Catholic Missal of the day: Monday, October 29 2018

Monday of the Thirtieth week in Ordinary Time

Monday of the Thirtieth week in Ordinary Time

1. Reading

Letter to the Ephesians

4,32.5,1-8.

]Brothers and sisters: Be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another as God has forgiven you in Christ.
]So be imitators of God, as beloved children,
]and live in love, as Christ loved us and handed himself over for us as a sacrificial offering to God for a fragrant aroma.
]Immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be mentioned among you, as is fitting among holy ones,
]no obscenity or silly or suggestive talk, which is out of place, but instead, thanksgiving.
]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.
]Let no one deceive you with empty arguments, for because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the disobedient.
]So do not be associated with them.
]For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light.

Psalm

Psalms

1,1-2.3.4.6.

]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.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke

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.

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St. Narcissus(Bishop (2nd century))

SAINT NARCISSUS Bishop (2nd century) St. Narcissus was consecrated bishop of Jerusalem in the year 180. Although elderly, God attested his merits through miracles long-held in Christians' memories. One Holy Saturday, oil used in the lamps for the Paschal Feast went missing. Bp. Narcissus bade the faithful draw water from a neighboring well, prayed over it and told them to put it in the lamps. The water had become oil and Paschal Feast was celebrated - showing God's love for the Easter Vigil. When St. Narcissus' apostolate made evil men indignant, they accused him of wrongdoing. They invoked God's wrath upon themselves if they were lying. Each suffered the penalties he invoked and Bp. Narcissus returned to Jerusalem. This account was written in later centures; it contradicts the fact that God does not interfere in human activity - only elevates it to the level of grace. In all likelihood, Bp. Narcissus forgave his accusers, lived in holy solitude and was consecrated bishop ater returning to Jerusalem. Bp. Narcissus passed away at a very old age. He served as bishop until the end: servant to the servants and a good shepherd. He reigns with Christ forever and intercedes for those who beseech him with faith.

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