Daily Gospel reading, September 1: the justice of the Lord

Today's Gospel: divine justice and the Spirit that searches everything

This Tuesday, September 1, the Catholic Church proclaims the reading from the first letter to the Corinthians 2:10b-16, where Saint Paul states that "the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God." Today's psalm, with its verse "The Lord is just in all his ways," opens the month that tradition dedicates to the study of the Sacred Scriptures.

Corinthians and the Spirit that peine all things

Today's passage insists that the natural man cannot grasp what belongs to the Spirit of God. Paul contrasts two logics, that of the world and that of the Spirit, and reminds the disciples that they have received the Spirit that comes from God so as to understand the gifts bestowed on them. It is a call to intellectual humility, in a month that popular devotion dedicates to the Word.

Chaplet at 3 pm and Rosary at 10 pm

The liturgical day includes the saints of the day, whom the Church commemorates according to the Vatican, and the homily by Father Santiago Martín, of the Franciscans of Mary. At 3 pm, the faithful are called to pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, because that is the hour of mercy in which Jesus gave up his life. In the evening, the Holy Rosary is prayed at 10 pm. The sayings of the Desert Fathers are also circulating, compiled by the Jesuit Heribert Rosweyde in the 17th century, translated by the monks of Solesmes, and available on surco.org.

As today's entry recalls, "The Lord upholds all who are falling, and raises up all who are bowed down." The phrase sums up the trust in divine justice that shapes the day. And tonight, the Rosary will bring to a close a day of readings and prayer.