Friday, October 8 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 5,17-23.

Jesus answered them, ‘My Father is still working, and I also am working.’
For this reason the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because he was not only breaking the sabbath, but was also calling God his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God.
Jesus said to them, ‘Very truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing on his own, but only what he sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise.
The Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing; and he will show him greater works than these, so that you will be astonished.
Indeed, just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomsoever he wishes.
The Father judges no one but has given all judgement to the Son,
so that all may honour the Son just as they honour the Father. Anyone who does not honour the Son does not honour the Father who sent him.

maronite readings – rosary,team