I SET BEFORE YOU LIFE OR DEATH

Thursday after Ash Wednesday

'Anyone who wants to save his life will lose it'

First Reading Deuteronomy 30:15-20 I set before you today life or death, blessing or curse

Moses said to the people: ‘See, today I set before you life and prosperity, death and disaster. If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I enjoin on you today, if you love the Lord your God and follow his ways, if you keep his commandments, his laws, his customs, you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land which you are entering to make your own. But if your heart strays, if you refuse to listen, if you let yourself be drawn into worshipping other gods and serving them, I tell you today, you will most certainly perish; you will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess. I call heaven and earth to witness against you today: I set before you life or death, blessing or curse. Choose life, then, so that you and your descendants may live, in the love of the Lord your God, obeying his voice, clinging to him; for in this your life consists, and on this depends your long stay in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob he would give them.’

Responsorial Psalm: Happy the man who has placed his trust in the Lord.

Gospel Luke 9:22-25 Whoever loses his life for my sake will save it

Jesus said to his disciples: ‘The Son of Man is destined to suffer grievously, to be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes and to be put to death, and to be raised up on the third day.’

Then to all he said:  ‘If anyone wants to be a follower of mine, let him renounce himself and take up his cross every day and follow me. For anyone who wants to save his life will lose it; but anyone who loses his life for my sake, that man will save it. What gain, then, is it for a man to have won the whole world and to have lost or ruined his very self?’

AELF  «JE METS DEVANT TOI LA VIE OU LA MORT»

jeudi après les cendres

«celui qui veut sauver sa vie la perdra»

Évangile Luc 9,22-25 « Celui qui perdra sa vie à cause de moi la sauvera »

Jésus disait à ses disciples: «Il faut que le Fils de l'homme souffre beaucoup, qu'il soit rejeté par les anciens, les chefs de prêtres et les scribes, qu'il soit tué, et que, le troisième jour, il ressuscite». 

Il disait aussi à la foule: «Celui qui veut marcher à ma suite, qu'il renonce à lui-même, qu'il prenne sa croix chaque jour, et qu'il me suive. Car celui qui veut sauver sa vie la perdra; mais celui qui perdra sa vie pour moi la sauvera. Quel avantage un homme aura-t-il à gagner le monde entier, si c'est en se perdant lui-même et en le payant de sa propre existence?».

My God, keep me. I bow down before You. I choose life, and Your blessing, My Lord Jesus, how can one walk in Your footsteps, renounce oneself, take up one's cross each day, follow You, lose one's security? Save me, nothing is worth more than You. Jesus I trust in You. Virgin Mary, pray for me. My angel guardian, pray for me. 

Mon Dieu, garde-moi. Je me prosterne  devant Toi. Je choisi la vie, et ta bénédiction,  Mon Seigneur Jésus, comment peut-on marcher à ta suite, renonce à lui-même, prenne sa croix chaque, te  suive perde sa securité? Sauve-moi rien ne vaille sauf toi. Jésus, j'ai confiance en toi. Vierge Marie, priez pour moi. Saint Joseph, priez pour moi. Mon ange gardien, priez pour moi.