Gospel, Saint, today's prayer 9 October

Today's Gospel
From the Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Luke 10,25-37.
At that time, a lawyer stood up to test Jesus: "Master, what must I do to inherit eternal life?".
Jesus said to him, "What is written in the law? What do you read? "
He replied: "You will love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength and with all your mind and your neighbor as yourself."
And Jesus: «You have answered well; do this and you will live. "
But he wanted to justify himself and said to Jesus: "And who is my neighbor?"
Jesus continued: «A man came down from Jerusalem to Jericho and stumbled upon the robbers who stripped him, beat him and then left, leaving him half dead.
By chance, a priest went down that same road and when he saw him he passed on the other side.
Even a Levite, who came to that place, saw him and passed by.
Instead a Samaritan, who was traveling, passing by saw him and felt sorry for him.
He came up to him, bandaged his wounds, pouring oil and wine on them; then, loading him on his garment, he took him to an inn and took care of him.
The following day, he took out two denarii and gave them to the hotelier, saying: Take care of him and what you will spend more, I will refund you on my return.
Which of these three do you think was the neighbor of the one who stumbled upon the brigands? ».
He replied, "Who took pity on him." Jesus said to him, "Go and do the same as well."

Saint of today - SAINT JOHN LEONARDI
Prayer
Oh! San Giovanni Leonardi, living witness of supreme charity
and of total acceptance of God's plan,
to the point that you could well repeat with St. Paul that your life was Christ
and that He lived in you, intercede for us, from the Father of lights,
the divine wisdom of knowing how to read,
in all pages of our daily experience,
even in the most difficult and painful ones
the traits and signs of a providential project of love conceived from eternity.
You who did not hesitate in the face of the prophetic denunciation of the error
and you offered a whole life for man to recover his full stature in Christ,
let us be granted the gift of truth
which makes us available to the path of continuous revision
of our being and our work to make it every day
more in conformity with the image of the Son.
Your being Church was expressed above all in the urgency of the announcement:
from catechesis to children, to the reform of consecrated souls,
from the planning of a vast and renewed missionary nature,
to the living language of an entire existence devoted to the most radical evangelical choice.
Obtain for all of us the effective grace of experiencing our baptism
as a coherent testimony of a faith to live and participate in,
in union with the brothers, so that the fullness of love may be realized in the home of the one Father.
For Christ our Lord.

Ejaculatory of the day

Let the light of Your Face shine upon us, O Lord