DAILY GOSPEL: 19/11/2010
«Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.» John 6,68
Friday of the Thirty-third week in Ordinary Time
Book of Revelation 10:8-11.
Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me again and said, "Go, take the scroll that lies open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land."
So I went up to the angel and told him to give me the small scroll. He said to me, "Take and swallow it. It will turn your stomach sour, but in your mouth it will taste as sweet as honey."
I took the small scroll from the angel's hand and swallowed it. In my mouth it was like sweet honey, but when I had eaten it, my stomach turned sour.
Then someone said to me, "You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, tongues, and kings."
Psalms 119:14.24.72.103.111.131.
I find joy in the way of your decrees more than in all riches.
Your decrees are my delight; they are my counselors.
Teaching from your lips is more precious to me than heaps of silver and gold.
How sweet to my tongue is your promise, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
Your decrees are my heritage forever; they are the joy of my heart.
I sigh with open mouth, yearning for your commands.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 19:45-48.
Then Jesus entered the temple area and proceeded to drive out those who were selling things,
saying to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves.'"
And every day he was teaching in the temple area. The chief priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people, meanwhile, were seeking to put him to death,
but they could find no way to accomplish their purpose because all the people were hanging on his words.
Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me again and said, "Go, take the scroll that lies open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land."
So I went up to the angel and told him to give me the small scroll. He said to me, "Take and swallow it. It will turn your stomach sour, but in your mouth it will taste as sweet as honey."
I took the small scroll from the angel's hand and swallowed it. In my mouth it was like sweet honey, but when I had eaten it, my stomach turned sour.
Then someone said to me, "You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, tongues, and kings."
Psalms 119:14.24.72.103.111.131.
I find joy in the way of your decrees more than in all riches.
Your decrees are my delight; they are my counselors.
Teaching from your lips is more precious to me than heaps of silver and gold.
How sweet to my tongue is your promise, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
Your decrees are my heritage forever; they are the joy of my heart.
I sigh with open mouth, yearning for your commands.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 19:45-48.
Then Jesus entered the temple area and proceeded to drive out those who were selling things,
saying to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves.'"
And every day he was teaching in the temple area. The chief priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people, meanwhile, were seeking to put him to death,
but they could find no way to accomplish their purpose because all the people were hanging on his words.
Lc 19,45-48
Saint Ignatius of Antioch (?-c.110), Bishop and martyr
Letter to the Ephesians, 3-4, 9 (trans. J.H. Srawley)
"It is written, 'My house shall be a house of prayer'"
I have therefore hastened to exhort you to set yourselves in harmony with the mind of God. For even Jesus Christ, our inseparable Life, is the Mind of the Father, as also the bishops, established in the furthest quarters, are in the mind of Jesus Christ. Hence it is fitting for you to set yourselves in harmony with the mind of the bishop, as indeed you do. For your noble presbytery, worthy of God, is fitted to the bishop, as the strings to a harp. And thus by means of your accord and harmonious love Jesus Christ is sung. Form yourselves one and all into a choir, that blending in concord, taking the key-note of God, you may sing in unison with one voice through Jesus Christ to the Father...
You are stones of the temple, prepared beforehand for a building of God the Father, being raised to the heights by the engine of Jesus Christ, which is the Cross, using as your rope the Holy Spirit. Your faith is the windlass, and love is the way which leads up to God. So then, you are all companions in festal procession along the way, bearing your God and shrine, bearing Christ and your holy treasures, fully arrayed in the commandments of Jesus Christ. And in your rejoicings I too have a part...: I rejoice with you that you love nothing pertaining to the outward life, but God only.
You are stones of the temple, prepared beforehand for a building of God the Father, being raised to the heights by the engine of Jesus Christ, which is the Cross, using as your rope the Holy Spirit. Your faith is the windlass, and love is the way which leads up to God. So then, you are all companions in festal procession along the way, bearing your God and shrine, bearing Christ and your holy treasures, fully arrayed in the commandments of Jesus Christ. And in your rejoicings I too have a part...: I rejoice with you that you love nothing pertaining to the outward life, but God only.
St. Mechtildis of Helfta (13th century)
Saint Mechtildis of Helfta
(13th century)
(13th century)
St. Mechtildis was born to a noble family in Heifta, Saxony, and was placed in a Benedictine convent at age seven.
Mechtildis was a mystic, and aided St. Gertrude with her Book of Special Graces orThe Revelation of St. Mechtildis.
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