Thursday of the Twenty-ninth week in Ordinary Time

Letter to the Romans

Brothers and sisters: I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your nature. For just as you presented the parts of your bodies as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness for lawlessness, so now present them as slaves to righteousness for sanctification.
For when you were slaves of sin, you were free from righteousness.
But what profit did you get then from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
But now that you have been freed from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit that you have leads to sanctification, and its end is eternal life.
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Psalms

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,
But delights in the law of the LORD
and meditates on his law day and night.
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.
Not so, the wicked, not so;
they are like chaff which the wind drives away.
For the LORD watches over the way of the just,
but the way of the wicked vanishes.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke

Jesus said to his disciples: “I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing!
There is a baptism with which I must be baptized, and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished!
Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.
From now on a household of five will be divided, three against two and two against three;
a father will be divided against his son and a son against his father, a mother against her daughter and a daughter against her mother, a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."

St. Evaristus(Pope and Martyr († 112))

SAINT EVARISTUS Pope and Martyr( 112) During the reign of Trajan, St. Evaristus succeeded St. Anacletus in the see of Rome. St. Evaristus led the Church for nine years before he was martyred in 112. Cardinal priests were instituted when St. Evaristus first divided Rome into parishes and assigned a priest to each. He also appointed seven deacons to attend the bishop. He conferred holy orders thrice during December instead of the usual seasons for fasting and prayer. His works demonstrate the constant renewal of the Church through the presence and inspiration of the Holy Spirit.

St. Demetrius()

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