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Date25/10/2021

Reading of the day

A reading from the Letter of St. Paul to the Romans
Rom 8:12-17

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 which 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.

Gospel of the day

From the Gospel according to Luke
Lk 13:10-17

Jesus was teaching in a synagogue on the sabbath.
And a woman was there who for eighteen years
had been crippled by a spirit;
she was bent over, completely incapable of standing erect.
When Jesus saw her, he called to her and said,
“Woman, you are set free of your infirmity.”
He laid his hands on her,
and she at once stood up straight and glorified God.
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.”
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?
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?”
When he said this, all his adversaries were humiliated;
and the whole crowd rejoiced at all the splendid deeds done by him.

Words of the Holy Father

Rigidity is not a gift from God; meekness, goodness, benevolence, forgiveness, yes; but rigidity, no! Behind the rigidity there is always something hidden, in many cases a double life. Let us pray to the Lord and for our brothers and sisters who believe that walking in the law of the Lord is to become rigid. May the Lord may make them feel that He is their Father and that He delights in mercy, tenderness, goodness, meekness and humility. And may He teach all of us to walk in the law of the Lord with these attitudes. (Homily, Santa Marta – 24 October 2016)

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