Láthair Dé

Meabhraím dom féin, agus mé i mo shuí anseo anois,
go bhfuil Dia ag amharc orm le grá agus ag caomhnú mo bheith
Déanaim stad ar feadh nóiméad agus machnaím ar seo.

Saoirse

“Níl ach fíorbheagán duine
a thuigeann cad a dhéanfadh Dia astu
dá ngéillfeadh siad dá lámha chun go
múnlódh a ghrásta iad” (Naomh Iognáid)
Iarraim an grásta chun muinín iomlan a chuir i ngrá Dé.

Comhfhios

A Thiarna thug tú “solas an domhain” orm.
Lig dom a bheith feasach i gcónaí orthu siúd a dteastaíonn uait go ndéanfainn freastal orthu:
daoine ocracha agus gan dídean,
na heasláin agus na bochtáin,
an strainséir agus an teifeach.

Briathar Dé

³So the sisters sent a message to Jesus, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.” ⁴But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This illness does not lead to death; rather, it is for God’s glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” ⁵Accordingly, though Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus, ⁶after having heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was.

⁷Then after this he said to the disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.”

¹⁷When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days. ²⁰When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, while Mary stayed at home. ²¹Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. ²²But even now I know that God will give you whatever you ask of him.” ²³Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” ²⁴Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.” ²⁵Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die, will live, ²⁶and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?” ²⁷She said to him, “Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one coming into the world.”

³³When Jesus saw her weeping and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he was greatly disturbed in spirit and deeply moved. ³⁴He said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.” ³⁵Jesus began to weep. ³⁶So the Jews said, “See how he loved him!” ³⁷But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?”

³⁸Then Jesus, again greatly disturbed, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it. ³⁹Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, “Lord, already there is a stench because he has been dead four days.” ⁴⁰Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?” ⁴¹So they took away the stone. And Jesus looked upward and said, “Father, I thank you for having heard me. ⁴²I knew that you always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd standing here, so that they may believe that you sent me.” ⁴³When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” ⁴⁴The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with strips of cloth and his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.”

⁴⁵Many of the Jews, therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what Jesus did believed in him.

Inspioráid

Tá ceann de na scéalta iontacha faoi Íosa agus a chara mór, Lazaras, againn i sliocht an lae inniu. Tá a fhios againn nach cuid taitneamhach den saol iad caillteanais riamh, agus is measa fós é a bheith ar shiúl nuair a tharlaíonn an bás gan choinne. Ina theannta sin, ghoill easnamh agus easpa freagra Íosa go mór ar a dheirfiúr Marta. Fanann muid leis an eachtra agus tugtar faoi deara nár chuir fiú an éadóchas sa chás bac ar Íosa. Feicimid gur féidir leis maitheas a thabhairt fiú as cúrsaí beatha agus báis, mar sin an bhféadfadh sé go bhfoghlaimeoimid ár muinín a chur ann i gcúrsaí beaga?

Comhrá

A Íosa, a chara, is féidir liom mo chroí a oscailt duit.
Is féidir liom gach rud a chuireann trioblóid orm a insint duit.
Tá a fhios agam gur miste leat faoi na hábhair imní go léir i mo shaol.
Múin dom maireachtáil san eolas
gur tusa a thugann aire dom inniu,
a thabharfaidh aire dom amárach agus gach lá de mo shaol.

Conclúid

Glóir don Athair, agus don Mhac, agus don Spiorad Naomh,
mar a bhí sé ar dtús,
atá anois agus a bheidh ann go deo,
domhan gan deireadh. Áiméan

Áiméan