Daily Reading for Thursday, October 15th, 2015

Reading 1, Romans 3:21-29

21 God's saving justice was witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, but now it has been revealed altogether apart from law:

22 God's saving justice given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe.

23 No distinction is made: all have sinned and lack God's glory,

24 and all are justified by the free gift of his grace through being set free in Christ Jesus.

25 God appointed him as a sacrifice for reconciliation, through faith, by the shedding of his blood, and so showed his justness; first for the past, when sins went unpunished because he held his hand;

26 and now again for the present age, to show how he is just and justifies everyone who has faith in Jesus.

27 So what becomes of our boasts? There is no room for them. On what principle- that only actions count? No; that faith is what counts,

28 since, as we see it, a person is justified by faith and not by doing what the Law tells him to do.

29 Do you think God is the God only of the Jews, and not of gentiles too? Most certainly of gentiles too,

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Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 130:1-2, 3-4, 5-6

1 [Song of Ascents] From the depths I call to you, Yahweh:

2 Lord, hear my cry. Listen attentively to the sound of my pleading!

3 If you kept a record of our sins, Lord, who could stand their ground?

4 But with you is forgiveness, that you may be revered.

5 I rely, my whole being relies, Yahweh, on your promise.

6 My whole being hopes in the Lord, more than watchmen for daybreak; more than watchmen for daybreak

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Gospel, Luke 11:47-54

47 'Alas for you because you build tombs for the prophets, the people your ancestors killed!

48 In this way you both witness to what your ancestors did and approve it; they did the killing, you do the building.

49 'And that is why the Wisdom of God said, "I will send them prophets and apostles; some they willslaughter and persecute,

50 so that this generation will have to answer for every prophet's blood that has been shed since thefoundation of the world,

51 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the Temple." Yes, I tell you, this generation will have to answer for it all.

52 'Alas for you lawyers who have taken away the key of knowledge! You have not gone in yourselves and have prevented others from going in who wanted to.'

53 When he left there, the scribes and the Pharisees began a furious attack on him and tried to force answers from him on innumerable questions,

54 lying in wait to catch him out in something he might say.

St. Teresa of Avila

Short Cuts

Facts

Feastday: October 15

Patron of Headache sufferers, Spanish Catholic Writers

Birth: March 28, 1515

Death: October 4, 1582

Canonized By: Pope Paul VI on September 27, 1970

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Teresa of Ávila was born Teresa Ali Fatim Corella Sanchez de Capeda y Ahumada in Ávila, Spain. Less than twenty years before Teresa was born in 1515, Columbus opened up the Western Hemisphere to European colonization. Two years after she was born, Luther started the Protestant Reformation. Out of all of this change came Teresa pointing the way from outer turmoil to inner peace.

Teresa's father was rigidly honest and pious, but he may have carried his strictness to extremes. Teresa's mother loved romance novels but because her husband objected to these fanciful books, she hid the books from him. This put Teresa in the middle -- especially since she liked the romances too. Her father told her never to lie but her mother told her not to tell her father. Later she said she was always afraid that no matter what she did she was going to do everything wrong.

Injili ya Familia ni kiini cha maadhimisho ya Sinodi ya Maaskofu

Injili ya familia ni kiini cha maadhimisho ya Sinodi ya Maaskofu, changamoto kwa wanafamilia kuwa ni mashuhuda amini. - OSS_ROM

Mababa wa Sinodi katika taarifa yao kutoka kwenye makundi madogo madogo wanasema Injili ya familia ni kiini cha maadhimisho ya Sinodi ya familia, inayojikita katika Neno la Mungu, mwaliko na changamoto kwa vijana wa kizazi kipya kukumbatia maisha ya ndoa na familia, pamoja na familia kuendelea kushuhudia uzuri na utakatifu wa maisha ya ndoa unaojikita katika mapendo thabiti na dumifu.