DEVOTIONAL FRIDAY OCTOBER 30 , 2015

Liturgical readings Friday, October 30, 2015

Reading 1: Romans 8: 31b-39
I am telling the truth in Christ, I am not lying. My conscience also bearing witness in the Holy Spirit, that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. In fact, I want accursed, separated from Christ for the sake of my brothers, kinsmen according to the flesh. Because they are the people of Israel, they have been appointed as children, and they have received the glory, and the covenants, and the law, and the worship, and the promises. They are descendants of patriarchs, which lowers the Christ in His human state, which is on top of everything. He is God blessed forever. Amen!

Psalms 147: 12-15,19-20
Glorify the Lord, O Jerusalem
Glorify the Lord, O Jerusalem: praise thy God, O Zion! For he confirmed the crossbar gates, and bless your children with you. He gives prosperity to the roads and filling you with the best grain. He delivered his command to the earth; His words immediately ran.
He preached his word to Jacob, His statutes and His judgments to Israel. He did not do so to all nations, and His laws they do not know. Hallelujah!

Gospel: Luke 14: 1-6
On one Sabbath when Jesus went into the house of a leader of the Pharisees to eat there. All those present watched him intently. Suddenly a man suffering from dropsy stood before him. Then Jesus said to the scribes and the Pharisees, saying: "Can heal on the Sabbath or not?" But they remained silent. Then he held the hands of the sick, and healed him and sent him away. Then he said to them: "Which of you not immediately pull out his son or an ox that fell into a well on the Sabbath?" They could not refute him.
Thus the Gospel of the Lord.

Afterthought
One phenomenon that hit most people are in the habit of doing good religious holidays, for example, prior to and during the Christmas and Easter, many Christians more intensely to come to church and be willing to share with others. So there is the impression that doing good was present or era. Is that true? Of course not, the gospel today proves it, where Jesus healed a man of dropsy on the Sabbath. Yet for Jews, the Sabbath is the day that people should not undertake any activity, except to the temple. Jesus was against the rules because for Jesus, help people do not have to wait for the particular day. Every moment is a time for him to help those who need help, especially those who have suffered excommunication.
Deeds Jesus healed the sick on the Sabbath, it reminds us that doing good to fellow does not know the time. Whenever and wherever we have to do good. We must be ready to help our neighbors who are suffering because of the emergence of human suffering knows no time. In a sense, suffering or sickness experienced by someone always comes suddenly, no one has a plan that someday he would be ill so that every time people have to be ready with it, then the same as the suffering that comes unexpectedly, as well good deeds and our willingness to help others we should be so. Due to the arrival of people who ask for help and assistance to us too often we do not expect.

Items to contemplation.
Let us ask the Father, to be awarded the freedom of heart like Jesus, we must recognize how we are completely afraid to act because it is keeping prestige. To meet the tastes of the crowd and maintain the popularity and good name, sometimes we sacrifice the choice of action is actually necessary and good for the sake of truth and salvation of others.

Prayer.
Father, teach me like Jesus is always ready to help and assist others whenever and wherever they need me. Amen.