DAILY GOSPEL: 24/01/2011
«Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.» John 6,68
Monday of the Third week in Ordinary Time
Letter to the Hebrews 9:15.24-28.
For this reason he is mediator of a new covenant: since a death has taken place for deliverance from transgressions under the first covenant, those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance.
For Christ did not enter into a sanctuary made by hands, a copy of the true one, but heaven itself, that he might now appear before God on our behalf.
Not that he might offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters each year into the sanctuary with blood that is not his own;
if that were so, he would have had to suffer repeatedly from the foundation of the world. But now once for all he has appeared at the end of the ages to take away sin by his sacrifice.
Just as it is appointed that human beings die once, and after this the judgment,
so also Christ, offered once to take away the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to take away sin but to bring salvation to those who eagerly await him.
Psalms 98:1.2-3.4.5-6.
Sing a new song to the LORD, who has done marvelous deeds, Whose right hand and holy arm have won the victory.
The LORD has made his victory known; has revealed his triumph for the nations to see,
Has remembered faithful love toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the victory of our God.
Shout with joy to the LORD, all the earth; break into song; sing praise.
Sing praise to the LORD with the harp, with the harp and melodious song.
With trumpets and the sound of the horn shout with joy to the King, the LORD.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 3:22-30.
The scribes who had come from Jerusalem said, "He is possessed by Beelzebul," and "By the prince of demons he drives out demons."
Summoning them, he began to speak to them in parables, "How can Satan drive out Satan?
If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.
And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand; that is the end of him.
But no one can enter a strong man's house to plunder his property unless he first ties up the strong man. Then he can plunder his house.
Amen, I say to you, all sins and all blasphemies that people utter will be forgiven them.
But whoever blasphemes against the holy Spirit will never have forgiveness, but is guilty of an everlasting sin."
For they had said, "He has an unclean spirit."
For this reason he is mediator of a new covenant: since a death has taken place for deliverance from transgressions under the first covenant, those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance.
For Christ did not enter into a sanctuary made by hands, a copy of the true one, but heaven itself, that he might now appear before God on our behalf.
Not that he might offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters each year into the sanctuary with blood that is not his own;
if that were so, he would have had to suffer repeatedly from the foundation of the world. But now once for all he has appeared at the end of the ages to take away sin by his sacrifice.
Just as it is appointed that human beings die once, and after this the judgment,
so also Christ, offered once to take away the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to take away sin but to bring salvation to those who eagerly await him.
Psalms 98:1.2-3.4.5-6.
Sing a new song to the LORD, who has done marvelous deeds, Whose right hand and holy arm have won the victory.
The LORD has made his victory known; has revealed his triumph for the nations to see,
Has remembered faithful love toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the victory of our God.
Shout with joy to the LORD, all the earth; break into song; sing praise.
Sing praise to the LORD with the harp, with the harp and melodious song.
With trumpets and the sound of the horn shout with joy to the King, the LORD.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 3:22-30.
The scribes who had come from Jerusalem said, "He is possessed by Beelzebul," and "By the prince of demons he drives out demons."
Summoning them, he began to speak to them in parables, "How can Satan drive out Satan?
If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.
And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand; that is the end of him.
But no one can enter a strong man's house to plunder his property unless he first ties up the strong man. Then he can plunder his house.
Amen, I say to you, all sins and all blasphemies that people utter will be forgiven them.
But whoever blasphemes against the holy Spirit will never have forgiveness, but is guilty of an everlasting sin."
For they had said, "He has an unclean spirit."
Mc 3,22-30
Origen (c.185-253), priest and theologian
Homilies on Exodus, no.1, 5
« He drives out demons»
Acknowledge this: «a new king, a king of Egypt, has come to power» in you. He is the one who imposes forced labor on you and makes you produce bricks and mortar for him. He is the one who sets taskmasters and overseers over you, who forces you on to field work with whip and lash, constraining you to build his cities. It is he who urges you to traverse the world over, stirring up land and seas to satisfy his desires...
This king of Egypt knows well that war is at hand. He forsees the coming of him who can «strip his principalities and powers, bravely triumphing over them and nailing them to the wood of the cross»... He senses that the hour of the destruction of his people is near. And so he declares: «The people of Israel is more powerful than we ourselves!» Would that he could say the same of us and that we might know ourselves more powerful than he! In what way will he sense this? If I do not accept the evil thoughts and depraved lusts he arouses in me; if I repulse his «fire-tipped arrows with the shield of faith»; if, whenever he suggests something to my soul, I say to him, calling Christ my Lord to mind: «Get away, Satan. It is written: 'The Lord, your God, you shall worship and him alone shall you serve»...
For he comes, the Lord Jesus..., to bring to submission the «principalities, dominions and powers», to submit the children of Israel to the rage of their enemies..., to teach us once again to see God in spirit, to abandon Pharaoh's works, to leave the land of Egypt, to renounce the barbaric customs of the Egyptians, «to put away the old self with its works and put on the new self, created in God's way,» «being renewed day by day» in the image of him who created us, Christ Jesus our Lord, to whom be glory and power for ever and ever. Amen.
(Biblical references: Ex 1,8; Col 2,14-15; Ex 1,9; Eph 6,16; Mt 4,10; Dt 6,13; Col 1,16; Eph 4,22-24; Col 3,9-10; 2Cor 4,16)
This king of Egypt knows well that war is at hand. He forsees the coming of him who can «strip his principalities and powers, bravely triumphing over them and nailing them to the wood of the cross»... He senses that the hour of the destruction of his people is near. And so he declares: «The people of Israel is more powerful than we ourselves!» Would that he could say the same of us and that we might know ourselves more powerful than he! In what way will he sense this? If I do not accept the evil thoughts and depraved lusts he arouses in me; if I repulse his «fire-tipped arrows with the shield of faith»; if, whenever he suggests something to my soul, I say to him, calling Christ my Lord to mind: «Get away, Satan. It is written: 'The Lord, your God, you shall worship and him alone shall you serve»...
For he comes, the Lord Jesus..., to bring to submission the «principalities, dominions and powers», to submit the children of Israel to the rage of their enemies..., to teach us once again to see God in spirit, to abandon Pharaoh's works, to leave the land of Egypt, to renounce the barbaric customs of the Egyptians, «to put away the old self with its works and put on the new self, created in God's way,» «being renewed day by day» in the image of him who created us, Christ Jesus our Lord, to whom be glory and power for ever and ever. Amen.
(Biblical references: Ex 1,8; Col 2,14-15; Ex 1,9; Eph 6,16; Mt 4,10; Dt 6,13; Col 1,16; Eph 4,22-24; Col 3,9-10; 2Cor 4,16)
St. Francis of Sales, Bishop and Doctor of the Church (+ 1622) - Memorial
SAINT FRANCIS OF SALES
Bishop and Doctor of the Church
(1566-1622)
Bishop and Doctor of the Church
(1566-1622)
Francis was born of noble and pious parents, near Annecy, 1566, and studied with brilliant success at Paris and Padua. On his return from Italy he gave up the grand career which his father had marked out for him in the service of the state, and became a priest.
When the Duke of Savoy had resolved to restore the Church in the Chablais, Francis offered himself for the work, and set out on foot with his Bible and breviary and one companion, his cousin Louis of Sales. It was a work of toil, privation, and danger. Every door and every heart was closed against him. He was rejected with insult and threatened with death. But nothing could daunt or resist him, and ere long the Church burst forth into a second spring. It is stated that he converted 72,000 Calvinists.
He was then compelled by the Pope to become Coadjutor Bishop of Geneva, and succeeded to the see in 1602. At times the exceeding gentleness with which he received heretics and sinners almost scandalized his friends, and one of them said to him, "Francis of Sales will go to Paradise, of course; but I am not so sure of the Bishop of Geneva: I am almost afraid his gentleness will play him a shrewd turn." "Ah," said the Saint, "I would rather account to God for too great gentleness than for too great severity. Is not God all love? God the Father is the Father of mercy; God the Son is a Lamb; God the Holy Spirit is a Dove-that is, gentleness itself. And are you wiser than God?"
In union with St. Jane Frances of Chantal he founded at Annecy the Order of the Visitation, which soon spread over Europe. Though poor, he refused provisions and dignities, and even the great see of Paris.
He died at Avignon, 1622.
Lives of the Saints, by Alban Butler, Benziger Bros. ed. [1894]
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