Daily Gospel ~ Saturday, 26 October 2013

Daily Gospel ~ Saturday, 26 October 2013

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

Saturday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time

Saint of the Day:

SAINT EVARISTUS
Pope and Martyr
(† 112)

St. Evaristus succeeded St. Anacletus in the see of Rome, in the reign of Trajan, governed the Church nine years, and died in 112. The institution of cardinal priests is by some ascribed to him, because he first divided Rome into several titles or parishes, assigning a priest to each; he also appointed seven deacons to attend the bishop.

He conferred holy orders thrice in the month of December, when that ceremony was most usually performed, for holy orders were always conferred in seasons appointed for fasting and prayer.

St. Evaristus was buried near St. Peter's tomb on the Vatican.

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

Saint Demetrius of Thessalonika

Feastday: October 26

Patron of Thessaloniki, Greece patron of soldiers, patron of the Crusades

270 - 306

Called a military martyr, and “the Megalomartyr” by the Greeks. He was a deacon martyred at Sirmium, in the former Yugoslavia. Early legends about Demetrius credit him with a military career. He was extremely popular in the Middle Ages, and with St. George, he was the patron of the crusades.

Saturday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time

Book of Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Messiah Yeshua, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.* 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Messiah Yeshua made me free from the law of sin and of death. 3 For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh; 4 that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. 6 For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace; 7 because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s Torah, neither indeed can it be. 8 Those who are in the flesh can’t please God. 9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Messiah, he is not his. 10 If Messiah is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of him who raised up Yeshua from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Messiah Yeshua from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you. (Messianic WEB)

Psalm 24:A Psalm by David.

1 The earth is the LORD’s, with its fullness;

the world, and those who dwell therein.

2 For he has founded it on the seas,

and established it on the floods.

3 Who may ascend to the LORD’s hill?

Who may stand in his holy place?

4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart;

who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood,

and has not sworn deceitfully.

5 He shall receive a blessing from the LORD,

righteousness from the God of his salvation.

6 This is the generation of those who seek Him,

who seek your face—even Jacob.(Messianic WEB)

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint Luke 13:1 Now there were some present at the same time who told him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. 2 Yeshua answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered such things? 3  I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way. 4  Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them; do you think that they were worse offenders than all the men who dwell in Jerusalem? 5  I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.”

6 He spoke this parable. “A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and found none. 7  He said to the vine dresser, ‘Behold, these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none. Cut it down. Why does it waste the soil?’ 8  He answered, ‘Lord, leave it alone this year also, until I dig around it, and fertilize it. 9  If it bears fruit, fine; but if not, after that, you can cut it down.’”(Messianic WEB)

Saturday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time 

Commentary of the day:

Saint Leo the Great (?-c.461), Pope and Doctor of the Church 

20th sermon on the Passion ; SC 74 bis

"If you do not repent"

Let us strive to be found associated with Christ's resurrection and pass from death to life while still in this mortal body. For to pass through a conversion of whatever kind, to pass from one state to another, signifies the end of something for each of us – not to be what one was – and the beginning of something else – becoming what one was not. But it is important to know for whom one is dying and for whom one lives since there is a kind of death that brings about life and a kind of life that brings about death.
And it is precisely in this passing world that both the one and the other are found. It is by the quality of our actions here below that that the difference between eternal retributions will hang. Let us die, therefore, to the devil and live for God; let us die to sin to rise up to righteousness; let the old self disappear that the new self may arise. Because, according to the word of Truth, “No one can serve two masters” (Mt 6,24) let us take as our master not he who causes the upright to stumble so as to lead them to destruction but he who lifts up the fallen to lead them to glory.

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