Lecturas del día

Epístola

Tobit 12:7-15

Este libro no tiene ninguna edición de dominio público en tu idioma, por lo que este pasaje se muestra en inglés.

It is good to keep close the secret of a king, but to reveal gloriously the works of God. Do good, and evil won’t find you. Good is prayer with fasting, alms, and righteousness. A little with righteousness is better than much with unrighteousness. It is better to give alms than to lay up gold. Alms delivers from death, and it purges away all sin. Those who give alms and do righteousness will be filled with life; but those who sin are enemies to their own life. Surely I will keep nothing closed from you. I have said, ‘It is good to keep close the secret of a king, but to reveal gloriously the works of God.’ And now, when you prayed, and Sarah your daughter-in-law, I brought the memorial of your prayer before the Holy One. When you buried the dead, I was with you likewise. And when you did not delay to rise up, and leave your dinner, that you might go and cover the dead, your good deed was not hidden from me. I was with you. And now God sent me to heal you and Sarah your daughter-in-law. I am Raphael, one of the seven holy angels, which present the prayers of the saints, and go in before the glory of the Holy One.”

Evangelio

Juan 5:1-4

DESPUÉS de estas cosas, era un día de fiesta de los Judíos, y subió Jesús á Jerusalem. Y hay en Jerusalem á la puerta del ganado un estanque, que en hebraico es llamado Bethesda, el cual tiene cinco portales. En éstos yacía multitud de enfermos, ciegos, cojos, secos, que estaban esperando el movimiento del agua. Porque un ángel descendía á cierto tiempo al estanque, y revolvía el agua; y el que primero descendía en el estanque después del movimiento del agua, era sano de cualquier enfermedad que tuviese.