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Podcast: Your Grace is Sufficient
Episode: Gospel and Homily for Saturday of the Twenty Seventh Week in Ordinary Time
Description: Gospel of 8 October 2022
Saturday of the Twenty Seventh Week in Ordinary Time
Luke 11:27-28
As Jesus was speaking, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said, ‘Happy the womb that bore you and the breasts you sucked!’ But he replied, ‘Still happier those who hear the word of God and keep it!’
Reflexion
Our thoughts remain on the role of Mary in God’s plan of salvation. Any mother of a great man or hero would indeed be honoured for having given birth to him and having nursed him. This was the reason why an anonymous woman should offer such...