Today’s Reflection
Gospel: Luke 13: 10-17
October 27, 2025 | Monday

Today’s Gospel

Jesus was teaching in a synagogue on the Sabbath, and a crippled woman was there. An evil spirit had kept her bent for eighteen years, so that she could not straighten up at all. On seeing her, Jesus called her and said, “Woman, you are freed from your infirmity.” Then he laid his hands upon her, and immediately she was made straight and praised God.

But the ruler of the synagogue was indignant, because Jesus had performed this healing on the Sabbath day, and he said to the people, “There are six days in which to work. Come on those days to be healed, and not on the Sabbath!”

But the Lord replied, “You hypocrites! Everyone of you unties his ox or his donkey on the Sabbath, and leads it out of the barn to give it water. And here you have a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan had bound for eighteen years. Should she not be freed from her bonds on the Sabbath?”

When Jesus said this, all his opponents felt ashamed. But the people rejoiced at the many wonderful things that happened because of him.

Today’s Reflection

The Gospel highlights the tension between legalistic matters and the application of God’s mercy. Even though Jesus violated the rule of the Sabbath, He showed the nature of the mercy of God to the woman. He also challenges the rigid aspect of the Letter of the Law, which is overcome by love and compassion. It indicates that the rule of the Sabbath is not only for rest but also to show the need for mercy to those who need it.

/Vulnerasti, 2025