Daily Gospel - Readings for tuesday, august 11, 2020. Pope Reflection

Daily Gospel - Readings for august 11, 2020.

Daily prayer for august 11.

My Lord, I beg you to bless me and come and bring peace to my heart. Fill me with your presence to walk this path where doubts, anguish and confusion have assailed me. Do not let these worries rob me of my desire to achieve my dreams. Your powerful hand will act, I know it will in due course. I put it in your hands. I let go and trust, I embrace and cling to your divine love. Amen.

Reading for tuesday. Daily gospel

Ezekiel 2:8-3:4.

I, Ezekiel, heard a voice speaking. It said, "You, son of man, listen to the words I say; do not be a rebel like that rebellious set. Open your mouth and eat what I am about to give you." I looked. A hand was there, stretching out to me and holding a scroll. He unrolled it in front of me; it was written on back and front; on it was written ‘lamentations, wailings, moanings." He said, "Son of man, eat what is given to you; eat this scroll, then go and speak to the House of Israel." I opened my mouth; he gave me the scroll to eat and said, "Son of man, feed and be satisfied by the scroll I am giving you." I ate it, and it tasted sweet as honey. Then he said, "Son of man, go to the House of Israel and tell them what I have said."

Daily Psalm for tuesday.

Psalm 118(119):14,24,72,103,111,131.

"Your promise is sweet to my taste, O Lord." (R).

I rejoiced to do your will as though all riches were mine. Your will is my delight; your statutes are my counsellors. (R).

The law from your mouth means more to me than silver and gold. Your promise is sweeter to my taste than honey in the mouth. (R).

Your will is my heritage for ever, the joy of my heart. I open my mouth and I sigh as I yearn for your commands. (R).

Daily Gospel Acclamation.

"Alleluia, alleluia! Blessed are you, Father,  Lord of heaven and earth, for revealing the mysteries of the kingdom to mere children. Alleluia!" (Cfr. Mt 11:25)

Daily Gospel for august 11. Matthew 18:1-5,10,12-14.

Daily Gospel reading for tuesday, august 11 (Becoming like children to enter the Kingdom of God): "At that time, The disciples came to Jesus and said, "Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?" So he called a little child to him and set the child in front of them. Then he said, "I tell you solemnly, unless you change and become like little children you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. And so, the one who makes himself as little as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven." Anyone who welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me."See that you never despise any of these little ones, for I tell you that their angels in heaven are continually in the presence of my Father in heaven." Tell me. Suppose a man has a hundred sheep and one of them strays; will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hillside and go in search of the stray? I tell you solemnly, if he finds it, it gives him more joy than do the ninety-nine that did not stray at all. Similarly, it is never the will of your Father in heaven that one of these little ones should be lost." ".

Daily Gospel reflection by Pope Francis.

"A child teaches us again to smile and cry".

In the reading of the daily Gospel, we observe that children, in their inner simplicity, also carry with them the capacity to receive and give tenderness. Tenderness is having a heart of flesh and not of stone, as the Bible says (cf. Ezekiel 36:26).

Tenderness is also poetry: it is feeling things and events, not treating them as mere objects, just to use them, because they serve.

Children have the capacity to smile and to cry. Some, when I take them to embrace them, smile; others see me dressed in white and think that I am the doctor and that I have come to vaccinate them, and they cry, but spontaneously. Children are like that: they smile and cry, two things that in us grown-ups are often blocked, we are no longer capable.

Many times our smile becomes a cardboard smile, something lifeless, a smile that is not happy, even an artificial, clownish smile. Children smile spontaneously and cry spontaneously. It always depends on the heart, and often our heart is blocked and loses this ability to smile, to cry.

So children can teach us again to smile and to cry. But we ourselves have to ask ourselves: do I smile spontaneously, naturally, with love, or is my smile artificial? Do I still cry or have I lost the ability to cry? Two very human questions that children teach us.

For all these reasons Jesus invites his disciples to become like children, because the kingdom of God belongs to those who are like them.

Dear brothers and sisters, children bring life, joy, hope, even complications. But life is like that. Certainly they also cause worries and sometimes many problems; but it is better to have a society with these worries and problems than a society that is sad and grey because it has run out of children.

And when we see that the number of births in a society reaches barely one percent, we can say that this society is sad, it is gray, because it has run out of children. (Daily Gospel reflection. General Audience, May 18, 2015).

Daily Gospel Prayer for august 11.

Deliver me, O Lord of goodness, from all those distressing thoughts typical of my adulthood that do not allow me to live in a simple way all the joys you want to give me. I want to discover this purity hidden in my soul. Give me the grace of your presence and to seek at all times to please You and to live in generosity. Amen. (Healing with prayer daily gospel)

The Pope´s daily quotation.

"If we live our faith in daily life, work becomes an opportunity to transmit the joy of being a Christian" (Pope Francis)

Daily porpose.

At some point in my daily routine, I will take a step back to join in prayer to God and pray a Psalm to overcome loneliness.

🎧 Video of the daily Gospel.

Enjoy now the video meditation for tuesday, for the daily Gospel august 11, 2020. Matthew 18:1-5,10,12-14. Tuesday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time - Saint Clare, virgin.

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 11.

With the readings daily Gospel, let us pray for all those prayer intentions for today, tuesday, 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 11, 2020. God Bless you.