October 29, 2012

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Monday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time
Lectionary: 479

Reading 1 from St. Paul's letter to the Ephesians

Eph 4:32-5:8

Brothers and sisters:
Be kind to one another, compassionate,
forgiving one another as God has forgiven you in Christ.

Brethren, be merciful and loving to each other.  Forgive each other as God has forgiven you in Christ.

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.

Be imitators of the Father as children imitate their parents and love one another as Christ loved us and gave Himself as a sacrifice to the Father in our behalf.

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.

Do not sin, but live holy lives.

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.

Be certain of this, no impentitent sinner will enter the Kingdom of God.

Let no one deceive you with empty arguments,
for because of these things
the wrath of God is coming upon the disobedient.

Do not be deceived with hollow words, all sins are against the Ten Commandments and will be punished.

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.

So stay away from sinners and remain in the light of our Lord Jesus Christ as obedient children of the Father.

Responsorial Psalm Ps 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6

R. (see Eph. 5:1) Behave like God as his very dear children.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.
R. Behave like God as his very dear children.

Birds of a feather flock together.  Be imitators of God, that you may be perfect as He is perfect:

Matthew 5:48
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. 

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. Behave like God as his very dear children.

A man who is righteous is trustworthy in all his works:

Luke 19:17
King James Version (KJV)
17 And he said unto him, Well, thou good servant: because thou hast been faithful in a very little, have thou authority over ten cities. 

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.
R. Behave like God as his very dear children.

The wicked will be punished in eternal punishment:

Matthew 25:46
King James Version (KJV)
46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal. 

A reading from the Holy Gospel according to St. 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.

Jesus was teaching in a Jewish temple and there was a woman there who for 18 years had been afflicted by an evil spirit.  She could no longer stand up and walked always bent over.

When Jesus saw her, he called to her and said,
"Woman, you are set free of your infirmity."

Jesus called to her and said, "Woman, you are free of your affliction."

He laid his hands on her,
and she at once stood up straight and glorified God.

He touched her and immediately, she was cured.  And immediately, she 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."

But the leader of the temple became upset that Jesus had cured on the sabbath and said to the people, "There are six days when work should be done.  Come on those days to be cured.  Not on the sabbath."

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?

And Jesus reprimanded them all, "Hypocrites!"  Which one of you would not take care of your animals on the sabbath?

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?"

And this daughter of Abraham is worth more to God than any of your animals and you would not help her on the sabbath or any other day.

When he said this, all his adversaries were humiliated;
and the whole crowd rejoiced at all the splendid deeds done by him.

And all his opponents were humiliated by what He said.  And the crowds rejoiced at all the wonderful works He did.

Sincerely,

De Maria