Daily Readings for Saturday December 09,2017
Season of Annunciation
Discipleship calls for sacrifices
Reading 3, Gal 3:1-9 : Justification through faith
1 | O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified? |
2 | Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing with faith? |
3 | Are you so foolish? Having begun with the Spirit, are you now ending with the flesh? |
4 | Did you experience so many things in vain? -- if it really is in vain. |
5 | Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith? |
6 | Thus Abraham "believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness." |
7 | So you see that it is men of faith who are the sons of Abraham. |
8 | And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed." |
9 | So then, those who are men of faith are blessed with Abraham who had faith. |
Gospel, Lk 9:57-62 : Discipleship calls for sacrifices
57 | As they were going along the road, a man said to him, "I will follow you wherever you go." |
58 | And Jesus said to him, "Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head." |
59 | To another he said, "Follow me." But he said, "Lord, let me first go and bury my father." |
60 | But he said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead; but as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God." |
61 | Another said, "I will follow you, Lord; but let me first say farewell to those at my home." |
62 | Jesus said to him, "No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God." |