DAILY GOSPEL: 12/04/2011
«Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.» John 6,68
Tuesday of the Fifth week of Lent
Book of Numbers 21:4-9.
From Mount Hor the children of Israel set out on the Red Sea road, to by-pass the land of Edom. But with their patience worn out by the journey,
the people complained against God and Moses, "Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in this desert, where there is no food or water? We are disgusted with this wretched food!"
In punishment the LORD sent among the people saraph serpents, which bit the people so that many of them died.
Then the people came to Moses and said, "We have sinned in complaining against the LORD and you. Pray the LORD to take the serpents from us." So Moses prayed for the people,
and the LORD said to Moses, "Make a saraph and mount it on a pole, and if anyone who has been bitten looks at it, he will recover."
Moses accordingly made a bronze serpent and mounted it on a pole, and whenever anyone who had been bitten by a serpent looked at the bronze serpent, he recovered.
Psalms 102(101):2-3.16-18.19-21.
LORD, hear my prayer; let my cry come to you.
Do not hide your face from me now that I am in distress. Turn your ear to me; when I call, answer me quickly.
The nations shall revere your name, LORD, all the kings of the earth, your glory,
Once the LORD has rebuilt Zion and appeared in glory,
Heeding the plea of the lowly, not scorning their prayer.
Let this be written for the next generation, for a people not yet born, that they may praise the LORD:
"The LORD looked down from the holy heights, viewed the earth from heaven,
To attend to the groaning of the prisoners, to release those doomed to die."
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 8:21-30.
Jesus said to the Pharisees: "I am going away and you will look for me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come."
So the Jews said, "He is not going to kill himself, is he, because he said, 'Where I am going you cannot come'?"
He said to them, "You belong to what is below, I belong to what is above. You belong to this world, but I do not belong to this world.
That is why I told you that you will die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I AM, you will die in your sins."
So they said to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, "What I told you from the beginning.
I have much to say about you in condemnation. But the one who sent me is true, and what I heard from him I tell the world."
They did not realize that he was speaking to them of the Father.
So Jesus said (to them), "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will realize that I AM, and that I do nothing on my own, but I say only what the Father taught me.
The one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do what is pleasing to him."
Because he spoke this way, many came to believe in him.
From Mount Hor the children of Israel set out on the Red Sea road, to by-pass the land of Edom. But with their patience worn out by the journey,
the people complained against God and Moses, "Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in this desert, where there is no food or water? We are disgusted with this wretched food!"
In punishment the LORD sent among the people saraph serpents, which bit the people so that many of them died.
Then the people came to Moses and said, "We have sinned in complaining against the LORD and you. Pray the LORD to take the serpents from us." So Moses prayed for the people,
and the LORD said to Moses, "Make a saraph and mount it on a pole, and if anyone who has been bitten looks at it, he will recover."
Moses accordingly made a bronze serpent and mounted it on a pole, and whenever anyone who had been bitten by a serpent looked at the bronze serpent, he recovered.
Psalms 102(101):2-3.16-18.19-21.
LORD, hear my prayer; let my cry come to you.
Do not hide your face from me now that I am in distress. Turn your ear to me; when I call, answer me quickly.
The nations shall revere your name, LORD, all the kings of the earth, your glory,
Once the LORD has rebuilt Zion and appeared in glory,
Heeding the plea of the lowly, not scorning their prayer.
Let this be written for the next generation, for a people not yet born, that they may praise the LORD:
"The LORD looked down from the holy heights, viewed the earth from heaven,
To attend to the groaning of the prisoners, to release those doomed to die."
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 8:21-30.
Jesus said to the Pharisees: "I am going away and you will look for me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come."
So the Jews said, "He is not going to kill himself, is he, because he said, 'Where I am going you cannot come'?"
He said to them, "You belong to what is below, I belong to what is above. You belong to this world, but I do not belong to this world.
That is why I told you that you will die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I AM, you will die in your sins."
So they said to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, "What I told you from the beginning.
I have much to say about you in condemnation. But the one who sent me is true, and what I heard from him I tell the world."
They did not realize that he was speaking to them of the Father.
So Jesus said (to them), "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will realize that I AM, and that I do nothing on my own, but I say only what the Father taught me.
The one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do what is pleasing to him."
Because he spoke this way, many came to believe in him.
Saint John Chrysostom (c.345-407), priest at Antioch then Bishop of Constantinople, Doctor of the Church
Baptismal catechesis, no. 3, 16f. (cf SC 50 bis, p. 160s)
"When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will realize that I AM"
Would you like to know what power is concealed in Christ's blood? See from where its outpouring begins and where it has its source: it flows down from the cross and from the Lord's side. As Jesus, now dead, still hung on the cross, says the Gospel, the soldier came up, «thrust his lance into his side and blood and water flowed out» (Jn 19,34). That water was the symbol of baptism and the blood was that of the eucharistic mysteries... It was the soldier, then, who opened his side; he pierced the defences of the holy temple; and I, I found this treasure and made of it my wealth...
«And blood and water flowed from his side.» Don't pass over this mystery without a thought... As I said, this water and blood were symbols of baptism and the eucharistic mysteries. Now the Church was born from those two sacraments: through the bath of rebirth and renewal in the Spirit - baptism in other words - and through the mysteries. But the outward signs of baptism and the mysteries issued from his side. Therefore Christ formed the Church from his side just as he formed Eve from Adam's side (Gn 2,22).
Hence Paul said, referring to the Lord's side: «We are of his flesh and bones» (cf. Acts 17,29; Gn 2,23). Indeed, just as the Lord took flesh from Adam's side so as to form woman, so Christ gave us blood and water from his side to form the Church. And just as in former times he took flesh from Adam's side while outside himself in sleep, so now he gives us the blood and water after his death..., for from now on death is no more than a sleep. Have you seen how Christ has betrothed his bride? Have you see what food he gives us all? It is from the same food that we are born and nourished. Just as woman conceives children from her own blood and feeds them with her milk, so Christ continually feeds those he has conceived with his
«And blood and water flowed from his side.» Don't pass over this mystery without a thought... As I said, this water and blood were symbols of baptism and the eucharistic mysteries. Now the Church was born from those two sacraments: through the bath of rebirth and renewal in the Spirit - baptism in other words - and through the mysteries. But the outward signs of baptism and the mysteries issued from his side. Therefore Christ formed the Church from his side just as he formed Eve from Adam's side (Gn 2,22).
Hence Paul said, referring to the Lord's side: «We are of his flesh and bones» (cf. Acts 17,29; Gn 2,23). Indeed, just as the Lord took flesh from Adam's side so as to form woman, so Christ gave us blood and water from his side to form the Church. And just as in former times he took flesh from Adam's side while outside himself in sleep, so now he gives us the blood and water after his death..., for from now on death is no more than a sleep. Have you seen how Christ has betrothed his bride? Have you see what food he gives us all? It is from the same food that we are born and nourished. Just as woman conceives children from her own blood and feeds them with her milk, so Christ continually feeds those he has conceived with his
St Julius I, Pope (+ 352)
SAINT JULIUS
Pope
(+ 352)
Pope
(+ 352)
St. Julius was a Roman, and chosen Pope on the 6th of February in 337.
The Arian bishops in the East sent to him three deputies to accuse St. Athanasius, the zealous Patriarch of Alexandria. These accusations, as the order of justice required, Julius imparted to Athanasius, who thereupon sent his deputies to Rome; when, upon an impartial hearing, the advocates of the heretics were confounded and silenced upon every article of their accusation.
The Arians then demanded a council, and the Pope assembled one in Rome in 341. The Arians instead of appearing held a pretended council at Antioch in 341, in which they presumed to appoint one Gregory, an impious Arian, Bishop of Alexandria, detained the Pope's legates beyond the time mentioned for their appearance; and then wrote to his Holiness, alleging a pretended impossibility of their appearing, on account of the Persian war and other impediments. The Pope easily saw through these pretences, and in a council at Rome examined the cause of St. Athanasius, declared him innocent of the things laid to his charge by the Arians, and confirmed him in his see.
He also acquitted Marcellus of Ancyra, upon his orthodox profession of faith.
He drew up and sent by Count Gabian to the Oriental Eusebian bishops, who had first demanded a council and then refused to appear in it, an excellent letter, which is looked upon as one of the finest monuments of ecclesiastical antiquity.
Finding the Eusebians still obstinate, he moved Constans, Emperor of the West, to demand the concurrence of his brother Constantius in the assembling of a general council at Sardica in Illyricum. This was opened in May 347, and declared St. Athanasius and Marcellus of Ancyra orthodox and innocent, deposed certain Arian bishops, and framed twenty-one canons of discipline.
St. Julius reigned fifteen years, two months, and six days, dying on the 12th of April, 352.
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