FIRST
READING: Romans 8: 12-17
12
Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live
according to the flesh.
13
For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die: but if by the
Spirit you mortify the deeds of the flesh, you shall live.
14
For whosoever are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
15
For you have not received the spirit of bondage again in fear; but
you have received the spirit of adoption of sons, whereby we cry:
Abba (Father).
16
For the Spirit himself giveth testimony to our spirit, that we are
the sons of God.
17
And if sons, heirs also; heirs indeed of God, and joint heirs with
Christ: yet so, if we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified
with him.
PSALM:
Psalms 68: 2, 4, 6-7, 20-21
2
Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered: and let them that
hate him flee from before his face.
4
And let the just feast, and rejoice before God: and be delighted with
gladness.
6
Who is the father of orphans, and the judge of widows. God in his
holy place:
7
God who maketh men of one manner to dwell in a house: Who bringeth
out them that were bound in strength; in like manner them that
provoke, that dwell in sepulchres.
20
Blessed be the Lord day by day: the God of our salvation will make
our journey prosperous to us.
21
Our God is the God of salvation: and of the Lord, of the Lord are the
issues from death.
GOSPEL:
Luke 13:
10-17
10
And he was teaching in their synagogue on their sabbath.
11
And behold there was a woman, who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen
years: and she was bowed together, neither could she look upwards at
all.
12
Whom when Jesus saw, he called her unto him, and said to her: Woman,
thou art delivered from thy infirmity.
13
And he laid his hands upon her, and immediately she was made
straight, and glorified God.
14
And the ruler of the synagogue (being angry that Jesus had healed on
the sabbath) answering, said to the multitude: Six days there are
wherein you ought to work. In them therefore come, and be healed; and
not on the sabbath day.
15
And the Lord answering him, said: Ye hypocrites, doth not every one
of you, on the sabbath day, loose his ox or his ass from the manger,
and lead them to water?
16
And ought not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo,
these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?
17
And when he said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed: and
all the people rejoiced for all the things that were gloriously done
by him.
