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Daily Reading for Wednesday, October 21st, 2015

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Reading 1, Romans 6:12-18

¹² That is why you must not allow sin to reign over your mortal bodies and make you obey their desires;
¹³ or give any parts of your bodies over to sin to be used as instruments of evil. Instead, give yourselves to God, as people brought to life from the dead, and give every part of your bodies to God to be instruments of uprightness;
¹⁴ and then sin will no longer have any power over you -- you are living not under law, but under grace.
¹⁵ What is the implication? That we are free to sin, now that we are not under law but under grace? Out of the question!
¹⁶ You know well that if you undertake to be somebody's slave and obey him, you are the slave of him you obey: you can be the slave either of sin which leads to death, or of obedience which leads to saving justice.
¹⁷ Once you were slaves of sin, but thank God you have given whole-hearted obedience to the pattern of teaching to which you were introduced;
¹⁸ and so, being freed from serving sin, you took uprightness as your master.

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Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 124:1-3, 4-6, 7-8

¹ [Song of Ascents Of David] If Yahweh had not been on our side -- let Israel repeat it-
² if Yahweh had not been on our side when people attacked us,
³ they would have swallowed us alive in the heat of their anger.
⁴ Then water was washing us away, a torrent running right over us;
⁵ running right over us then were turbulent waters.
⁶ Blessed be Yahweh for not letting us fall a prey to their teeth!
⁷ We escaped like a bird from the fowlers' net. The net was broken and we escaped;
⁸ our help is in the name of Yahweh, who made heaven and earth.

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Gospel, Luke 12:39-48

³⁹ You may be quite sure of this, that if the householder had known at what time the burglar would come, he would not have let anyone break through the wall of his house.
⁴⁰ You too must stand ready, because the Son of man is coming at an hour you do not expect.'
⁴¹ Peter said, 'Lord, do you mean this parable for us, or for everyone?'
⁴² The Lord replied, 'Who, then, is the wise and trustworthy steward whom the master will place over his household to give them at the proper time their allowance of food?
⁴³ Blessed that servant if his master's arrival finds him doing exactly that.
⁴⁴ I tell you truly, he will put him in charge of everything that he owns.
⁴⁵ But if the servant says to himself, "My master is taking his time coming," and sets about beating the menservants and the servant-girls, and eating and drinking and getting drunk,
⁴⁶ his master will come on a day he does not expect and at an hour he does not know. The master will cut him off and send him to the same fate as the unfaithful.
⁴⁷ 'The servant who knows what his master wants, but has got nothing ready and done nothing in accord with those wishes, will be given a great many strokes of the lash.
⁴⁸ The one who did not know, but has acted in such a way that he deserves a beating, will be given fewer strokes. When someone is given a great deal, a great deal will be demanded of that person; when someone is entrusted with a great deal, of that person even more will be expected

Prepare for the St. John Paul II Feast Day Celebration

By Paskal Linda  (Batarokota Network )

Feast Day October 22

With St. John Paul II feast day just around the corner, Thursday, October 22, take a moment to brush up on his wonderful life and celebrate with a prayer.

Mwanza Batarokota  Online Co. - Saint John Paul II was born May 19, 1920 and passed away April 2, 2005. He was beatified on May 1, 2011 and was canonized by Pope Francis on April 27, 2013.

John Paul was born Karol Józef Wojtyla in Wadowice, Poland and was the first non-Italian Pope in over 400 years. During his vocation and papacy, he visited over 100 countries and initiated World Youth Day in 1985. Because he and Mother Teresa of Calcutta began World Youth Day, he is sometimes called the patron saint of the celebration.

He often spoke out on human rights topics, but is known for using his influence to bring political change -he is even credited for the fall of communism in Poland.

When Pope Francis allowed his canonization only one month following his death, which was met with public disdain since canonizing someone is usually a lengthy process. He was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI and two miracles were attributed to him: a French nun and a 50-year-old woman were healed.

The first miracle was when Sr. Marie Simon-Pierre Normand was dying with Parkinson's disease, the same illness St. John Paul II suffered. She prayed to John Paul and was cured.

Pope John Paul II was the first Pontiff to visit Philadelphia, back in 1979.

A 50-year-old woman claimed to have been cured of a brain aneurysm after a picture of Pope John Paul II spoke to her and her healing was accepted as the second miracle.

Following his death, people began to call him John Paul the Great, and is the fourth Pope ever to be labelled "Great."

A wonderful prayer to recite on his feast day is the following:

O Holy Trinity, we thank you for having given to the Church, Pope John Paul II, and for having made him shine with your fatherly tenderness, the glory of the Cross of Christ and the splendor of the Spirit of love

He, trusting completely in your infinite mercy and in the maternal intercession of Mary, has shown himself in the likeness of Jesus the Good Shepherd and has pointed out to us holiness as the path to reach eternal communion with You.

Grant us, through his intercession, according to your will, the grace that we implore, in the hope that he will soon be numbered among your saints.

Amen

Yaliyojiri katika mahojiano na Baba Mtakatifu Francisko!

Waamini na watu wote wenye mapenzi mema wanaalikwa na Baba Mtakatifu Francisko kuwa mashuhuda amini wa utakatifu na ukuu wa familia. - OSS_ROM

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