This week’s Gospel Message for Sunday, October 27th is from Luke 18:9-14.
[Jesus said] “‘. . .for whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.’”
“‘The one who humbles oneself,’ Jesus says, ‘will be exalted’ (Luke 18:14). Perhaps this is because the humble person is not seeking exaltation in the first place. Those who seek exaltation will never find it. Jesus, on the other hand, humbled himself to take on our humanity, then humbled himself further in dying on the cross.”Source: Pastoral Patterns, Autumn 2019
DAILY READINGS FOR THE WEEK
Monday Eph 2:19-22; Luke 6:12-16
Saints Simon and Jude, Apostles (Feast) – “Simon is surnamed the Canaanite or the Zealot, a name that probably alludes to a real association, or at least sympathy, with the Zealot movement that desired a revolutionary overthrow of the occupying Roman authority. Jude (Judas) is also called Thaddeus. According to tradition, both suffered martyrdom, and Jude became a patron saint of hopeless cases.” Source: Living With Christ, October 2019
Tuesday Rom 8:18-25; Luke 13:18-21
Wednesday Rom 8:26-30; Luke 13:22-30
Thursday Rom 8:31b-39; Luke 13:31-35
Friday Rev 7:2-4, 9-14; 1 John 3:1-3; Matt 5:1-12a
All Saints Day (Holy Day of Obligation) – “This feast, honoring all the saints of the Church, known and unknown, provides an opportunity to reflect on the nature of sainthood and celebrate the exemplary faithfulness of holy men and women of every place and time, whose lives and deeds inspire us.” Source: Living With Christ, November 2019
Saturday Wis 3:1-9; Rom 5:5-11; John 6:37-40
All Souls’ Day – “Since the early Church, Christians have prayed for the dead, and in 988, St. Odilo, abbot of the French monastery of Cluny, established the tradition of keeping, ‘with joyous affection, the memory of all the faithful departed who have lived from the beginning of the world until the end.’ By the fourteenth century, the commemoration had spread and was universally accepted in the Latin Church.” Source: Living With Christ, November 2019