Daily Gospel Wednesday - Daily Readings & Prayer, September 22, 2021

Daily Readings for the Holy Gospel, September 23, 2020. Reflection on daily Gospel of Luke 9:1-6 - 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 25th Week in Ordinary Time. "Christ will not leave us alone in proclaiming the Gospel. We are sent through his strength and His Grace".

Map of readings for the day.

Serenity prayer for September 22.

My Lord and my God, thank you for making me feel loved and safe. Thank you for protecting me in this coronavirus pandemic that has taken many lives. Pour out your mercy on all mankind. I trust you will cover me and my loved ones to protect us from danger. I entrust my home to you. Amen.

Readings for Wednesday.

Daily readings for gospel - First Reading for daily Gospel: Reading from the book of Ezra 9:5-9: "In our servitude our God has not abandoned us."

At the time of the evening sacrifice, I, Ezra, rose in my wretchedness, and with cloak and mantle torn I fell on my knees, stretching out my hands to the LORD, my God. I said: "My God, I am too ashamed and confounded to raise my face to you, O my God, for our wicked deeds are heaped up above our heads and our guilt reaches up to heaven. From the time of our fathers even to this day great has been our guilt, and for our wicked deeds we have been delivered up, we and our kings and our priests, to the will of the kings of foreign lands, to the sword, to captivity, to pillage, and to disgrace, as is the case today." And now, but a short time ago, mercy came to us from the LORD, our God, who left us a remnant and gave us a stake in his holy place; thus our God has brightened our eyes and given us relief in our servitude. For slaves we are, but in our servitude our God has not abandoned us; rather, he has turned the good will of the kings of Persia toward us. Thus he has given us new life to raise again the house of our God and restore its ruins, and has granted us a fence in Judah and Jerusalem.

Daily Psalm for Wednesday.

Responsorial Psalm is taken from the Book of Tobit 13:2, 3-4a,4befghn,7-8: "Blessed be God, who lives for ever." (R).

Daily Gospel Acclamation.

"Alleluia, alleluia! The kingdom of God is close at hand: repent and believe the Good News. Alleluia" (Daily readings for today, extracted of Mark 1:15)

Daily Gospel - Luke 9:1-6.

Daily Readings for Wednesday, Gospel for September 23 (The mission of the twelve. Missionary work of the Church): "At that time, Jesus called the Twelve together and gave them power and authority over all devils and to cure diseases, and he sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal. He said to them, "Take nothing for the journey: neither staff, nor haversack, nor bread, nor money; and let none of you take a spare tunic. Whatever house you enter, stay there; and when you leave, let it be from there. As for those who do not welcome you, when you leave their town shake the dust from your feet as a sign to them." So, they set out and went from village to village proclaiming the Good News and healing everywhere". (The daily readings and the Holy Gospel, on this page, are from the Jerusalem Bible)

Daily Readings reflection, by Pope Francis.

"If a Christian does not walk to serve, he is not fit to walk." Pope Francis.

In the daily Readings, through this passage from daily Gospel, In today´s Readings, through this passage from today´s Gospel, we see that Jesus sends us on a journey. A path that, of course, is not a simple walk. What Jesus does is a sending out with a message: to announce the Gospel, to go out to bring salvation, the Gospel of salvation.

And this is the task that Jesus gives his disciples. Therefore, whoever remains paralyzed and does not go out, does not give to others what he has received at baptism, is not a true disciple of Jesus. In fact, he lacks missionarity, he lacks going out of himself to bring some good to others.

(...) Thus, we observe that in the daily readings, there is a double path that Jesus wants from his disciples. This is contained in the first word highlighted in today´s Gospel: walk, walk.

Then there is the second: service. And it is closely related to the first. It is necessary to walk to serve others. We read in the daily Readings: "Go and proclaim that the kingdom of heaven has come. Heal the sick, raise the dead, heal lepers, cast out demons". Here is the duty of the disciple: to serve. A disciple that does not to serve others is not a Christian.

The point of reference of every disciple must be what Jesus preached in the two columns of Christianity: the beatitudes and, later, the protocol from which we will be judged, that is, the one indicated by Saint Matthew in chapter 25. There are no escapes. If a disciple does not walk to serve, he is not good for walking. If his life is not for service, he is not fit to live as a Christian.

It is precisely in this aspect that the temptation of selfishness is found in many. There are those who say: "Yes, I am a Christian, I am at peace, I go to mass, I keep the commandments". But where is the service to others? Where is the service to Jesus in the sick, in the prisoner, in the hungry, in the naked?

And precisely this is what Jesus told us to do because He is there. Here is the second key word: service to Christ in others.

There is also a relationship with the third word of this passage, which is gratuitousness. To walk, in service, in gratuity. A fundamental question that impels the Lord to clarify it well in case the disciples have not understood. He explains: "Carry nothing for the journey, neither staff, nor bag, nor bread, nor money, nor two tunics each".

As if to say that the way of service is free because we have received salvation for free. None of us has bought salvation, none of us has deserved it, we have it by pure grace of the Father in Jesus Christ, in the sacrifice of Jesus Christ (Daily Gospel reflection, St. Martha, June 11, 2015)

Daily Prayer for the Gospel.

Father of mercy, help me to look at the world as You look at it, with eyes of love. May I know how to appreciate the goodness in others. Open my heart to the sweet inspiration found in your Word. Thus, I want to be able to follow the straight paths that lead me to you. Restore all my wounds, healing resentments and sufferings so that I can live a true transformation of heart. I thank You for that unconditional love with which You comfort me and fill me with strength every day. At your side, I must not be afraid to go out on the mission you have entrusted to me because I count on your support and the powerful force of the Holy Spirit. I commit myself to your love, to the power of your cross, to the immensity of your endless mercy that sprang from the wounds of your passion. O my sweet Lord, cover me under the fold of your mantle, defend me in all danger, and keep me so that I may walk in peace towards the source of living water which is you. I love Thee. Amen. (Healing with the serenity prayer for daily readings and Holy Gospel)

The Pope´s daily quotation.

"God always waits for us, always understands us, always forgives us. Pope Francis." Pope Francis.

Purpose for daily Gospel.

Today, I will control my impulses to defend myself and accept with humility and silence any humiliation that may be inflicted on me based on the litanies of humility.

Video of the daily Readings.

Enjoy now the video meditation for the daily readings for Wednesday on September 23, 2020. Luke 9:1-6. Holy Gospel and daily prayer of the 25th week in Ordinary Time.

Ask the Holy Spirit for help before beginning to listen to the reflection of the readings of the day for Daily Gospel on Wednesday.

Daily Readings Intentions for September 22.

With the catholic daily readings of the Holy Gospel of Luke 9:1-6, 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. "The Word of God must be preached by all of us. It is not our strength that will penetrate the hearts of those who hear it, but the strength of the Spirit of God that will open, probe and do its work." 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 23, 2020. God blesses you.