Daily Readings - 26/10/2026
MONDAY OF THE THIRTIETH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME, feria
First Reading : Eph 4, 32 — 5, 8
4:32 Be friends with one another, and kind, forgiving each other as readily as God forgave you in Christ.
5:1 Try, then, to imitate God as children of his that he loves
5:2 and follow Christ loving as he loved you, giving himself up in our place as a fragrant offering and a sacrifice to God.[*a]
5:3 Among you there must be not even a mention of fornication or impurity in any of its forms, or promiscuity: this would hardly become the saints!
5:4 There must be no coarseness, or salacious talk and jokes-all this is wrong for you; raise your voices in thanksgiving instead.
5:5 For you can be quite certain that nobody who actually indulges in fornication or impurity or promiscuity-which is worshipping a false god-can inherit anything of the kingdom of God.
5:6 Do not let anyone deceive you with empty arguments: it is for this loose living that God’s anger comes down on those who rebel against him.
5:7 Make sure that you are not included with them.
5:8 You were darkness once, but now you are light in the Lord; be like children of light,
Psalm : Ps 1
R. Be imitators of God, as beloved children.
The two ways
1:1 Happy the man who never follows the advice of the wicked, or loiters on the way that sinners take, or sits about with scoffers,
1:2 but finds his pleasure in the Law of Yahweh, and murmurs his law day and night.
1:3 He is like a tree that is planted by water streams, yielding its fruit in season, its leaves never fading;
1:4 It is nothing like this with the wicked, nothing like this! No, these are like chaff blown away by the wind.
1:5 The wicked will not stand firm when Judgement comes, nor sinners when the virtuous assemble.
1:6 For Yahweh takes care of the way the virtuous go, but the way of the wicked is doomed.
Gospel : Lk 13, 10-17
Healing of the crippled woman on a sabbath
13:10 One sabbath day he was teaching in one of the synagogues,
13:11 and a woman was there who for eighteen years had been possessed by a spirit that left her enfeebled; she was bent double and quite unable to stand upright.
13:12 When Jesus saw her he called her over and said, ‘Woman, you are rid of your infirmity’
13:13 and he laid his hands on her. And at once she straightened up, and she glorified God.
13:14 But the synagogue official was indignant because Jesus had healed on the sabbath, and he addressed the people present. ‘There are six days’ he said ‘when work is to be done. Come and be healed on one of those days and not on the sabbath.’
13:15 But the Lord answered him. ‘Hypocrites!’ he said ‘Is there one of you who does not untie his ox or his donkey from the manger on the sabbath and take it out for watering?
13:16 And this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan has held bound these eighteen years – was it not right to untie her bonds on the sabbath day?’
13:17 When he said this, all his adversaries were covered with confusion, and all the people were overjoyed at all the wonders he worked.