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First Reading
Letter of Saint Paul to the Romans (Rom 8: 12-17)
You received a Spirit of adoption, through which we cry, “Abba, Father!”
Brothers and sisters,
we are not debtors to the flesh,
to live according to the flesh.
For if you live according to the flesh, you will die,
but if by the spirit you put to death the deeds of the body,
you will live.
For those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear,
but you received a spirit of adoption,
through which we cry, “Abba, Father!”
The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit
that we are children of God,
and if children, then heirs,
heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ,
if only we suffer with him
so that we may also be glorified with him.
— The word of the Lord.
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 68: 2 and 4, 6-7ab, 20-21
Our God is the God of salvation.
God arises; his enemies are scattered,
and those who hate him flee before him.
But the just rejoice and exult before God;
they are glad and rejoice.
The father of orphans and the defender of widows
is God in his holy dwelling.
God gives a home to the forsaken;
he leads forth prisoners to prosperity.
Blessed day by day be the Lord,
who bears our burdens; God, who is our salvation.
God is a saving God for us;
the LORD, my Lord, controls the passageways of death.
Gospel
Alleluia, alleluia.
Your word, O Lord, is truth; consecrate us in the truth.
Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke (Lk 13: 10-17)
This daughter of Abraham, ought she not to have been set free on the sabbath day.
Jesus was teaching in a synagogue on the sabbath.
And a woman was there who for eighteen years
had been crippled by a spirit;
she was bent over, completely incapable of standing erect.
When Jesus saw her, he called to her and said,
“Woman, you are set free of your infirmity.”
He laid his hands on her,
and she at once stood up straight and glorified God.
But the leader of the synagogue,
indignant that Jesus had cured on the sabbath,
said to the crowd in reply,
“There are six days when work should be done.
Come on those days to be cured, not on the sabbath day.”
The Lord said to him in reply,
“Hypocrites!
Does not each one of you on the sabbath
untie his ox or his ass from the manger
and lead it out for watering?
This daughter of Abraham,
whom Satan has bound for eighteen years now,
ought she not to have been set free on the sabbath day
from this bondage?”
When he said this, all his adversaries were humiliated;
and the whole crowd rejoiced at all the splendid deeds done by him.
— The Gospel of the Lord.
- Presented by Ratovoarivelo Ndrasantsoa Marie Frédeline
- Category: Deepening faith
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Life belongs to God and no one can take it away from his creation. Hatred is a form of murder. God wants peace of mind for every person and for society as a whole. This is exactly why Jesus will accuse wickedness of deadly anger and hatred, neither of which leads to peace. Catechesis on the family, in collaboration with Fr Eric Frank Randriamiandrinirinarivo.
- Presented by Rakotoarisoa Sedera Joseph
- Category: Gospel
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October 24, 2023 — Tuesday, Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time — Be vigilant at all times and pray that you may have the strength to stand before the Son of Man — Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke (Lk 12: 35-38)
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First Reading
Book of Exodus (Ex 22: 20-26)
If you wrong widows and orphans, my wrath will flare up.
Thus says the LORD:
“You shall not molest or oppress an alien,
for you were once aliens yourselves in the land of Egypt.
You shall not wrong any widow or orphan.
If ever you wrong them and they cry out to me,
I will surely hear their cry.
My wrath will flare up, and I will kill you with the sword;
then your own wives will be widows, and your children orphans.If you lend money to one of your poor neighbors among my people,
you shall not act like an extortioner toward him
by demanding interest from him.
If you take your neighbor's cloak as a pledge,
you shall return it to him before sunset;
for this cloak of his is the only covering he has for his body.
What else has he to sleep in?
If he cries out to me, I will hear him; for I am compassionate.”
— The word of the Lord.
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 18: 2-3, 3-4, 47, 51
I love you, Lord, my strength.
I love you, O LORD, my strength,
O LORD, my rock, my fortress, my deliverer.
My God, my rock of refuge,
my shield, the horn of my salvation, my stronghold!
Praised be the LORD, I exclaim,
and I am safe from my enemies.
The LORD lives and blessed be my rock!
Extolled be God my savior.
You who gave great victories to your king
and showed kindness to your anointed.
Second Reading
First Letter of Saint Paul to the Thessalonians (1 Thes 1: 5c-10)
You turned to God from idols to serve God and to await his Son.
Brothers and sisters:
You know what sort of people we were among you for your sake.
And you became imitators of us and of the Lord,
receiving the word in great affliction, with joy from the Holy Spirit,
so that you became a model for all the believers
in Macedonia and in Achaia.
For from you the word of the Lord has sounded forth
not only in Macedonia and in Achaia,
but in every place your faith in God has gone forth,
so that we have no need to say anything.
For they themselves openly declare about us
what sort of reception we had among you,
and how you turned to God from idols
to serve the living and true God
and to await his Son from heaven,
whom he raised from the dead,
Jesus, who delivers us from the coming wrath.
— The word of the Lord.
Gospel
Alleluia, alleluia.
Whoever loves me will keep my word, says the Lord, and my Father will love him and we will come to him.
Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew (Mt 22: 34-40)
You shall love the Lord, your God and your neighbor as yourself.
When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees,
they gathered together, and one of them,
a scholar of the law tested him by asking,
“Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?”
He said to him,
“You shall love the Lord, your God,
with all your heart,
with all your soul,
and with all your mind.
This is the greatest and the first commandment.
The second is like it:
You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”
— The Gospel of the Lord.
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