DEVOTIONAL FRIDAY OCTOBER 23 , 2015

Liturgical readings Friday, October 23, 2015

First reading Romans 7: 8-25a
Brothers and sisters, but in order that sin gets a chance to awaken in me all manner of desire; because without the law sin is dead. I was alive without the law. But when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. And command that should be brought to life, it would bring me to death. For the commandment came, sin gets a chance to cheat me and through it killed me orders. So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good. If so, is there anything either be death for me? Absolutely not! But to show that it is a sin, then sin good use to bring death to me, so that through the commandment sin more apparent sinful. For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin. For what I am doing, I do not know. Because it is not what I want what I do, but what I hate, that I do. So if I do what I do not want, I agree that the law is good. If this is no longer I who do it, but sin that is in me. For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, nothing good. For the will is present in me, but not to do good things. For it is not what I want, which is good, that I do, but what I do not want, that evil, I do. So if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin which dwells in me. I find then a law that when I want to do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God, but in my members I see another law warring against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin which is in my members. Wretched man I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God! through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Psalm, Ps 119: 66,68,76,77,93,94.
Teach statutes Lord thy statutes
Teach me wisdom and knowledge are good, because I believe in thy commandments.
You are good and do good; teach thy statutes me.
Would let your unfailing love be my comfort, according to the promise that you say to your servant.
Let Thy mercy to me, that I may live: for thy law is my hobby.
Forever I do not forget your precepts, for with it you turn on me.
I belong to You, save me, for I seek thy precepts.

Gospel reading Luke 12: 54-59
Jesus said also to the crowds: "When you see a cloud rising in the west, immediately you say, 'A rainstorm is coming,' and it does happen. And when you see the south wind blowing, you say, 'There will be scorching heat, and it indeed occur. O ye hypocrites, ye heavens and the earth in such a vote to know, why are you not able to assess this age?
And why do not you judge for yourselves what is right? Therefore, if you went to the government with your opponent, try you, make peace with him over on the way, lest thou be dragged to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the maid and the maid was throw you into prison. I tell you, you do not come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing. "

Afterthought.
We have to admit, how difficult would live well, we know that talking about the ugliness of others was not good, it remains our behavior, Fun yes, if we talk about the ugliness of others. We know that no honest it was not good, but why do we love to lie to the leader or others in the name of good and security of our position.
The trouble doing well despite the mind and will of the good we wish was also said by St. Paul in the first reading today. "For to will is present with me, but not to do good things. For it is not what I want, which is good, that I do, but what I do not want, that evil, I do. "
Thus logically, if we continue this way, we will be destroyed and experience death forever. But thankfully, and that is what will actually be delivered by St. Paul, we have a Savior and Redeemer who can deliver us from the bondage of evil and sin in us. He is the Lord Jesus Christ.
Given the fragility of our bodies that can only be evil and sin feels like we become weak and hopeless. But we must remember, we have been saved by the Lord Jesus Christ. That is why we need the power of Christ. The more we often hear and carry out God's word, the more often we celebrate the Eucharist and Eucharistic Adoration, the more we pray earnestly shared or private, rest assured that slowly but surely we will experience God who defeated sin incubate in us. Slowly but surely, we are increasingly doing good and noble words and through our daily service to others.

Items to contemplation.
Not a few people who drowned in a protracted regret for sin or mistake in the past, not a few people who are so sorry for himself as a sacrifice for example into one another mistake, whether vilified, either cheated, somehow betrayed. Resentment arises not stop, sadness echoed in the hearts, is another example of the old law, the law of sin which incubate in our lives concrete. We must beg the Lord Jesus frees us from all that weighed on life, because Christ in the Holy Spirit actually dwells in our bodies as well.

Prayer
O Lord, teach us to judge wisely times so we are not losing sight of pilgrimage towards the eternal happiness of your home. Amen.