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| "The Woman with an Infirmity of Eighteen Years" -- by James Tissot |
FIRST
READING:
Ephesians 4:
32 -- 5:
8
32
And be ye kind one to another; merciful, forgiving one another, even
as God hath forgiven you in Christ.
1
Be ye therefore followers of God, as most dear children;
2
And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath delivered
himself for us, an oblation and a sacrifice to God for an odour of
sweetness.
3
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not so
much as be named among you, as becometh saints:
4
Or obscenity, or foolish talking, or scurrility, which is to no
purpose; but rather giving of thanks.
5
For know you this and understand, that no fornicator, or unclean, or
covetous person (which is a serving of idols), hath inheritance in
the kingdom of Christ and of God.
6
Let no man deceive you with vain words. For because of these things
cometh the anger of God upon the children of unbelief.
7
Be ye not therefore partakers with them.
8
For you were heretofore darkness, but now light in the Lord. Walk
then as children of the light.
PSALM:
Psalms 1:
1 - 4, 6
1
Blessed is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly,
nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the chair of pestilence.
2
But his will is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he shall
meditate day and night.
3
And he shall be like a tree which is planted near the running waters,
which shall bring forth its fruit, in due season. And his leaf shall
not fall off: and all whatsoever he shall do shall prosper.
4
Not so the wicked, not so: but like the dust, which the wind driveth
from the face of the earth.
6
For the Lord knoweth the way of the just: and the way of the wicked
shall perish.
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.
