14 MONDAY, OCTOBER 2024

St Callistus I. Pope, Martyr (Opt. Mem)

Liturgical colour: Green/White

Today’s Rosary: The Joyful Mysteries

FIRST READING         

Galatians 4:22-24.26-27.31-5:1

We are not children of the slave but of the free woman. 

A reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Galatians

Brethren: It is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave and one by a free woman. But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, the son of the free woman through promise. Now this is an allegory: these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar. But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother. For it is written, “Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear; break forth and shout, you who are not with labour pains; for the desolate has more children than she who has a husband.” So, brethren, we are not children of the slave but of the free woman. For freedom Christ has set us free; stand fast therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

V/ The word of the Lord.

R/ Thanks be to God.