Daily Reading for Thursday, October 22nd, 2015

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Reading 1, Romans 6:19-23

¹⁹ I am putting it in human terms because you are still weak human beings: as once you surrendered yourselves as servants to immorality and to a lawlessness which results in more lawlessness, now you have to surrender yourselves to uprightness which is to result in sanctification.
²⁰ When you were the servants of sin, you felt no obligation to uprightness,
²¹ and what did you gain from living like that? Experiences of which you are now ashamed, for that sort of behaviour ends in death.
²² But, now you are set free from sin and bound to the service of God, your gain will be sanctification and the end will be eternal life.
²³ For the wage paid by sin is death; the gift freely given by God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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

¹ How blessed is anyone who rejects the advice of the wicked and does not take a stand in the path that sinners tread, nor a seat in company with cynics,
² but who delights in the law of Yahweh and murmurs his law day and night.
³ Such a one is like a tree planted near streams; it bears fruit in season and its leaves never wither, and every project succeeds.
⁴ How different the wicked, how different! Just like chaff blown around by the wind
⁶ For Yahweh watches over the path of the upright, but the path of the wicked is doomed.

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Gospel, Luke 12:49-53

⁴⁹ 'I have come to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were blazing already!
⁵⁰ There is a baptism I must still receive, and what constraint I am under until it is completed!
⁵¹ 'Do you suppose that I am here to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.
⁵² For from now on, a household of five will be divided: three against two and two against three;
⁵³ father opposed to son, son to father, mother to daughter, daughter to mother, mother-in-law to daughter-in-law, daughter-in-law to mother-in-law.'

St. Pope John Paul II

Short Cuts

Facts

Feastday: October 22
Patron of World Youth Day (Co- Patron)
Birth: 1920
Death: 2005
Beatified By: May 1, 2011 Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City by Pope Benedict XVI
Canonized By: April 27, 2014 Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City by Pope Francis

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Karol J. Wojtyla, known as John Paul II since his October 1978 election to the papacy, was born in Wadowice, a small city 50 kilometres from Cracow, on May 18, 1920. He was the second of two sons born to Karol Wojtyla and Emilia Kaczorowska. His mother died in 1929. His eldest brother Edmund, a doctor, died in 1932 and his father, a non-commissioned army officer died in 1941.
He made his First Holy Communion at age 9 and was confirmed at 18. Upon graduation from Marcin Wadowita high school in Wadowice, he enrolled in Cracow's Jagiellonian University in 1938 and in a school for drama.
The Nazi occupation forces closed the university in 1939 and young Karol had to work in a quarry (1940-1944) and then in the Solvay chemical factory to earn his living and to avoid being deported to Germany.
In 1942, aware of his call to the priesthood, he began courses in the clandestine seminary of Cracow, run by Cardinal Adam Stefan Sapieha, archbishop of Cracow. At the same time, Karol Wojtyla was one of the pioneers of the "Rhapsodic Theatre," also clandestine.
After the Second World War, he continued his studies in the major seminary of Cracow, once it had re-opened, and in the faculty of theology of the Jagiellonian University, until his priestly ordination in Cracow on November 1, 1946.
Soon after, Cardinal Sapieha sent him to Rome where he worked under the guidance of the French Dominican, Garrigou-Lagrange. He finished his doctorate in theology in 1948 with a thesis on the topic of faith in the works of St. John of the Cross. At that time, during his vacations, he exercised his pastoral ministry among the Polish immigrants of France, Belgium and Holland.

Maadhimisho ya Sinodi ni tukio endelevu katika maisha na utume wa Kanisa!

Maadhimisho ya Sinodi ya Maaskofu kuhusu familia ni mchakato endelevu! - OSS_ROM

Mababa wa Sinodi wanasema, maadhimisho ya Sinodi ni changamoto endelevu inayogusa maisha na utume wa Kanisa kwa ajili ya ndoa na familia; ni changamoto inayofumbatwa katika Mafundisho tanzu, Sakramenti na Nidhamu ya Kanisa. Utume wa Kanisa kwa ajili ya familia unapaswa kutekelezwa kwa kufumbatwa katika fadhila ya upendo, uvumilivu; kwa kutambua, kuheshimu na kuthamini uzuri na utakatifu wa maisha ya ndoa na familia. Kushughulikia familia zinazoteseka kutokana na myumbo wa imani na maadili kwa ujasiri, hekima, busara, ukweli, huruma na mapendo.
Mababa wa Sinodi katika muhtasari wa tafakari za makundi madogo madogo mintarafu sehemu ya tatu ya hati ya kutendea kazi, Instrumetuma Laboris kuhusu utume wa familia katika Kanisa na Ulimwengu mamboleo wanakaza kusema, Injili ya familia ni ujumbe unaopaswa kuwashirikisha Wakristo wote, ili waweze kusimama kidete kulinda, kutetea na kushuhudia Injili ya familia inayojikita katika uhalisia wa maisha.