Daily Readings - Gospel for Sunday, August 30, 2020. Pope Reflection

Daily Gospel - Readings for August 30, 2020.

Daily prayer for August 30.

Lord God, You are the source of life, You are the source of pure love. You are my beginning and my end, you seek my fulfillment, the healing of my whole being. Therefore, I give my whole life to you at this moment. Deliver me from all evil and protect me in adversity. Make me docile to You and may I live loving You in every second. I love you Lord. I trust in your blessing pouring down on me now. Amen.

Reading for Sunday. Daily gospel

First Reading for daily Gospel: Reading from the book of the Prophet Jeremiah 20:7-9.

You have seduced me, Lord, and I have let myself be seduced; you have overpowered me: you were the stronger. I am a daily laughing-stock, everybody´s butt. Each time I speak the word, I have to howl and proclaim: "Violence and ruin!" The word of the Lord has meant for me insult, derision, all day long. I used to say, "I will not think about him, I will not speak in his name anymore." Then there seemed to be a fire burning in my heart, imprisoned in my bones. The effort to restrain it wearied me, I could not bear it.

Daily Psalm for Sunday.

Psalm 62(63):2-6,8-9.

"For you my soul is thirsting, O Lord my God." (R).

Daily Gospel Acclamation.

"Alleluia, alleluia! May the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ enlighten the eyes of our mind, so that we can see what hope his call holds for us. Alleluia!" (Cfr. Ep. 1:17,18)

Daily Gospel for August 30. Matthew 16:21-27.

Daily Gospel reading for Sunday, August 30 (Whoever wants to save his life will lose it): "At that time, Jesus began to make it clear to his disciples that he was destined to go to Jerusalem and suffer grievously at the hands of the elders and chief priests and scribes, to be put to death and to be raised up on the third day. Then, taking him aside, Peter started to remonstrate with him. "Heaven preserve you, Lord;" he said "this must not happen to you." But he turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are an obstacle in my path, because the way you think is not God´s way but man´s." Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wants to be a follower of mine, let him renounce himself and take up his cross and follow me. For anyone who wants to save his life will lose it; but anyone who loses his life for my sake will find it. What, then, will a man gain if he wins the whole world and ruins his life? Or what has a man to offer in exchange for his life? "For the Son of Man is going to come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and, when he does, he will reward each one according to his behavior.".

Daily Gospel reflection by Pope Francis.

"What good is it to win the whole world, if you lose your life?".

In the reading of the daily Gospel, Christ our Lord, the eternal King, calls each one of us saying: "Whoever wants to come with me, must work with me, because following me in sorrow, follow me also in glory":

To be conquered by Christ in order to offer to this King our whole person and all our fatigue; to tell the Lord that we want to do everything for his greater service and praise, to imitate him in bearing also insults, contempt, poverty.

(...) To allow oneself to be conquered by Christ means to always tend towards that which is before us, towards the goal of Christ and to ask oneself with truth and sincerity: What have I done for Christ? What do I do for Christ? What must I do for Christ? (Cf. EE, 53)

In the daily Gospel, Jesus tells us: "Whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it If you are ashamed of me (Luke 9:23-26). And so on...

The invitation that Jesus makes is to never be ashamed of Him, but to always follow Him with total dedication, trusting and entrusting oneself to Him.

But contemplating Jesus, as St. Ignatius of Loyola teaches us in the First Week, especially contemplating the crucified Christ, we feel that feeling so human and so noble that it is the shame of not being up to it; we contemplate Christ´s wisdom and our ignorance, his omnipotence and our weakness, his justice and our iniquity, his goodness and our evil.

Through the meditation of the daily Gospel, we will ask for the grace of shame; shame that comes from the continuous colloquy of mercy with Him; shame that makes us blush before Jesus Christ; shame that puts us in tune with the heart of Christ who became sin for me; shame that puts our hearts in harmony in our tears and accompanies us in the daily following of my Lord.

And this always leads us to humility, to live this great virtue. Humility that makes us aware every day that it is not we who build the Kingdom of God, but that it is always the Lord´s grace that acts in us; humility that urges us to put ourselves entirely not at our service or at the service of our ideas, but at the service of Christ and the Church, like clay vessels, fragile, inadequate, insufficient, but in which there is an immense treasure that we carry and communicate. (Daily Gospel reflection, St. Martha, July 31, 2013)

Daily Gospel Prayer for August 30.

Lord God, how difficult it is to take up the cross of each day with joy and follow You. And even more difficult when that cross is that of a disease that gives no respite to my body. Come to my aid along with your whole court of angels and keep me from making bad decisions. You are my refuge to face every difficult situation in my life. Do not allow me to be left with empty feelings. Give me your grace to stand in the midst of my crosses, to remain strong and not to go out in defeat. Heal my heart of the wounds caused by resentment and disappointment and give me the wisdom of your Holy Spirit to take up my crosses with courage. Help me to understand the power of the beauty of your healing cross, so I can understand the beauty of mine. I trust in what you want for me. Help me so that my cross can be transformed into a blessing, through a life of prayer, lived through the eyes of your love. Amen. (Healing with prayer daily gospel)

The Pope´s daily quotation.

"Wars destroy many lives. I think especially of the children who have had their childhood stolen from them." Pope Francis.

Purpose for daily Gospel.

At some point during the day, I will take a short break and get away from it all to talk with God about my situations and ask him to help me deal with the problems.

🎧 Video of the daily Gospel.

Enjoy now the video meditation for Sunday, for the daily Gospel August 30, 2020. Matthew 16:21-27. Sunday of the 21st 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 30.

With the readings daily Gospel, let us pray for all those prayer intentions for today, Sunday, 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 30, 2020. God bless you.