New Jerusalem Bible Daily Reading for Thursday, October 24th, 2013 Reading 1, (Romans 6:19-23) “19 I am putting it in human terms because you are still weak human beings: as once, you surrendered yourselves as servants to immorality, and to a lawlessness which results in more lawlessness, now, you have to surrender yourselves to uprightness which is to result in sanctification. 20 When you were the servants of sin, you felt no obligation to uprightness, 21 and what did you gain from living like that? Experiences of which you are now ashamed, for that sort of behavior ends in death. 22 But, now you are set free from sin, and bound to the service our ‘living, and loving’ “God,” your gains will be sanctification, and the end will be eternal life. 23 For the wages paid by sin is death; the gift freely given by our ‘living, and loving’ “God” is eternal life in “Christ Jesus” our ‘living’ “God.” (Romans 6:19-23) Responsorial Psalm, (Psalms 1:1-2, 3, 4, 6) “1 How blessed is anyone who rejects the advices of the wicked, and does not take a stand in the path that sinners treads, nor a seat in company with cynics; 2 But who delights in the law of “Yahweh,” our ‘living, and loving’ “God,” and murmurs his law days, and nights. 3 Such a one is like a tree planted near streams; it bears fruits in season, and its leaves never wither, and every project succeeds. 4 How different the wicked, how different! Just like chaff blown around by the wind 6 for “Yahweh” our ‘living’ “God” watches over the path of the upright, but the path of the wicked is doomed.” (Psalms 1:1-2, 3, 4, 6) Gospel, (Luke 12:49-53) “49 I have come to bring fire to the earth, and how, I wish it were blazing already! 50 There is a baptism, I must still receive, and what constraint, I am under until, it is completed! 51 Do you suppose that I am here to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division. 52 For from now on, a household of five will be divided: three, against two, and two against three; 53 father opposed to son, son to father, mother to daughter, daughter to mother, mother-in-law to daughter-in-law, daughter-in-law to mother-in-law.” (Luke 12:49-53)
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