The 25th of October, 2021 is Monday in the Thirtieth Week of Ordinary Time. The Bible scriptures for the holy mass readings for this day came from the 2021 Liturgical Calendar.
Reading 1: ROM 8:12-17
The first reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Romans.
So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.
For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God; and if children, then heirs-heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.
Responsorial Psalm: PS 68:1 and 3, 5-6AB, 19-20
Response: God is to us a God of deliverance.
Let God arise! Let his enemies be scattered! Let them who hate him also flee before him.
But let the righteous be glad. Let them rejoice before God. Yes, let them rejoice with gladness.
R: God is to us a God of deliverance.
A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing.
R: God is to us a God of deliverance.
Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burdens, even the God who is our salvation.
God is to us a God of deliverance. To Yahweh, the Lord, belongs escape from death.
R: God is to us a God of deliverance.
Gospel of the Day: LK 13:10-17
From the gospel verse according to Luke.
He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath day.
Behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years. She was bent over and could in no way straighten herself up.
When Jesus saw her, he called her and said to her, “Woman, you are freed from your infirmity.”
He laid his hands on her, and immediately she stood up straight and glorified God.
The ruler of the synagogue, being indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the multitude, “There are six days in which men ought to work. Therefore come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day!”
Therefore the Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Doesn’t each one of you free his ox or his donkey from the stall on the Sabbath and lead him away to water?
Ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham whom Satan had bound eighteen long years, be freed from this bondage on the Sabbath day?”
As he said these things, all his adversaries were disappointed; and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.
