Daily Readings for Wednesday, September 16, 2020. Daily Gospel. Reflection by Pope Francis. Luke 7:31-35. Daily prayer and holy Gospel
Daily Readings for Wednesday - Daily prayer for September 16, 2020.
Readings for daily Gospel, September 16, 2020. Reflection on holy Gospel of Luke 7:31-35 - Let us meditate through the Pope´s reflections to Holy Gospel, Daily Readings and the daily Prayer for your life to get serenity and inner peace on Wednesday of the 24th Week in Ordinary Time.
Serenity prayer for September 16.
My Lord, following you is not easy, but it is the perfect route to my happiness. I want to live my life in the right way and for that I must follow Your precepts and practice love as You did in this world. I know that, despite my shortcomings, I can count on your blessing to help me give my best to grow and be better. Do not let anyone take away my desire to do good. I trust in your power and your protection. Amen.
Readings for Wednesday.
First Reading for daily Gospel: Reading from the book of 1 Corinthians 12:31-13:13.
Be ambitious for the higher gifts. And I am going to show you a way that is better than any of them. If I have all the eloquence of men or of angels, but speak without love, I am simply a gong booming or a cymbal clashing. If I have the gift of prophecy, understanding all the mysteries there are, and knowing everything, and if I have faith in all its fullness, to move mountains, but without love, then I am nothing at all. If I give away all that I possess, piece by piece, and if I even let them take my body to burn it, but am without love, it will do me no good whatever. Love is always patient and kind; it is never jealous; love is never boastful or conceited; it is never rude or selfish; it does not take offence, and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people´s sins but delights in the truth; it is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes. Love does not come to an end. But if there are gifts of prophecy, the time will come when they must fail; or the gift of languages, it will not continue for ever; and knowledge, for this, too, the time will come when it must fail. For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophesying is imperfect; but once perfection comes, all imperfect things will disappear. When I was a child, I used to talk like a child, and think like a child, and argue like a child, but now I am a man, all childish ways are put behind me. Now we are seeing a dim reflection in a mirror; but then we shall be seeing face to face. The knowledge that I have now is imperfect; but then I shall know as fully as I am known. In short, there are three things that last: faith, hope and love; and the greatest of these is love
Daily Psalm for Wednesday.
Psalm 32(33):2-5,12,22.
"Happy the people the Lord has chosen as his own." (R).
Give thanks to the Lord upon the harp, with a ten-stringed lute sing him songs. O sing him a song that is new, play loudly, with all your skill.(R).
For the word of the Lord is faithful and all his works to be trusted. The Lord loves justice and right and fills the earth with his love. (R).
They are happy, whose God is the Lord, the people he has chosen as his own. May your love be upon us, O Lord, as we place all our hope in you. (R).
Daily Gospel Acclamation.
"Alleluia, alleluia! Your words are spirit, Lord, and they are life; you have the message of eternal life. Alleluia! (Cf.Jn 6:63,68)"
Daily Gospel for September 16. Luke 7:31-35.
Daily Gospel reading for Wednesday, September 16 (The Reproach of Jesus to his people): "At that time, Jesus said to the people: "What description can I find for the men of this generation? What are they like? They are like children shouting to one another while they sit in the market-place: "We played the pipes for you, and you wouldn´t dance; we sang dirges, and you wouldn´t cry." "For John the Baptist comes, not eating bread, not drinking wine, and you say, "He is possessed." The Son of Man comes, eating and drinking, and you say, "Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners." Yet Wisdom has been proved right by all her children.".
Daily Gospel reflection by Pope Francis.
"Why do you resist the salvation that God wants for you?"
The whole history of salvation. Just as they have rejected and killed the prophets before because they were uncomfortable. Now, we see that in the daily Readings, they do the same with Jesus. It is the drama of resistance to being saved, unleashed by the leaders of the people.
It is precisely the ruling class that closes the doors to the way God wants to save us. And this is how one understands Jesus´ strong dialogues with the ruling class of his time: they fight, they test him, they set traps for him to see if he will fall because there is the resistance to being saved.
In the daily readings for the Holy Gospel, Jesus says to them: "But I do not understand you! You are like those children: we have played the flute for you and you have not danced; we have sung a lament for you and you have not cried; but what do you want?"; we want to do ours: we want to do salvation in our own way! It is always this closing in God´s way.
The believing people who understand and accept the salvation brought by Jesus. Salvation that, on the contrary, for the leaders of the people, is reduced to the fulfillment of the 613 precepts created by their intellectual and theological fever.
In the daily Gospel, we see that they do not believe in mercy or forgiveness: they believe in sacrifices. I want mercy and not sacrifice. They believe in everything organized, well organized, everything clear. This is the drama of resistance to salvation.
We too, each of us has this drama within us. But it will do us good to ask ourselves: How do I want to be saved? In my own way? In the way of a spirituality, which is good, which is good for me, but which is fixed, which has everything clear and which is risk-free? Or in the divine way, that is, in the way of Jesus, who always surprises us, who always opens the doors to that mystery of God´s omnipotence, which is mercy and forgiveness? Do I resist the salvation of Jesus? (Daily Gospel reflection, St. Martha, October 3, 2014)
Daily Prayer for Gospel.
Merciful Father, I feel the forces coming and going from me in an instant. I want to thank you for everything, the good and not so good that has made me grow. But today I confess to you that I feel weakened. I ask you to forgive me for losing my faith, for not trusting in your Father´s love as I should. Help me to understand that, even if I sometimes fail and feel defeated, you are always there with open arms to comfort and inspire me so that I can move forward. I need you Lord, I need you so much. Give me a little of your warmth and let my heart feel renewed as you pour the grace of your strength into my life. I trust in you now and I go out to make real all those illusions that I entrust to your divine hands. Amen. (Healing with the serenity prayer for daily readings and Holy Gospel)
The Pope´s daily quotation.
"Every Christian community should be a welcoming home for those who seek God or need a brother or sister to listen to them" Pope Francis.
Purpose for daily Gospel.
I must try a little harder to arrange my conversations with purity of intention, and thus win the battle for purity.
🎧 Video of the daily Gospel.
Enjoy now the video meditation for the daily readings for Wednesday on September 16, 2020. Luke 7:31-35. Holy Gospel and daily prayer of the 24th week in Ordinary Time.
Serenity prayer for Wednesday.
You can meditate now with the serenity prayer for Wednesday, September 16, 2020. May the Lord always grant us serenity and peace so that we may achieve those glorious purposes he has planned for each of us.
Map of readings for the day.
Daily Gospel Intentions for September 16.
With the daily readings of the Holy Gospel of Luke 7:31-35, let us pray for all those prayer intentions for today, Wednesday, that you wish to express. When you meditate on the daily readings, you deepen your personal relationship with God and grow in love. Pray with the daily prayer. Write down in the commentaries all that you want God to give you or heal you through the reading of his Word in the daily Readings for September 16, 2020. God blesses you.
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Qriswell Quero, Venezuelan, faithful husband and father of a family. Electronic engineer and missionary of the faith. Committed to the proclamation of the Gospel. Solid believer that there are always new beginnings. Whoever has God has nothing to stop him.
