. Vous étiez des morts, parce que vous aviez commis des fautes et n’aviez pas reçu de circoncision dans votre chair. Mais Dieu vous a donné la vie avec le Christ :il nous a pardonné toutes nos fautes. Il a effacé le billet de la dette qui nous accablait en raison des prescriptions légales pesant sur nous :il l’a annulé en le clouant à la croix. Ainsi, Dieu a dépouillé les Puissances de l’univers ;il les a publiquement données en spectacle et les a traînées dans le cortège triomphal du Christ.
Psaume : Ps 144 (145), 1-2, 8-9, 10-11
R/ La bonté du Seigneur est pour tous. (Ps 144, 9a)
1. Je t’exalterai, mon Dieu, mon Roi, je bénirai ton nom toujours et à jamais ! Chaque jour je te bénirai, je louerai ton nom toujours et à jamais.
2. Le Seigneur est tendresse et pitié, lent à la colère et plein d’amour ; la bonté du Seigneur est pour tous, sa tendresse, pour toutes ses œuvres.
3. Que tes œuvres, Seigneur, te rendent grâce et que tes fidèles te bénissent ! Ils diront la gloire de ton règne, ils parleront de tes exploits.
Acclamation :
Alléluia. Alléluia. C’est moi qui vous ai choisis, afin que vous alliez, que vous portiez du fruit, et que votre fruit demeure, dit le Seigneur. Alléluia. (cf. Jn 15, 16)
Évangile : Luc 6, 12-19
En ces jours-là, Jésus s’en alla dans la montagne pour prier, et il passa toute la nuit à prier Dieu. Le jour venu, il appela ses disciples et en choisit douze auxquels il donna le nom d’Apôtres : Simon, auquel il donna le nom de Pierre, André son frère, Jacques, Jean, Philippe, Barthélemy, Matthieu, Thomas, Jacques fils d’Alphée,Simon appelé le Zélote, Jude fils de Jacques, et Judas Iscariote, qui devint un traître. Jésus descendit de la montagne avec eux et s’arrêta sur un terrain plat. Il y avait là un grand nombre de ses disciples et une grande multitude de gensvenus de toute la Judée, de Jérusalem, et du littoral de Tyr et de Sidon Ils étaient venus l’entendre et se faire guérir de leurs maladies ;ceux qui étaient tourmentés par des esprits impurs retrouvaient la santé. Et toute la foule cherchait à le toucher, parce qu’une force sortait de lui et les guérissait tous.
Prière sur les offrandes
Dieu qui donnes la grâce de te servir avec droiture et de chercher la paix, fais que cette offrande puisse te glorifier, et que notre participation à l’eucharistie renforce les liens de notre unité. Par Jésus.
Antienne de communion Ps 41, 2-3
Comme une biche languit après l’eau vive, ainsi mon âme languit vers toi, mon Dieu. Mon âme a soif de Dieu, du Dieu vivant.
Prière après la communion
Par ta parole et par ton pain, Seigneur, tu nourris et fortifies tes fidèles : accorde-nous de si bien profiter de ces dons que nous soyons associés pour toujours à la vie de ton Fils. Lui qui.
Méditation
Prenez garde à ceux qui veulent faire de vous leur proie par une philosophie vide et trompeuse, fondée sur la tradition des hommes, sur les forces qui régissent le monde, et non pas sur le Christ. Cet avertissement de Saint Paul aux Colossiens nous interpelle avec force aujourd’hui. Nombreux sommes nous, chrétiens qui courront chez les féticheurs et marabouts pour chercher protection, sans oublier ceux qui s’adonnent aux pratiques occultes et diaboliques pour s’enrichir. Et que dire de ceux qui adorent des esprits sataniques pour le pouvoir ou pour détruire leurs adversaires dans la course au pouvoir! Toutes ces pratiques mènent à la perte de notre âme. Que le Seigneur, par l’intercession de saint Paul et de sainte Reine, garde nos pas pour ne pas que nous soyons la proie des ennemies du Christ. Prions aussi pour que le Seigneur nous envoie des ouvriers qui sauront nous sortir des ténèbres pour parvenir à la lumière du Christ.
by Jude Thaddeus Langeh | Sep 5, 2021 | Evangelium
Monday
06
September
Pope St. Leo the Great
(- 461)
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Leo was born in Etruria and became Pope in 440. He was a true shepherd and father of souls. He constantly strove to keep the faith whole and strenuously defended the unity of the Church. He repelled the invasions of the barbarians or alleviated their effects, famously persuading Attila the Hun not to march on Rome in 452, and preventing the invading Vandals from massacring the population in 455.
Entrance Antiphon: Ps 118: 137, 124
You are just, O Lord, and your judgement is right; treat your servant in accord with your merciful love.
Collect
O God, by whom we are redeemed and receive adoption, look graciously upon your beloved sons and daughters, that those who believe in Christ may receive true freedom and an everlasting inheritance. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
First reading: Colossians 1:24-2:3
It makes me happy to suffer for you, as I am suffering now, and in my own body to do what I can to make up all that has still to be undergone by Christ for the sake of his body, the Church. I became the servant of the Church when God made me responsible for delivering God’s message to you, the message which was a mystery hidden for generations and centuries and has now been revealed to his saints. It was God’s purpose to reveal it to them and to show all the rich glory of this mystery to pagans. The mystery is Christ among you, your hope of glory: this is the Christ we proclaim, this is the wisdom in which we thoroughly train everyone and instruct everyone, to make them all perfect in Christ. It is for this I struggle wearily on, helped only by his power driving me irresistibly. Yes, I want you to know that I do have to struggle hard for you, and for those in Laodicea, and for so many others who have never seen me face to face. It is all to bind you together in love and to stir your minds, so that your understanding may come to full development, until you really know God’s secret in which all the jewels of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.
Psalm 61(62):6-7,9
R/ In God is my safety and glory.
1. In God alone be at rest, my soul; for my hope comes from him. He alone is my rock, my stronghold, my fortress: I stand firm.
2. Take refuge in God, all you people. Trust him at all times. Pour out your hearts before him for God is our refuge.
Gospel Acclamation : Ps118:105
Alleluia, alleluia! Your word is a lamp for my steps and a light for my path. Alleluia!
Gospel: Luke 6:6-11
On the sabbath Jesus went into the synagogue and began to teach, and a man was there whose right hand was withered. The scribes and the Pharisees were watching him to see if he would cure a man on the sabbath, hoping to find something to use against him. But he knew their thoughts; and he said to the man with the withered hand, ‘Stand up! Come out into the middle.’ And he came out and stood there. Then Jesus said to them, ‘I put it to you: is it against the law on the sabbath to do good, or to do evil; to save life, or to destroy it?’ Then he looked round at them all and said to the man, ‘Stretch out your hand.’ He did so, and his hand was better. But they were furious, and began to discuss the best way of dealing with Jesus.
Prayer over the Offerings
O God, who give us the gift of true prayer and of peace, graciously grant that through this offering, we may do fitting homage to your divine majesty and, by partaking of the sacred mystery, we may be faithfully united in mind and heart. Through Christ our Lord.
Communion Antiphon: Ps 41: 2-3
Like the deer that yearns for running streams, so my soul is yearning for you, my God; my soul is thirsting for God, the living God.
Prayer after Communion
Grant that your faithful, O Lord, whom you nourish and endow with life through the food of your Word and heavenly Sacrament, may so benefit from your beloved Son’s great gifts that we may merit an eternal share in his life. Who lives and reigns for ever and ever.
Meditation
The deformity of the withered hand was normally supposed to keep the man out of the discussion on Scripture discussion in the synagogue. He could attend the service and listen, but he could not speak. Jesus cures him on the Sabbath and sets him free, making him like any other person in that synagogue. Truth and law are to help free people in life and in their worship of, and relationship with God, not hinder them. A proper understanding and application of God’s law will not result in the development of roadblocks on the path to God, but will open up access for all people. What is our approach to laws? Do they help us and others grow closer to God?
by Jude Thaddeus Langeh | Sep 5, 2021 | Agenda Biblique
06
septembre
Saint Donatien
Vert
Il fait partie des évêques les plus influents arrêtés par Hunéric, roi Vandale arien pour donner du change aux chrétiens qui restèrent attachés à la foi romaine du concile de Nicée. Avec Fusculus, Laetus, Mansuetis et Praesidius, il fut envoyé en exilé après qu’il eût reçu cent cinquante violents coups de fouet qui brisèrent chacun d’eux.
Antienne d’ouverture : Ps 118, 137. 124
Tu es juste, Seigneur, et tes jugements sont droits: Agis pour ton serviteur selon ton amour, enseigne-moi tes volontés.
Prière d’ouverture
Dieu qui as envoyé ton Fils pour nous sauver et pour faire de nous tes enfants d’adoption, regarde avec bonté ceux que tu aimes comme un père. Puisque nous croyons au Christ, accorde-nous la vraie liberté et la vie éternelle. Par Jésus Christ.
Première lecture : Col 1, 24 – 2, 3
Frères, maintenant je trouve la joie dans les souffrances que je supporte pour vous ;ce qui reste à souffrir des épreuves du Christ dans ma propre chair, je l’accomplis pour son corps qui est l’Église. De cette Église, je suis devenu ministre, et la mission que Dieu m’a confiée, c’est de mener à bien pour vous l’annonce de sa parole, le mystère qui était caché depuis toujours à toutes les générations, mais qui maintenant a été manifesté à ceux qu’il a sanctifiés. Car Dieu a bien voulu leur faire connaître en quoi consiste la gloire sans prix de ce mystère parmi toutes les nations :le Christ est parmi vous, lui, l’espérance de la gloire ! Ce Christ, nous l’annonçons :nous avertissons tout homme, nous instruisons chacun en toute sagesse, afin de l’amener à sa perfection dans le Christ. C’est pour cela que je m’épuise à combattre, avec la force du Christ dont la puissance agit en moi. Je veux en effet que vous sachiez quel dur combat je mène pour vous, et aussi pour les fidèles de Laodicée et pour tant d’autres qui ne m’ont jamais vu personnellement. Je combats pour que leurs cœurs soient remplis de courage et pour que, rassemblés dans l’amour, ils accèdent à la plénitude de l’intelligence dans toute sa richesse, et à la vraie connaissance du mystère de Dieu. Ce mystère, c’est le Christ, en qui se trouvent cachés tous les trésors de la sagesse et de la connaissance.
Psaume : Ps 61 (62), 6-7, 9
R/ En Dieu, mon salut et ma gloire ! (Ps 61, 8a)
1. Je n’ai mon repos qu’en Dieu seul ; oui, mon espoir vient de lui. Lui seul est mon rocher, mon salut, ma citadelle : je reste inébranlable.
2. Comptez sur lui en tous temps, vous, le peuple. Devant lui épanchez votre cœur : Dieu est pour nous un refuge.
Acclamation :
Alléluia. Alléluia. Mes brebis écoutent ma voix, dit le Seigneur; moi, je les connais, et elles me suivent. Alléluia. (Jn 10, 27)
Évangile : Lc 6, 6-11
Un jour de sabbat, Jésus était entré dans la synagogue et enseignait. Il y avait là un homme dont la main droite était desséchée. Les scribes et les pharisiens observaient Jésus pour voir s’il ferait une guérison le jour du sabbat ; ils auraient ainsi un motif pour l’accuser. Mais lui connaissait leurs raisonnements, et il dit à l’homme qui avait la main desséchée : « Lève-toi, et tiens-toi debout, là au milieu. » L’homme se dressa et se tint debout. Jésus leur dit : « Je vous le demande : Est-il permis, le jour du sabbat, de faire le bien ou de faire le mal ? de sauver une vie ou de la perdre ? » Alors, promenant son regard sur eux tous, il dit à l’homme : « Étends la main. » Il le fit, et sa main redevint normale. Quant à eux, ils furent remplis de fureur et ils discutaient entre eux sur ce qu’ils feraient à Jésus.
Prière sur les offrandes
Dieu qui donnes la grâce de te servir avec droiture et de chercher la paix, fais que cette offrande puisse te glorifier, et que notre participation à l’eucharistie renforce les liens de notre unité. Par Jésus..
Antienne de communion : Ps 41, 2-3
Comme une biche languit après l’eau vive, ainsi mon âme languit vers toi, mon Dieu. Mon âme a soif de Dieu, du Dieu vivant.
Prière après la communion
Par ta parole et par ton pain, Seigneur, tu nourris et fortifies tes fidèles : accorde-nous de si bien profiter de ces dons que nous soyons associés pour toujours à la vie de ton Fils. Lui qui.
Méditation
Jésus est devant un malade, un homme dont la main droite était desséchée, le jour du sabbat. Selon la loi juive, guérir un malade ce jour-là est interdit. Jésus veut nous ramener à la source et à la finalité de toute loi, qu’elle soit traditionnelle, étatique, associative ou spirituelle : elle doit avoir pour but principal la recherche du bien et la protection de la vie. La question de Jésus reste actuelle dans ce monde où la vie humaine est dévalorisée (les crimes, les guerres, les avortements, les empoisonnements…), et où la recherche effrénée et égoïste des intérêts personnels prend très souvent le dessus sur le bien commun. Que le Seigneur, par l’intercession de Saint Paul et Saint Donatien, nous aide à nous adonner au bien des autres et pour la mission de l’Eglise afin de trouver en Dieu le salut et la gloire.
