by Jude Thaddeus Langeh | Nov 19, 2022 | Agenda Biblique
Dimanche 20 novembre 2022
Notre Seigneur Jésus Christ Roi de l’Univers
Solennité du Seigneur
Antienne d’ouverture : Ap 5, 12: 1, 6
Il est digne, l’Agneau qui a été immolé, de recevoir puissance, divinité, sagesse, force et honneur. À lui, gloire et puissance dans les siècles des siècles.
Prière d’ouverture
Dieu éternel, tu as voulu fonder toutes choses en ton Fils bien-aimé, le Roi de l’univers; Fais que toute la création, libérée de la servitude, reconnaisse ta puissance et te glorifie sans fin. Par Jésus Christ.
1ère lecture : 2 Samuel 5, 1-3
En ces jours-là, toutes les tribus d’Israël vinrent trouver David à Hébron et lui dirent : « Vois ! Nous sommes de tes os et de ta chair. Dans le passé déjà, quand Saül était notre roi, c’est toi qui menais Israël en campagne et le ramenais, et le Seigneur t’a dit: ‘Tu seras le berger d’Israël mon peuple, tu seras le chef d’Israël.’» Ainsi, tous les anciens d’Israël vinrent trouver le roi à Hébron. Le roi David fit alliance avec eux, à Hébron, devant le Seigneur. Ils donnèrent l’onction à David pour le faire roi sur Israël.
Psaume 121 (122), 1-2, 3-4, 5-6
R/ Dans la joie, nous irons à la maison du Seigneur. (cf. Ps 121, 1)
- Quelle joie quand on m’a dit: « Nous irons à la maison du Seigneur!» Maintenant notre marche prend fin devant tes portes, Jérusalem !
- Jérusalem, te voici dans tes murs : ville où tout ensemble ne fait qu’un! C’est là que montent les tribus, les tribus du Seigneur, là qu’Israël doit rendre grâce au nom du Seigneur.
- C’est là le siège du droit, le siège de la maison de David. Appelez le bonheur sur Jérusalem : « Paix à ceux qui t’aiment ! »
2ème lecture : Col 1, 12-20
Frères, rendez grâce à Dieu le Père, qui vous a rendus capables d’avoir part à l’héritage des saints, dans la lumière. Nous arrachant au pouvoir des ténèbres, il nous a placés dans le Royaume de son Fils bien-aimé : en lui nous avons la rédemption, le pardon des péchés. Il est l’image du Dieu invisible, le premier-né, avant toute créature: en lui, tout fut créé, dans le ciel et sur la terre. Les êtres visibles et invisibles, Puissances, Principautés, Souverainetés,Dominations, tout est créé par lui et pour lui. Il est avant toute chose, et tout subsiste en lui. Il est aussi la tête du corps, la tête de l’Église: c’est lui le commencement, le premier-né d’entre les morts, afin qu’il ait en tout la primauté. Car Dieu a jugé bon qu’habite en lui toute plénitude et que tout, par le Christ, lui soit enfin réconcilié, faisant la paix par le sang de sa Croix, la paix pour tous les êtres sur la terre et dans le ciel.
Acclamation
Alléluia. Alléluia. Béni soit celui qui vient au nom du Seigneur. Béni soit le Règne qui vient, celui de David notre père. Alléluia. (cf. Mc 11, 9b.10a)
Évangile : Luc 23, 35-43
En ce temps-là, on venait de crucifier Jésus, et le peuple restait là à observer. Les chefs tournaient Jésus en dérision et disaient : « Il en a sauvé d’autres : qu’il se sauve lui-même, s’il est le Messie de Dieu, l’Élu ! » Les soldats aussi se moquaient de lui ; s’approchant, ils lui présentaient de la boisson vinaigrée, en disant: « Si tu es le roi des Juifs, sauve-toi toi-même ! » Il y avait aussi une inscription au-dessus de lui: « Celui-ci est le roi des Juifs. » L’un des malfaiteurs suspendus en croix l’injuriait : « N’es-tu pas le Christ? Sauve-toi toi-même, et nous aussi ! » Mais l’autre lui fit de vifs reproches : « Tu ne crains donc pas Dieu ! Tu es pourtant un condamné, toi aussi ! Et puis, pour nous, c’est juste : après ce que nous avons fait, nous avons ce que nous méritons. Mais lui, il n’a rien fait de mal. » Et il disait : « Jésus, souviens-toi de moi quand tu viendras dans ton Royaume. » Jésus lui déclara : « Amen, je te le dis : aujourd’hui, avec moi, tu seras dans le Paradis.»
Prière sur les offrandes
En offrant le sacrifice qui te réconcilie les hommes, Seigneur, nous te prions: Que ton Fils lui-même accorde à tous les peuples les biens de l’unité et de la paix. Lui qui.
Antienne de la communion : Ps 28, 10-11
Le Seigneur est Roi, il règne éternellement; le Seigneur donne à son peuple la bénédiction de la paix.
Prière après la communion
Après avoir partagé le pain de l’immortalité, nous te supplions, Seigneur: Nous mettons notre gloire à obéir au Christ Roi de l’univers, fais que nous puissions vivre avec lui, éternellement, dans la demeure du ciel. Lui qui.
Méditation
L’Évangile de ce jour s’arrête sur la crucifixion de Jésus. Le Roi qui meurt comme un vulgaire bandit. C’est par là qu’il permet à l’humanité de réintégrer le paradis perdu par le péché d’Adam et Ève. Par sa mort, Jésus devient l’oint de Dieu, non pas seulement pour sauver le peuple d’Israël comme David, mais pour sauver toute l’humanité. Par son sacrifice nous avons, nous aussi, part à l’héritage des saints. Quelle grâce !
by Jude Thaddeus Langeh | Nov 19, 2022 | Evangelium
Sunday 20 th november 2022
Christ the King
Psalter proper
Entrance Antiphon : Rv 5: 12; 1: 6
How worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and divinity, and wisdom and strength and honour. To him belong glory and power for ever and ever.
Collect
Almighty ever-living God, whose will is to restore all things in your beloved Son, the King of the universe, grant, we pray, that the whole creation, set free from slavery, may render your majesty service and ceaselessly proclaim your praise. 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 : 2 Samuel 5:1-3
All the tribes of Israel then came to David at Hebron. ‘Look’ they said ‘we are your own flesh and blood. In days past when Saul was our king, it was you who led Israel in all their exploits; and the Lord said to you, “You are the man who shall be shepherd of my people Israel, you shall be the leader of Israel.”’ So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David made a pact with them at Hebron in the presence of the Lord, and they anointed David king of Israel.
Responsorial Psalm
R/ I rejoiced when I heard them say: ‘Let us go to God’s house.’
- I rejoiced when I heard them say: ‘Let us go to God’s house.’ And now our feet are standing within your gates, O Jerusalem.
- Jerusalem is built as a city strongly compact. It is there that the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord.
- For Israel’s law it is, there to praise the Lord’s name. There were set the thrones of judgement of the house of David.
Second reading : Colossians 1:12-20
We give thanks to the Father who has made it possible for you to join the saints and with them to inherit the light. Because that is what he has done: he has taken us out of the power of darkness and created a place for us in the kingdom of the Son that he loves, and in him, we gain our freedom, the forgiveness of our sins. He 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.
Gospel Acclamation : Mk11:10
Alleluia, alleluia! Blessings on him who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessings on the coming kingdom of our father David! Alleluia!
Gospel : Luke 23:35-43
The people stayed there before the cross watching Jesus. As for the leaders, they jeered at him. ‘He saved others,’ they said ‘let him save himself if he is the Christ of God, the Chosen One.’ The soldiers mocked him too, and when they approached to offer vinegar they said, ‘If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself.’ Above him there was an inscription: ‘This is the King of the Jews.’ One of the criminals hanging there abused him. ‘Are you not the Christ?’ he said. ‘Save yourself and us as well.’ But the other spoke up and rebuked him. ‘Have you no fear of God at all?’ he said. ‘You got the same sentence as he did, but in our case we deserved it: we are paying for what we did. But this man has done nothing wrong. Jesus,’ he said ‘remember me when you come into your kingdom.’ ‘Indeed, I promise you,’ he replied ‘today you will be with me in paradise.’
Prayer over the Offerings
As we offer you, O Lord, the sacrifice by which the human race is reconciled to you, we humbly pray, that your Son himself may bestow on all nations the gifts of unity and peace. Through Christ our Lord.
Communion Antiphon : Ps 28: 10-11
The Lord sits as King for ever. The Lord will bless his people with peace.
Prayer after Communion
Having received the food of immortality, we ask, O Lord, that, glorying in obedience to the commands of Christ, the King of the universe, we may live with him eternally in his heavenly kingdom. Who lives and reigns for ever and ever.
Prayer over the People
Direct, O Lord, we pray, the hearts of your faithful, and in your kindness, grant your servants this grace: that, abiding in the love of you and their neighbour, they may fulfil the whole of your commands. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Meditation
We began the Liturgical Year with Advent in which we joyfully anticipated the celebration of the birthday of Christ. We end the Liturgical Year with the solemnity of the universal kingship of Christ. Christ is the beginning and end of all time, the alpha and the omega, the firstborn of all creation under whom are subjected thrones, rulers, authorities, powers and principalities. We too are citizens of Christ’s kingship, for we have been called out of darkness to share in the inheritance of the saints in his kingdom of light. The gospel text tells what to do to inherit eternal life: to show care and to open our hearts and hands to our needy neighbour.
by Jude Thaddeus Langeh | Nov 18, 2022 | Agenda Biblique
Samedi 19 novembre 2022
St. Tanguy
On ignore encore tout de ses origines. Toutefois, c’est à l’abbaye de Saint Matthieu dans le Finistère qu’il fut très tôt l’objet d’un culte populaire.
Antienne d’ouverture : Jr 29, 11. 12. 14
« Mes pensées, dit le Seigneur Dieu, sont des pensées de paix et non pas de malheur. Appelez-moi, je vous écouterai et, de partout, je vous rassemblerai. »
Prière d’ouverture
Accorde-nous, Seigneur, de trouver notre joie dans notre fidélité: Car c’est un bonheur durable et profond de servir constamment le créateur de tout bien. Par Jésus Christ.
1ère lecture : Ap 11, 4-12
Moi, Jean, j’ai entendu une voix qui disait : « Les deux témoins chargés de prophétiser, ce sont eux les deux oliviers, les deux chandeliers, qui se tiennent devant le Seigneur de la terre. Si quelqu’un veut leur faire du mal, un feu jaillit de leur bouche et dévore leurs ennemis ; oui, celui qui voudra leur faire du mal, c’est ainsi qu’il doit mourir. Ces deux témoins ont le pouvoir de fermer le ciel, pour que la pluie ne tombe pas pendant les jours de leur prophétie. Ils ont aussi le pouvoir de changer l’eau en sang et de frapper la terre de toutes sortes de fléaux, aussi souvent qu’ils le voudront. Mais, quand ils auront achevé leur témoignage, la Bête qui monte de l’abîme leur fera la guerre, les vaincra et les fera mourir. Leurs cadavres restent sur la place de la grande ville, qu’on appelle, au sens figuré, Sodome et l’Égypte, là où leur Seigneur aussi a été crucifié. De tous les peuples, tribus, langues et nations, on vient regarder leurs cadavres pendant trois jours et demi, sans qu’il soit permis de les mettre au tombeau. Les habitants de la terre s’en réjouissent, ils sont dans la joie, ils échangent des présents ; ces deux prophètes, en effet, avaient causé bien du tourment aux habitants de la terre. Mais, après ces trois jours et demi, un souffle de vie venu de Dieu entra en eux: ils se dressèrent sur leurs pieds, et une grande crainte tomba sur ceux qui les regardaient. Alors les deux témoins entendirent une voix forte venant du ciel, qui leur disait : « Montez jusqu’ici ! » Et ils montèrent au ciel dans la nuée, sous le regard de leurs ennemis.
Psaume : 143 (144), 1, 2, 9-10
R/ Béni soit le Seigneur, mon rocher
- Béni soit le Seigneur, mon rocher ! Il exerce mes mains pour le combat, il m’entraîne à la bataille.
- Il est mon allié, ma forteresse, ma citadelle, celui qui me libère ; il est le bouclier qui m’abrite, il me donne pouvoir sur mon peuple.
- Pour toi, je chanterai un chant nouveau, pour toi, je jouerai sur la harpe à dix cordes, pour toi qui donnes aux rois la victoire et sauves de l’épée meurtrière David, ton serviteur.
Acclamation
Alléluia. Alléluia Notre Sauveur, le Christ Jésus, a détruit la mort ; il a fait resplendir la vie par l’Évangile. Alléluia. (2 Tm 1, 10)
Évangile : Lc 20, 27-40
En ce temps-là, quelques sadducéens– ceux qui soutiennent qu’il n’y a pas de résurrection –s’approchèrent de Jésus et l’interrogèrent: « Maître, Moïse nous a prescrit: Si un homme a un frère qui meurt en laissant une épouse mais pas d’enfant, il doit épouser la veuve pour susciter une descendance à son frère. Or, il y avait sept frères : le premier se maria et mourut sans enfant; de même le deuxième, puis le troisième épousèrent la veuve, et ainsi tous les sept : ils moururent sans laisser d’enfants. Finalement la femme mourut aussi. Eh bien, à la résurrection, cette femme-là, duquel d’entre eux sera-t-elle l’épouse, puisque les sept l’ont eue pour épouse ? » Jésus leur répondit : « Les enfants de ce monde prennent femme et mari. Mais ceux qui ont été jugés dignes d’avoir part au monde à venir et à la résurrection d’entre les morts ne prennent ni femme ni mari, car ils ne peuvent plus mourir: ils sont semblables aux anges, ils sont enfants de Dieu et enfants de la résurrection. Que les morts ressuscitent, Moïse lui-même le fait comprendre dans le récit du buisson ardent, quand il appelle le Seigneur le Dieu d’Abraham, Dieu d’Isaac, Dieu de Jacob. Il n’est pas le Dieu des morts, mais des vivants. Tous, en effet, vivent pour lui. » Alors certains scribes prirent la parole pour dire : « Maître, tu as bien parlé. » Et ils n’osaient plus l’interroger sur quoi que ce soit.
Prière sur les offrandes
Permets, Seigneur notre Dieu, que l’offrande placée sous ton regard nous obtienne la grâce de vivre pour toi et nous donne l’éternité bienheureuse. Par Jésus.
Antienne de la communion
Être proche de Dieu, mettre en lui mon espoir, c’est là tout mon bonheur.
Prière après la communion
Nous venons de communier, Seigneur, au don sacré du corps et du sang de ton Fils, et nous te prions humblement: Que cette eucharistie offerte en mémoire de lui, comme il nous a dit de le faire, augmente en nous la charité. Par Jésus.
Méditation
La première lecture nous parle de la bête qui sera vainqueur des témoins. Cela fait penser à la persécution des chrétiens et du témoignage qu’ils devraient rendre à la Vérité. En effet, le véritable témoin du Christ est celui-là qui demeure fidèle même face à la mort. Et celui-là aura la résurrection comme suprême récompense. Justement Jésus affirme avec force que notre Dieu est le Dieu de la Vie et non celui de la mort.
by Jude Thaddeus Langeh | Nov 18, 2022 | Evangelium
Saturday 19 th november 2022
St. Nerses the Great
Bishop and martyr, in 353 he was made Catholicos of the Armenians. Nerses devoted much effort to reforming the Armenian Church, founding hospitals and monasteries. His reforms and denunciation of King Arshak’s murder of the queen led to his exile and assassination.
Entrance Antiphon : Jer 29: 11, 12, 14
The Lord said: I think thoughts of peace and not of affliction. You will call upon me, and I will answer you, and I will lead back your captives from every place.
Collect
Grant us, we pray, O Lord our God, the constant gladness of being devoted to you, for it is full and lasting happiness to serve with constancy the author of all that is good. 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 : Apocalypse 11:4-12
I, John, heard a voice saying: ‘These, my two witnesses, are the two olive trees and the two lamps that stand before the Lord of the world. Fire can come from their mouths and consume their enemies if anyone tries to harm them; and if anybody does try to harm them he will certainly be killed in this way. They are able to lock up the sky so that it does not rain as long as they are prophesying; they are able to turn water into blood and strike the whole world with any plague as often as they like. When they have completed their witnessing, the beast that comes out of the Abyss is going to make war on them and overcome them and kill them. Their corpses will lie in the main street of the Great City known by the symbolic names Sodom and Egypt, in which their Lord was crucified. Men out of every people, race, language and nation will stare at their corpses, for three-and-a-half days, not letting them be buried, and the people of the world will be glad about it and celebrate the event by giving presents to each other, because these two prophets have been a plague to the people of the world.’ After the three-and-a-half days, God breathed life into them and they stood up, and everybody who saw it happen was terrified; then they heard a loud voice from heaven say to them, ‘Come up here’, and while their enemies were watching, they went up to heaven in a cloud.
Psalm 143:1-2,9-10
R/ Blessed be the Lord, my rock.
- Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my arms for battle, who prepares my hands for war.
- He is my love, my fortress; he is my stronghold, my savior my shield, my place of refuge. He brings peoples under my rule.
- To you, O God, will I sing a new song; I will play on the ten-stringed lute to you who give kings their victory, who set David your servant free.
Gospel Acclamation : cf.Lk8:15
Alleluia, alleluia! Blessed are those who, with a noble and generous heart, take the word of God to themselves and yield a harvest through their perseverance. Alleluia!
Gospel : Luke 20:27-40
Some Sadducees – those who say that there is no resurrection – approached him and they put this question to him, ‘Master, we have it from Moses in writing, that if a man’s married brother dies childless, the man must marry the widow to raise up children for his brother. Well then, there were seven brothers. The first, having married a wife, died childless. The second and then the third married the widow. And the same with all seven, they died leaving no children. Finally the woman herself died Now, at the resurrection, to which of them will she be wife since she had been married to all seven?’ Jesus replied, ‘The children of this world take wives and husbands, but those who are judged worthy of a place in the other world and in the resurrection from the dead do not marry because they can no longer die, for they are the same as the angels, and being children of the resurrection they are sons of God. And Moses himself implies that the dead rise again, in the passage about the bush where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. Now he is God, not of the dead, but of the living; for to him all men are in fact alive.’ Some Scribes then spoke up. ‘Well put, Master’ they said – because they would not dare to ask him any more questions.
Prayer over the Offerings
Grant, O Lord, we pray, that what we offer in the sight of your majesty may obtain for us the grace of being devoted to you and gain us the prize of everlasting happiness. Through Christ our Lord.
Communion Antiphon : Ps 72: 28
To be near God is my happiness, to place my hope in God the Lord.
Prayer after Communion
We have partaken of the gifts of this sacred mystery, humbly imploring, O Lord, that what your Son commanded us to do in memory of him may bring us growth in charity. Through Christ our Lord.
Meditation
Resurrection from the dead is a fundamental Judeo-Christian belief. Nonetheless, there are some who do not affirm this belief, like the Sadducees and the materialists who believe that everything including man is mere matter. Jesus in the Gospel affirms that resurrection is not a mere continuity of physical existence, which is a misconception by the Sadducees. Those who have experienced the resurrection are like the angels; there is no giving in marriage or indulging in physical activities. It is the resurrection that gives meaning to our earthly existence.
by Jude Thaddeus Langeh | Nov 17, 2022 | Evangelium
Friday 18 th november 2022
The Dedication of
the Basilicas of
Ss Peter and Paul
The Basilica of St Peter, today known as the Vatican Basilica, is the seat of Catholicity and is built over the tomb of St Peter, the first Pope. Over Paul’s grave is built another magnificent Catholic Basilica, St Paul’s Outside the Walls. In the anniversary of the dedication of the basilicas of St Peter at the Vatican and St Paul in the Via Ostiense, we join a tradition of honouring the two greatest apostles of Christ.
Entrance Antiphon : Jer 29: 11, 12, 14
The Lord said: I think thoughts of peace and not of affliction. You will call upon me, and I will answer you, and I will lead back your captives from every place.
Collect
Grant us, we pray, O Lord our God, the constant gladness of being devoted to you, for it is full and lasting happiness to serve with constancy the author of all that is good. 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 : Apocalypse 10:8-11
I, John, heard the voice I had heard from heaven speaking to me again. ‘Go,’ it said ‘and take that open scroll out of the hand of the angel standing on sea and land.’ I went to the angel and asked him to give me the small scroll, and he said, ‘Take it and eat it; it will turn your stomach sour, but in your mouth it will taste as sweet as honey.’ So I took it out of the angel’s hand, and swallowed it; it was as sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it my stomach turned sour. Then I was told, ‘You are to prophesy again, this time about many different nations and countries and languages and emperors.’
Psalm 118(119):14,24,72,103,111,131
R/ Your promise is sweet to my taste, O Lord.
- I rejoiced to do your will as though all riches were mine. Your will is my delight; your statutes are my counsellors.
- The law from your mouth means more to me than silver and gold. Your promise is sweeter to my taste than honey in the mouth.
- Your will is my heritage for ever, the joy of my heart. I open my mouth and I sigh as I yearn for your commands.
Gospel Acclamation : cf.2Tim1:10
Alleluia, alleluia! Our Saviour Jesus Christ abolished death and he has proclaimed life through the Good News. Alleluia!
Gospel : Luke 19:45-48
Jesus went into the Temple and began driving out those who were selling. ‘According to scripture,’ he said ‘my house will be a house of prayer. But you have turned it into a robbers’ den.’He taught in the Temple every day. The chief priests and the scribes, with the support of the leading citizens, tried to do away with him, but they did not see how they could carry this out because the people as a whole hung on his words.
Prayer over the Offerings
Grant, O Lord, we pray, that what we offer in the sight of your majesty may obtain for us the grace of being devoted to you and gain us the prize of everlasting happiness. Through Christ our Lord.
Communion Antiphon : Ps 72: 28
To be near God is my happiness, to place my hope in God the Lord.
Prayer after Communion
We have partaken of the gifts of this sacred mystery, humbly imploring, O Lord, that what your Son commanded us to do in memory of him may bring us growth in charity. Through Christ our Lord.
Meditation
Most of us can hardly imagine Jesus ever getting angry. The Gospel text presents us with such an image or picture of Jesus. He goes into the temple, makes a whip out of the cord, overturns the tables of the moneychangers and drives them out of the temple. Jesus does not condone extortion within the house of the Father.
