Daily Readings - Gospel for Monday, August 31, 2020. Pope Reflection

Daily Gospel - Readings for August 31, 2020.

Daily prayer for August 31.

My Lord, I come before you to ask you to please restore my ability to stand in the midst of my weaknesses. Help me, Lord, to move toward the achievement of those good purposes you have planned for my life and my happiness. I want to exalt your Holy Name, therefore, I accept your good will. I am sure that your providence will not leave me alone. I trust in You, I trust that You will accompany me in my ways. Amen.

Reading for Monday. Daily gospel

First Reading for daily Gospel: Reading from the book 1 Corinthians 2:1-5

When I came to you, brothers, it was not with any show of oratory or philosophy, but simply to tell you what God had guaranteed. During my stay with you, the only knowledge I claimed to have was about Jesus, and only about him as the crucified Christ. Far from relying on any power of my own, I came among you in great ‘fear and trembling’ and in my speeches and the sermons that I gave, there were none of the arguments that belong to philosophy; only a demonstration of the power of the Spirit. And I did this so that your faith should not depend on human philosophy but on the power of God.

Daily Psalm for Monday.

Psalm 118(119):97-102.

"Lord, how I love your law!." (R).

Daily Gospel Acclamation.

"Alleluia, alleluia! The Lord has sent me to bring the good news to the poor, to proclaim liberty to captives. Alleluia" (Cfr. Luke 4:18)

Daily Gospel for August 31. Luke 4:16-30.

Daily Gospel reading for Monday, August 31 (Teaching of Jesus in Nazareth): "At that time, Jesus came to Nazara, where he had been brought up, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day as he usually did. He stood up to read, and they handed him the scroll of the prophet Isaiah. Unrolling the scroll he found the place where it is written: The spirit of the Lord has been given to me, for he has anointed me. He has sent me to bring the good news to the poor, to proclaim liberty to captives and to the blind new sight, to set the downtrodden free, to proclaim the Lord´s year of favour. He then rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the assistant and sat down. And all eyes in the synagogue were fixed on him. Then he began to speak to them, "This text is being fulfilled today even as you listen." And he won the approval of all, and they were astonished by the gracious words that came from his lips. They said, "This is Joseph´s son, surely?" But he replied, "No doubt you will quote me the saying, "Physician, heal yourself" and tell me, "We have heard all that happened in Capernaum, do the same here in your own countryside." And he went on, "I tell you solemnly, no prophet is ever accepted in his own country." There were many widows in Israel, I can assure you, in Elijah´s day, when heaven remained shut for three years and six months and a great famine raged throughout the land, but Elijah was not sent to any one of these: he was sent to a widow at Zarephath, a Sidonian town. And in the prophet Elisha´s time there were many lepers in Israel, but none of these was cured, except the Syrian, Naaman." When they heard this everyone in the synagogue was enraged. They sprang to their feet and hustled him out of the town; and they took him up to the brow of the hill their town was built on, intending to throw him down the cliff, but he slipped through the crowd and walked away".

Daily Gospel reflection by Pope Francis.

"If you want to have an encounter with God stay humble".

In the reading of the daily Gospel, we see that lepers and widows at that time were marginalized. And yet these two outcasts, by welcoming the prophets, were saved.

On the other hand, the Nazarenes did not accept Jesus because they were so sure of their faith, so sure of their observance of the commandments, that they had no need of another salvation.

This is the drama of the observance of the commandments without faith: "I save myself alone, because I go to the synagogue every Saturday, I try to obey the commandments, but let not this one come and tell me that that leper and that widow were better than I am". Those were outcasts. And in the daily Gospel, Jesus tells us, "But look, if you don´t get out of the way, don´t sit on the sidelines, you won´t be saved.

This is humility, the way of humility: to feel so marginalized that we need the salvation of the Lord. He alone saves, not our observance of the precepts. And this did not please them, they got angry and wanted to kill him.

(...) This is the message of the daily Gospel, if we want to be saved, we must choose the way of humility.

Mary in her Canticle does not say that she is happy because God has looked at her virginity, her goodness and her sweetness, so many virtues that she had. No. But because the Lord has looked at the humility of his servant, her smallness, her humility. It is what the Lord looks at. And we must learn this wisdom of marginalization, so that the Lord finds us ...

Christian humility is not the virtue of saying: "But, I am not good for anything" and hide the pride there, no, no. Christian humility is saying the truth: "I am a sinner, I am a sinner". Telling the truth: this is our truth. (Daily Gospel reflection, Saint Martha, March 25, 2015)

Daily Gospel Prayer for August 31.

My Lord, I need You, I need Your love and Your power. There are so many difficulties I am going through. Sometimes I feel you are absent and that saddens me, but you never abandon anyone. I recognize myself as weak, sinful, and stuck in my own frustrations; but I trust in your help, that you will soon hear my pleas and raise me up. You welcome me, you listen to me, and you accompany me in order to give me strength and to humbly resist the painful situations to which I am subjected. I count on your blessing to protect me, to tuck me in and to encourage me to go out and do my best while you fill me with peace and security. Amen. (Healing with prayer daily gospel)

The Pope´s daily quotation.

"The current world system is unsustainable from various points of view." Pope Francis.

Purpose for daily Gospel.

We all need to find inner peace. Therefore, I will examine my faults and encourage myself to correct my behavior that can harm others.

🎧 Video of the daily Gospel.

Enjoy now the video meditation for Monday, for the daily Gospel August 31, 2020. Luke 4:16-30. Monday of the 22nd Week in Ordinary Time.

Map of readings for the day.

• Initial readings

• Daily Gospel Readings

• Pope reflection

• Daily Gospel Prayer

• Daily Gospel Purpose

• Video meditation for the Gospel

Daily Gospel Intentions for August 31.

With the readings daily Gospel, let us pray for all those prayer intentions for today, Monday, that you wish to express. When you meditate on the daily readings, you deepen your personal relationship with God and grow in love. 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 Gospel for August 31, 2020. God bless you.