Churches of the Day
Pictorial Thought for Today
Sep 5 - St Mother Teresa of Calcutta 1910-97
Summary: Mother Teresa during her lifetime was widely held to be a living saint as she ministered to the sick and dying in some of the poorest neighbourhoods in the world. Although some people criticized her for not also challenging the wider 'causes of injustices that kept so many people so poor and abandoned, her simple service touched the hearts of millions of people of all faiths.
Contrary to the regulation that no person should be beatified until five years after death, Pope St John Paul II beatified Mother Teresa of Calcutta in 1999, just two years after her death allowing the opening of the process to declare her sainthood.
Patrick Duffy tells the story.
Early Life
Mother Teresa was born of an ethnic Albanian family, and named Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, capital of the present Republic of Macedonia, in 1910. Her father, who was an Orthodox Christian, died when she was eight and she grew up in the care of her Catholic Albanian mother. She was fascinated from her childhood with missionaries and by the time she was twelve she wanted to enter religious life. In 1928, when she was eighteen, she left home to join the Sisters of Loreto in Ireland where she took the name Mary Teresa. Sent as a missionary to Calcutta, she enjoyed her work as a teacher and school principal, but was disturbed by the poverty surrounding her in Calcutta.
Her call: To be Poor with the Poor
One day while travelling on a train to Darjeeling, she experienced an overwhelming sense of divine call "to be poor with the poor". She waited for two years for approval of the new order she founded, the Missionaries of Charity, before going into the slums of Calcutta. Here she washed children's sores, cared for an old man lying on the road and for an old woman dying of tuberculosis and starvation.
Her work: Contemplatives at the Heart of the World
Soon some of her former students joined her and thirty years later her work had spread worldwide. "We are not social workers," she said. "We may do social work, but we are contemplatives at the heart of the world." Another expression of hers was:
"Do ordinary things with extraordinary love."
Her Message: Find your own Calcutta
Mother Teresa won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. When people wanted to join her in her work in Calcutta, she would say, "Find your own Calcutta. Don't search for God in far-off lands. He is close to you, he is with you."
'Criticisms'
There were some 'criticisms' of her, for her strong views on contraception and abortion. In addition, there were also allegations of 'misuse of donations'. In particular, Christopher Hitchens in his book, The Missionary Position (1995), said she was a political opportunist who adopted the guise of a saint in order to spread an 'extreme and aggressive version' of Catholicism. (This is like saying Mother Teresa was no Jesus, she was human like the rest of us sinners - Editor)
Continued to Trust despite Deep Interior Dryness
Although she kept the outward appearance of being undisturbed, in many of her letters, handed over for her canonisation process, Mother Teresa gave expression to feelings of deep interior dryness:
'The damned of hell suffer eternal punishment because they experience the loss of God. In my own soul, I feel the terrible pain of this loss. I feel that God does not want me, that God is not God, and that he does not really exist.'
However she continued to trust that the God she had never seen was to be found in the poor for whom she worked.
Death and Influence
When she died at the age of eighty-seven on 5th September 1997, the Government of India gave her a state funeral in gratitude to her services to the poor of all religions in India. At the time of her death the
Missionaries of Charity numbered 4,500 and had 517 missions in over a hundred countries.
Canonisation
Pope Francis, On December 17, 2015 Pope Francis announced a second miracle had been attributed to the intercession of Mother Teresa. The miracle involved a Brazilian man who was afflicted with tumours who was miraculously cured. This cleared the way for Mother Teresa's canonization. Mother Teresa was canonized on September 4, 2016 by Pope Francis. The date chosen for her canonization is the eve of the 19th anniversary of her death and the date previously established at the Vatican for the conclusion of the Year of Mercy pilgrimage of people like her who are engaged in works of mercy.
Contrary to the regulation that no person should be beatified until five years after death, Pope St John Paul II beatified Mother Teresa of Calcutta in 1999, just two years after her death allowing the opening of the process to declare her sainthood.Patrick Duffy tells the story.
Early Life
Mother Teresa was born of an ethnic Albanian family, and named Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, capital of the present Republic of Macedonia, in 1910. Her father, who was an Orthodox Christian, died when she was eight and she grew up in the care of her Catholic Albanian mother. She was fascinated from her childhood with missionaries and by the time she was twelve she wanted to enter religious life. In 1928, when she was eighteen, she left home to join the Sisters of Loreto in Ireland where she took the name Mary Teresa. Sent as a missionary to Calcutta, she enjoyed her work as a teacher and school principal, but was disturbed by the poverty surrounding her in Calcutta.
Her call: To be Poor with the Poor
One day while travelling on a train to Darjeeling, she experienced an overwhelming sense of divine call "to be poor with the poor". She waited for two years for approval of the new order she founded, the Missionaries of Charity, before going into the slums of Calcutta. Here she washed children's sores, cared for an old man lying on the road and for an old woman dying of tuberculosis and starvation.
Her work: Contemplatives at the Heart of the World Soon some of her former students joined her and thirty years later her work had spread worldwide. "We are not social workers," she said. "We may do social work, but we are contemplatives at the heart of the world." Another expression of hers was:
"Do ordinary things with extraordinary love."
Her Message: Find your own Calcutta
Mother Teresa won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. When people wanted to join her in her work in Calcutta, she would say, "Find your own Calcutta. Don't search for God in far-off lands. He is close to you, he is with you."
'Criticisms'There were some 'criticisms' of her, for her strong views on contraception and abortion. In addition, there were also allegations of 'misuse of donations'. In particular, Christopher Hitchens in his book, The Missionary Position (1995), said she was a political opportunist who adopted the guise of a saint in order to spread an 'extreme and aggressive version' of Catholicism. (This is like saying Mother Teresa was no Jesus, she was human like the rest of us sinners - Editor)
Continued to Trust despite Deep Interior Dryness
Although she kept the outward appearance of being undisturbed, in many of her letters, handed over for her canonisation process, Mother Teresa gave expression to feelings of deep interior dryness:
'The damned of hell suffer eternal punishment because they experience the loss of God. In my own soul, I feel the terrible pain of this loss. I feel that God does not want me, that God is not God, and that he does not really exist.'
However she continued to trust that the God she had never seen was to be found in the poor for whom she worked.
Death and Influence
When she died at the age of eighty-seven on 5th September 1997, the Government of India gave her a state funeral in gratitude to her services to the poor of all religions in India. At the time of her death the
Missionaries of Charity numbered 4,500 and had 517 missions in over a hundred countries.Canonisation
Pope Francis, On December 17, 2015 Pope Francis announced a second miracle had been attributed to the intercession of Mother Teresa. The miracle involved a Brazilian man who was afflicted with tumours who was miraculously cured. This cleared the way for Mother Teresa's canonization. Mother Teresa was canonized on September 4, 2016 by Pope Francis. The date chosen for her canonization is the eve of the 19th anniversary of her death and the date previously established at the Vatican for the conclusion of the Year of Mercy pilgrimage of people like her who are engaged in works of mercy.
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Memorable Proverb for Today
The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart
upon the black horse of affliction.”
~ Charles Spurgeon ~
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Liturgical Readings for: Saturday, 5th September, 2026
Saturday of the Twenty-Second Week in Ordinary Time, Cycle 2
Saturday Mass of our Lady
Saint of the Day: Sep 5; – St Teresa of Calcutta, religious founder,
C/f A short look at this saint’s life can be found below today's Readings and Reflection.
FIRST READING
A reading from the first letter of St Paul to the Corinthians 4:6-15
We go without food and drink and clothes.
Take Apollos and myself as an example remember the maxim: 'Keep to what is written'; it is not for you, so full of your own importance, to go taking sides for one man against another. In any case, brother, has anybody given you some special right? What do you have that was not given to you? And if it was given, how can you boast as though it were not? Is it that you have everything you want - that you are rich already, in possession of your kingdom, with us left outside?
Indeed I wish you were really kings, and we could be kings with you! But instead, it seems to me, God has put us apostles at the end of his parade, with the men sentenced to death;
it is true - we have been put on show in front of the whole universe, angels as well as men. Here we are, fools for the sake of Christ, while you are the learned men in Christ; we have no power, but you are influential; you are celebrities, we are nobodies.
To this day, we go without food and drink and clothes; we are beaten and have no homes; we work for our living with our own hands. When we are cursed, we answer with a blessing; when we are hounded, we put up with it; we are insulted and we answer politely. We are treated as the offal of the world, still to this day, the scum of the earth.
I am saying all this not just to make you ashamed but to bring you, as my dearest children, to your senses. You might have thousands of guardians in Christ, but not more than one father and it was I who begot you in Christ Jesus by preaching the Good News.
The Word of the Lord Thanks be to God.
Responsorial Psalm Ps 144: 17-21. R/v 18
Response The Lord is close to all who call him.
1. The Lord is just in all his ways and loving in all his deeds.
He is close to all who call him, who call on him from their hearts. Response
2. He grants the desires of those who fear him, he hears their cry and he saves them.
The Lord protects all who love him; but the wicked he will utterly destroy. Response
3. Let me speak the praise of the Lord, let all mankind bless his holy name for ever,
for ages unending. Response
Gospel Acclamation Ps 26: 11
Alleluia, alleluia!
Instruct me, in your way; on an even path lead me .
Alleluia !
or Jn 14: 6
Alleluia, alleluia!
I am the Way, the Truth and the Life, says the Lord;
no one can come to the Father except through me .
Alleluia !
GOSPEL
A reading from the Gospel according to Luke 6:1-5
Why are you doing something that is forbidden on the sabbath day.
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.'
The Gospel of the Lord Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
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Gospel Reflection Saturday, Twenty Second Week in Ordinary Time Luke 6:1-5
In today’s first reading, Saint Paul asks a question that is worth reflecting upon. ‘What do you have that was not given to you?’ Paul is reminding the members of the church in Corinth that so much in life is gift. We might work for something but even the ability to work is itself a gift. The people who matter most to us in life are a gift. We probably didn’t go looking for them; they came to us. We have just begun the Season of Creation in the church, which goes from 1st of September to the 4th of October, the feast of Saint Francis of Assisi. It is a good time to recall how the natural world is a gift that has been given to us. Nature is a wonderful gift that can bring us healing and that can help to renew our spirits.
In the gospel reading, Jesus’ disciples were treating the ears of corn in the cornfield through which they walked as a gift. The Pharisees accused them of breaking God’s Law, but Jesus defended their actions. They were hungry and the taking of a few ears of corn to satisfy their hunger was perfectly acceptable. It might be the equivalent of us picking and eating the black berries that are appearing in various hedgerows at the moment. Jesus would want us to appreciate the ways that God is always gracing us and bestowing gifts on us. The appropriate response to the experience of being gifted is gratitude. A spirit of thanksgiving to God is to characterize the Lord’s followers. As Saint Paul says in another of his letters, ‘Give thanks in all circumstances’. He doesn’t say ‘for all circumstances’ but ‘in all circumstances’. No matter how difficult life may be for us, there is always something for which we can give thanks.
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The Scripture Readings are taken from The Jerusalem Bible, published by Darton, Longman and Todd Ltd and used with the permission of the publishers. http://dltbooks.com/
The Scripture Reflection is made available with our thanks from his book Reflections on the Weekday Readings : The Word is near to you, on your lips and in your heart by Martin Hogan and published by Messenger Publications c/f www.messenger.ie/bookshop/
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Saint of the Day: Sep 5; – St Teresa of Calcutta, religious founder,
Mother Teresa during her lifetime was widely held to be a living saint as she ministered to the sick and dying in some of the poorest neighbourhoods in the world. Although some people criticized her for not also challenging the wider 'causes of injustice's' that kept so many people so poor and abandoned, her simple service touched the hearts of millions of people of all faiths.
Contrary to the regulation that no person should be beatified until five years after death, Pope St John Paul II beatified Mother Teresa of Calcutta in 1999, just two years after her death allowing the opening of the process to declare her sainthood.Patrick Duffy tells the story.
Early Life
Mother Teresa was born of an ethnic Albanian family, and named Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, capital of the present Republic of Macedonia, in 1910. Her father, who was an Orthodox Christian, died when she was eight and she grew up in the care of her Catholic Albanian mother. She was fascinated from her childhood with missionaries and by the time she was twelve she wanted to enter religious life. In 1928, when she was eighteen, she left home to join the Sisters of Loreto in Ireland where she took the name Mary Teresa. Sent as a missionary to Calcutta, she enjoyed her work as a teacher and school principal, but was disturbed by the poverty surrounding her in Calcutta.
Her call: To be Poor with the Poor
One day while travelling on a train to Darjeeling, she experienced an overwhelming sense of divine call "to be poor with the poor". She waited for two years for approval of the new order she founded, the Missionaries of Charity, before going into the slums of Calcutta. Here she washed children's sores, cared for an old man lying on the road and for an old woman dying of tuberculosis and starvation.
Her work: Contemplatives at the Heart of the World Soon some of her former students joined her and thirty years later her work had spread worldwide. "We are not social workers," she said. "We may do social work, but we are contemplatives at the heart of the world." Another expression of hers was: "Do ordinary things with extraordinary love."
Her Message: Find your own Calcutta
Mother Teresa won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. When people wanted to join her in her work in Calcutta, she would say, "Find your own Calcutta. Don't search for God in far-off lands. He is close to you, he is with you."
'Criticisms'There were some 'criticisms' of her, for her strong views on contraception and abortion. In addition, there were also allegations of 'misuse of donations'. In particular, Christopher Hitchens in his book, The Missionary Position (1995), said 'she was a political opportunist who adopted the guise of a saint in order to spread an 'extreme and aggressive version' of Catholicism.' (This is like saying Mother Teresa was no Jesus, she was human like the rest of us sinners - Editor)
Continued to Trust despite Deep Interior Dryness
Although she kept the outward appearance of being undisturbed, in many of her letters, handed over for her canonisation process, Mother Teresa gave expression to feelings of deep interior dryness: 'The damned of hell suffer eternal punishment because they experience the loss of God. In my own soul, I feel the terrible pain of this loss. I feel that God does not want me, that God is not God, and that he does not really exist.'
However she continued to trust that the God she had never seen was to be found in the poor for whom she worked.
Death and Influence
When she died at the age of eighty-seven on 5th September 1997, the Government of India gave her a state funeral in gratitude to her services to the poor of all religions in India. At the time of her death the
Missionaries of Charity numbered 4,500 and had 517 missions in over a hundred countries.Canonisation
Pope Francis on December 17, 2015 announced a second miracle had been attributed to the intercession of Mother Teresa. The miracle involved a Brazilian man who was afflicted with tumours who was miraculously cured. This cleared the way for Mother Teresa's canonization. She was canonized on September 4, 2016 by Pope Francis. The date chosen for her canonization is the eve of the 19th anniversary of her death and the date previously established at the Vatican for the conclusion of the Year of Mercy pilgrimage of people like her who are engaged in works of mercy.
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Memorable Proverb for Today
The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart
upon the black horse of affliction.”
~ Charles Spurgeon ~
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Liturgical Readings for: Saturday, 5th September, 2026
CÉAD LÉACHT
Sliocht as céad Litir Naomh Pól chuig na Coirintigh 4:6-11
Go dtí an uair seo féin tá ocras agus tart agus easpa éadaigh orainn.
Thagair mé na nithe seo dom féin agus d’Apollós, a bhráithre, ar mhaithe libhse, i dtreo go bhfoghlaimeodh sibh ónár gcásna gan a bheith ag dul thar cailc, agus gan duine a bheith ag déanamh mórtais as duine amháin i gcoinne duine eile. Cé a thugann an seasamh ar leith duitse? Céard atá agat nach bhfuair tú? Agus más amhlaidh a fuair tú é, cad ab áil leat bheith ag maíomh as faoi mar nach bhfuair tú é. Sea, tá sibh sásta anois; tá sibh saibhir; tá rí agus rath oraibh dár mbuíochasna!
Is trua liom gan an rath a bheith oraibh dáiríre ionas go mbeimisne i réim i bpáirt libh. Mar is dóigh liom go bhfuilimidne, aspail, curtha ar taispeáint ag Dia in eireaball thiar na caithréime mar chimí a mbeadh an bás i ndán dóibh, mar gur sampla saolta sinn os comhair aingeal agus daoine.
Is amadáin sinne ar son Chríost fad atá sibhse stuama I gCríost. Táimidne lag agus tá sibhse láidir; tá sibhse faoi mheas agus tá drochmheas orainne. Go dtí an uair seo féin tá ocras agus tart agus easpa éadaigh orainn; bítear ag gabháil de dhoirne orainn agus gan teach ná treibh againn. Bímid ag obair agus ag luain lenár lámha féin. Nuair a cháintear sinn, guímid beannacht ; nuair a dhéantar géarleanúint orainn fulaingímid leis; nuair a mhaslaítear sinn tugaimid an freagra séimh. Níl ionainn go dtí anois féin ach dríodar an tsaoil agus dramhaíl an uile ní.
Ní ag iarraidh sibh a náiriú atáim ag scríobh na nithe seo ach ag tabhairt comhairle bhur leasa daoibh mar gur sibhse mo chlann mhuirneach féin. Bíodh na mílte treoraí agaibh i gCríost, níl mórán aithreacha agaibh mar gur mise a ghin sibh in Íosa Críost tríd an dea-scéal.
Briathar an Tiarna Buíochas le Dia
Salm le Freagra Sm 144: 17-21. R/v 18
Freagra Is gairid é an Tiarna dá ngaireann air.
1. Is fíréanta é an Tiarna ina shlite uile; agus is naofa é ina oibreacha go léir.
Is gairid é an Tiarna dá ngaireann air, dá ngaireann air go fírinneach ó chroí. Freagra
2. Déanann sé toil an dreama lenarb eagal é; éisteann sé lena n-éamh agus fóireann orthu.
Coimeádann an Tiarna gach duine a thugann grá dó; ach scriosfaidh sé na hurchóidigh go léir. Freagra
3. Go gcana mo bhéal moladh an Tiarna agus go mbeannaí gach aon neach a ainm naofa;
go brách agus go síoraí suthain. Freagra
SOISCÉAL
Go raibh an Tiarna libh. Agus le do spiorad féin
Sliocht as Soiscéal naofa de réir Naomh Lúcás 6:1-5 Glóir duit, a Thiarna.
Cad chuige a bhfuil sibh ag déanamh ruda nach dleathach a dhéanamh lá sabóide?
San am sin bhí Íosa ag gabháil trí ghoirt arbhair, thosaigh a dheisceabail ag stoitheadh na ndias agus á n-ithe, tar éis iad a chuimilt idir a mbosa. Dúirt cuid de na Fairisínigh: “Cad chuige a bhfuil sibh ag déanamh ruda nach dleathach a dhéanamh lá sabóide?”Agus d’fhreagair Íosa iad á rá:
“An ea nár léigh sibh faoin rud úd a rinne Dáiví nuair a bhí ocras air féin agus ar a chompánaigh – mar a chuaigh sé isteach i dteach Dé agus thóg builíní na fianaise agus d’ith, agus thug dá chompánaigh iad, siúd is nach dleathach iad a ithe ach do na sagairt amháin?”
Agus dúirt sé leo: “Tá Mac an Duine ina mháistir ar an tsabóid féin.”
Soiscéal an Tiarna. Moladh duit, a Chriost
AN BÍOBLA NAOFA
© An Sagart
Liturgical Readings for: Sunday, 6th September, 2026
The Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A
The three readings today deal with the same theme - neighbourly correction. This is a difficult art and can only be exercised through genuine love, the purest of motives and diplomatic skill. We have to learn to help and to heal each other. In this we have to avoid attitudes of prying, denunciation, jealousy and informing. The spirit of the Gospel lays down a procedure that must be our guide- The Jesus way
FIRST READING
A reading from the book of the Prophet Ezekiel 33:7-9
If you do not speak to warn the wicked man I will hold you responsible for his death.
The word of the Lord was addressed to me as follows:'Son of man, I have appointed you as sentry to the House of Israel. When you hear a word from my mouth, warn them in my name.
If I say to a wicked man:
Wicked wretch, you are to die, and you do not speak to warn the wicked man to renounce his ways, then he shall die for his sin, but I will hold you responsible for his death.
If, however, you do warn a wicked man to renounce his ways and repent, and he does not repent, then he shall die for his sin, but you yourself will have saved your life.'
The Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God
Responsorial Psalm Ps 94: 1-2. 6-9. R: v8
Response O that today you would listen to his voice!
Harden not your hearts.
1. 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. Response
2. 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. Response
3. 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.' Response
SECOND READING
A reading from the letter of St Paul to the Romans 13:8-10
Love is the answer to every one of the commandments.
Avoid getting into debt, except the debt of mutual love.
If you love your fellow men you have carried out your obligations.
All the commandments:
You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbour as yourself.
Love is the one thing that cannot hurt your neighbour; that is why it is the answer to every one of the commandments.
The Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God
Gospel Acclamation Jn 17: 17
Alleluia, alleluia!
Your word is truth, O Lord, consecrate us in the truth.
Alleluia!
Or 2 Cor 5:19
Alleluia, alleluia!
God in Christ was reconciling the world to himself,
and he has entrusted to us the news that they are reconciled.
Alleluia!
GOSPEL
A reading from the Gospel according to Matthew 18:15-20
If he listens to you, you have won back your brother.
Jesus said to his disciples:
'If your brother does something wrong, go and have it out with him alone, between your two selves. If he listens to you, you have won back your brother.If he does not listen, take one or two others along with you:
the evidence of two or three witnesses is required to sustain any charge. But if he refuses to listen to these, report it to the community; and if he refuses to listen to the community, treat him like a pagan or a tax collector.
'I tell you solemnly, whatever you bind on earth shall be considered bound in heaven; whatever you loose on earth shall be considered loosed in heaven.
'I tell you solemnly once again, if two of you on earth agree to ask anything at all, it will be granted to you by my Father in heaven. For where two or three meet in my name, I shall be there with them.'
The Gospel of the Lord Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
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Taken from THE JERUSALEM BIBLE, published and copyrighted 1966 by Darton, Longman and Todd Ltd and Doubleday, a division of Random House Inc, and used by permission of the publishers.
Liturgical Readings for: Sunday, 6th September, 2026
CÉAD LÉACHT Sliocht as an Leabhar Ezícéal, Fáidh. 33:7-9
Nach dtugtann tusa rabhadh dó iompú ó bhealach a aimhleasa, cuirfidh mé an fhreagracht ortsa.
Tháinig briatar an Tiarna chugam:“A mhic an duine, tá tusa ceaptha agam mar gharda do mhuintir Iosrael; aon uair a chluineann tú focal uaimse cuir ar a bhfaichill iad thar mo cheannsa.
Má deirim le drochdhuine:
'A dhrochdhuine, éagfaidh tú gan teip'; agus nach dtugtann tusa rabhadh dó iompú ó bhealach a aimhleasa, gheobhaidh an drochdhuine sin bás de bharr a pheaca ach cuirfidh mé an fhreagracht ortsa.
Ach má thugann tú rabhadh don drochdhuine iompú óna aimhleas agus nach n-iompaíonn sé, gheobhaidh sé bás de bharr a pheaca ach tabharfaidh tusa do bheatha slán.
Briathar an Tiarna Buíochas le Dia
Salm le Freagra Sm 94: 1-2. 6-9. R: v8
Freagra Á, dá n-éistfeadh sibh lena ghuth inniu: 'Ná calcaigí bhur gcroí.'
I. Tagaigí, déanaimis gairdéas don Tiarna, tógaimis gartha áthais do Charraig ;ar slánaithe.
Tagaimis ina láthair le moltaí, déanaimis gairdéas dó le laoithe. Freagra
2. Tagaigí, adhraimis agus sléachtaimis, feacaimis ár nglúine don Tiarna a rinne sinn.
Óir is é ár nDia é, agus is sinne pobal a aoireachta agus caoirigh a lámh. Freagra
3. Á, dá n-eistfeadh sibh lena ghuth innÍu:'Na calcaigí bhur gcroí mar a tharla i Meríba,
mar a tharla an lá úd ag Masa san fhásach mar ar chuir bhur n-aithreacha cath orm,
mar ar thriail siad mé cé go bhfaca siad m'obair.' Freagra
DARA LÉACHT
Sliocht as Litir Naomh Pól chuig na Rómhánaigh 13:8-10
Is é an grá comhlíonadh an dlí.
A bhráithre, ná bíodh fiacha ar bith ag aon duine oraibh ach amháin fiacha an ghrá a thabhairt dá chéile. Mar an té a thugann grá dá chomharsa tá an dlí comhlíonta aige. Na haitheanta
“Ná déan drúise,” “ná déan marú,” “ná déan goid,” “ná santaigh,” agus aon aithne eile dá bhfuil ann, tá coimriú déanta orthu go léir san abairt seo: “Gráigh do chomharsa mar thú féin.”
Ní dhéanann an grá aon olc ar an gcomharsa, agus, dá bhrí sin, is é an grá comhlíonadh an dlí.
Briathar an Tiarna Buíochas le Dia
Alleluia Véarsa Eo 17: 17
Alleluia, alleluia!
Is fírinne do bhriathar A Thiarna. Déan sinn a naomhú san fhírinne.
Alleluia!
SOISCÉAL
Sliocht as Soiscéal naofa de réir Naomh Mhatha 18:15-20
Má éisteann sé leat, tá tú tar éis do bhráthair a thabhairt leat.
San am sin dúirt Íosa lena dheisceabail“Má dhéanann do bhráthair peaca i d’aghaidh, gabh chuige á áiteamh air is gan ann ach é agus tú.
Má éisteann sé leat, tá tú tar éis do bhráthair a thabhairt leat; ach mura n-éisteann, beir leat duine nó beirt eile, chun go mbeadh focal a dó nó a trí d’fhinnéithe ag deimhniú gach scéil.
Má dhiúltaíonn sé éisteacht leo sin, inis don eaglais é; agus má dhiúltaíonn éisteacht leis an eaglais féin, bíodh sé ina phágánach agus ina phoibleacánach agat.
“Deirim libh go fírinneach, gach uile ní a cheanglaíonn sibh ar talamh beidh siad ceangailte ar neamh, agus nithe ar bith a scaoilfidh sibh ar talamh beidh siad scaoilte ar neamh.
Agus deirim go fírinneach rud eile libh má bhíonn beirt agaibh ar talamh ar aon aigne faoi rud ar bith a bhíonn le hiarraidh acu, beidh sé le fáil acu ó m’Athair atá ar neamh. Óir, mar a mbíonn beirt nó triúr tagtha i gceann a chéile i m’ainmse, bím féin ansin ina measc.”
Soiscéal an Tiarna. Moladh duit, a Chriost
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