1ST READING
We
are called to holiness, but this means differently for each of us,
depending on our states and situations in life. What is common to this
call is that Jesus has to be the center of our lives and that it is the
Holy Spirit that will give us the grace to be holy. Let us heed the call
to be holy and to respond to it in every way to make it a reality in
our lives.
Ephesians 4:32-5:8
32 Brothers and sisters: Be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another as God has forgiven you in Christ. 5: 1 Be imitators of God, as beloved children, 2 and live in love, as Christ loved us and handed himself over for us as a sacrificial offering to God for a fragrant aroma. 3 Immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be mentioned among you, as is fitting among holy ones, 4 no obscenity or silly or suggestive talk, which is out of place, but instead, thanksgiving. 5 Be
sure of this, that no immoral or impure or greedy person, that is, an
idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and of God. 6 Let no one deceive you with empty arguments, for because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the disobedient. 7 So do not be associated with them. 8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light.
P S A L M
Psalm 1:1-2, 3, 4, 6
R: Behave like God as his very dear children.
1 Blessed
the man who follows not the counsel of the wicked nor walks in the way
of sinners, nor sits in the company of the insolent, 2 but delights in the law of the Lord and meditates on his law day and night. (R) 3 He
is like a tree planted near running water, that yields its fruit in due
season, and whose leaves never fade. Whatever he does, prospers. (R) 4 Not so the wicked, not so; they are like chaff which the wind drives away. 6 For the Lord watches over the way of the just, but the way of the wicked vanishes. (R)
GOSPEL
Jesus
knows that love is not constrained by the Sabbath Law. Jesus knows that
healing a woman on the Sabbath in no way violates the Sabbath Law. It
is only a perverse understanding of the Law that contradicts this belief
and yet the Pharisees do this. Why? Maybe it is because they see the
super structure of their faith disintegrating before their eyes, but
what is certain is that, when we put our faith in God, we should be
prepared for some pretty big changes in our lives.
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
Your word, O Lord, is truth; consecrate us in the truth.
Luke 13:10-17
10 Jesus was teaching in a synagogue on the sabbath. 11 And
a woman was there who for eighteen years had been crippled by a spirit;
she was bent over, completely incapable of standing erect. 12 When Jesus saw her, he called to her and said, “Woman, you are set free of your infirmity.” 13 He laid his hands on her,
and she at once stood up straight and glorified God. 14 But
the leader of the synagogue, indignant that Jesus had cured on the
sabbath, said to the crowd in reply, “There are six days when work
should be done. Come on those days to be cured, not on the sabbath day.”
15 The
Lord said to him in reply, “Hypocrites! Does not each one of you on the
sabbath untie his ox or his ass from the manger and lead it out for
watering? 16 This daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound for
eighteen years now, ought she not to have been set free on the sabbath day from this bondage?” 17 When he said this, all his adversaries were humiliated; and the whole crowd rejoiced at all the splendid deeds done by him.
think: When we put our faith in God, we should be prepared for some pretty big changes in our lives.
T O D A Y’S BLESSING LIST
Thank You Lord for: ___________________________
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God’s special verse/thought for me today_________
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READ THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR Isaiah 29-32
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