October 22nd : First Reading Every time I want to do good it is something evil that comes to hand.A Reading from the Letter of St.Paul to the Romans 7: 18-25.

October 22nd :  First Reading 

Every time I want to do good it is something evil that comes to hand.

A Reading from the Letter of St.Paul to the Romans 7: 18-25. 

I know of nothing good living in me – living, that is, in my unspiritual self – for though the will to do what is good is in me, the performance is not, with the result that instead of doing the good things I want to do, I carry out the sinful things I do not want. When I act against my will, then, it is not my true self doing it, but sin which lives in me.

  In fact, this seems to be the rule, that every single time I want to do good it is something evil that comes to hand. In my inmost self I dearly love God’s Law, but I can see that my body follows a different law that battles against the law which my reason dictates. This is what makes me a prisoner of that law of sin which lives inside my body.

  What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body doomed to death?

  Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!

The Word of the Lord.