by L'équipe de publication | Mar 2, 2025 | Evangelium
Saint Katharine Drexel (1858 – 1955)
Psalter: Week IV
Green
She was born in Philadelphia to a rich banking family. In 1889, at the age of 33, she founded the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, dedicated to mission work among Indians and black people.
Entrance Antiphon: Cf. Ps 17: 19-20
The Lord became my protector. He brought me out to a place of freedom; he saved me because he delighted in me.
Collect
Grant us, O Lord, we pray, that the course of our world may be directed by your peaceful rule and that your Church may rejoice, untroubled in her devotion. 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: Ecclesiasticus 17:20-28
To those who repent, God permits return, and he encourages those who were losing hope. Return to the Lord and leave sin behind, plead before his face and lessen your offence. Come back to the Most High and turn away from iniquity, and hold in abhorrence all that is foul. Who will praise the Most High in Sheol, if the living do not do so by giving glory to him? To the dead, as to those who do not exist, praise is unknown, only those with life and health can praise the Lord. How great is the mercy of the Lord, his pardon on all those who turn towards him!
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 31(32):1-2,5-7
R/ Rejoice, rejoice in the Lord, exult, you just!
Happy the man whose offence is forgiven, whose sin is remitted. O happy the man to whom the Lord imputes no guilt, in whose spirit is no guile.
But now I have acknowledged my sins; my guilt I did not hide. I said: ‘I will confess my offence to the Lord.’ And you, Lord, have forgiven the guilt of my sin.
So let every good man pray to you in the time of need. The floods of water may reach high but him they shall not reach.
You are my hiding place, O Lord; you save me from distress. You surround me with cries of deliverance.
Gospel Acclamation: cf.1Th2:13
Alleluia, alleluia! Accept God’s message for what it really is: God’s message, and not some human thinking. Alleluia!
Gospel: Mark 10:17-27
Jesus was setting out on a journey when a man ran up, knelt before him and put this question to him, ‘Good master, what must I do to inherit eternal life?’ Jesus said to him, ‘Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone. You know the commandments: You must not kill; You must not commit adultery; You must not steal; You must not bring false witness; You must not defraud; Honour your father and mother.’ And he said to him, ‘Master, I have kept all these from my earliest days.’ Jesus looked steadily at him and loved him, and he said, ‘There is one thing you lack. Go and sell everything you own and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.’ But his face fell at these words and he went away sad, for he was a man of great wealth. Jesus looked round and said to his disciples, ‘How hard it is for those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God!’ The disciples were astounded by these words, but Jesus insisted, ‘My children,’ he said to them ‘how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.’ They were more astonished than ever. ‘In that case’ they said to one another ‘who can be saved?’ Jesus gazed at them. ‘For men’ he said ‘it is impossible, but not for God: because everything is possible for God.’
Prayer over the Offerings
O God, who provide gifts to be offered to your name and count our oblations as signs of our desire to serve you with devotion, we ask of your mercy that what you grant as the source of merit may also help us to attain merit’s reward. Through Christ our Lord.
Communion Antiphon: Cf. Ps 12: 6
I will sing to the Lord who has been bountiful with me, sing psalms to the name of the Lord Most High.
Prayer after Communion
Nourished by your saving gifts, we beseech your mercy, Lord, that by this same Sacrament with which you feed us in the present age, you may make us partakers of life eternal. Through Christ our Lord.
Meditation
Material wealth is not inherently evil. However, there is a tendency to become attached to it, fostering a sense of self-sufficiency and total control over our happiness and destiny. In this state, we may overlook our own fragility and how impossible it is for us to achieve total and lasting happiness on our own. Jesus’ invitation to sell all we have does not necessarily imply choosing a life of misery or destitution. Instead, it encourages a conscious effort to live with dignity, self-discipline, and responsibility, avoiding becoming slaves to material possessions. At times, our plans, relationships, aspirations, and leisure activities can be riches that hinder us from following the Lord. This passage prompts us to contemplate how to rid ourselves of such temporal riches as a way of giving priority to developing a much more spiritually fulfilling and meaningful life.
by L'équipe de publication | Mar 1, 2025 | Evangelium
8th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Saint Chad (-672)
Psalter: Week IV
Green
Entrance Antiphon: Cf. Ps 17: 19-20
The Lord became my protector. He brought me out to a place of freedom; he saved me because he delighted in me.
Collect
Grant us, O Lord, we pray, that the course of our world may be directed by your peaceful rule and that your Church may rejoice, untroubled in her devotion. 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: Ecclesiasticus 27:5-8
In a shaken sieve the rubbish is left behind, so too the defects of a man appear in his talk.
The kiln tests the work of the potter, the test of a man is in his conversation. The orchard where a tree grows is judged on the quality of its fruit, similarly a man’s words betray what he feels. Do not praise a man before he has spoken, since this is the test of men.
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 91(92):2-3,13-16
R/ It is good to give you thanks, O Lord.
It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to make music to your name, O Most High, to proclaim your love in the morning and your truth in the watches of the night.
The just will flourish like the palm tree and grow like a Lebanon cedar.
Planted in the house of the Lord they will flourish in the courts of our God, still bearing fruit when they are old, still full of sap, still green, to proclaim that the Lord is just. In him, my rock, there is no wrong.
Second reading: 1 Corinthians 15:54-58
When this perishable nature has put on imperishability, and when this mortal nature has put on immortality, then the words of scripture will come true: Death is swallowed up in victory. Death, where is your victory? Death, where is your sting? Now the sting of death is sin, and sin gets its power from the Law. So let us thank God for giving us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Never give in then, my dear brothers, never admit defeat; keep on working at the Lord’s work always, knowing that, in the Lord, you cannot be labouring in vain.
Gospel Acclamation: cf.Ac16:14
Alleluia, alleluia! Open our heart, O Lord, to accept the words of your Son. Alleluia!
Gospel: Luke 6:39-45
Jesus told a parable to his disciples: ‘Can one blind man guide another? Surely both will fall into a pit? The disciple is not superior to his teacher; the fully trained disciple will always be like his teacher. Why do you observe the splinter in your brother’s eye and never notice the plank in your own? How can you say to your brother, “Brother, let me take out the splinter that is in your eye,” when you cannot see the plank in your own? Hypocrite! Take the plank out of your own eye first, and then you will see clearly enough to take out the splinter that is in your brother’s eye. ‘There is no sound tree that produces rotten fruit, nor again a rotten tree that produces sound fruit. For every tree can be told by its own fruit: people do not pick figs from thorns, nor gather grapes from brambles. A good man draws what is good from the store of goodness in his heart; a bad man draws what is bad from the store of badness. For a man’s words flow out of what fills his heart.’
Prayer over the Offerings
O God, who provide gifts to be offered to your name and count our oblations as signs of our desire to serve you with devotion, we ask of your mercy that what you grant as the source of merit may also help us to attain merit’s reward. Through Christ our Lord.
Communion Antiphon: Cf. Ps 12: 6
I will sing to the Lord who has been bountiful with me, sing psalms to the name of the Lord Most High.
Prayer after Communion
Nourished by your saving gifts, we beseech your mercy, Lord, that by this same Sacrament with which you feed us in the present age, you may make us partakers of life eternal. Through Christ our Lord.
Meditation
It is often easy to reproach our brethren, especially when we do so unfairly. We tend to see in them faults we consider unforgiveable, acting without the slightest form of indulgence, love, or consideration for the possibility of them ever correcting their mistakes. Surprisingly, we find ourselves taken aback when the world judges us by the same standards, exposing the very things we reproach others for and which we rarely acknowledge in ourselves. What we see in others should help us reflect on our own deeds. When tempted to decry the pettiness of others, we must ask if we are not engaging in similar behavior ourselves, even in a slightly different way. It is crucial not to forget that the mirror reflecting the essence of man is man himself.
by L'équipe de publication | Feb 28, 2025 | Agenda Biblique
Saint aubin d’angers
BVM
Psautier: III
Vert
Originaire de Vannes en Bretagne, il devint évêque d’Angers dont il est le patron céleste. Il sut se dresser devant l’injustice pour adoucir le sort des prisonniers et des malheureux. Alors que beaucoup d’évêques se taisaient par crainte, il sut imposer le respect du mariage aux grands seigneurs qui, à l’époque mérovingienne, n’hésitaient pas à épouser leurs propres sœurs ou leurs propres filles.
Antienne d’ouverture : PS 12, 6
Seigneur, je suis sûr de ton amour: mon cœur est dans la joie, car tu me sauves ; je veux chanter au Seigneur tout le bien qu’il m’a fait.
Prière d’ouverture
Accorde-nous, Dieu tout-puissant, de conformer à ta volonté nos paroles et nos actes dans une inlassable recherche des biens spirituels. Par Jésus.
1ère lecture : Si 17, 1-15
Le Seigneur a créé l’homme en le tirant de la terre, et il l’a fait retourner à la terre. Il a donné aux humains des jours comptés, un temps déterminé, il a remis en leur pouvoir ce qui est sur la terre. Il les a revêtus d’une force pareille à la sienne, il les a faits à son image. Il a mis en tout vivant la crainte de l’être humain, pour que celui-ci commande en maître aux bêtes sauvages et aux oiseaux. Aux humains il a donné du jugement, une langue, des yeux, des oreilles, et un cœur pour réfléchir. Il les a remplis de savoir et d’intelligence, il leur a fait connaître le bien et le mal. Il a posé son regard sur leur cœur, leur montrant la grandeur de ses œuvres. Ils raconteront la grandeur de ses œuvres, ils célébreront le Nom très saint. Il leur a aussi accordé le savoir, il leur a donné en héritage la loi de vie ; afin qu’ils comprennent, dès maintenant, qu’ils sont mortels. Il a établi avec eux une Alliance éternelle, et il leur a fait connaître ses jugements. Leurs yeux ont vu la grandeur de sa gloire, leurs oreilles ont entendu la majesté de sa voix. Il leur a dit : « Gardez-vous de toute injustice », et à chacun il a donné des commandements au sujet du prochain. Leurs chemins sont toujours à découvert devant lui, ils n’échappent jamais à ses regards.
Psaume : 102 (103), 13-14, 15-16, 17-18a
R/ L’amour du Seigneur, sur ceux qui le craignent, est de toujours à toujours. (Ps 102, 17ab)
Comme la tendresse du père pour ses fils, la tendresse du Seigneur pour qui le craint !
Il sait de quoi nous sommes pétris, il se souvient que nous sommes poussière.
L’homme ! ses jours sont comme l’herbe ; comme la fleur des champs, il fleurit : dès que souffle le vent, il n’est plus, même la place où il était l’ignore.
Mais l’amour du Seigneur, sur ceux qui le craignent, est de toujours à toujours, et sa justice pour les enfants de leurs enfants, pour ceux qui gardent son alliance.
Acclamation
Alléluia. Alléluia. Tu es béni, Père, Seigneur du ciel et de la terre, tu as révélé aux tout-petits les mystères du Royaume ! Alléluia. (cf. Mt 11, 25)
Évangile : Mc 10, 13-16
En ce temps-là, des gens présentaient à Jésus des enfants pour qu’il pose la main sur eux ; mais les disciples les écartèrent vivement. Voyant cela, Jésus se fâcha et leur dit : « Laissez les enfants venir à moi, ne les empêchez pas, car le royaume de Dieu est à ceux qui leur ressemblent. Amen, je vous le dis : celui qui n’accueille pas le royaume de Dieu à la manière d’un enfant n’y entrera pas. » Il les embrassait et les bénissait en leur imposant les mains.
Prière sur les offrandes
En célébrant avec respect tes mystères, Seigneur, nous te supplions humblement : que les dons offerts pour te glorifier servent à notre salut. Par Jésus.
Antienne de la communion : Ps 9, 2
De toute mon âme, Seigneur, je rendrai grâce en proclamant tes innombrables merveilles ; j’exulterai, je danserai auprès de toi, je fêterai ton nom, Dieu très-haut.
Prière après la communion
Nous t’en prions, Dieu tout-puissant, donne-nous de recueillir tous les fruits de salut dont ces mystères sont déjà la promesse et le gage. Par Jésus.
Méditation
Les mains de Jésus, ces mains qui font de la boue avec de la salive et du sable pour guérir les aveugles. Ces mains qui relèvent les morts : « Tabitha Koum ! » Les mamans devinent que ces mains peuvent porter joie et fête à leurs enfants. Elles présentent leurs petits au Prophète, porteur de la bénédiction des pères Abraham, Isaac et Jacob pour qu’il en transmette quelque chose à leurs enfants. Les disciples rabrouent les enfants et leurs mères. Mais Jésus leurs montre que nul n’est exclu du Royaume de Dieu, et surtout pas les enfants, car le Royaume leur appartient ainsi qu’à ceux qui leur ressemblent. Faire comme les enfants : aller à Jésus pour qu’il nous touche et nous donne sa bénédiction et qu’il reconnaisse en nous notre cœur d’enfant. Alors le Royaume sera à nous ! Car le Christ nous le donne, malgré l’orgueil, l’amour de l’argent, l’amour des sens qui nous empêchent d’aller à lui.
by L'équipe de publication | Feb 28, 2025 | Evangelium
Saturday memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Saint David (520 – 589)
Psalter: Week III
The earliest life of St David dates from five centuries after his death in 589. He became abbot and bishop at Mynyw. He is credited with a monastic rule and also with a Penitentiary.
Entrance Antiphon : Ps 12: 6
O Lord, I trust in your merciful love. My heart will rejoice in your salvation. I will sing to the Lord who has been bountiful with me.
Collect
Grant, we pray, almighty God, that, always pondering spiritual things, we may carry out in both word and deed that which is pleasing to you. 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: Ecclesiasticus 17:1-13
The Lord fashioned man from the earth, to consign him back to it. He gave them so many days’ determined time, he gave them authority over everything on earth. He clothed them with strength like his own, and made them in his own image. He filled all living things with dread of man, making him master over beasts and birds. He shaped for them a mouth and tongue, eyes and ears, and gave them a heart to think with. He filled them with knowledge and understanding, and revealed to them good and evil. He put his own light in their hearts to show them the magnificence of his works. They will praise his holy name, as they tell of his magnificent works. He set knowledge before them, he endowed them with the law of life. Their eyes saw his glorious majesty, and their ears heard the glory of his voice. He said to them, ‘Beware of all wrong-doing’; he gave each a commandment concerning his neighbour. Their ways are always under his eye, they cannot be hidden from his sight.
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 102(103):13-18
R/ The love of the Lord is everlasting upon those who hold him in fear.
As a father has compassion on his sons, the Lord has pity on those who fear him; for he knows of what we are made, he remembers that we are dust.
As for man, his days are like grass; he flowers like the flower of the field; the wind blows and he is gone and his place never sees him again.
But the love of the Lord is everlasting upon those who hold him in fear; his justice reaches out to children’s children when they keep his covenant in truth.
Gospel Acclamation: Psalm 102(103):13-18 ≈
Alleluia, alleluia! Blessed are you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for revealing the mysteries of the kingdom to mere children. Alleluia!
Gospel: Mark 10:13-16
People were bringing little children to Jesus, for him to touch them. The disciples turned them away, but when Jesus saw this he was indignant and said to them, ‘Let the little children come to me; do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs. I tell you solemnly, anyone who does not welcome the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.’ Then he put his arms round them, laid his hands on them and gave them his blessing.
Prayer over the Offerings
As we celebrate your mysteries, O Lord, with the observance that is your due, we humbly ask you, that what we offer to the honour of your majesty may profit us for salvation. Through Christ our Lord.
Communion Antiphon: Ps 9: 2-3
I will recount all your wonders,I will rejoice in you and be glad, and sing psalms to your name, O Most High.
Prayer after Communion
Grant, we pray, almighty God, that we may experience the effects of the salvation which is pledged to us by these mysteries. Through Christ our Lord.
Meditation
In Jesus’ time, it was the custom for mothers to bring their children to be blessed by a respected Rabbi on their first birthdays. Children tended to accept Rabbis more because of their friendlier demeanour, as trust naturally develops with those who display kindness. Although children are at times shy, the Rabbis’ easily approachable nature made the children feel at ease. Similarly, Jesus is our friend who invites us to put ourselves entirely in His care. By so doing, He can lead and guide us just as the Rabbis did with the children. This Gospel passage highlights the extent to which Jesus demands proof from us to convince us of His ability to help us. However, the passage suggests that approaching Jesus with suspicion may limit the help He can provide. May we embrace our Lord with a childlike faith.
by L'équipe de publication | Feb 27, 2025 | Agenda Biblique
Saint romain
Psautier: III
Vert
Doux et indulgent, Romain avait trente-cinq ans lorsqu’il quitta son Bugey natal, n’emportant avec lui que « la vie des Pères du Désert». Il prit son chemin vers l’Est, traversa de grandes forêts et finit par atteindre la Bienne. Il venait de trouver ce qui lui convenait: de la terre labourable, une fontaine, des arbres et du silence. Il vécut là quelques années comme s’il était dans le désert égyptien de la Thébaïde.
Antienne d’ouverture : PS 12, 6
Seigneur, je suis sûr de ton amour: mon cœur est dans la joie, car tu me sauves ; je veux chanter au Seigneur tout le bien qu’il m’a fait.
Prière d’ouverture
Accorde-nous, Dieu tout-puissant, de conformer à ta volonté nos paroles et nos actes dans une inlassable recherche des biens spirituels. Par Jésus.
1ère lecture : Si 6, 5-17
La parole agréable attire de nombreux amis, le langage aimable attire de nombreuses gentillesses. De bonnes relations, tu peux en avoir avec beaucoup de monde ; mais des conseillers ? n’en choisis qu’un seul entre mille ! Si tu veux acquérir un ami, acquiers-le en le mettant à l’épreuve ; n’aie pas trop vite confiance en lui. Il y a celui qui est ton ami quand cela lui convient, mais qui ne reste pas avec toi au jour de ta détresse. Il y a celui qui d’ami se transforme en ennemi, et qui va divulguer, pour ta confusion, ce qui l’oppose à toi. Il y a celui qui est ton ami pour partager tes repas, mais qui ne reste pas avec toi au jour de ta détresse. Quand tout va bien pour toi, il est comme un autre toi-même et commande avec assurance à tes domestiques ; mais si tu deviens pauvre, il est contre toi, et il se cache pour t’éviter. Tes ennemis, tiens-les à distance ; avec tes amis, sois sur tes gardes. Un ami fidèle, c’est un refuge assuré, celui qui le trouve a trouvé un trésor. Un ami fidèle n’a pas de prix, sa valeur est inestimable. Un ami fidèle est un élixir de vie que découvriront ceux qui craignent le Seigneur. Celui qui craint le Seigneur choisit bien ses amis, car son compagnon lui ressemblera.
Psaume : 118 (119), 12.16, 18.27, 34-35
R/ Guide-moi, Seigneur, sur la voie de tes volontés.
Toi, Seigneur, tu es béni : apprends-moi tes commandements.
Je trouve en tes commandements mon plaisir, je n’oublie pas ta parole.
Ouvre mes yeux, que je contemple les merveilles de ta loi.
Montre-moi la voie de tes préceptes, que je médite sur tes merveilles.
Montre-moi comment garder ta loi, que je l’observe de tout cœur.
Guide-moi sur la voie de tes volontés, là, je me plais.
Acclamation
Alléluia. Alléluia. Ta parole, Seigneur, est vérité ; dans cette vérité, sanctifie-nous. Alléluia. (cf. Jn 17, 17ba)
Évangile : Mc 10, 1-12
En ce temps-là, Jésus arriva dans le territoire de la Judée, au-delà du Jourdain. De nouveau, des foules s’assemblèrent près de lui, et de nouveau, comme d’habitude, il les enseignait. Des pharisiens l’abordèrent et, pour le mettre à l’épreuve, ils lui demandaient : « Est-il permis à un mari de renvoyer sa femme ? » Jésus leur répondit : « Que vous a prescrit Moïse ? » Ils lui dirent : « Moïse a permis de renvoyer sa femme à condition d’établir un acte de répudiation. » Jésus répliqua : « C’est en raison de la dureté de vos cœurs qu’il a formulé pour vous cette règle. Mais, au commencement de la création, Dieu les fit homme et femme. À cause de cela, l’homme quittera son père et sa mère, il s’attachera à sa femme, et tous deux deviendront une seule chair. Ainsi, ils ne sont plus deux, mais une seule chair. Donc, ce que Dieu a uni, que l’homme ne le sépare ! » De retour à la maison, les disciples l’interrogeaient de nouveau sur cette question. Il leur déclara : « Celui qui renvoie sa femme et en épouse une autre devient adultère envers elle. Si une femme qui a renvoyé son mari en épouse un autre, elle devient adultère. »
Prière sur les offrandes
En célébrant avec respect tes mystères, Seigneur, nous te supplions humblement : que les dons offerts pour te glorifier servent à notre salut. Par Jésus.
Antienne de la communion : Ps 9, 2
De toute mon âme, Seigneur, je rendrai grâce en proclamant tes innombrables merveilles ; j’exulterai, je danserai auprès de toi, je fêterai ton nom, Dieu très-haut.
Prière après la communion
Nous t’en prions, Dieu tout-puissant, donne-nous de recueillir tous les fruits de salut dont ces mystères sont déjà la promesse et le gage. Par Jésus.
Méditation
Les hommes agissent et font des lois en général selon leurs intérêts. Dans les assemblées les familles, très souvent les polémiques ne naissent pas parce que la vérité qui est la volonté de Dieu est ignorée. Elle est souvent très claire mais pour s’en dérober et faire valoir leurs convenances les hommes parlementent cherchant une faille. Ne pas accepter la vérité telle que voulue par Dieu c’est cela la dureté de cœur dont parle Jésus. Au sujet du divorce, il rappelle le projet de Dieu, sa volonté originelle. En parlant de l’homosexualité nous devront nous rappeler ce que Dieu a voulu au commencement, en légiférant sur l’euthanasie et l’avortement souvenons-nous de la volonté de Dieu au début de l’humanité.
