October 20th : First Reading Make every part of your body a weapon fighting on the side of God.A Reading from the Letter of St. Paul to the Romans 6: 12-18.

October 20th :  First Reading 

Make every part of your body a weapon fighting on the side of God.

A Reading from the Letter of St. Paul to the Romans 6: 12-18. 

You must not let sin reign in your mortal bodies or command your obedience to bodily passions, you must not let any part of your body turn into an unholy weapon fighting on the side of sin; you should, instead, offer yourselves to God, and consider yourselves dead men brought back to life; you should make every part of your body into a weapon fighting on the side of God; and then sin will no longer dominate your life, since you are living by grace and not by law.

  Does the fact that we are living by grace and not by law mean that we are free to sin? Of course not. You know that if you agree to serve and obey a master you become his slaves. You cannot be slaves of sin that leads to death and at the same time slaves of obedience that leads to righteousness. You were once slaves of sin, but thank God you submitted without reservation to the creed you were taught. You may have been freed from the slavery of sin, but only to become ‘slaves’ of righteousness.

The Word of the Lord.