From the book of the prophet Baruch Bar 1:15-22
During the Babylonian captivity, the exiles prayed :
“Justice is with the Lord, our God ; and we today are flushed with shame, we men of Judah and citizens of Jerusalem, that we, with our kings and rulers and priests and prophets, and with our ancestors, have sinned in the Lord’s sight and disobeyed Him.
We have neither heeded the voice of the Lord, our God, nor followed the precepts which the Lord set before us. [Are we, now ?]
From the time the Lord led our ancestors out of the land of Egypt until the present day, we have been disobedient to the Lord, our God, and only too ready to disregard His voice.
(…) each one of us went off after the devices of his own wicked heart, served other gods, and did evil in the sight of the Lord, our God.”
From the Gospel according to Luke Lk 10:13-16
Jesus said to them,
"Woe to you, Chorazin ! Woe to you, Bethsaida ! For if the mighty deeds done in your midst
had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would long ago have repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon
at the judgment than for you.
And as for you, Capernaum, ‘Will you be exalted to heaven ?
You will go down to the netherworld.’
Whoever listens to you listens to me.
Whoever rejects you rejects me.
And whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me."
[Since the Christ is almost solely talking about honoring God and being virtuous, i.d.k. how we could both reject his message and avoid heading towards the fate of Sodom, Gomorrah, and all of the other decadences brought by a lack of virtue, empathy, etc.]
Words of the Holy Pope : « (…) we try to take control of our relationship with Jesus. [We tell Him] “Yes, I go to Mass, but afterwards You stay in the Church while I go home.” (…) Today can be a day for us to make an examination of conscience, (…) when this kind of Christian hypocrisy is lived, what we end up doing is casting Jesus from our hearts. We pretend to have Him, but we have cast him out. “We are Christians,” [we say.] “We are proud to be Christians.” But we live like pagans. (Santa Marta, 5 October 2018)»
[I’m quite obviously a sinner as well b.t.w., everything is perfectible and that gives purpose]
Saints of the day :
St. Bruno of Calabria, priest, Founder of Certosini
St. Mary Francis of the Five Wounds, Virgin, Franciscan