Lectio Divina – October 14, 2023 | Saturday of the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

“Blessed the womb that bore you and the breasts that fed you!’

Proper of Readings for the Saturday of the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

by Bro. Lorenzo Andrei Tomas

Today’s Gospel is very brief, but it has a very important significance in the Gospel of Luke in general. It gives us the key to understand what Luke teaches regarding Mary, the Mother of Jesus, in the so-called Gospel of the Infancy.

The exclamation of the woman. “At that time, as Jesus was speaking, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said: “Blessed the womb that bore you and the breasts that fed you!” The creative imagination of some apocryphal books suggests that the woman was a neighbor of Our Lady, there in Nazareth. She had a son called Dimas, who with other boys of Galilee at that time, went to war with the Romans. He was made a prisoner and killed at the side of Jesus. He was the good thief. His mother, having heard about the good that Jesus did to people, remembered her neighbor Mary, and said: “Mary must be very happy to have such a son!

Points of Reflection:

1. Do you succeed in discovering the Word of God in your life?
2. How do you live devotion to Mary, the Mother of Jesus?

Final Prayer

Father, your love for us surpasses all our hopes and desires. Forgive our failings, keep us in your peace

and lead us in the way of salvation. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen

About the Contributor

Bro. Lorenzo Andrei Tomas is a Council of the YFIA Movement National Council. He is also the Local Core Leader of the Local House of Santo Tomas – UST where he is studying Engineering.