Today's Gospel October 26, 2020 with the words of Pope Francis

READING OF THE DAY
From the letter of Saint Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians
Eph 4,32 - 5,8

Brothers, be kind to one another, merciful, forgiving each other as God has forgiven you in Christ.
Make yourselves therefore imitators of God, as beloved children, and walk in charity, in the way in which Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, offering himself to God as a sweet-smelling sacrifice.
Of fornication and of every kind of impurity or greed not even talk among you - as it must be among saints - nor of vulgarity, nonsense, triviality, which are inappropriate things. Rather give thanks! Because, know this well, no fornicator, or impure, or miser - that is, no idolater - inherits the kingdom of Christ and God.
Let no one deceive you with empty words: for these things the wrath of God comes upon those who disobey him. So don't have anything in common with them. For once you were darkness, now you are light in the Lord. Therefore behave as children of the light.

GOSPEL OF THE DAY
From the Gospel according to Luke
Lc 13,10-17

At that time, Jesus was teaching in a synagogue on the Sabbath day.
There was a woman there who had been kept sick by a spirit for eighteen years; it was stooped and in no way could it stand up straight.
Jesus saw her, called her to himself and said to her: "Woman, you are freed from your illness."
He laid his hands on her and immediately she straightened up and glorified God.

But the head of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had made that healing on the Sabbath, spoke up and said to the crowd: “There are six days in which you have to work; in them therefore come and be healed and not on the Sabbath day. "
The Lord replied: «You hypocrites, is it not true that, on the Sabbath, each of you untie his ox or donkey from the manger, to bring him to drink? And this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has held prisoner for eighteen years, shouldn't she have been freed from this bond on the Sabbath day? ».

When he said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed, while the whole crowd cheered for all the wonders he had accomplished.

WORDS OF THE HOLY FATHER
With these words, Jesus wants to warn us too, today, against believing that the outward observance of the law is sufficient to be good Christians. As then for the Pharisees, there is also for us the danger of considering ourselves to be right or, worse, better than others for the mere fact of observing the rules, customs, even if we do not love our neighbor, we are hard of heart, we are proud proud. The literal observance of the precepts is something sterile if it does not change the heart and does not translate into concrete attitudes. (ANGELUS, August 30, 2015