The Daily Gospel for Monday, 26 October 2015

The Daily Gospel for Monday, 26 October 2015

"Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life."[John 6:68]

Monday of the Thirtieth week in Ordinary Time
Saints of the day:

St. Evaristus, Pope and Martyr († 112)

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

Feastday: October 26

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

Birth: 270

Death: 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.

Monday of the Thirtieth week in Ordinary Time

Letter to the Romans 8:12 So then, brothers, we don’t owe a thing to our old nature that would require us to live according to our old nature. 13 For if you live according to your old nature, you will certainly die; but if, by the Spirit, you keep putting to death the practices of the body, you will live.

14 All who are led by God’s Spirit are God’s sons. 15 For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to bring you back again into fear; on the contrary, you received the Spirit, who makes us sons and by whose power we cry out, “Abba!” (that is, “Dear Father!”). 16 The Spirit himself bears witness with our own spirits that we are children of God; 17 and if we are children, then we are also heirs, heirs of God and joint-heirs with the Messiah — provided we are suffering with him in order also to be glorified with him.

Psalms 68:2 (1) Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered;

let those who hate him flee from his presence.

4 (3) But let the righteous rejoice and be glad in God’s presence;

yes, let them exult and rejoice.

6 (5) God in his holy dwelling,

is a father to orphans and defender of widows.

7 (6) God gives homes to those who are alone

and leads prisoners out into prosperity.

But rebels must live in a parched wasteland.

20 (19) Blessed be Adonai!

Every day he bears our burden,

does God, our salvation. (Selah)

21 (20) Our God is a God who saves;

from Adonai Adonai comes escape from death.

The Holy Gospel of Yeshua the Messiah according to Saint Luke 13:10 Yeshua was teaching in one of the synagogues on Shabbat. 11 A woman came up who had a spirit which had crippled her for eighteen years; she was bent double and unable to stand erect at all. 12 On seeing her, Yeshua called her and said to her, “Lady, you have been set free from your weakness!” 13 He put his hands on her, and at once she stood upright and began to glorify God.

14 But the president of the synagogue, indignant that Yeshua had healed on Shabbat, spoke up and said to the congregation, “There are six days in the week for working; so come during those days to be healed, not on Shabbat!” 15 However, the Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Each one of you on Shabbat — don’t you unloose your ox or your donkey from the stall and lead him off to drink? 16 This woman is a daughter of Avraham, and the Adversary kept her tied up for eighteen years! Shouldn’t she be freed from this bondage on Shabbat?” 17 By these words, Yeshua put to shame the people who opposed him; but the rest of the crowd were happy about all the wonderful things that were taking place through him.

Monday of the Thirtieth week in Ordinary Time

Commentary of the day:

A Homily attributed to Eusebius of Alexandria (end of the 5th century) 

Sunday sermons, 16,1-2; PG 86, 416-421

The Sabbath becomes the first day of the new creation

It is obvious that a week comprises seven days: God gave us six of them on which to work and one on which to pray, take our rest and be freed from our sins… I am going to expound to you the reasons for which our tradition of keeping Sundays and abstaining from work has been transmitted to us. When the Lord entrusted the sacrament to his disciples: “He took bread, said the blessing, broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying: ‘Take, eat: this is my body, broken for you for the remission of sins.’ In the same way, he gave them the cup, saying: ‘Drink from it all of you: this is my blood, the blood of the New Covenant, shed for you and for many for the remission of sins. Do this in remembrance of me’” (Mt 26,26f.; 1Cor 11,24).

Thus the holy day of Sunday is that on which we make a memorial of the Lord. That is why it is called “the Lord’s day”. And it is, as it were, the lord of days. In fact, before the Passion of the Lord, it was not called “the Lord’s day” but “the first day”. It was on this day that the Lord established a foundation for the resurrection, that is to say he carried out the work of creation; on this day he gave the world the firstfruits of the resurrection; on this day, as we have said, he ordained the celebration of the holy mysteries. Thus this day has become a beginning for us of every grace: the beginning of the creation of the world, the beginning of the resurrection, the beginning of the week. This day, which encloses within itself three beginnings, prefigures the primacy of the Holy Trinity.

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