Pentecost
Sunday
Mass during the Day
Lectionary: 63
Ghid il-Hamsin
Quddiesa tal-Jum
Messalin
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Reading 1
- ACTS 2:1-11
When the time for Pentecost was fulfilled, they were all in one place together.
And suddenly there came from the sky a noise like a strong driving wind, and it
filled the entire house in which they were. Then there appeared to them tongues
as of fire, which parted and came to rest on each one of them. And they were
all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in different tongues, as the
Spirit enabled them to proclaim. Now there were devout Jews from every nation
under heaven staying in Jerusalem
L-Ewwel Lezzjoni - Qari
mill-Ktieb tal-Atti tal-Appostli 2, 1-11
Responsorial Psalm -- PSALM 104:1, 24, 29-30, 31, 34
Bless the LORD, O my soul!
O LORD, my God, you are great indeed!
How manifold are your works, O LORD!
the earth is full of your creatures;
R. Lord, send out your Spirit, and
renew the face of the earth.
May the glory of the LORD endure forever;
may the LORD be glad in his works!
Pleasing to him be my theme;
I will be glad in the LORD.
R. Lord, send out your Spirit, and
renew the face of the earth.
If you take away their breath, they perish
and return to their dust.
When you send forth your spirit, they are created,
and you renew the face of the earth.
R. Lord, send out your Spirit, and
renew the face of the earth.
Salm Responsorjali - Salm 103(104)
Bierek ruħ tiegħi,
lill-Mulej!
Mulej, Alla tiegħi, inti kbir
bil-bosta!
Kemm huma kotrana l-għemejjel
tiegħek, Mulej!
Mimlija l-art bil-ħlejjaq tiegħek.
R/ Ibgħat
l-Ispirtu tiegħek, Mulej, u ġedded il-wiċċ ta' l-art. (jew)
Jekk teħdilhom nifishom,
imutu,
u lejn it-trab jerġgħu
jmorru.
Malli tibgħat in-nifs
tiegħek, jinħolqu,
u inti ġġedded il-wiċċ ta'
l-art.
R/ Ibgħat
l-Ispirtu tiegħek, Mulej, u ġedded il-wiċċ ta' l-art. (jew)
Jibqa' sebħ il-Mulej għal
dejjem!
Jifraħ il-Mulej bl-għemejjel
tiegħu!
Ħa togħġbu l-għanja tiegħi,
Għax jien fil-Mulej l-hena
tiegħi.
R/ Ibgħat
l-Ispirtu tiegħek, Mulej, u ġedded il-wiċċ ta' l-art. (jew)
Reading 2 - ROMANS 8:8-17
Brothers and sisters: Those who are in the flesh
cannot please God. But you are not in the flesh; on the contrary, you are in
the spirit, if only the Spirit of God dwells in you. Whoever does not have the
Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. But if Christ is in you, although the
body is dead because of sin, the spirit is alive because of righteousness. If
the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, the one who
raised Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also, through
his Spirit that dwells in you. Consequently, brothers and sisters, we are not
debtors to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according
to the flesh, you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of
the body, you will live. For those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of
God. For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but
you received a Spirit of adoption, through whom we cry, “Abba, Father!” The
Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and
if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if only we
suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him. This is
the Word of The Lord
It-Tieni Lezzjoni - Qari
mill-Ittra lir-Rumani 8, 8-17
Ħuti, dawk li jgħixu skont il-ġisem ma
jistgħux jogħġbu lil Alla. Issa intom ma intomx taħt il-ħakma tal-ġisem, imma tal-Ispirtu, ladarba hemm l-Ispirtu ta' Alla jgħammar fikom. Jekk xi ħadd ma għandux fih l-Ispirtu ta' Kristu, dan mhuwiex tiegħu. Jekk
Kristu jgħammar fikom, għalkemm il-ġisem hu mejjet minħabba fid-dnub, imma
l-Ispirtu hu ħajjitkom minħabba
l-ġustizzja. Jekk l-Ispirtu ta' dak li
qajjem lil Ġesu' mill-imwiet jgħammar
fikom, Alla stess li qajjem lil Kristu
mil-imwiet iqajjem għall-ħajja wkoll il-ġisem mejjet tagħkom, bis-saħħa tal-Ispirtu li jgħammar
fikom. Hekk mela, ħuti, aħna m'aħniex
midjunin mal-ġisem biex ngħixu
skont il-ġisem. Għax jekk tgħixu skont
il-gisem, tmutu; imma jekk tmewtu
l-għemil tal-ġisem bl-Ispirtu, tgħixu. Dawk kollha li jmexxihom l-Ispirtu ta' Alla
huma wlied Alla. Għax intom ma rċevjtux l-ispirtu li ijwassalkom għall-jasar biex terġgħu taqgħu fil-biża', imma rċevjtu
l-ispirtu li jagħmel minnkom ulied
adottive; u li bih aħna nistgħu ngħatu: "Abba!
Missier!" Dan l-Ispirtu
jixhed flimkien mal-ispirtu tagħna li aħna wlied Alla. Jekk aħna wlied, aħna wkoll werrieta, werrieta ta' Alla, werrieta ma' Kristu:
ladarba aħna nbatu miegħu, biex miegħu
nkunu gglorifikati. Ilulej
Sequence: - -- Veni, Sancte Spiritus
Come, Holy Spirit, come!
And from your celestial home
Shed a ray of light divine!
Come, Father of the poor!
Come, source of all our store!
Come, within our bosoms shine.
You, of comforters the best;
You, the soul’s most welcome guest;
Sweet refreshment here below;
In our labor, rest most sweet;
Grateful coolness in the heat;
Solace in the midst of woe.
O most blessed Light divine,
Shine within these hearts of yours,
And our inmost being fill!
Where you are not, we have naught,
Nothing good in deed or thought,
Nothing free from taint of ill.
Heal our wounds, our strength renew;
On our dryness pour your dew;
Wash the stains of guilt away:
Bend the stubborn heart and will;
Melt the frozen, warm the chill;
Guide the steps that go astray.
On the faithful, who adore
And confess you, evermore
In your sevenfold gift descend;
Give them virtue’s sure reward;
Give them your salvation, Lord;
Give them joys that never end. Amen.
Alleluia.
And from your celestial home
Shed a ray of light divine!
Come, Father of the poor!
Come, source of all our store!
Come, within our bosoms shine.
You, of comforters the best;
You, the soul’s most welcome guest;
Sweet refreshment here below;
In our labor, rest most sweet;
Grateful coolness in the heat;
Solace in the midst of woe.
O most blessed Light divine,
Shine within these hearts of yours,
And our inmost being fill!
Where you are not, we have naught,
Nothing good in deed or thought,
Nothing free from taint of ill.
Heal our wounds, our strength renew;
On our dryness pour your dew;
Wash the stains of guilt away:
Bend the stubborn heart and will;
Melt the frozen, warm the chill;
Guide the steps that go astray.
On the faithful, who adore
And confess you, evermore
In your sevenfold gift descend;
Give them virtue’s sure reward;
Give them your salvation, Lord;
Give them joys that never end. Amen.
Alleluia.
Sekwenza: Veni, Sancte Spiritus
Spirtu s-Santu, ejja fina,
raġġ ta' dawl qaddis agħtina,
xerrdu f'ruħna mis-smewwiet.
O Missier il-foqra tiegħek,
inti ġġib id-doni miegħek,
tagħni b'dawklek qalb
l-ulied.
Inti l-aqwa faraġ tagħna,
fik kull hena xħin tkun
magħna,
tħossok fewġa ħelwa
r-ruħ
Fl-għaja, lejn is-serħ twassalna;
jekk imħeġġa wisq, trażżanna;
mil-għajnejn tixxotta
d-dmugħ.
O dawl ħieni ta' qdusija,
nitolbuk li bik mimlija
tkun il-qalb ta' kull fidil.
Mingħajr dawlek li jmexxina
ebda ħajr ma jkum hemm fina,
ebda safa fl-għemil.
Naddaf kull fejn hemm it-tbajja',
fejn hemm nixfa reġġa'
l-ħajja,
lill-miġruħ agħtih fejqan.
Rattab fina l-ebusija,
agħti lill-berdin bżulija,
għin fit-triq lil min
beżgħan.
Agħti s-seba' doni tiegħek
lil min jimxi fidil miegħek
u li fik jistrieħ kull hin.
Agħti 'l kull virtu' sabiħa
ħlas ta' salvazzjoni sħiħa,
agħti l-ġenna lit-tajbin.
Ammen. Hallelujah.
Gospel Acclamation:
Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful
and kindle in them the fire of your love.
Alleluia.
Akklamazzjoni qabel l-Evanġelju :
Ejja, Spirtu s-Santu, imla l-qlub tal-fidili tiegħek
u kebbes fihom in-nar ta'
mħabbtek.
Hallelujah.
Gospel -
JOHN 14:15-16, 23B-26
Jesus said to his disciples: “If you love me, you
will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you
another Advocate to be with you always. “Whoever loves me will keep my word, and
my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with
him. Those who do not love me do not keep my words; yet the word you hear is
not mine but that of the Father who sent me. “I have told you this while I am
with you. The Advocate, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my name, will
teach you everything and remind you of all that I told you.” This is the Word of The Lord
L-Evanġelju
- skont San Ġwann 14, 15-16,23-26
F'dak iż-żmien, Ġesu' qal
lid-dixxipli tiegħu: "Jekk tħobbuni, ħarsu l-kmandamenti tiegħi. U jiena
nitlob lill-Missier, u hu jagħtikom Difensur ieħor biex jibqa' magħkom għal
dejjem. Jekk xi ħadd iħobbni, iħares kelmti, u Missieri jħobbu, u aħna niġu u
ngħammru għandu. Min ma jħobbnix ma jħarisx kliemi. U l-Kelma li qegħdin tisimgħu mhijiex tiegħi,
imma tal-missier li bagħatni. Għedtilkom dan meta għadni magħkom. Imma d-Difensur, l-Ispirtu s-Santu, li
l-Misseri jibgħat f'ismi, igħallimkom kollox u jfakkarkom dak kollu li
għedtilkom." Il-Kelma tal-Mulej.
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COMMENTARY
- Here is a
translation of a commentary by the Pontifical Household preacher, Capuchin
Fr Raniero Cantalamessa, on the readings from this Sunday’s liturgy.
Send Forth Your Spirit and
They Shall be Created
The
Gospel presents Jesus, who in the cenacle on Easter evening, “breathed on them
and said: ‘Receive the Holy Spirit.'” This breathing of Jesus recalls God’s
action who, in the creation, “formed man out of the clay of the ground and blew
into his nostrils the breath of life, and so man became a living being” (cf.
Genesis 2:7). With his gesture Jesus indicates that the Holy Spirit is the
divine breath that gives life to the new creation as he gave life to the first
creation. The responsorial psalm highlights this theme: “Send forth your
Spirit, and they shall be created, and you shall renew the face of the earth.”
Proclaiming
that the Holy Spirit is Creator means saying that his sphere of action is not
restricted to the Church, but extends to the entire creation. No place and no
time is without his active presence. He acts in and out of the Bible; he acts
before Christ, during the time of Christ, and after Christ, even if he never
acts apart from Christ. “All truth, by whomever it is spoken,” Thomas Aquinas
has written, “comes from the Holy Spirit.” The action of the Spirit of Christ
outside the Church is not the same as his action in the Church and in the
sacraments. Outside he acts by his power; in the Church he acts by his
presence, in person.
The
most important thing about the creative power of the Holy Spirit is not,
however, to understand it and explain its implications, but to experience it.
But what does it mean to experience the Spirit as Creator? To understand it,
let us take the creation account as our point of departure. “In the beginning,
when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless wasteland,
and darkness covered the abyss, and the Spirit of the Lord brooded over the
waters” (Genesis 1:1-2). We conclude from this that the universe already
existed in the moment when the Spirit intervened, but it was formless and dark,
chaos. It is after his action that the creation assumes precise contours; light
is separated from darkness, dry land from the sea, and everything takes on a
definite shape.
Thus,
it is the Holy Spirit who transforms the creation from chaos into cosmos, who
makes it something beautiful, ordered, polished (“cosmos” comes from the same
root as “cosmetic” and it means beautiful!), he makes a “world,” in the double
sense of this word. Science teaches us today that this process went on for
billions of years, but the Bible — with its simple and image-filled language —
wants to tell us that the slow evolution toward life and the present order of
the world did not happen by chance, following blind material impulses. It
followed, rather, a project that the Creator inserted in it from the beginning.
God’s
creative action is not limited to the initial instant; he is always in the act
of creating. Applied to the Holy Spirit, this means that he is always the one
who transforms chaos into cosmos, that is, he makes order out of disorder,
harmony out of confusion, beauty out of deformity, youth out of age. This
occurs on all levels: in the macrocosm as in the microcosm, that is, in the
whole universe as in the individual person.
We
must believe that, despite appearances, the Holy Spirit is working in the world
and makes it progress. How many new discoveries, not only in the study of
nature but also in the field of morality and social life! A text of Vatican II
says that the Holy Spirit is at work in the evolution of the social order of
the world (“Gaudium et Spes,” 26). It is not only evil that grows but good does
too, with the difference being that evil eliminates itself, ends with itself,
while the good accumulates itself, remains. Certainly there is much chaos
around us: moral, political, and social chaos. The world still has great need
of the Spirit of God. For this reason we must not tire in invoking him with the
words of the Psalm: “Send forth your Spirit, Lord, and renew the face of the
earth!”
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