by Jude Thaddeus Langeh | Sep 4, 2021 | Evangelium
Sunday
05
September
Pope St. Gregory the Great
(540 – 604)
White
He was elected Pope on 3rd September 590, the first monk to be elected to this office. He wrote extensively on pastoral care, spirituality, and morals, and designated himself “servant of the servants of God.” He died on 12th March 604.
Entrance Antiphon
Blessed Gregory, raised upon the throne of Peter, sought always the beauty of the Lord and lived in celebration of that love.
Collect
O God, who care for your people with gentleness and rule them in love, through the intercession of Pope Saint Gregory, endow, we pray, with a spirit of wisdom those to whom you have given authority to govern, that the flourishing of a holy flock may become the eternal joy of the shepherds. 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 1:15-20
Christ Jesus is the image of the unseen God and the first-born of all creation, for in him were created
all things in heaven and on earth: everything visible and everything invisible, Thrones, Dominations, Sovereignties, Powers – all things were created through him and for him. Before anything was created, he existed, and he holds all things in unity. Now the Church is his body, he is its head. As he is the Beginning, he was first to be born from the dead, so that he should be first in every way; because God wanted all perfection to be found in him and all things to be reconciled through him and for him, everything in heaven and everything on earth, when he made peace by his death on the cross.
Psalm 99(100):2-5
R/ Come before the Lord, singing for joy.
1. Serve the Lord with gladness.Come before him, singing for joy.
2. Know that he, the Lord, is God.He made us, we belong to him, we are his people, the sheep of his flock.
3. Go within his gates, giving thanks. Enter his courts with songs of praise. Give thanks to him and bless his name.
4. Indeed, how good is the Lord, eternal his merciful love. He is faithful from age to age.
Gospel Acclamation: cf.Ps18:9
Alleluia, alleluia! Your words gladden the heart, O Lord, they give light to the eyes. Alleluia!
Gospel: Luke 5:33-39
WThe Pharisees and the scribes said to Jesus, ‘John’s disciples are always fasting and saying prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees too, but yours go on eating and drinking.’ Jesus replied, ‘Surely you cannot make the bridegroom’s attendants fast while the bridegroom is still with them? But the time will come, the time for the bridegroom to be taken away from them; that will be the time when they will fast.’ He also told them this parable, ‘No one tears a piece from a new cloak to put it on an old cloak; if he does, not only will he have torn the new one, but the piece taken from the new will not match the old. ‘And nobody puts new wine into old skins; if he does, the new wine will burst the skins and then run out, and the skins will be lost. No; new wine must be put into fresh skins. And nobody who has been drinking old wine wants new. “The old is good” he says.’
Prayer over the Offerings
Grant our supplication, we pray, O Lord, that this sacrifice we present in celebration of Saint Gregory may be for our good, since through its offering you have loosed the offences of all the world. Through Christ our Lord.
Communion Antiphon: Lk 12:42
This is the steward, faithful and prudent, whom the Lord set over his household to give them their allowance of food at the proper time.
Prayer after Communion
Through Christ the teacher, O Lord, instruct those you feed with Christ, the living Bread, that on the feast day of Saint Gregory they may learn your truth and express it in works of charity. Through Christ our Lord.
Meditation
Perhaps, we can readily rattle all the titles and names of Jesus which we have read in books or heard in sermons and inspirational songs. The question remains whether any of these titles has an impact in our lives and relationship with Jesus. We could simply be like the Apostles saying what they had heard others say about Jesus. He asks us today: “But you, who do you say that I am?” This is a personal question. It demands a personal answer. Such an answer ought to be based on a personal experience of an encounter with Jesus. This is the task of our spiritual journey.
by Jude Thaddeus Langeh | Sep 4, 2021 | Agenda Biblique
Dimanche
05
septembre
23ème DIMANCHE DU TEMPS ORDINAIRE
Psautier III
Sainte Raïssa
Vert
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.
1ère lecture : Is 35, 4-7a
Dites aux gens qui s’affolent : « Soyez forts, ne craignez pas. Voici votre Dieu : c’est la vengeance qui vient, la revanche de Dieu. Il vient lui-même et va vous sauver. » Alors se dessilleront les yeux des aveugles, et s’ouvriront les oreilles des sourds. Alors le boiteux bondira comme un cerf, et la bouche du muet criera de joie ; car l’eau jaillira dans le désert, des torrents dans le pays aride. La terre brûlante se changera en lac, la région de la soif, en eaux jaillissantes.
Psaume : 145 (146), 6c-7, 8-9a, 9bc-10
R/ Je veux louer le Seigneur, tant que je vis.
1. Le Seigneur garde à jamais sa fidélité, il fait justice aux opprimés ; aux affamés, il donne le pain ; le Seigneur délie les enchaînés.
2. Le Seigneur ouvre les yeux des aveugles, le Seigneur redresse les accablés, le Seigneur aime les justes, le Seigneur protège l’étranger.
3. Il soutient la veuve et l’orphelin, il égare les pas du méchant. D’âge en âge, le Seigneur régnera : ton Dieu, ô Sion, pour toujours !
2ème lecture : Jc 2, 1-5
Mes frères, dans votre foi en Jésus Christ, notre Seigneur de gloire, n’ayez aucune partialité envers les personnes. Imaginons que, dans votre assemblée, arrivent en même temps un homme au vêtement rutilant, portant une bague en or, et un pauvre au vêtement sale. Vous tournez vos regards vers celui qui porte le vêtement rutilant et vous lui dites : « Assieds-toi ici, en bonne place » ; et vous dites au pauvre : « Toi, reste là debout », ou bien : « Assieds-toi au bas de mon marchepied. » Cela, n’est-ce pas faire des différences entre vous, et juger selon de faux critères ? Écoutez donc, mes frères bien-aimés ! Dieu, lui, n’a-t-il pas choisi ceux qui sont pauvres aux yeux du monde pour en faire des riches dans la foi, et des héritiers du Royaume promis par lui à ceux qui l’auront aimé ?
Acclamation :
Alléluia. Alléluia. Jésus proclamait l’Évangile du Royaume et guérissait toute maladie dans le peuple. Alléluia. (cf. Mt 4, 23)
Evangile : Mc 7, 31-37
En ce temps-là, Jésus quitta le territoire de Tyr ; passant par Sidon, il prit la direction de la mer de Galilée et alla en plein territoire de la Décapole. Des gens lui amènent un sourd qui avait aussi de la difficulté à parler, et supplient Jésus de poser la main sur lui. Jésus l’emmena à l’écart, loin de la foule, lui mit les doigts dans les oreilles, et, avec sa salive, lui toucha la langue. Puis, les yeux levés au ciel, il soupira et lui dit : « Effata ! », c’est-à-dire : « Ouvre-toi ! » Ses oreilles s’ouvrirent ; sa langue se délia, et il parlait correctement. Alors Jésus leur ordonna de n’en rien dire à personne ; mais plus il leur donnait cet ordre, plus ceux-ci le proclamaient. Extrêmement frappés, ils disaient : « Il a bien fait toutes choses : il fait entendre les sourds et parler les muets. »
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
Le stress est devenue un phénomène qui se généralise peu importe la couche de la société à laquelle on appartient. L’homme a tout le temps le cœur troublé par les incertitudes du lendemain ou le désir profond d’arriver à tout prix à de bons résultats. S’adressant à nous de la part du Seigneur, le prophète Ézéchiel, dont le nom signifie Force de Dieu, nous rassure que Dieu vient lui-même et va nous sauver. Dieu vient nous redonner la paix de l’âme. L’évangile de ce jour nous le démontre à souhait. Jésus guérit un sourd frappé de trouble de la parole. Nous ne pouvons recevoir de Jésus la guérison et la paix que si nous avons du lui en nous. Si Jésus ne nous touche pas au plus profond de notre cœur, de notre âme, de notre corps, son salut ne peut arriver à nous. Jésus vient pour tous les hommes. À son exemple, apprenons à accueillir tout homme pour devenir cohéritier du Royaume.
by Jude Thaddeus Langeh | Sep 3, 2021 | Evangelium
Saturday
04
September
Blessed Dina Bélanger
(1897 – 1929)
Green / White
She was born on 30 April 1897 in Québec and at the recommendation of her parish priest she went to New York to study at the Institute of Musical Art, with the intention of becoming a concert pianist. On her return home, she decided to enter the religious life in the Congregation of Jésus-Marie at Sillery, where the nuns had their mother house.
Entrance Antiphon: Ps 85: 3, 5
Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I cry to you all the day long. O Lord, you are good and forgiving, full of mercy to all who call to you.
Collect
God of might, giver of every good gift, put into our hearts the love of your name, so that, by deepening our sense of reverence, you may nurture in us what is good and, by your watchful care, keep safe what you have nurtured. 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 1:21-23
Not long ago, you were foreigners and enemies, in the way that you used to think and the evil things that you did; but now he has reconciled you, by his death and in that mortal body. Now you are able to appear before him holy, pure and blameless – as long as you persevere and stand firm on the solid base of the faith, never letting yourselves drift away from the hope promised by the Good News, which you have heard, which has been preached to the whole human race, and of which I, Paul, have become the servant.
Psalm 53(54):3-4,6,8
R/ I have God for my help.
1. O God, save me by your name; by your power, uphold my cause. O God, hear my prayer listen to the words of my mouth.
2. But I have God for my help. The Lord upholds my life. I will sacrifice to you with willing heart and praise your name for it is good:
Gospel Acclamation: Ps26:11
Alleluia, alleluia! Instruct me, Lord, in your way; on an even path lead me. Alleluia!
Gospel: Luke 6:1-5
One sabbath Jesus happened to be taking a walk through the cornfields, and his disciples were picking ears of corn, rubbing them in their hands and eating them. Some of the Pharisees said, ‘Why are you doing something that is forbidden on the sabbath day?’ Jesus answered them, ‘So you have not read what David did when he and his followers were hungry how he went into the house of God, took the loaves of offering and ate them and gave them to his followers, loaves which only the priests are allowed to eat?’ And he said to them, ‘The Son of Man is master of the sabbath.’
Prayer over the Offerings
May this sacred offering, O Lord, confer on us always the blessing of salvation, that what it celebrates in mystery it may accomplish in power. Through Christ our Lord.
Communion Antiphon: Ps 30: 20
How great is the goodness, Lord, that you keep for those who fear you.
Prayer after Communion
Renewed by this bread from the heavenly table, we beseech you, Lord, that, being the food of charity, it may confirm our hearts and stir us to serve you in our neighbour. Through Christ our Lord.
Meditation
Sunday, the weekly celebration of the Lord’s Resurrection, is the “new Sabbath”, the fulfilment of the Sabbath. On Sundays, the faithful are to abstain from labour and business concerns which impede the worship to be rendered to God, the joy which is proper to the Lord’s Day or the proper relaxation of mind and body. The issue in the objection of the Pharisees is not so much the Sabbath, but their exaggerated multiplication and detailed expansion of laws. In the end, holiness would be more about keeping laws and less about loving God. Jesus teaches otherwise.
by Jude Thaddeus Langeh | Sep 3, 2021 | Agenda Biblique
04
septembre
Sainte Rosalie
Vert / Blanc
Elle aurait fui la maison paternelle à 14 ans, à la suite d’une apparition de la Vierge Marie, pour préserver sa virginité. Elle aurait passé ainsi les 16 dernières années de sa vie dans une grotte du mont Pellegrino, nourrie de la seule eucharistie que lui portaient les anges.
Antienne d’ouverture : Ps 85, 3. 5
Prends pitié de moi, Seigneur, toi que je supplie tout le jour, toi, tu es bon, tu pardonnes, tu es plein d’amour pour tous ceux qui t’appellent.
Prière d’ouverture
Dieu puissant, de qui vient tout don parfait enracine en nos cœurs l’amour de ton nom. Resserre nos liens avec toi, pour développer ce qui est bon en nous, veille sur nous avec sollicitude, pour protéger ce que tu as fait grandir. Par Jésus Christ.
Première lecture : Col 1, 21-23
Frères, vous étiez jadis étrangers à Dieu, et même ses ennemis, par vos pensées et vos actes mauvais. Mais maintenant, Dieu vous a réconciliés avec lui, dans le corps du Christ, son corps de chair, par sa mort, afin de vous introduire en sa présence, saints, immaculés, irréprochables. Cela se réalise si vous restez solidement fondés dans la foi, sans vous détourner de l’espérance que vous avez reçue en écoutant l’Évangile proclamé à toute créature sous le ciel. De cet Évangile, moi, Paul, je suis devenu ministre.
Psaume : Ps 53 (54), 3-4, 6.8
R/ Voici que Dieu vient à mon aide. (Ps 53, 6a)
1. Par ton nom, Dieu, sauve-moi, par ta puissance rends-moi justice ; Dieu, entends ma prière, écoute les paroles de ma bouche.
2. Voici que Dieu vient à mon aide, le Seigneur est mon appui entre tous. De grand cœur, je t’offrirai le sacrifice, je rendrai grâce à ton nom, car il est bon !
Acclamation
Alléluia. Alléluia. Moi, je suis le Chemin, la Vérité et la Vie, dit le Seigneur. Personne ne va vers le Père sans passer par moi. Alléluia. (Jn 14, 6)
Évangile : Lc 6, 1-5
Un jour de sabbat, Jésus traversait des champs ; ses disciples arrachaient des épis et les mangeaient, après les avoir froissés dans leurs mains. Quelques pharisiens dirent alors : « Pourquoi faites-vous ce qui n’est pas permis le jour du sabbat ? » Jésus leur répondit : « N’avez-vous pas lu ce que fit David un jour qu’il eut faim, lui-même et ceux qui l’accompagnaient ? Il entra dans la maison de Dieu, prit les pains de l’offrande, en mangea et en donna à ceux qui l’accompagnaient, alors que les prêtres seulement ont le droit d’en manger. » Il leur disait encore : « Le Fils de l’homme est maître du sabbat. »
Prière sur les offrandes
Que l’offrande eucharistique, Seigneur, nous apporte toujours la grâce du salut. Que ta puissance accomplisse elle-même ce que nous célébrons dans cette liturgie. Par Jésus.
Antienne de communion : Ps 30, 20
Qu’elle est grande, Seigneur, ta bonté envers ceux qui t’adorent!
Prière après la communion
Rassasiés par le pain de la vie, nous te prions, Seigneur : Que cette nourriture fortifie l’amour en nos cœurs , et nous incite à te servir dans nos frères. Par Jésus.
Méditation
Le sabbat, inspiré du repos de Dieu après la création du monde, avait pour vocation de donner à l’homme un jour de répit. Il aidait ainsi l’homme à se refaire. Avec le temps, sa valeur institutionnelle a pris de l’ampleur au point où les pharisiens ont perdu de vue sa valeur d’aide pour l’homme. Il est devenu une institution que rien ne doit empêcher de respecter, même pas la faim. Ils ont oublié qu’un ventre creux n’a point d’oreille. Combien de fois tombons-nous dans ce même travers ? Nos pratiques religieuses et même sociales ont pour but de nous aider à vivre notre relation au Créateur. Il est bon de les respecter, mais nous ne devons pas les transformer en fardeau, devenant ainsi leur esclave. Jésus, le maître du sabbat est venu pour nous donner la vie en abondance. Si nous sommes à sa suite, nous devons agir comme lui. Nous devons nous rappeler que le plus important est de permettre à l’Homme de vivre heureux et digne.
by Jude Thaddeus Langeh | Sep 2, 2021 | Evangelium
Friday
03
September
Pope St. Gregory the Great
(540 – 604)
White
He was elected Pope on 3rd September 590, the first monk to be elected to this office. He wrote extensively on pastoral care, spirituality, and morals, and designated himself “servant of the servants of God.” He died on 12th March 604.
Entrance Antiphon
Blessed Gregory, raised upon the throne of Peter, sought always the beauty of the Lord and lived in celebration of that love.
Collect
O God, who care for your people with gentleness and rule them in love, through the intercession of Pope Saint Gregory, endow, we pray, with a spirit of wisdom those to whom you have given authority to govern, that the flourishing of a holy flock may become the eternal joy of the shepherds. 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 1:15-20
Christ Jesus is the image of the unseen God and the first-born of all creation, for in him were created
all things in heaven and on earth: everything visible and everything invisible, Thrones, Dominations, Sovereignties, Powers – all things were created through him and for him. Before anything was created, he existed, and he holds all things in unity. Now the Church is his body, he is its head. As he is the Beginning, he was first to be born from the dead, so that he should be first in every way; because God wanted all perfection to be found in him and all things to be reconciled through him and for him, everything in heaven and everything on earth, when he made peace by his death on the cross.
Psalm 99(100):2-5
R/ Come before the Lord, singing for joy.
1. Serve the Lord with gladness.Come before him, singing for joy.
2. Know that he, the Lord, is God.He made us, we belong to him, we are his people, the sheep of his flock.
3. Go within his gates, giving thanks. Enter his courts with songs of praise. Give thanks to him and bless his name.
4. Indeed, how good is the Lord, eternal his merciful love. He is faithful from age to age.
Gospel Acclamation: cf.Ps18:9
Alleluia, alleluia! Your words gladden the heart, O Lord, they give light to the eyes. Alleluia!
Gospel: Luke 5:33-39
WThe Pharisees and the scribes said to Jesus, ‘John’s disciples are always fasting and saying prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees too, but yours go on eating and drinking.’ Jesus replied, ‘Surely you cannot make the bridegroom’s attendants fast while the bridegroom is still with them? But the time will come, the time for the bridegroom to be taken away from them; that will be the time when they will fast.’ He also told them this parable, ‘No one tears a piece from a new cloak to put it on an old cloak; if he does, not only will he have torn the new one, but the piece taken from the new will not match the old. ‘And nobody puts new wine into old skins; if he does, the new wine will burst the skins and then run out, and the skins will be lost. No; new wine must be put into fresh skins. And nobody who has been drinking old wine wants new. “The old is good” he says.’
Prayer over the Offerings
Grant our supplication, we pray, O Lord, that this sacrifice we present in celebration of Saint Gregory may be for our good, since through its offering you have loosed the offences of all the world. Through Christ our Lord.
Communion Antiphon: Lk 12:42
This is the steward, faithful and prudent, whom the Lord set over his household to give them their allowance of food at the proper time.
Prayer after Communion
Through Christ the teacher, O Lord, instruct those you feed with Christ, the living Bread, that on the feast day of Saint Gregory they may learn your truth and express it in works of charity. Through Christ our Lord.
Meditation
Perhaps, we can readily rattle all the titles and names of Jesus which we have read in books or heard in sermons and inspirational songs. The question remains whether any of these titles has an impact in our lives and relationship with Jesus. We could simply be like the Apostles saying what they had heard others say about Jesus. He asks us today: “But you, who do you say that I am?” This is a personal question. It demands a personal answer. Such an answer ought to be based on a personal experience of an encounter with Jesus. This is the task of our spiritual journey.
