DAILY GOSPEL: 26/07/2010
«Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.» John 6,68
Monday of the Seventeenth week in Ordinary Time
Book of Jeremiah 13:1-11.
The LORD said to me: Go buy yourself a linen loincloth; wear it on your loins, but do not put it in water.
I bought the loincloth, as the LORD commanded, and put it on.
A second time the word of the LORD came to me thus:
Take the loincloth which you bought and are wearing, and go now to the Parath; there hide it in a cleft of the rock.
Obedient to the LORD'S command, I went to the Parath and buried the loincloth.
After a long interval, he said to me: Go now to the Parath and fetch the loincloth which I told you to hide there.
Again I went to the Parath, sought out and took the loincloth from the place where I had hid it. But it was rotted, good for nothing!
Then the message came to me from the LORD:
Thus says the LORD: So also I will allow the pride of Judah to rot, the great pride of Jerusalem.
This wicked people who refuse to obey my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their hearts, and follow strange gods to serve and adore them, shall be like this loincloth which is good for nothing.
For, as close as the loincloth clings to a man's loins, so had I made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to me, says the LORD; to be my people, my renown, my praise, my beauty. But they did not listen.
Book of Deuteronomy 32:18-19.20.21.
You were unmindful of the Rock that begot you, You forgot the God who gave you birth.
When the LORD saw this, he was filled with loathing and anger toward his sons and daughters.
'I will hide my face from them," he said, "and see what will then become of them. What a fickle race they are, sons with no loyalty in them!
"Since they have provoked me with their 'no-god' and angered me with their vain idols, I will provoke them with a 'no-people'; with a foolish nation I will anger them.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 13:31-35.
He proposed another parable to them. "The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a person took and sowed in a field.
It is the smallest of all the seeds, yet when full-grown it is the largest of plants. It becomes a large bush, and the 'birds of the sky come and dwell in its branches.'"
He spoke to them another parable. "The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with three measures of wheat flour until the whole batch was leavened."
All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables. He spoke to them only in parables,
to fulfill what had been said through the prophet: "I will open my mouth in parables, I will announce what has lain hidden from the foundation (of the world)."
The LORD said to me: Go buy yourself a linen loincloth; wear it on your loins, but do not put it in water.
I bought the loincloth, as the LORD commanded, and put it on.
A second time the word of the LORD came to me thus:
Take the loincloth which you bought and are wearing, and go now to the Parath; there hide it in a cleft of the rock.
Obedient to the LORD'S command, I went to the Parath and buried the loincloth.
After a long interval, he said to me: Go now to the Parath and fetch the loincloth which I told you to hide there.
Again I went to the Parath, sought out and took the loincloth from the place where I had hid it. But it was rotted, good for nothing!
Then the message came to me from the LORD:
Thus says the LORD: So also I will allow the pride of Judah to rot, the great pride of Jerusalem.
This wicked people who refuse to obey my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their hearts, and follow strange gods to serve and adore them, shall be like this loincloth which is good for nothing.
For, as close as the loincloth clings to a man's loins, so had I made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to me, says the LORD; to be my people, my renown, my praise, my beauty. But they did not listen.
Book of Deuteronomy 32:18-19.20.21.
You were unmindful of the Rock that begot you, You forgot the God who gave you birth.
When the LORD saw this, he was filled with loathing and anger toward his sons and daughters.
'I will hide my face from them," he said, "and see what will then become of them. What a fickle race they are, sons with no loyalty in them!
"Since they have provoked me with their 'no-god' and angered me with their vain idols, I will provoke them with a 'no-people'; with a foolish nation I will anger them.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 13:31-35.
He proposed another parable to them. "The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a person took and sowed in a field.
It is the smallest of all the seeds, yet when full-grown it is the largest of plants. It becomes a large bush, and the 'birds of the sky come and dwell in its branches.'"
He spoke to them another parable. "The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with three measures of wheat flour until the whole batch was leavened."
All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables. He spoke to them only in parables,
to fulfill what had been said through the prophet: "I will open my mouth in parables, I will announce what has lain hidden from the foundation (of the world)."
Mt 13,31-35
Saint John Chrysostom (c.345-407), priest at Antioch then Bishop of Constantinople, Doctor of the Church
Homilies on the Gospel of Saint Matthew, n°46, 2-3
La parable of the leaven
Our Lord then discusses the image of the leaven:... Just as leaven communicates its force to the dough, so will you, too, transform the whole world... Don't object: 'What can we do who are but twelve, sent out into the midst of such a great crowd of people?' Precisely what will make your power burst forth will be your confronting the multitude without flinching... Christ alone is the one who gives its force to the leaven and, so that we might transmit our knowledge to others, he has mixed into the crowd people destined to have faith in him. So let no one criticize him for the small number of these disciples since the power of the message is great, and when the mass has fermented it will become leaven, in its turn, for what remains...
Yet if twelve men have leavened the whole world, how wretched are we who, in spite of our great numbers, can't even succeed in converting those around us even though such numbers should be enough to become leaven for thousands of worlds! 'But those twelve were the apostles!' you say. So what? Weren't they in exactly the same state as ourselves? Didn't they live in towns? Didn't they share our lot? Didn't they carry on with their jobs? Were they angels from heaven, then? Are you going to say they worked miracles? But that isn't the reason for our admiring them. How long are we going to talk about their miracles to hide our own laziness?... So, then, where does the greatness of the apostles come from? From their disdain for wealth and glory... It is our way of living that conveys true splendor and brings down the Spirit's grace.
Yet if twelve men have leavened the whole world, how wretched are we who, in spite of our great numbers, can't even succeed in converting those around us even though such numbers should be enough to become leaven for thousands of worlds! 'But those twelve were the apostles!' you say. So what? Weren't they in exactly the same state as ourselves? Didn't they live in towns? Didn't they share our lot? Didn't they carry on with their jobs? Were they angels from heaven, then? Are you going to say they worked miracles? But that isn't the reason for our admiring them. How long are we going to talk about their miracles to hide our own laziness?... So, then, where does the greatness of the apostles come from? From their disdain for wealth and glory... It is our way of living that conveys true splendor and brings down the Spirit's grace.
Sts. Joachim & Anne, Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary - memorial
SAINT JOACHIM and SAINT ANNE
Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Memorial
Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Memorial
These names are given to the mother and father of the Blessed Virgin by a tradition dating back to the second century.
As St John Damascene wrote: "Joachim and Ann, how blessed a couple! All creation is indebted to you. For at your hands the Creator was offered a gift excelling all other gifts: a chaste mother, who alone was worthy of him."
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