Daily Gospel (2708)
September 09, 2020
Written by Super User
Gospel: Luke 6:20-26
Then, looking at his disciples, Jesus said, “Fortunate are you who are poor, for the kingdom of God is yours. Fortunate are you, who are hungry now,
for you will be filled. Fortunate are you, who weep now, for you will laugh. Fortunate are you, when people hate you,
when they reject you and insult you and number you among criminals, because of the Son of Man.
September 08, 2020
Written by Super UserGospel: Matthew 1:1-16, 18-23
This is the account of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham. Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob,
Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers. Judah was the father of Perez and Zerah (their mother was Tamar), Perez was the father of Hezron,
and Hezron of Aram. Aram was the father of Aminadab, Aminadab of Nahshon, Nah shon of Salmon. Salmon was the father of Boaz.
His mother was Rahab. Boaz was the father of Obed. His mother was Ruth. Obed was the father of Jesse. Jesse was the father of David, the king.
David was the father of Solomon. His mother had been Uriah’s wife. Solomon was the father of Rehoboam. Then came the kings: Abijah,
Asaph, Jehoshaphat, Joram, Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, Manasseh, Amon, Josiah.
Josiah was the father of Jechoni-ah and his brothers at the time of the deportation to Babylon. After the deportation to Babylon,
Jechoniah was the father of Salathiel and Salathiel of Zerubbabel. Zerubbabel was the father of Abiud, Abiud of Eliakim, and Eliakim of Azor.
Azor was the father of Zadok, Zadok the father of Akim, and Akim the father of Eliud. Eliud was the father of Eleazar, Eleazar of Matthan,
and Matthan of Jacob. Jacob was the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, and from her came Jesus who is called the Christ—the Messiah.
This is how Jesus Christ was born: Mary his mother had been given to Joseph in marriage, but before they lived together,
she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit. Then Joseph, her husband, made plans to divorce her in all secrecy.
He was an upright man, and in no way did he want to disgrace her. While he was pondering over this,
an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph, descendant of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife.
She has conceived by the Holy Spirit, and now she will bear a son. You shall call him ‘Jesus’ for he will save his people from their sins.”
All this happened in order to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: The virgin will conceive and bear a son,
and he will be called Emmanuel, which means: God-with us.
REFLECTION:
The Gospel traces the roots of Jesus back to Abraham. This connects Him to the bloodline of God’s chosen people.
But, Jesus is not really connected to the line of Abraham by blood. Joseph, by way of adoption,
made Him legitimate—rightly belonging to the bloodline. In a deeper sense, however, it is not Jesus who is legitimated by this ancestral trace.
Rather, it is the entire line of Abraham that is re-claimed by Jesus back to God the Father.
The Blessed Virgin Mary is actually the key link to this legitimation.
The Birth of our Blessed Mother initiates the reclamation of the entire humanity not just to the line of Abraham or Adam,
but to the line of God the Father. Jesus, through Mary, widens the ancestral line making all of us children of God.
The birth of Mary is actually the birth or re-birth of all people.
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September 08, 2020
Written by Super UserGospel: Matthew 1:1-16, 18-23
This is the account of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham. Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob,
Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers. Judah was the father of Perez and Zerah (their mother was Tamar), Perez was the father of Hezron,
and Hezron of Aram. Aram was the father of Aminadab, Aminadab of Nahshon, Nah shon of Salmon. Salmon was the father of Boaz.
September 07, 2020
Written by Super UserGospel: Luke 6:6-11
On another Sabbath, Jesus entered the synagogue and began teaching. There was a man with a paralyzed right hand,
and the teachers of the law and the Pharisees watched him: Would Jesus heal the man on the Sabbath? If he did,
they could accuse him. But Jesus knew their thoughts, and said to the man, “Get up, and stand in the middle.”
September 06, 2020
Written by Super UserGospel: Matthew 18:15-20
If your brother has sinned against you, go and point out the fault to him, when the two of you are alone; and if he listens to you, you have won back your brother. If he doesn’t listen to you, take with you one or two others, so that the case may be decided by the evidence of two or three witnesses. And if he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembled Church. But if he does not listen to the Church, then regard him as a pagan, or a tax collector. I say to you: whatever you bind on earth, heaven will keep bound; and whatever you unbind on earth, heaven will keep unbound. In like manner, I say to you, if, on earth, two of you agree in asking for anything, it will be granted to you by my heavenly Father; for where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there, among them.”
September 05, 2020
Written by Super User
Gospel: Luke 6:1-5
One Sabbath Jesus was going through a field of grain, and his disciples began to pick heads of grain, crushing them in their hands for food. Some of the Pharisees asked them, “Why do you do what is forbidden on the Sabbath?”
Then Jesus spoke up and asked them, “Have you never read what David did when he and his men were hungry? He entered the house of God, took and ate the bread of the offering, and even gave some to his men, though only priests are allowed to eat that bread.” And Jesus added, “The Son of Man is Lord and rules over the Sabbath.”
September 04, 2020
Written by Super UserGospel: Luke 5:33-39
Some people asked him, “The disciples of John fast often and say long prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees. Why is it, that your disciples eat and drink?”
Then Jesus said to them, “You can’t make wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them. But later, the bridegroom will be taken from them; and they will fast in those days.”
Jesus also told them this parable: “No one tears a piece from a new coat to put it on an old one; otherwise the new coat will be torn, and the piece taken from the new coat will not match the old coat. No
September 03, 2020
Written by Super User
Gospel: Luke 5:1-11
One day, as Jesus stood by the Lake of Gennesaret, with a crowd gathered around him listening to the word of God, he caught sight of two boats,
left at the water’s edge by fishermen, now washing their nets. He got into one of the boats, the one belonging to Simon,
and asked him to pull out a little from the shore. There he sat, and continued to teach the crowd.
When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into deep water and lower your nets for a catch.”
Simon replied, “Master, we worked hard all night and caught nothing. But if you say so, I will lower the nets.”
September 02, 2020
Written by Super User
Gospel: Luke 4:38-44
Leaving the synagogue, Jesus went to the house of Simon. His mother-in law was suffering from high fever, and they asked him to do something for her. Bending over her, he rebuked the fever, and it left her. Immediately, she got up and waited on them.
At sunset, people suffering from many kinds of sickness were brought to Jesus. Laying his hands on each one, he healed them. Demons were driven out, howling as they departed from their victims, “You are the Son of God!” He rebuked them and would not allow them to speak, for they knew he was the Messiah.
September 01, 2020
Written by Super User
Gospel: Luke 4:31-37
Jesus went down to Capernaum, a town of Galilee, and began teaching the people at the Sabbath meetings. They were astonished at the way he taught them,
for his word was spoken with authority.
In the synagogue, there was a man possessed by an evil spirit, who shouted in a loud voice, “What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth?
Have you come to destroy us? I recognize you: you are the Holy One of God.”
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August 31, 2020
Written by Super User
Gospel: Luke 4:16-30
When Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, he entered the synagogue on the Sabbath, as he usually did.
He stood up to read, and they handed him the book of the prophet Isaiah.
Jesus then unrolled the scroll and found the place where it is written: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me.
August 30, 2020
Written by Super User
Gospel: Matthew 16:21-27
From that day, Jesus began to make it clear to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem;
that he would suffer many things from the Jewish authorities, the chief priests and the teachers of the law;
and that he would be killed and be raised on the third day.
August 29, 2020
Written by Super User
Gospel: Mark 6:17-29
For this is what had happened: Herod had ordered John to be arrested;
and had had him bound and put in prison because of Herodias,
the wife of his brother Philip. Herod had married her; and John had told him,
August 28, 2020
Written by Super User
Gospel: Matthew 25:1-13
This story throws light on what will happen in the kingdom of heaven: Ten bridesmaids went out with their lamps to meet the bridegroom.
Five of them were foolish, and five were sensible. The careless bridesmaids took their lamps as they were,
and did not take extra oil. But those who were sensible, took flasks of oil with their lamps. As the bridegroom delayed,
