Daily Gospel ~ Friday, 25 October 2013

Daily Gospel ~ Friday, 25 October 2013

At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.(John 6:68, Messianic WEB)

Friday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time
Saint of the Day:

SAINTS CRISPIN and CRISPINIAN
Martyrs
(† c. 287)

These two glorious martyrs came from Rome to preach the Faith in Gaul toward the middle of the third century. Fixing their residence at Soissons, they instructed many in the Faith of Christ, which they preached publicly in the day, and at night they worked at making shoes, though they are said to have been nobly born, and brothers.

The infidels listened to their instructions, and were astonished at the example of their lives, especially of their charity, disinterestedness, heavenly piety, and contempt of glory and all earthly things; and the effect was the conversion of many to the Christian faith.

The brothers had continued their employment several years when a complaint was lodged against them. The emperor, to gratify their accusers and give way to his savage cruel, gave orders that they should be convened before Biotin's Varus, the most implacable enemy of the Christians.

The martyrs were patient and constant under the most cruel torments, and finished their course by the sword about the year 287.

Lives of the Saints, by Alban Butler, Benziger Bros. ed. [1894]

Saint Gaudentius

Feastday: January 5

Died: 1004

Benedictine bishop and friend of St. Adalbert. While going to Prussia with St. Adalbert, Gaudentius escaped a massacre that claimed his brother’s life. He became the first bishop of Gnesen, appointed by Emperor Otto III in 1000.

Friday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time

Book of Romans 7:18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good. 19 For the good which I desire, I don’t do; but the evil which I don’t desire, that I practice. 20 But if what I don’t desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me. 21 I find then the law, that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present. 22 For I delight in God’s Torah after the inward man, 23 but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death? 25 I thank God through Yeshua the Messiah, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s Torah, but with the flesh, the sin’s law.(Messianic WEB)

Psalm 119:66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge,

for I believe in your commandments.

68 You are good, and do good.

Teach me your statutes.

76 Please let your loving kindness be for my comfort,

according to your word to your servant.

77 Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live;

for your Torah is my delight.

93 I will never forget your precepts,

for with them, you have revived me.

94 I am yours.

Save me, for I have sought your precepts.(Messianic WEB) 

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint Luke 12:54  He said to the multitudes also, “When you see a cloud rising from the west, immediately you say, ‘A shower is coming,’ and so it happens. 55  When a south wind blows, you say, ‘There will be a scorching heat,’ and it happens. 56  You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how is it that you don’t interpret this time? 57  Why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right? 58  For when you are going with your adversary before the magistrate, try diligently on the way to be released from him, lest perhaps he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison. 59  I tell you, you will by no means get out of there, until you have paid the very last penny.§”(Messianic WEB)

Friday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time

Commentary of the day:

Vatican Council II 

Constitution on the Church in the modern world « Gaudium et spes », § 1-2, 4, 10

Discerning the signs of the times

The joys and the hopes, the griefs and the anxieties of the men of this age, especially those who are poor or in any way afflicted, these are the joys and hopes, the griefs and anxieties of the followers of Christ. Indeed, nothing genuinely human fails to raise an echo in their hearts. For theirs is a community composed of men. United in Christ, they are led by the Holy Spirit in their journey to the Kingdom of their Father and they have welcomed the news of salvation which is meant for every man. That is why this community realizes that it is truly linked with mankind and its history by the deepest of bonds. Hence this Second Vatican Council... now addresses itself without hesitation, not only to the sons of the Church and to all who invoke the name of Christ, but to the whole of humanity...
To carry out such a task, the Church has always had the duty of scrutinizing the signs of the times and of interpreting them in the light of the Gospel. Thus, in language intelligible to each generation, she can respond to the perennial questions which men ask about this present life and the life to come... We must therefore recognize and understand the world in which we live, its explanations, its longings, and its often dramatic characteristics... Influenced by such a variety of complexities, many of our contemporaries are kept from accurately identifying permanent values and adjusting them properly to fresh discoveries. As a result, buffeted between hope and anxiety and pressing one another with questions about the present course of events, they are burdened down with uneasiness. This same course of events leads men to look for answers; indeed, it forces them to do so...
The Church firmly believes that Christ, who died and was raised up for all,(2) can through His Spirit offer man the light and the strength to measure up to his supreme destiny... She likewise holds that in her most benign Lord and Master can be found the key, the focal point and the goal of man.

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