There is no greater love than to love one another in the Spirit of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. For when we love in the Spirit, the living Gospel is spread, not just by words, but in actions. We too are then empowered by Christ Jesus, as he says, to do greater things than He.
In today’s Gospel, we see examples of what great things He has done so that we can emulate Him my our lives. He rebukes fevers, heals, and casts out demons. Nothing and no one is above our Lord, our Lord, King of Kings, Jesus, the Son of God. No profane lips shall utter His Holy name.
Let us always move forward in Holiness as we journey to care for the needs of our brethren and to bring His light into the world. Amen.
Saint Gregory the Great, Pope, Doctor Pray for us…
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First reading
Colossians 1:1-8
The message of the truth has reached you and is spreading all over the world
From Paul, appointed by God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and from our brother Timothy to the saints in Colossae, our faithful brothers in Christ: Grace and peace to you from God our Father.
We have never failed to remember you in our prayers and to give thanks for you to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, ever since we heard about your faith in Christ Jesus and the love that you show towards all the saints because of the hope which is stored up for you in heaven. It is only recently that you heard of this, when it was announced in the message of the truth. The Good News which has reached you is spreading all over the world and producing the same results as it has among you ever since the day when you heard about God’s grace and understood what this really is. Epaphras, who taught you, is one of our closest fellow workers and a faithful deputy for us as Christ’s servant, and it was he who told us all about your love in the Spirit.
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Gospel
Luke 4:38-44
He would not allow them to speak because they knew he was the Christ
Leaving the synagogue, Jesus went to Simon’s house. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever and they asked him to do something for her. Leaning over her he rebuked the fever and it left her. And she immediately got up and began to wait on them.
At sunset all those who had friends suffering from diseases of one kind or another brought them to him, and laying his hands on each he cured them. Devils too came out of many people, howling, ‘You are the Son of God.’ But he rebuked them and would not allow them to speak because they knew that he was the Christ.
When daylight came he left the house and made his way to a lonely place. The crowds went to look for him, and when they had caught up with him they wanted to prevent him leaving them, but he answered, ‘I must proclaim the Good News of the kingdom of God to the other towns too, because that is what I was sent to do.’ And he continued his preaching in the synagogues of Judaea.
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