Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Tuesday the 8th week of Ordinary Time
St Aubin d'Angers, Bishop (+ 550)
Today's Commentary
Thomas of Celano: Leave everything to follow
readings of the day
10.28 to 31 Mc.
Peter began to say to Jesus: "Now we have left everything to follow you
. "
Jesus said," Amen, I say to you, nobody will
left, for my sake and the gospel, house, brothers, sisters,
mother, father, children or earth
without having received, at that time already a hundredfold: homes, brothers, sisters
, mothers, children and lands, with persecutions, and in the world
come life everlasting.
Many first shall be last and the last shall be first
. "
From the Liturgical Translation of the Bible - © AELF, Paris
Today's Commentary
Thomas of Celano (c. 1190-c. 1260), biographer of St Francis and St Clare
Life St. Clare, § 25-28 (trans. Vorreux, Documents, Eds. Franciscan 1983, p. 615 rev.)
leave everything to follow
For forty years now Claire, by comparison
employed by St. Paul (1 Cor 9:24), led the race at the stadium in the vast
poverty. She approached the object of his heavenly calling and the reward promised to the winner ...
Divine Providence was hurrying to accomplish what she had planned to
Claire: Christ wants to include in his early Royal Palace
poor after his pilgrimage. As for herself, she aspired
any momentum from his desire ... to contemplate, reigning up there in
his glory, she had imitated Christ in his poverty on earth ...
All his daughters were sitting around the bed of their mother ...
Speaking then to herself, Claire says to his soul: "Go into any
security, because you good guide for the road. Go, for he who created you
also sanctified thee, and he still kept thee and loved by a tender love,
as a mother loves her child. Blessed are You, Lord, who created me! "
A sister asked him to whom it was addressed. Claire said: "In my soul
blessed." His guide for the road was not far. Indeed, turning
to one of her daughters, she said: "Seest thou the King of glory that I see
? "...
Blessed be leaving this vale of misery, who was out for
her entry into the blessed life! As a reward for his fasts
worldly, she now knows the joy that reigns at the table
Saints in exchange for rags and ashes, she came into possession of
blessedness of the Kingdom of Heaven where she is lined dress
glory everlasting.
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Monday, February 28, 2011
Monday the 8th week of Ordinary Time
Blessed Daniel Brottier, priest (1876-1936) St Romain (+ 463)
Today's Commentary
St. Basil: "... With these words, he went away sad"
Readings of the Day
10.17 to 27 Mc.
Jesus put on when a man ran up to him, knelt
and asked him: "Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life
? "
Jesus said to him:" Why call me good?
person is good but God alone.
You know the commandments: Do not commit murder, do not commit
no adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do
do harm to anyone, Honour thy father and thy mother. "
The man replied:" Master, I have observed all these commandments since my youth
. "Posing
his gaze on him, he began to love it. He said:
"One thing you lack: go, sell whatsoever thou hast,
gives to the poor and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me
. "But
him at these words, became dark and he went away sad, for he had great possessions
. Then Jesus
looks around him and said to his disciples:
"How hard it is to those who have riches to enter
in the kingdom of God! "The disciples were amazed
of these words. But Jesus said
"Children, how difficult it is to enter the kingdom of God
.
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich
to enter the kingdom of God. "
Increasingly bewildered, the disciples asked one another:
" Then who can be saved? "Jesus
look at them and replied: "For men this is impossible
, but not for God, for everything is possible with God. "
From the Liturgical Translation of the Bible - © AELF, Paris
Today's Commentary
St. Basil (c. 330-379), monk and bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia, Doctor of the Church
Homily 7 on wealth, PG 31, 278 (trans. al. Icthus, v. 6, p. 82 rev.)
"At these words ... he went away sorrowful" Where
the rich young man and his ilk makes me think
to that of a traveler who, wishing to visit a city just to walk
walls, there is an inn down there and, discouraged by the latest
not it remains to be done, then loses the benefit of
fatigues of his journey and fights to visit the beauties of the city. These are those who keep the commandments
but rebelled at the thought of losing their property
. I know many who fast, pray, do penance, and
practiced well all kinds of works of piety, but do not pay a penny
poor. What are their other virtues?
They will not enter the kingdom of heaven, because "it is easier for a camel to go
through a hole of a needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven
. Clear speech, and its author does not lie, but few are
those who allow themselves to feel. "How will we live when we are stripped of all
? they exclaim. What kind of life will carry us when
all be sold and there will be more properties? "Do not ask me what purpose
deep behind the commandments of God. Whoever
established our laws also knows the art of the impossible to reconcile with the law.
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