This daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound for eighteen years now, ought she not to have been set free on the sabbath day from this bondage?
(Luke 13:16)
According to the law of the Pharisees, an animal could be untied on the Sabbath, but a human could not be healed. They directed their objections, not to you, my Jesus, but to the woman who had come to the temple. They seem to assume that she had entered in order to be healed and admonished her for not doing so on a weekday. Did she know she would be there? We are not told, but the Pharisees must have been waiting for just such an encounter.
We are bound by Satan, Lord, but you abolish him. You have told us that in this world we will have troubles, but you have overcome the world. If we place ourselves in your presence, you will free us. Help me to live in your light, Lord, and reject whatever is not worthy of you. St. Paul instructs us to avoid silly and suggestive conversation. I will discipline my mind, focusing on what is wholesome.