Daily Gospel for Friday - Catholic Daily Readings, October 8, 2021

Catholic Daily Readings for the Holy Gospel, October 8, 2021. Reflection on Daily Gospel of Luke 11:15-26 - Let us meditate through the Pope´s reflections to Holy Gospel. "Jesus has come to bring us great consolations, but above all the precious gift of salvation. Everything is subdued under his feet, even demons and all sickness and disease." USCCB Daily Readings and the Daily Prayer for your life to get serenity and inner peace on Friday of the 27th Week in Ordinary Time.

Entrance Antiphon.

(Cfr. Est 4:17): "Within your will, O Lord, all things are established, and there is none that can resist your will. For you, have made all things, the heaven and the earth, and all that is held within the circle of heaven; you are the Lord of all.

Collect Prayer.

Priestly prayer for Friday 27th of Ordinary Time.

Almighty ever-living God, who in the abundance of your kindness surpass the merits and the desires of those who entreat you, pour out your mercy upon us to pardon what conscience dreads and to give what prayer does not dare to ask. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever.

Map of readings for the day.

Serenity prayer for October 8.

Lord, I want to offer you the best of myself, even in my most difficult days. I want to act according to your works and allow this time of waiting to grow in my life the love and desire for your righteousness. I want my will to be guided by your Word so that I may take the best paths, transforming those harmful emotions that do not do me good. Comfort me with your presence and present these afflictions to your beloved. Take away my pains and sorrows. Amen.

Readings for Friday.

Daily readings for gospel - First Reading for daily Gospel: Catholic Reading from the Book of Joel 1:13-15; 2:1-2: "The day of the Lord is coming, a day of darkness and of gloom"

Gird yourselves and weep, O priests! Wail, O ministers of the altar! Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God! The house of your God is deprived of offering and libation. Proclaim a fast, call an assembly; Gather the elders, all who dwell in the land, Into the house of the LORD, your God, and cry to the LORD! Alas, the day! For near is the day of the LORD, and it comes as ruin from the Almighty. Blow the trumpet in Zion, sound the alarm on my holy mountain! Let all who dwell in the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming; Yes, it is near, a day of darkness and of gloom, a day of clouds and somberness! Like dawn spreading over the mountains, a people numerous and mighty! Their like has not been from of old, nor will it be after them, even to the years of distant generations.

Daily Psalm for Friday.

Responsorial Psalm is taken from the Book of Psalm 9:2-3,6,16,8-9: "The Lord will judge the world with justice" (R).

Daily Gospel Acclamation.

"Alleluia, alleluia. The prince of this world will now be cast out, and when I am lifted up from the earth I will draw all to myself, says the Lord. Alleluia, alleluia." (Daily readings for today extracted of John 12:31b-32)

Daily Gospel - Luke 11:15-26.

Catholic Daily readings for Friday, Gospel for October 8 (If it is by the finger of God that I drive out demons, then the Kingdom of God has come upon you): At that time, when Jesus had driven out a demon, some of the crowd said: "By the power of Beelzebul, the prince of demons, he drives out demons." Others, to test him, asked him for a sign from heaven. But he knew their thoughts and said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself will be laid waste and house will fall against house. And if Satan is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that it is by Beelzebul that I drive out demons. If I, then, drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your own people drive them out? Therefore, they will be your judges. But if it is by the finger of God that I drive out demons, then the Kingdom of God has come upon you. When a strong man fully armed guards his palace, his possessions are safe. But when one stronger than he attacks and overcomes him, he takes away the armor on which he relied and distributes the spoils. Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters. "When an unclean spirit goes out of someone, it roams through arid regions searching for rest but, finding none, it says, "I shall return to my home from which I came." But upon returning, it finds it swept clean and put in order. Then it goes and brings back seven other spirits more wicked than itself who move in and dwell there, and the last condition of that man is worse than the first."

Catholic Daily Readings reflection, by Pope Francis.

"In the life of a Christian, we must fight to let in the Spirit of God, and drive away the spirit of the world." Pope Francis.

About the prayer spoken to you on the daily Readings, man abandoned to his strength does not understand the things of the Spirit. There are two spirits, two ways of thinking, of feeling, of acting: the one that leads me to the Spirit of God, and the one that leads me to the spirit of the world. And this happens in our life: we all have these two "spirits", we could say. The Spirit of God, which leads us to good works, to charity, to fraternity, to adore God, to know Jesus, to do many good works of charity, to pray: this one. And there is the other spirit, that of the world, which leads us to vanity, pride, sufficiency, murmuring: an entirely different path.

Our heart, said a saint, is like a battlefield, a field of war in which these two spirits fight. In the Christian´s life, then, we must fight to make room for the Spirit of God, and to "drive away the spirit of the world". And, a daily examination of conscience can help to identify temptations, to clarify how these opposing forces act.

It is simple: We have this great gift, which is the Spirit of God, but we are weak, we are sinners, and we continue to be tempted by the spirit of the world. In this spiritual combat, in this war of the spirit, we have to be victors like Jesus. Each night, the Christian should reflect on the events of the previous day, to determine if "vanity" and "pride" prevailed, or if he has succeeded in imitating the Son of God.

Recognize the things that occur in the heart. If we do not do it, if we do not know what happens in our heart, and I am not saying it, the Bible says it, we are like "animals that do not understand anything", that move by instinct. But we are not animals, we are children of God, baptized with the gift of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, it is important to understand what has happened every day in my heart. May the Lord always teach us, every day, to make an examination of conscience. (Daily Readings reflection, Saint Martha, 2020, October 12).

Daily Prayer for the Gospel.

Lord, what I want most is to be with You and to have peace in my heart. Outside You: nothing, only sin abounds and the devil´s cunning to make me fall. I need your help, I am full of weaknesses, and I am beset by temptations. Sometimes I do evil that I should not do. I say or do things that are not right and end up hurting others. I know that, knowing you better, I will be able to avoid it. Do not allow me to fall into the clutches of the enemy. With you, I know that I can have new beginnings. Amen. (Healing with the serenity prayer for Catholic Daily Readings and Holy Gospel - Qriswell Quero @Copyright 2021)

The Pope´s daily quotation.

Fighting the terrible plague of hunger also means fighting waste. Wasting food means discarding people. It is scandalous not to realize that food is a precious commodity and that many of these commodities end up in the wrong place. Pope Francis.

Purpose for daily Gospel.

Peace of heart is essential in our daily life, especially in our Spiritual life. Let us pray to Jesus that his Peace may come to us and that we may calm the storms within.

Video of the Catholic Daily Readings.

Enjoy now the video meditation for the USCCB Daily Readings for Friday on October 8, 2021. Luke 11:15-26. Holy Gospel and daily prayer of the 27th week in Ordinary Time.

Ask the Holy Spirit for help before beginning to listen to the reflection of the Catholic readings of the day for Daily Gospel on Friday.

Daily Readings Intentions for October 8.

With the Catholic Daily Readings of the Holy Gospel of Luke 11:15-26, let us pray for all those prayer intentions for today, Friday, that you wish to express. USCCB Daily Readings for life. When you meditate on the daily readings, you deepen your personal relationship with God and grow in love. Pray with the daily prayer. "Christ can expel from our lives every evil, sickness, disease, illness or even the devil himself. He is the King of kings, the Messiah who was to come to bring us closer to the Heavenly Homeland. His greatest gift: that we choose to enter the Kingdom of God." Write down in the commentaries all that you want God to give you or heal you through the reading of his Word in the USCCB Daily Readings for October 8, 2021. God blesses you.