by Jude Thaddeus Langeh | Oct 1, 2022 | Evangelium
Sunday 02 nd october 2022
27th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Psalter III
Entrance Antiphon : Cf. Est 4: 17
Within your will, O Lord, all things are established, and there is none that can resist your will. For you have made all things, the heaven and the earth, and all that is held within the circle of heaven; you are the Lord of all.
Collect
Almighty ever-living God, who in the abundance of your kindness surpass the merits and the desires of those who entreat you, pour out your mercy upon us to pardon what conscience dreads and to give what prayer does not dare to ask. 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 : Habakkuk 1:2-3,2:2-4
How long, O Lord, am I to cry for help while you will not listen; to cry ‘Oppression!’ in your ear and you will not save? Why do you set injustice before me, why do you look on where there is tyranny? Outrage and violence, this is all I see, all is contention, and discord flourishes. Then the Lord answered and said, Write the vision down, inscribe it on tablets to be easily read, since this vision is for its own time only: eager for its own fulfilment, it does not deceive; if it comes slowly, wait, for come it will, without fail. See how he flags, he whose soul is not at rights, but the upright man will live by his faithfulness.’
Psalm 94(95):1-2,6-9
R/ O that today you would listen to his voice! ‘Harden not your hearts.’
- Come, ring out our joy to the Lord; hail the rock who saves us. Let us come before him, giving thanks, with songs let us hail the Lord.
- Come in; let us bow and bend low; let us kneel before the God who made us: for he is our God and we the people who belong to his pasture, the flock that is led by his hand.
- O that today you would listen to his voice! ‘Harden not your hearts as at Meribah, as on that day at Massah in the desert when your fathers put me to the test; when they tried me, though they saw my work.’
Second reading : 2 Timothy 1:6-8,13-14
I am reminding you to fan into a flame the gift that God gave you when I laid my hands on you. God’s gift was not a spirit of timidity, but the Spirit of power, and love, and self-control. So you are never to be ashamed of witnessing to the Lord, or ashamed of me for being his prisoner; but with me, bear the hardships for the sake of the Good News, relying on the power of God. Keep as your pattern the sound teaching you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. You have been trusted to look after something precious; guard it with the help of the Holy Spirit who lives in us.
Gospel Acclamation : Jn15:15
Alleluia, alleluia! Speak, Lord, your servant is listening: you have the message of eternal life. Alleluia!
Gospel : Luke 17:5-10
The apostles said to the Lord, ‘Increase our faith.’ The Lord replied, ‘Were your faith the size of a mustard seed you could say to this mulberry tree, “Be uprooted and planted in the sea,” and it would obey you. ‘Which of you, with a servant ploughing or minding sheep, would say to him when he returned from the fields, “Come and have your meal immediately”? Would he not be more likely to say, “Get my supper laid; make yourself tidy and wait on me while I eat and drink. You can eat and drink yourself afterwards”? Must he be grateful to the servant for doing what he was told? So with you: when you have done all you have been told to do, say, “We are merely servants: we have done no more than our duty.”’
Prayer over the Offerings
Accept, O Lord, we pray, the sacrifices instituted by your commands and, through the sacred mysteries, which we celebrate with dutiful service, graciously complete the sanctifying work by which you are pleased to redeem us. Through Christ our Lord.
Communion Antiphon : Lam 3: 25
The Lord is good to those who hope in him, to the soul that seeks him.
Prayer after Communion
Grant us, almighty God, that we may be refreshed and nourished by the Sacrament which we have received, so as to be transformed into what we consume. Through Christ our Lord.
Meditation
Jesus answers the disciples’ request for increased faith. He says it does not take much faith to do great things. However, He does not tell the disciples how to get more faith. They might have been expecting a miracle, but they do not get one, an indication they have plenty already of faith which they are not using as required. We do not need more faith; we only need to be ever more faithful. And it is also possible that we need a different kind of faith, the kind that, like a mustard seed, colonises the area where it is dropped, growing persistently and cannot be easily destroyed.
by Jude Thaddeus Langeh | Oct 1, 2022 | Agenda Biblique
Mercredi 02 novembre 2022
Commémoration de tous les fidèles défunts
Pour entrer dans la vraie vie, celle que Jésus est venu nous communiquer, il faut traverser la mort avec lui et comme lui. Voilà pourquoi l’Eglise prie pour les défunts ; elle demande que le moment imprévisible et inévitable de leur passage vers le Père les ait trouvés ouverts au pardon et au don de Dieu ; elle le demande à chaque messe.
Antienne d’ouverture
Jésus, nous le croyons, est mort et ressuscité ; de même, ceux qui se sont endormis en Jésus, Dieu les prendra avec lui. C’est en Adam que meurent tous les hommes, c’est dans le Christ que tous revivront.
Prière d’ouverture
Ecoute nos prières avec bonté, Seigneur, fais grandir notre foi en ton Fils qui est ressuscité des morts pour que soit plus vive aussi notre espérance en la résurrection de tous nos frères défunts. Par Jésus Christ.
1ère lecture : Sg 2,23; 3,1-6.9
Dieu a créé l’homme pour une existence impérissable, il a fait de lui une image de ce qu’il est en lui-même. La vie des justes est dans la main de Dieu, aucun tourment n’a de prise sur eux. Celui qui ne réfléchit pas s’est imaginé qu’ils étaient morts ; leur départ de ce monde a passé pour un malheur ; quand ils nous ont quittés, on les croyait anéantis, alors qu’ils sont dans la paix. Aux yeux des hommes, ils subissaient un châtiment, mais par leur espérance ils avaient déjà l’immortalité. Ce qu’ils ont eu à souffrir était peu de chose auprès du bonheur dont ils seront comblés, car Dieu les a mis à l’épreuve et les a reconnus dignes de lui. Comme on passe l’or au feu du creuset, il a éprouvé leur valeur ; comme un sacrifice offert sans réserve, il les a accueillis. Ceux qui mettent leur confiance dans le Seigneur comprendront la vérité ; ceux qui sont fidèles resteront avec lui dans son amour, car il accorde à ses élus grâce et miséricorde.
Psaume : 4, 2, 7, 9
R/ Sur nous, Seigneur, que s’illumine ton visage!
- Quand je crie, réponds-moi, Dieu, ma justice ! Toi qui me libères dans la détresse, pitié pour moi, écoute ma prière !
- Beaucoup demandent : « Qui nous fera voir le bonheur ? » Sur nous, Seigneur, que s’illumine ton visage !
- Dans la paix moi aussi, je me couche et je dors, car tu me donnes d’habiter, Seigneur, seul, dans la confiance.
2ème lecture : Rm 6, 3-9
Frères, nous tous, qui avons été baptisés en Jésus Christ, c’est dans sa mort que nous avons été baptisés. Si, par le baptême dans sa mort, nous avons été mis au tombeau avec lui, c’est pour que nous menions une vie nouvelle, nous aussi, de même que le Christ, par la toute-puissance du Père, est ressuscité d’entre les morts. Car, si nous sommes déjà en communion avec lui par une mort qui ressemble à la sienne, nous le serons encore par une résurrection qui ressemblera à la sienne. Nous le savons : l’homme ancien qui est en nous a été fixé à la croix avec lui pour que cet être de péché soit réduit à l’impuissance, et qu’ainsi nous ne soyons plus esclaves du péché. Car celui qui est mort est affranchi du péché. Et si nous sommes passés par la mort avec le Christ, nous croyons que nous vivrons aussi avec lui. Nous le savons en effet : ressuscité d’entre les morts, le Christ ne meurt plus ; sur lui la mort n’a plus aucun pouvoir.
Acclamation
Moi, je suis la résurrection et la vie, dit le Seigneur. Celui qui croit en moi ne mourra jamais. Alléluia.
Évangile : Jn 6 : 37-40
Jésus disait à la foule : « Tous ceux que me donne le Père viendront jusqu’à moi ; et celui qui vient à moi, je ne vais pas le jeter dehors. Car je suis descendu du ciel pour faire non pas ma volonté, mais la volonté de Celui qui m’a envoyé. Or, telle est la volonté de Celui qui m’a envoyé : que je ne perde aucun de ceux qu’il m’a donnés, mais que je les ressuscite au dernier jour. Telle est la volonté de mon Père : que celui qui voit le Fils et croit en lui ait la vie éternelle ; et moi, je le ressusciterai au dernier jour. »
Antienne de la communion : Ps15,11
Tu m’as montré, Seigneur, la route de la vie, tu m ’as rempli de joie par ta présence.
Prière après la communion
De plus en plus, Seigneur, exerce en nous ta puissance: afin que, fortifiés par tes sacrements, nous devenions capables, avec ta grâce, d ’entrer en possession des biens qu ’ils promettent. Par Jésus.
Méditation
Au lendemain de la fête de tous les saints, nous célébrons la commémoration des fidèles défunts, instituée par l’Eglise pour obtenir de Dieu sa miséricorde et le soulagement des âmes en purification. Oui, nous croyons en la communion des saints, la commémoration des défunts devient ainsi la fête des vivants. La prière pour ceux et celles qui nous ont quittés est marquée du sceau de l’espérance en rapport avec ces paroles du Christ : « Tous ceux que me donne le Père viendront jusqu’à moi ; et celui qui vient à moi, je ne vais pas le jeter dehors ».
by Jude Thaddeus Langeh | Oct 1, 2022 | Agenda Biblique
Dimanche 02 OCTOBRE 2022
27eme DIMANCHE DU TEMPS ORDINAIRE
Psautier III
Antienne d’ouverture : Est 13, 9. 10-11
Tout dépend de ta volonté, Seigneur, et rien ne peut lui résister: C’est toi qui as fait le ciel et la terre et les merveilles qu’ils contiennent. Tu es le Maître de l’univers.
Prière d’ouverture
Dans ton amour inépuisable, Dieu éternel et tout-puissant, tu combles ceux qui t’implorent, bien au-delà de leurs mérites et de leurs désirs. Répands sur nous ta miséricorde en délivrant notre conscience de ce qui l’inquiète et en donnant plus que nous n’osons demander. Par Jésus Christ
1ère lecture : Habaquq 1, 2-3 ; 2, 2-4
Combien de temps, Seigneur, vais-je appeler, sans que tu entendes ? Crier vers toi : « Violence ! », sans que tu sauves ? Pourquoi me fais-tu voir le mal et regarder la misère ? Devant moi, pillage et violence ; dispute et discorde se déchaînent. Alors le Seigneur me répondit : Tu vas mettre par écrit une vision, clairement, sur des tablettes, pour qu’on puisse la lire couramment. Car c’est encore une vision pour le temps fixé ; elle tendra vers son accomplissement, et ne décevra pas. Si elle paraît tarder, attends-la : elle viendra certainement, sans retard. Celui qui est insolent n’a pas l’âme droite, mais le juste vivra par sa fidélité.
Psaume 94 (95), 1-2, 6-7ab, 7d-8a.9
R/ Aujourd’hui, ne fermez pas votre cœur, mais écoutez la voix du Seigneur ! (cf. Ps 94, 8a.7d)
- Venez, crions de joie pour le Seigneur, acclamons notre Rocher, notre salut ! Allons jusqu’à lui en rendant grâce, par nos hymnes de fête acclamons-le !
- Entrez, inclinez-vous, prosternez-vous, adorons le Seigneur qui nous a faits. Oui, il est notre Dieu ; nous sommes le peuple qu’il conduit.
- Aujourd’hui écouterez-vous sa parole ? « Ne fermez pas votre cœur comme au désert, où vos pères m’ont tenté et provoqué, et pourtant ils avaient vu mon exploit.»
2ème lecture : 2 Timothée 1, 6-8. 13-14
Bien-aimé, je te le rappelle, ravive le don gratuit de Dieu ce don qui est en toi depuis que je t’ai imposé les mains Car ce n’est pas un esprit de peur que Dieu nous a donné, mais un esprit de force, d’amour et de pondération. N’aie donc pas honte de rendre témoignage à notre Seigneur, et n’aie pas honte de moi, qui suis son prisonnier ; mais, avec la force de Dieu, prends ta part des souffrances liées à l’annonce de l’Évangile. Tiens-toi au modèle donné par les paroles solides que tu m’as entendu prononcer dans la foi et dans l’amour qui est dans le Christ Jésus. Garde le dépôt de la foi dans toute sa beauté, avec l’aide de l’Esprit Saint qui habite en nous.
Acclamation
Alléluia. Alléluia! La parole du Seigneur demeure pour toujours ; c’est la bonne nouvelle qui vous a été annoncée. Alléluia! (cf. 1 P 1, 25)
Évangile : Luc 17, 5-10
En ce temps-là, les Apôtres dirent au Seigneur : « Augmente en nous la foi ! » Le Seigneur répondit : « Si vous aviez de la foi, gros comme une graine de moutarde, vous auriez dit à l’arbre que voici : ‘Déracine-toi et va te planter dans la mer’, et il vous aurait obéi. Lequel d’entre vous, quand son serviteur aura labouré ou gardé les bêtes, lui dira à son retour des champs: ‘Viens vite prendre place à table’ ? Ne lui dira-t-il pas plutôt : ‘Prépare-moi à dîner, mets-toi en tenue pour me servir, le temps que je mange et boive. Ensuite tu mangeras et boiras à ton tour’ ? Va-t-il être reconnaissant envers ce serviteur d’avoir exécuté ses ordres ? De même vous aussi, quand vous aurez exécuté tout ce qui vous a été ordonné, dites : ‘Nous sommes de simples serviteurs : nous n’avons fait que notre devoir’ »
Prière sur les offrandes
Accepte, Seigneur, le sacrifice que tu nous as donné. Dans les mystères que nous célébrons pour te rendre grâce, sanctifie les hommes que tu as sauvés par ton Fils. Lui qui.
Antienne de communion : Lm 3, 25
Le Seigneur est bon pour ceux qui se tournent vers lui, pour ceux qui le recherchent.
Prière après la communion
Accorde-nous, Seigneur notre Dieu, de trouver dans cette communion notre force et notre joie, afin que nous puissions devenir ce que nous avons reçu: le corps du Christ. Lui qui.
Méditation
« Nous sommes de simples serviteurs : nous n’avons fait que notre devoir ». En ce jour, l’Évangile nous présente les Disciples qui demandent à Jésus d’augmenter leur foi. En effet la foi, nous dit le catéchisme de l’Église Catholique, est la confiance en Dieu. Cette confiance, si elle est totale, fera que rien ne nous soit impossible à réaliser. Mais nous devons éloigner de nous l’esprit d’orgueil pour que la tentation du « moi mortifère » ne nous gagne pas. Que les saints anges gardiens nous aident à rester fidèles à Dieu et à toujours avoir confiance en Lui.
by Jude Thaddeus Langeh | Sep 30, 2022 | Evangelium
Saturday 01 st october 2022
Saint Theresia of the Child Jesus, Virgin, Doctor
Marie-Françoise-Thérèse Martin was born in Alençon, in France, on 2 January 1873. Her mother, who already had breast cancer, died when Thérèse was four, and the family moved to Lisieux.
Entrance Antiphon : Cf. Deut 32: 10-12
The Lord led her and taught her, and kept her as the apple of his eye. Like an eagle spreading its wings he took her up and bore her on his shoulders. The Lord alone was her guide.
Collect
O God, who open your Kingdom to those who are humble and to little ones, lead us to follow trustingly in the little way of Saint Thérèse, so that through her intercession we may see your eternal glory revealed. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever.
First reading : Job 42:1-3,5-6,12-17
This was the answer Job gave to the Lord: I know that you are all-powerful: what you conceive, you can perform.
I am the man who obscured your designs with my empty-headed words.
I have been holding forth on matters I cannot understand, on marvels beyond me and my knowledge. I knew you then only by hearsay; but now, having seen you with my own eyes, I retract all I have said, and in dust and ashes I repent. The Lord blessed Job’s new fortune even more than his first one. He came to own fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand she-donkeys. He had seven sons and three daughters; his first daughter he called ‘Turtledove’, the second ‘Cassia’ and the third ‘Mascara.’ Throughout the land there were no women as beautiful as the daughters of Job. And their father gave them inheritance rights like their brothers.
After his trials, Job lived on until he was a hundred and forty years old, and saw his children and his children’s children up to the fourth generation. Then Job died, an old man and full of days.
Psalm 118(119):66,71,75,91,125,130
R/ Let your face shine on your servant, O Lord.
- Teach me discernment and knowledge for I trust in your commands. It was good for me to be afflicted, to learn your statutes.
- Lord, I know that your decrees are right, that you afflicted me justly. By your decree it endures to this day; for all things serve you.
- I am your servant, give me knowledge; then I shall know your will. The unfolding of your word gives light and teaches the simple.
Gospel Acclamation : cf. Lk 1:28
Alleluia, alleluia! Blessed are you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for revealing the mysteries of the kingdom
to mere children. Alleluia!
Gospel : Luke 10:17-24
The seventy-two came back rejoicing. ‘Lord,’ they said ‘even the devils submit to us when we use your name.’ He said to them, ‘I watched Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Yes, I have given you power to tread underfoot serpents and scorpions and the whole strength of the enemy; nothing shall ever hurt you. Yet do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you; rejoice rather that your names are written in heaven.’
It was then that, filled with joy by the Holy Spirit, he said:
‘I bless you, Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, for hiding these things from the learned and the clever and revealing them to mere children. Yes, Father, for that is what it pleased you to do. Everything has been entrusted to me by my Father; and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.’
Then turning to his disciples he spoke to them in private, ‘Happy the eyes that see what you see, for I tell you that many prophets and kings wanted to see what you see, and never saw it; to hear what you hear, and never heard it.’
Prayer over the Offerings
As we proclaim your wonders in Saint Thérèse, O Lord, we humbly implore your majesty, that, as her merits were pleasing to you, so, too, our dutiful service may find favour in your sight.
Through Christ our Lord.
Communion Antiphon : Mt 18: 3
Thus says the Lord: Unless you turn and become like children, you will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
Prayer after Communion
May the Sacrament we have received, O Lord, kindle in us the force of that love with which Saint Thérèse dedicated herself to you and longed to obtain your mercy for all. Through Christ our Lord.
Meditation
In today’s Gospel, Jesus makes it clear that the source of true joy is God alone. In good times and bad times, God always assures us of victory in Jesus Christ. Jesus assures His disciples that He has all power over evil, including the power of Satan and evil spirits. Jesus came into the world to overthrow the Evil One. Like Jesus’ disciples, we have been given spiritual authority and power to overcome the works of darkness and evil. Jesus sends out seventy disciples on a mission and they return elated with their accomplishments. What do you think of your Christian mission in these challenging times?
by Jude Thaddeus Langeh | Sep 29, 2022 | Evangelium
Friday 30th September 2022
St. Jerome
Priest, Doctor
(340 – 420),
He was born in Dalmatia. He founded a monastery, a hospice, and a school, and settled down to the most important work of his life, the translation of the Bible into Latin, a translation which, with some revisions, is still in use today. He died at Bethlehem.
Entrance Antiphon : Cf. Ps 1: 2-3
Blessed indeed is he who ponders the law of the Lord day and night: he will yield his fruit in due season.
Collect
O God, who gave the Priest Saint Jerome a living and tender love for Sacred Scripture, grant that your people may be ever more fruitfully nourished by your Word and find in it the fount of life. 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 : Job 38:1,12-21,40:3-5
From the heart of the tempest the Lord gave Job his answer. He said: Have you ever in your life given orders to the morning or sent the dawn to its post, telling it to grasp the earth by its edges and shake the wicked out of it, when it changes the earth to sealing clay and dyes it as a man dyes clothes; stealing the light from wicked men and breaking the arm raised to strike? Have you journeyed all the way to the sources of the sea, or walked where the Abyss is deepest? Have you been shown the gates of Death or met the janitors of Shadowland? Have you an inkling of the extent of the earth? Tell me all about it if you have! Which is the way to the home of the light, and where does darkness live? You could then show them the way to their proper places, or put them on the path to where they live! If you know all this, you must have been born with them, you must be very old by now! Job replied to the Lord: My words have been frivolous: what can I reply? I had better lay my finger on my lips. I have spoken once… I will not speak again; more than once… I will add nothing.
Psalm 138:1-3,7-10,13-14
R/ Lead me, O Lord, in the path of life eternal.
- O Lord, you search me and you know me, you know my resting and my rising, you discern my purpose from afar. You mark when I walk or lie down, all my ways lie open to you.
- O where can I go from your spirit, or where can I flee from your face? If I climb the heavens, you are there. If I lie in the grave, you are there.
- If I take the wings of the dawn and dwell at the sea’s furthest end, even there your hand would lead me, your right hand would hold me fast.
- For it was you who created my being, knit me together in my mother’s womb. I thank you for the wonder of my being, for the wonders of all your creation.
Gospel Acclamation : Ps144:13
Alleluia, alleluia! The Lord is faithful in all his words and loving in all his deeds. Alleluia!
Gospel : Luke 10:13-16
Jesus said to his disciples: ‘Alas for you, Chorazin! Alas for you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. And still, it will not go as hard with Tyre and Sidon at the Judgement as with you. And as for you, Capernaum, did you want to be exalted high as heaven? You shall be thrown down to hell. ‘Anyone who listens to you listens to me; anyone who rejects you rejects me, and those who reject me reject the one who sent me.’
Prayer over the Offerings
Grant us, O Lord, that, having meditated on your Word, following the example of Saint Jerome, we may more eagerly draw near to offer your majesty the sacrifice of salvation. Through Christ our Lord.
Communion Antiphon : Cf. Jer 15: 16
Lord God, your words were found and I consumed them; your word became the joy and the happiness of my heart.
Prayer after Communion
May these holy gifts we have received, O Lord, as we rejoice in celebrating Saint Jerome, stir up the hearts of your faithful so that, attentive to sacred teachings, they may understand the path they are to follow and, by following it, obtain life everlasting. Through Christ our Lord.
Meditation
Jesus warns the cities of Chorazin and Capernaum, as He warns us today, both as individuals and as a society. It is certainly true that there are people in other parts of our country, our society, and our world who would respond much more generously than we have done, if they were given what we have been given, saw what we have seen and heard what we hear. How many opportunities have we wasted? We waste everything, ranging from money to water, food, clothes – in short, the basic amenities, while people suffer on the streets, sleep hungry and have no shelter or clothes to wear. If they had what we have, they would make better use of it. Whatever we have is a miracle and a blessing from God. How many times have we returned from school with no results, whereas there are people craving for education? Can we make good use of these opportunities and help those in need?
