Calendarium Romanum Forma Ordinaria
Tuesday, October 27 : Saint John Chrysostom
Is there anything more ridiculous than a christian who couldn’t care less about other people? Don’t use your poverty as an excuse. The widow who put two small coins in the Temple coffer (Mk 12,42) would rise up against you; Peter, too, who said to the lame man: “Gold or silver have I none” (Acts […]
Tuesday, October 27 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 13,18-21.
Jesus said, “What is the Kingdom of God like? To what can I compare it? It is like a mustard seed that a person took and planted in the garden. When it was fully grown, it became a large bush and ‘the birds of the sky dwelt in its branches.’” Again he said, “To what […]
Tuesday, October 27 : Psalms 128(127),1-2.3.4-5.
Blessed are you who fear the LORD, who walk in his ways! For you shall eat the fruit of your handiwork; blessed shall you be, and favored. Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine in the recesses of your home; Your children like olive plants around your table. Behold, thus is the man blessed […]
Tuesday, October 27 : Letter to the Ephesians 5,21-33.
Brothers and sisters: be subordinate to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives should be subordinate to their husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is head of his wife just as Christ is head of the church, he himself the savior of the body. As the church is subordinate to Christ, so […]
Monday, October 26 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 13,10-17.
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 […]
Monday, October 26 : Saint Gregory the Great
“Jesus was teaching in a synagogue on the sabbath. And a woman was there who for eighteen years had been crippled by a spiri” … “She was bent over and was quite unable to look upwards.” Every sinner who thinks about the things of earth and fails to seek those of heavenly things is unable […]
Monday, October 26 : Psalms 1,1-2.3.4.6.
Blessed the man who follows not the counsel of the wicked Nor walks in the way of sinners, nor sits in the company of the insolent, But delights in the law of the LORD and meditates on his law day and night. He is like a tree planted near running water, that yields its fruit […]
Monday, October 26 : Letter to the Ephesians 4,32.5,1-8.
Brothers and sisters: Be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another as God has forgiven you in Christ. So be imitators of God, as beloved children, and live in love, as Christ loved us and handed himself over for us as a sacrificial offering to God for a fragrant aroma. Immorality or any impurity […]
Sunday, October 25 : St Hildegard of Bingen
In harmony, love assigns to all things their proper measure… For true love—wholly divine—there exists a good far more precious and desirable than anything else. It draws all who seek it, gathering them around itself. In its justice, it values the merits of heavenly desires and spiritual yearnings—divinely inspired—just as highly as the deeds of […]
Sunday, October 25 : First Letter to the Thessalonians 1,5c-10.
For our gospel did not come to you in word alone, but also in power and in the holy Spirit and with much conviction. 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 […]
Sunday, October 25 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 22,34-40.
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 […]
