EVANGELIO DE HOY LUNES 26 DE OCTUBRE DE 2026 — Transcript

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1. 0:00For nothing is impossible for God. The
2. 0:02grace of the Lord be with you all, dear
3. 0:04brothers and sisters. Welcome to the
4. 0:07Holy Gospel for this day. Let us invoke
5. 0:12the Holy Spirit, who illuminates the
6. 0:15mind and heart of the Christian, to
7. 0:18assimilate the word of God and discover
8. 0:21God's will for this day through the
9. 0:24Holy Scriptures. In the name of the
10. 0:27Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy
11. 0:29Spirit. Amen. O Holy Spirit, love of
12. 0:34the Father and the Son, inspire me
13. 0:36always as to what I should think, what
14. 0:38I should say, how I should say it, what
15. 0:41I should keep silent about, how I
16. 0:43should act, and what I should do for
17. 0:45the glory of God, the good of souls,
18. 0:47and my own sanctification. Holy Spirit,
19. 0:52give me sharpness to understand,
20. 0:54capacity to retain, method and facility
21. 0:57to learn, subtlety to interpret, grace
22. 1:00and effectiveness to speak, give me
23. 1:03insight in beginning, direction in
24. 1:05progressing, and perfection in
25. 1:08finishing. Amen. Mary, Mother of the
26. 1:14Word, pray for us. Saint Demetrius,
27. 1:19martyr, pray for us. Today in the
28. 1:23Church, we celebrate Saint Demetrius,
29. 1:25martyr. All we know for certain about
30. 1:29Saint Demetrius is that he suffered
31. 1:31martyrdom during the persecution of
32. 1:33Diocletian in Dalmatia. Later on, a
33. 1:39prefect of Illyria named Leontius
34. 1:42introduced his cult in Thessaloniki. He
35. 1:46moved some of his relics there and
36. 1:48erected a temple in his honor in both
37. 1:51cities. Starting in the 5th century,
38. 1:55Thessaloniki became the great center of
39. 1:57the cult of Saint Demetrius, and his
40. 2:00imposing church was only destroyed in
41. 2:021917. According to one story, Saint
42. 2:07Demetrius was a citizen of Thessaloniki
43. 2:09who was arrested for proclaiming the
44. 2:11faith. He was killed without a trial
45. 2:15while being detained in a room at the
46. 2:18public baths. Another account makes him
47. 2:22a Proconsul and Holy Warrior, and in
48. 2:25this latter capacity, he almost equaled
49. 2:28the popularity of the great legendary
50. 2:31figure of Saint George. These two
51. 2:35saints were adopted as patrons of the
52. 2:38Crusades, and there is a tale that they
53. 2:40were seen among their ranks during the
54. 2:43Battle of Antioch in 1098. Saint
55. 2:48Demetrius is still very popular in the
56. 2:50East, and his feast is commemorated
57. 2:52with solemnity in the Eastern liturgy.
58. 2:56Saint Demetrius, pray for us, and may
59. 2:59we also have the courage to give our
60. 3:03lives for the cause of God. I share
61. 3:08with you the readings for this day from
62. 3:11the Letter to the Ephesians, chapter 4.
63. 3:15Brothers, be good. Be understanding,
64. 3:19forgiving one another as God forgave
65. 3:21you in Christ. Be imitators of God as
66. 3:26dear children, and live in love as
67. 3:29Christ loved us and gave himself up for
68. 3:33us to God as an offering and a fragrant
69. 3:37sacrifice. As for fornication, impurity
70. 3:41, indecency, or greed for money, do not
71. 3:44even mention them. is improper for the
72. 3:47saints. Neither vulgarities, stupidity,
73. 3:50or double-meaning phrases. All of this
74. 3:54is out of place. Your task is to praise
75. 3:58God. Be assured that no one given to
76. 4:03fornication, impurity, or greed for
77. 4:06money, which is idolatry, will have an
78. 4:10inheritance in the kingdom of Christ
79. 4:14and of God. Let no one deceive you with
80. 4:18false arguments. These are the things
81. 4:21that bring God's punishment upon the
82. 4:24rebellious. Therefore, do not take part
83. 4:28with them. For you were once darkness,
84. 4:32but now you are light in the Lord. The
85. 4:36Word of God. We praise you, Lord. We
86. 4:44pray with Psalm one, responding, let us
87. 4:47be imitators of God as beloved children
88. 4:51. Blessed is the man who does not
89. 4:55follow the counsel of the wicked, nor
90. 4:58walks in the path of sinners, nor sits
91. 5:00in the assembly of the cynical, but his
92. 5:03joy is the law of the Lord and he
93. 5:05meditates on his law day and night. Let
94. 5:09us be imitators of God as beloved
95. 5:11children. He shall be like a tree
96. 5:16planted by the stream, yielding fruit
97. 5:18in due season and its leaves do not
98. 5:21wither, and whatever he undertakes
99. 5:23comes to a good end. Not so the wicked,
100. 5:26not so. They shall be like chaff that
101. 5:30the wind blows away, for the Lord
102. 5:32protects the way of the just, but the
103. 5:34way of the wicked leads to ruin. Let us
104. 5:39be imitators of God as beloved children
105. 5:41. We meditate this day on the Gospel of
106. 5:47Saint Luke, chapter 13, verses 10 to 17
107. 5:50. On a Sabbath, Jesus was teaching in a
108. 5:55synagogue. There was a woman who for 18
109. 6:00years had been sick because of a spirit
110. 6:03and was bent over, unable to stand up
111. 6:07straight at all. Upon seeing her, Jesus
112. 6:11called her and said, "Woman, you are
113. 6:14set free from your infirmity." He laid
114. 6:18his hands on her and immediately she
115. 6:20stood up straight and began to glorify
116. 6:23God. But the synagogue official,
117. 6:27indignant that Jesus had cured on the
118. 6:29Sabbath, said to the crowd, there are
119. 6:32six days for working. Come, then, to be
120. 6:37cured on those days and not on the
121. 6:40Sabbath. But the Lord answered him and
122. 6:44said, "Hypocrites, does not each of you
123. 6:48untie his ox or his donkey from the
124. 6:52manger on the Sabbath and take it to
125. 6:55water?" And this woman, a daughter of
126. 7:00Abraham whom Satan has kept bound for
127. 7:0218 years, was it not necessary to
128. 7:05release her from such a bond on the
129. 7:07Sabbath day? As he said these words,
130. 7:12his enemies were shamed and all the
131. 7:15people rejoiced at all the wonders he
132. 7:17was doing. The Word of the Lord. Glory
133. 7:22to you, Lord Jesus. May the words of
134. 7:31the Holy Gospel we have heard purify
135. 7:34our hearts, our lives, and prepare us
136. 7:38to bear fruits of holiness this day.
137. 7:44Dear brothers and sisters, the apostle
138. 7:47Paul, in his letter to the Ephesians,
139. 7:49gives us an exhortation to live happily
140. 7:52, to live authentically as Christians.
141. 7:57when he tells us, "Be kind,
142. 8:00compassionate, forgiving one another as
143. 8:04God forgave you in Christ. Be imitators
144. 8:10of God, as beloved children, and live
145. 8:13in love as Christ loved you and gave
146. 8:15himself up for you." This is what it
147. 8:21means to be a Christian. This is what
148. 8:24it means to live as God desires. Many
149. 8:28are asking, what is His will for me
150. 8:31this day? What is God's will for me
151. 8:35today? Here it is, very clear and
152. 8:38simple. To live in love, because we
153. 8:43need love to be kind and compassionate.
154. 8:48To forgive one another just as God
155. 8:50forgives us. To imitate Jesus in His
156. 8:54goodness and His mercy, we need to be
157. 8:56filled with love. Let the love of God
158. 9:00fill you today. Open your hands, your
159. 9:03heart, and your lips today and say, "
160. 9:06Lord, fill me with your love. Fill me
161. 9:10with that presence of the Holy Spirit.
162. 9:12We know that love is the Holy Spirit,
163. 9:16that love casts out fear, that love
164. 9:20gives us strength to give even our
165. 9:24lives if necessary, as happened with
166. 9:28this great martyr we remember today,
167. 9:32Saint Demetrius. For confessing the
168. 9:36Catholic faith, for spreading the
169. 9:40gospel, he gave his life; he had to
170. 9:44give his life, he did not lose it, he
171. 9:48gave it freely. This courage, this
172. 9:53strength that sometimes becomes scarce
173. 9:55in us to overcome temptation, to do
174. 9:58what is right, the Lord wants to give
175. 10:00it to us today and He wants to give us
176. 10:03His spirit in abundance. He wants to
177. 10:07give us in abundance that inner
178. 10:10strength that will help us overcome
179. 10:13what the apostle points out today as
180. 10:16the great ruin of the human being. What
181. 10:20is it that makes us miss the kingdom of
182. 10:23heaven? that we do not inherit the
183. 10:27kingdom of Christ, says the Lord, today
184. 10:31through the apostle Paul, such people
185. 10:34will have no inheritance in the kingdom
186. 10:37of Christ and of God. What are those
187. 10:41human activities that deprive us of
188. 10:43eternal life, of the kingdom of God,
189. 10:46and into which we fall so easily
190. 10:49because we become weak? Well, the
191. 10:53apostle Paul lists them, he says," Be
192. 10:59sure of this, that no one who engages
193. 11:02in fornication, impurity, or greed for
194. 11:05money, which is idolatry, will have an
195. 11:09inheritance in the kingdom of Christ
196. 11:12and of God. Let us not be deceived by
197. 11:17the enemy. We tend toward fornication.
198. 11:24We tend toward vulgarities and
199. 11:26stupidities; as Paul says, today we
200. 11:29have that tendency called concupiscence
201. 11:32, which is like a magnet we have in our
202. 11:36flesh toward what is evil, which
203. 11:38attracts us to the bad, but we must
204. 11:41overcome it with the strength of the
205. 11:44Holy Spirit. When a person is full of
206. 11:48the love of God, full and strengthened
207. 11:51by the Holy Spirit, those temptations,
208. 11:54however strong they may be, will not
209. 11:57prevail. As the apostle says, resist
210. 12:00the enemy and he will flee. When one
211. 12:04resists, it is because they are filled
212. 12:07with the Holy Spirit. And when
213. 12:11temptation, when the enemy notices that
214. 12:14we resist, that we stand up to
215. 12:16temptation, he flees and goes to look
216. 12:19for someone who is weak. Today I
217. 12:25encourage you to pray, to cry out to
218. 12:28heaven, to ask the Lord to cast out of
219. 12:31you all these realities that, as with
220. 12:34the woman in the Gospel for many years,
221. 12:38the enemy has been oppressing you to
222. 12:41the point that with unclean spirits he
223. 12:44has even managed to diminish your
224. 12:47health. Many physical illnesses are the
225. 12:54consequence of sin, they are the
226. 12:57consequence of giving room to the work
227. 13:03of evil in our lives. That is why the
228. 13:07apostle Paul says today, of fornication
229. 13:13, impurity, indecency, or greed for
230. 13:19money, let alone talk of it; it is
231. 13:22improper for saints. Neither should
232. 13:26there be vulgarities, stupidities, or
233. 13:28double entendres. Look, brothers, how
234. 13:34the apostle details many things that we
235. 13:37keep letting infiltrate our daily lives
236. 13:41. Ah, just a little joke with a double
237. 13:43meaning. The apostle says, "That is
238. 13:46improper for a Christian, for someone
239. 13:48who opens their mouth to receive the
240. 13:50body of Christ." It is improper that
241. 13:54with those same lips you are uttering
242. 13:56jokes and double-meaning phrases. And
243. 14:00worse yet, when they are jokes about
244. 14:03the things of God, about the Eucharist,
245. 14:07about the word of God. Such things
246. 14:12cannot be allowed among us because it
247. 14:15is improper. But it is true, we are
248. 14:20weak. And what to do in the face of
249. 14:22that weakness? Well, let the one who is
250. 14:26stronger than the tempter set us free.
251. 14:31Set us free as He did with that woman
252. 14:33on the Sabbath. One Sabbath, Jesus was
253. 14:37teaching in a synagogue. There was a
254. 14:41woman who for 18 years had been ill
255. 14:44because of a spirit and was bent over.
256. 14:48There you see the physical consequence
257. 14:52of spiritual attack. Many physical
258. 14:56illnesses are imposed by evil. They are
259. 15:02harvested in the body as a consequence
260. 15:06of spiritual decisions that keep eating
261. 15:09away at health, that keep damaging the
262. 15:12human being. There are natural
263. 15:18illnesses, wear and tear on the body,
264. 15:20the years, but there are illnesses that
265. 15:23we did not seek, and the Lord wants to
266. 15:25heal us, He wants to set us free. This
267. 15:30woman who ends up stooped, let us
268. 15:33imagine a person stooped, bent over for
269. 15:3718 years because of a spirit, unable to
270. 15:41stand up straight. This woman
271. 15:46represents humanity, the human being
272. 15:50who is being subdued, who is being
273. 15:53stooped, bowed down and subjected by
274. 15:57the spirit of evil. Saint Cyril of
275. 16:04Alexandria used to say that this person
276. 16:12stooped represents the human being who,
277. 16:19instead of lifting their gaze to heaven
278. 16:22and standing tall to raise their hands
279. 16:25and praise God, has decided, on the
280. 16:28contrary, to bow down before the works
281. 16:33of creation and has ended up idolizing
282. 16:36human beings, money, pleasure, and the
283. 16:39things of this world. So they have
284. 16:44looked downward, toward the earth, and
285. 16:47by adopting this posture for so many
286. 16:50years, they end up stooped and unable
287. 16:53to stand up straight even for a moment,
288. 16:56to stand up to praise and bless God.
289. 17:02But how beautiful is the miracle that
290. 17:03can be observed in the Gospel of Saint
291. 17:05Luke. Because when Jesus frees this
292. 17:10woman and says to her, "Woman, you are
293. 17:12set free from your ailment," He laid
294. 17:14His hands on her, and immediately she
295. 17:17stood up straight and glorified God.
296. 17:20What an impressive miracle. And it is
297. 17:24the same miracle that the Lord
298. 17:27continues to work year after year,
299. 17:29generation after generation, freeing us
300. 17:32from the bonds of sin and the diseases
301. 17:35it has brought upon us. Father Emiliano
302. 17:40Tardif gives much testimony of how
303. 17:44people who renounced hatred, sin, who
304. 17:47reconciled with God, with their brother
305. 17:51, and with themselves, were healed of
306. 17:54cancer, migraines, gastritis, ulcers,
307. 17:58and so many other ills that came as a
308. 18:01consequence of sin, of giving room to
309. 18:05evil in human life. This woman stood up
310. 18:10straight and, upon doing so, could look
311. 18:14toward heaven and could glorify God.
312. 18:18Let us allow the Lord to do this same
313. 18:20work today. Today the Lord wants to
314. 18:24free you from that stoop you have
315. 18:27because of hatred, from that stoop you
316. 18:29have because of resentment. The Lord
317. 18:34today wants to straighten you up from
318. 18:37that vice that has led you to bow down,
319. 18:39to always be looking toward the ground,
320. 18:42idolizing the things of this world. The
321. 18:47Lord today wants to give you life. But
322. 18:50keep in mind that there are those who
323. 18:53will feel envy because of it, who will
324. 18:56be annoyed by your intention to draw
325. 19:02closer to God, to seek healing, just as
326. 19:05it happened in that synagogue. Because
327. 19:08then the synagogue leader became
328. 19:13indignant because Jesus had healed on
329. 19:17the Sabbath. There are six days to work
330. 19:23. And why on the Sabbath do you come to
331. 19:26be healed? Why? And Jesus says,
332. 19:30hypocrites, any one of you unties his
333. 19:33ox or his donkey. And it is no
334. 19:37coincidence that Jesus chooses the ox
335. 19:40and the donkey as examples, because the
336. 19:43ox and the donkey had already been in
337. 19:46the manger adoring the Savior. But
338. 19:52these hypocrites, Pharisees, and
339. 19:54synagogue leaders wanted to remain bent
340. 19:57over, and it bothered them that Jesus
341. 20:00was bringing liberation, health, and
342. 20:02freedom. to other people. Dear brother,
343. 20:10dear sister, many will be filled with
344. 20:12envy because you are beginning to heal,
345. 20:14to be set free, and to emerge from the
346. 20:16abyss. Many who remain in the abyss and
347. 20:20in darkness will want to discourage you
348. 20:23, but pay them no mind, because the
349. 20:25Lord is fighting the battle for you
350. 20:27today. Because the Lord gives you the
351. 20:31wisdom and the understanding today so
352. 20:32that you may be free. So that you may
353. 20:37begin to heal, so that you may begin to
354. 20:41live a new life in Christ Jesus, a life
355. 20:44free from fornication, from selfishness
356. 20:48, from sin, and from double-meaning
357. 20:51words. A life in grace, a life worthy
358. 20:58of God to praise and bless, for that
359. 21:02woman had a sick spirit and was bent
360. 21:05over, unable to look upward. Indeed,
361. 21:11her soul was bent over because,
362. 21:13inclined toward the things of the earth
363. 21:15, she could not see the grace of heaven
364. 21:17. Today the Lord points you toward
365. 21:22heaven, frees you from your shackles
366. 21:26and your idols, and gives you the
367. 21:29opportunity to be free to, like Paul,
368. 21:32consider all things of this world as
369. 21:35trash in order to gain Christ. It is
370. 21:40all of humanity that was bent over
371. 21:42until touching the ground. But Jesus
372. 21:46Christ, with his death on the cross and
373. 21:49the preaching of the gospel, has given
374. 21:51us freedom. It is not just one woman
375. 21:55who has been freed from her infirmity
376. 21:57and can now praise God. It is all of us
377. 22:00. Whoever can believe this begins to
378. 22:05live it from today on. Today they begin
379. 22:09to enjoy it. Today they can receive the
380. 22:15food, that bread which has come down
381. 22:17from heaven and gives us new life. May
382. 22:21the grace of the Lord be with you, dear
383. 22:24brothers and sisters, and let us ask
384. 22:26our God to bless our day. In the name
385. 22:29of the Father, and of the Son, and of
386. 22:31the Holy Spirit. Amen. A holy day in
387. 22:35the Lord to everyone.