Sunday, 27 January 2013
Third Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
St. Angela Merici, Virgin (c. 1470-1540)
Commentary of the day
Saint Ambrose : "Today this scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing"
Reading
Lk 1:1-4.4:14-21.
Since many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the events that have been fulfilled among us, just as those who were eyewitnesses from the beginning and ministers of the word have handed them down to us,
I too have decided, after investigating everything accurately anew, to write it down in an orderly sequence for you, most excellent Theophilus, so that you may realize the certainty of the teachings you have received. Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news of him spread throughout the whole region.
He taught in their synagogues and was praised by all. He came to Nazareth, where he had grown up, and went according to his custom into the synagogue on the sabbath day. He stood up to read and was handed a scroll of the prophet Isaiah. He unrolled the scroll and found the passage where it was written: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free,
and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord."
Rolling up the scroll, he handed it back to the attendant and sat down, and the eyes of all in the synagogue looked intently at him. He said to them, "Today this scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing."
Copyright © Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, USCCB
Commentary of the day
Saint Ambrose (c.340-397), Bishop of Milan and Doctor of the Church
Commentary on Psalm 1, §33 ; CSEL 64, 28-30
"Today this scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing"
Drink first of the Old Testament so as to drink afterward of the New. If
you do not drink of the first you will not be able to quench your thirst at
the second. Drink of the first to take your thirst away, of the second to
staunch it completely... Drink of the cup of both the Old Testament and the
New for in these two you drink Christ. Take away your thirst with Christ
for he is the vine, he is the rock that caused water to gush forth, he is
the spring of life. Drink Christ for he is “the stream whose runlets
gladden the city of God”, he is peace and “from his breast flow rivers of
living water”. Drink Christ to quench your thirst with the blood of your
redemption and the Word of God. The Old Testament is his word and so is the
New. We drink Holy Scripture and we eat it and then the eternal Word
descends into the veins of the spirit and the life of the soul: “Not by
bread alone does man live, but by every word that comes forth from the
mouth of God”. Therefore, quench your thirst with this Word yet in its
proper order: first drink it in the Old Testament and then, without
delaying, in the New. He himself says almost insistently: “People who walk
in darkness, see this great light; you who dwell in a land of death, a
light has shone upon you”. So drink without delay and a great light will
enlighten you: no longer the ordinary light of day, whether that of the sun
or the moon, but the light that casts out the shadow of death.(Biblical
references : Jn 15,1; 1Co 10,4; Ps 36[37],10; 45[46],5; Eph 2,14; Jn 7,38;
Dt 8,3; Mt 4,4; Is 9,1 LXX; Mt 4,16; Lk 1,79)
Third Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
St. Angela Merici, Virgin (c. 1470-1540)
Commentary of the day
Saint Ambrose : "Today this scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing"
Reading
Lk 1:1-4.4:14-21.
Since many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the events that have been fulfilled among us, just as those who were eyewitnesses from the beginning and ministers of the word have handed them down to us,
I too have decided, after investigating everything accurately anew, to write it down in an orderly sequence for you, most excellent Theophilus, so that you may realize the certainty of the teachings you have received. Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news of him spread throughout the whole region.
He taught in their synagogues and was praised by all. He came to Nazareth, where he had grown up, and went according to his custom into the synagogue on the sabbath day. He stood up to read and was handed a scroll of the prophet Isaiah. He unrolled the scroll and found the passage where it was written: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free,
and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord."
Rolling up the scroll, he handed it back to the attendant and sat down, and the eyes of all in the synagogue looked intently at him. He said to them, "Today this scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing."
Copyright © Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, USCCB
Commentary of the day
Saint Ambrose (c.340-397), Bishop of Milan and Doctor of the Church
Commentary on Psalm 1, §33 ; CSEL 64, 28-30
"Today this scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing"
Drink first of the Old Testament so as to drink afterward of the New. If
you do not drink of the first you will not be able to quench your thirst at
the second. Drink of the first to take your thirst away, of the second to
staunch it completely... Drink of the cup of both the Old Testament and the
New for in these two you drink Christ. Take away your thirst with Christ
for he is the vine, he is the rock that caused water to gush forth, he is
the spring of life. Drink Christ for he is “the stream whose runlets
gladden the city of God”, he is peace and “from his breast flow rivers of
living water”. Drink Christ to quench your thirst with the blood of your
redemption and the Word of God. The Old Testament is his word and so is the
New. We drink Holy Scripture and we eat it and then the eternal Word
descends into the veins of the spirit and the life of the soul: “Not by
bread alone does man live, but by every word that comes forth from the
mouth of God”. Therefore, quench your thirst with this Word yet in its
proper order: first drink it in the Old Testament and then, without
delaying, in the New. He himself says almost insistently: “People who walk
in darkness, see this great light; you who dwell in a land of death, a
light has shone upon you”. So drink without delay and a great light will
enlighten you: no longer the ordinary light of day, whether that of the sun
or the moon, but the light that casts out the shadow of death.(Biblical
references : Jn 15,1; 1Co 10,4; Ps 36[37],10; 45[46],5; Eph 2,14; Jn 7,38;
Dt 8,3; Mt 4,4; Is 9,1 LXX; Mt 4,16; Lk 1,79)
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