Sunday, 09 June 2013
Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year CSt. Ephrem the Syrian, Deacon and Doctor of the Church (c.306-373)
Commentary of the day
Vatican Council II: "The Lord was moved with pity for her and said to her, 'Do not weep' "
Lk 7:11-17.
Soon
afterward he journeyed to a city called Nain, and his disciples and a large
crowd accompanied him.
As he drew near to the gate of the city, a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. A large crowd from the city was with her.
When the Lord saw her, he was moved with pity for her and said to her, "Do not weep."
He stepped forward and touched the coffin; at this the bearers halted, and he said, "Young man, I tell you, arise!"
The dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him to his mother.
Fear seized them all, and they glorified God, exclaiming, "A great prophet has arisen in our midst," and "God has visited his people."
This report about him spread through the whole of Judea and in all the surrounding region.
As he drew near to the gate of the city, a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. A large crowd from the city was with her.
When the Lord saw her, he was moved with pity for her and said to her, "Do not weep."
He stepped forward and touched the coffin; at this the bearers halted, and he said, "Young man, I tell you, arise!"
The dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him to his mother.
Fear seized them all, and they glorified God, exclaiming, "A great prophet has arisen in our midst," and "God has visited his people."
This report about him spread through the whole of Judea and in all the surrounding region.
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Commentary of the day :
Vatican Council II
Constitution on the Church in the modern world « Gaudium et spes» § 22 (©Libreria vaticana editrice)
He who is "the image of the invisible God", is himself the perfect man. To
the sons of Adam he restores the divine likeness which had been disfigured
from the first sin onward. Since human nature as he assumed it was not
annulled, by that very fact it has been raised up to a divine dignity in
our respect too. For by his incarnation the Son of God has united himself
in some fashion with every man. He worked with human hands, he thought with
a human mind, acted by human choice and loved with a human heart. Born of
the Virgin Mary, he has truly been made one of us, like us in all things
except sin.
As an innocent lamb he merited for us life by the free shedding of his own
blood. In him God reconciled us to himself and among ourselves; from
bondage to the devil and sin he delivered us, so that each one of us can
say with the Apostle Paul: The Son of God "loved me and gave Himself up for
me". By suffering for us he not only provided us with an example for our
imitation, he blazed a trail, and if we follow it, life and death are made
holy and take on a new meaning.
The Christian, conformed to the likeness of that Son who is “the
firstborn of many brothers,” receives "the first-fruits of the Spirit" by
which he becomes capable of discharging the new law of love. Through this
Spirit, who is "the pledge of our inheritance", the whole person is renewed
from within, even to the achievement of "the redemption of the body": "If
the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the death dwells in you, then he
who raised Jesus Christ from the dead will also bring to life your mortal
bodies because of his Spirit who dwells in you" ... Such is the mystery of
man, and it is a great one, as seen by believers in the light of Christian
revelation. Through Christ and in Christ, the riddles of sorrow and death
grow meaningful. Apart from his Gospel, they overwhelm us. Christ has
risen, destroying death by his death; he has lavished life upon us so that,
as sons in the Son, we can cry out in the Spirit: “Abba, Father!”
( Biblical references : Col 1,15; Gal 2,20; 1P 2,21; He 10,20; Rm
8,29.23; Eph 1,14; Rm 8,23.11; byzantine paschal liturgy; Rm 8,15)
the sons of Adam he restores the divine likeness which had been disfigured
from the first sin onward. Since human nature as he assumed it was not
annulled, by that very fact it has been raised up to a divine dignity in
our respect too. For by his incarnation the Son of God has united himself
in some fashion with every man. He worked with human hands, he thought with
a human mind, acted by human choice and loved with a human heart. Born of
the Virgin Mary, he has truly been made one of us, like us in all things
except sin.
As an innocent lamb he merited for us life by the free shedding of his own
blood. In him God reconciled us to himself and among ourselves; from
bondage to the devil and sin he delivered us, so that each one of us can
say with the Apostle Paul: The Son of God "loved me and gave Himself up for
me". By suffering for us he not only provided us with an example for our
imitation, he blazed a trail, and if we follow it, life and death are made
holy and take on a new meaning.
The Christian, conformed to the likeness of that Son who is “the
firstborn of many brothers,” receives "the first-fruits of the Spirit" by
which he becomes capable of discharging the new law of love. Through this
Spirit, who is "the pledge of our inheritance", the whole person is renewed
from within, even to the achievement of "the redemption of the body": "If
the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the death dwells in you, then he
who raised Jesus Christ from the dead will also bring to life your mortal
bodies because of his Spirit who dwells in you" ... Such is the mystery of
man, and it is a great one, as seen by believers in the light of Christian
revelation. Through Christ and in Christ, the riddles of sorrow and death
grow meaningful. Apart from his Gospel, they overwhelm us. Christ has
risen, destroying death by his death; he has lavished life upon us so that,
as sons in the Son, we can cry out in the Spirit: “Abba, Father!”
( Biblical references : Col 1,15; Gal 2,20; 1P 2,21; He 10,20; Rm
8,29.23; Eph 1,14; Rm 8,23.11; byzantine paschal liturgy; Rm 8,15)
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