tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28416692731023261592024-03-13T14:20:53.503-07:00Certain Gospels and CanticlesSntMartyrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11197760281270769367noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2841669273102326159.post-64293597446124872322007-02-03T10:00:00.000-08:002011-12-22T11:42:23.041-08:0010 The eternal ages<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><span style="color:red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Truth and not error</span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><span style="color:red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Canticle of Isaias:</span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><span style="color:red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Is. 45, 15-26</span></span></p><p><span style="color:red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">V</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">ERILY thou art a hidden God, the God of Israel the saviour.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">They are all confounded and ashamed: the forgers of errors are gone together into confusion.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Israel is saved in the Lord with an eternal salvation: you shall not be confounded, and you shall not be ashamed for ever and ever.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens, God himself that formed the earth, and made it, the very maker thereof:</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">He did not create it in vain: he formed it to be inhabited. I </span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">am</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> the Lord, and there is no other.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth:</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I have not said to the seed of Jacob: Seek me in vain. I am the Lord that speak justice, that declare right things.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Assemble yourselves, and come, and draw near together, ye that are saved of the Gentiles:</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">They have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven work, and pray to a god that cannot save.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Tell ye, and come, and consult together: who hath declared this from the beginning, </span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">who</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> hath foretold this from that time?</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Have not I the Lord, and there is no God else besides me? A just God and a saviour, there is none besides me.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Be converted to me, and you shall be saved, all ye ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is no other.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I have sworn by myself, the word of justice shall go out of my mouth, and shall not return:</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">For every knee shall be bowed to me, and every tongue shall swear.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Therefore shall he say: In the Lord are my justices and empire: theyshall come to him, and all that resist him shall be confounded.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified and praised.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.</span></p><p><span style="color:red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Ant.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified and praised.</span></p><p><span style="color:red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Ant.</span></span><span style="color:red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> 5 </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Praise.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><a href="http://www.drbo.org/book/49.htm"><span style="text-decoration: none; font-family:Arial;color:#cc0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Gospel According to Saint Luke</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Chapter 20</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"></span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The parable of the husbandmen. Of paying tribute to Caesar and of the resurrection of the dead. </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">1</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And it came to pass, that on one of the days, as he was teaching the people in the temple, and preaching the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes, with the ancients, met together, </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">2</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And spoke to him, saying: Tell us, by what authority dost thou these things? or, Who is he that hath given thee this authority? </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">3</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And Jesus answering, said to them: I will also ask you one thing. Answer me: </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">4</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men? </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">5</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> But they thought within themselves, saying: If we shall say, From heaven: he will say: Why then did you not believe him? </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">6</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> But if we say, Of men, the whole people will stone us: for they are persuaded that John was a prophet. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">7</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And they answered, that they knew not whence it was. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">8</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And Jesus said to them: Neither do I tell thee by what authority I do these things. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">9</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And he began to speak to the people this parable: A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it out to husbandmen: and he was abroad for a long time. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">10</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard. Who, beating him, sent him away empty. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">11</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And again he sent another servant. But they beat him also, and treating him reproachfully, sent him away empty. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">12</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And again he sent the third: and they wounded him also, and cast him out. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">13</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Then the lord of the vineyard said: What shall I do? I will send my beloved son: it may be, when they see him, they will reverence him. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">14</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Whom when the husbandmen saw, they thought within themselves, saying: This is the heir, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">15</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> So casting him out of the vineyard, they killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them? </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">16</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> He will come, and will destroy these husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others. Which they hearing, said to him: God forbid. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">17</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> But he looking on them, said: What is this then that is written, The stone, which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner? </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">18</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Whosoever shall fall upon that stone, shall be bruised: and upon whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">19</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And the chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him the same hour: but they feared the people, for they knew that he spoke this parable to them. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">20</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And being upon the watch, they sent spies, who should feign themselves just, that they might take hold of him in his words, that they might deliver him up to the authority and power of the governor. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">21</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And they asked him, saying: Master, we know that thou speakest andteachest rightly: and thou dost not respect any person, but teachest the way of God in truth. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">22</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Is it lawful for us to give tribute to Caesar, or no? </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">23</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> But he considering their guile, said to them: Why tempt you me? </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">24</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Shew me a penny. Whose image and inscription hath it? They answering, said to him, Caesar's. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">25</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And he said to them: Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's: and to God the things that are God's. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">26</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And they could not reprehend his word before the people: and wondering at his answer, they held their peace. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">27</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And there came to him some of the Sadducees, who deny that there is any resurrection, and they asked him, </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">28</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Saying: Master, Moses wrote unto us, If any man's brother die, having a wife, and he leave no children, that his brother should take her to wife, and raise up seed unto his brother. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">29</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and died without children. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">30</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And the next took her to wife, and he also died childless. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">31</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And the third took her. And in like mannerall the seven, and they left no children, and died. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">32</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Last of all the woman died also. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">33</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> In the resurrection therefore, whose wife of them shall she be? For all the seven had her to wife. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">34</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And Jesus said to them: The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage: </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">35</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> But they that shall be accounted worthy of that world, and of the resurrection from the dead, shall neither be married, nor take wives. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">36</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Neither can they die any more: for they are equal to the angels, and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">37</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Now that the dead rise again, Moses also shewed, at the bush, when he called the Lord, The God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">38</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> For he is not the God of the dead, but of the living: for all live to him. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">39</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And some of the scribes answering, said to him: Master, thou hast said well. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">40</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And after that they durst not ask him any more questions. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">41</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> But he said to them: How say they that Christ is the son of David? </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">42</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And David himself saith in the book of Psalms: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The Lord said to my Lord, sit thou on my right hand, </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">43</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Till I make thy enemies thy footstool. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">44</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> David then calleth him Lord: and how is he his son? </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">45</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And in the hearing of all the people, he said to his disciples: </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">46</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Beware of the scribes, who desire to walk in long robes, and love salutations in the marketplace, and the first chairs in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts: </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">47</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Who devour the houses of widows, feigning long prayer. These shall receive greater damnation.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></p>SntMartyrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11197760281270769367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2841669273102326159.post-78234616051895290402007-02-03T08:00:00.000-08:002011-01-01T21:37:49.030-08:009 Judgement<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><a href="http://www.drbo.org/book/49.htm"><span style="text-decoration: none; font-family:Arial;color:#cc0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Gospel According to Saint Luke</span></span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Chapter 13</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"></span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The necessity of penance. The barren fig tree. The cure of the infirm woman. The journey to Jerusalem. </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">1</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And there were present, at that very time, some that told him of the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">2</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And he answering, said to them: Think you that these Galileans were sinners above all the men of Galilee, because they suffered such things? </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">3</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> No, I say to you: but unless you shall do penance, you shall all likewise perish. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">4</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Or those eighteen upon whom the tower fell in Siloe, and slew them: think you, that they also were debtors above all the men that dwelt in Jerusalem? </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">5</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> No, I say to you; but except you do penance, you shall all likewise perish. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">6</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> He spoke also this parable: A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and found none. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">7</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And he said to the dresser of the vineyard: Behold, for these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and I find none. Cut it done therefore: why cumbereth it the ground? </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">8</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> But he answering, said to him: Lord, let it alone this year also, until I dig about it, and dung it. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">9</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And if happily it bear fruit: but if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">10</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And he was teaching in their synagogue on their sabbath. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">11</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And behold there was a woman, who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years: and she was bowed together, neither could she look upwards at all. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">12</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Whom when Jesus saw, he called her unto him, and said to her: Woman, thou art delivered from thy infirmity. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">13</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And he laid his hands upon her, and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">14</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And the ruler of the synagogue (being angry that Jesus had healed on the sabbath) answering, said to the multitude: Six days there are wherein you ought to work. In them therefore come, and be healed; and not on the sabbath day. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">15</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And the Lord answering him, said: Ye hypocrites, doth not every one of you, on the sabbath day, loose his ox or his ass from the manger, and lead them to water? </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">16</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And ought not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day? </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">17</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And when he said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed: and all the people rejoiced for all the things that were gloriously done by him. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">18</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> He said therefore: To what is the kingdom of God like, and whereunto shall I resemble it? </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">19</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> It is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and cast into his garden, and it grew and became a great tree, and the birds of the air lodged in the branches thereof. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">20</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And again he said: Whereunto shall I esteem the kingdom of God to be like? </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">21</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> It is like to leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">22</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And he went through the cities and towns teaching, and making his journey to Jerusalem. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">23</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And a certain man said to him: Lord, are they few that are saved? But he said to them: </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">24</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Strive to enter by the narrow gate; for many, I say to you, </span><i><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">shall seek</span></u></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> to enter, and shall not be able. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">25</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> But when the master of the house shall be gone in, and shall shut the door, you shall begin to stand without, and knock at the door, saying: Lord, open to us. And he answering, shall say to you: I know you not, whence you are. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 15pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">24</span></span></b><i><span style="color:#cc0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> "Shall seek"... Shall desire to be saved; but for want of taking sufficient pains, and being thoroughly in earnest, shall not attain to it. </span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">26</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Then you shall begin to say: We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">27</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And he shall say to you: I know you not, whence you are: depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">28</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">29</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And there shall come from the east and the west, and the north and the south; and shall sit down in the kingdom of God. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">30</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And behold, they are last that shall be first; and they are first that shall be last. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">31</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> The same day, there came some of the Pharisees, saying to him: Depart, and get thee hence, for Herod hath a mind to kill thee. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">32</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> And he said to them: Go and tell that fox, Behold, I cast outdevils, and do cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I am consummated. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">33 </span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Nevertheless I must walk today and tomorrow, and the day following, because it cannot be that a prophet perish, out of Jerusalem. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">34</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent to thee, how often would I have gathered thy children as the bird doth her brood under her wings, and thou wouldest not? </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">35</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Behold your house shall be left to you desolate. And I say to you, that you shall not see me till the time come, when you shall say: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Verdana;color:#CC0001;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></p>SntMartyrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11197760281270769367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2841669273102326159.post-19862008746059833792007-02-03T07:00:00.000-08:002010-07-13T20:42:12.603-07:008th Day, The General Resurrection<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">THE SIXTH ODE </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align="center"><span style="color:red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">A prayer of Jonas the prophet </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color:red;"></span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align="center"><span style="color:red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Jon. 2: 3-10 </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color:red;"></span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">As Thou didst save the prophet Jonas, save us also. O Lord. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">From out of the sea monster Jonas cried aloud and said, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I cried unto the Lord in mine affliction, and He hearkened </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">unto me; Thou heardest my cry and my voice out of the belly of </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">hell. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Thou didst cast me away into the depths of the heart of the </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">sea, and the waves compassed me about. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">All Thy waves and billows have passed over me. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">And I said, I am cast out from the sight of Thine eyes; shall I </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">indeed I look again unto Thy holy temple? </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Water is poured about me, even to my soul; the uttermost </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">deep hath compassed me about; my head went down into the </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">clefts of the mountains; I went down into the earth, whose bars are </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">everlasting barriers. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-TOP: 0in; MARGIN-LEFT: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">But let my soul come up from corruption, unto Thee, O Lord </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">my God. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">When my soul was failing within me, I remembered the Lord; </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">yea, let my prayer come unto Thee, unto Thy holy temple. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Those who observe vanities and false things have forsaken </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">their own mercy. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">But I will sacrifice to Thee with the voice of praise and </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">thanksgiving; whatsoever I have vowed for my salvation, I will pay </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">unto Thee, O Lord. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Glory. Both now. Alleluia. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p>SntMartyrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11197760281270769367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2841669273102326159.post-26781698436674621312007-02-03T06:00:00.000-08:002011-08-10T09:25:48.946-07:007 Good or evil, no mixture<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><a href="http://www.drbo.org/book/49.htm"><span style="text-decoration: none; font-family:Arial;color:#cc0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Gospel According to Saint Luke</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">
<br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Chapter 11</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"></span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Christ teaches his disciples to pray. He casts out a dumb devil, confutes the Pharisees, and pronounces woes against them for their hypocrisy. </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">1</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And it came to pass, that as he was in a certain place praying, when he ceased, one of his disciples said to him: Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">2</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And he said to them: When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">3</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Give us this day our daily bread. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">4</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And forgive us our sins, for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">5</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And he said to them: Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go to him at midnight, and shall say to him: Friend, lend me three loaves, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">6</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Because a friend of mine is come off his journey to me, and Ihave not what to set before him. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">7</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And he from within should answer, and say: Trouble me not, the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">8</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Yet if he shall continue knocking, I say to you, although he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend; yet, because of his importunity, he will rise, and give him as many as he needeth. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">9</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you shall find: knock, and it shall be opened to you. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">10</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">11</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And which of you, if he ask his father bread, will he give him a stone? or a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent? </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">12</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Or if he shall ask an egg, will he reach him a scorpion? </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">13</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father from heaven give the good Spirit to them that ask him? </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">14</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And he was casting out a devil, and the same was dumb: and when he had cast out the devil, the dumb spoke: and the multitudes were in admiration at it: </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">15</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> But some of them said: He casteth out devils by Beelzebub, the prince of devils. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">16</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">And others tempting, asked of him a sign from heaven. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">17</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> But he seeing their thoughts, said to them: Every kingdom divided against itself, shall be brought to desolation, and house upon house shall fall. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">18</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And if Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? because you say, that through Beelzebub I cast out devils. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">19</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Now if I cast out devils by Beelzebub; by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they shall be your judges. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">20</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> But if I by the finger of God cast out devils; doubtless the kingdom of God is come upon you. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">21</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> When a strong man armed keepeth his court, those things are in peace which he possesseth. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">22</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> But if a stronger than he come upon him, and overcome him; he will take away all his armour wherein he trusted, and will distribute his spoils. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">23</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> He that is not with me, is against me; and he that gathereth not with me, scattereth. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">24</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through places without water, seeking rest; and not finding, he saith: I will return into my house whence I came out. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">25</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And when he is come, he findeth it swept and garnished. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">26</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Then he goeth and taketh with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and entering in they dwell there. And the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">27</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And it came to pass, as he spoke these things, a certain woman from the crowd, lifting up her voice, said to him: Blessed is the womb that bore thee, and the paps that gave thee suck. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">28</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> But he said: Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God, and keep it. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">29</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And the multitudes running together, he began to say: This generation is a wicked generation: it asketh a sign, and a sign shall not be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">30</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> For as Jonas was a sign to the Ninivites; so shall the Son of man also be to this generation. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">31</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> The queen of the south shall rise in the judgment with the men of this generation, and shall condemn them: because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold more than Solomon here. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">32</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> The men of Ninive shall rise in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it; because they did penance at the preaching of Jonas; and behold more than Jonas here. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">33</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> No man lighteth a candle, and putteth it in a hidden place, nor under a bushel; but upon a candlestick, that they that come in, may see the light. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">34</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> The light of thy body is thy eye. If thy eye be single, thy whole body will be lightsome: but if it be evil, thy body also will be darksome. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">35</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Take heed therefore, that the light which is in thee, be not darkness. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">36</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> If then thy whole body be lightsome, having no part of darkness; the whole shall be lightsome; and as a bright lamp, shall enlighten thee. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">37</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And as he was speaking, a certain Pharisee prayed him, that he would dine with him. And he going in, sat down to eat. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">38</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And the Pharisee began to say, thinking within himself, why he was not washed before dinner. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">39</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And the Lord said to him: Now you Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter; but your inside is full of rapine and iniquity. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">40</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without, make also that which is within? </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">41</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> But yet that which remaineth, give alms; and behold, all things are clean unto you. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">42</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> But woe to you, Pharisees, because you tithe mint and rue and every herb; and pass over judgment, and the charity of God. Now these things you ought to have done, and not to leave the other undone. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">43</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Woe to you, Pharisees, because you love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and salutations in the marketplace. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">44</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Woe to you, because you are as sepulchres that appear not, and men that walk over are not aware. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">45</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And one of the lawyers answering, saith to him: Master, in saying these things, thou reproachest us also. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">46</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> But he said: </span><i><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Woe to you lawyers</span></u></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> also, because you load men with burdens which they cannot bear, and you yourselves touch not the packs with one of your fingers. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">47</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><i><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Woe to you who build</span></u></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> the monuments of the prophets: and your fathers killed them. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">48</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Truly you bear witness that you consent to the doings of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and you build their sepulchres. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">49</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> For this cause also the wisdom of God said: I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">50</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> That the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 15pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">46</span></span></b><i><span style="color:#cc0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> "Woe to you lawyers"... He speaks of the doctors of the law of Moses, commonly called the scribes.</span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">51</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, who was slain between the alter and the temple: Yea I say to you, It shall be required of this generation. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">52</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Woe to you lawyers, for you have taken away the key of knowledge: you yourselves have not entered in, and those that were entering in, you have hindered. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">53</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And as he was saying these things to them, the Pharisees and the lawyers began violently to urge him, and to oppress his mouth about many things, </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">54</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch something from his mouth, that they might accuse him.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></p>SntMartyrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11197760281270769367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2841669273102326159.post-56383692357465286422007-02-03T05:00:00.000-08:002011-08-10T09:24:46.210-07:006th day and on the 6th hour Adam fell, Christ came and Redeemed us<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><span style="color:red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Canticle of Isaias:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align="center"><span style="color:red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Is:5:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 209pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color:red;"></span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">1 I will sing to my beloved the canticle of my cousin concerning his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">on a hill in a fruitful place.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">2 And he fenced it in, and picked the stones out of it, and planted it, with the choicest vines, and built a tower in the midst thereof, and set up a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">3 And now, 0 ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and ye men of Juda, judge between me and my vineyard.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">4 What is there that 1 ought to do more to my vineyard, that I have not done to it? was it that I looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it hath brought forth wild grapes?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">5 And now I will show you what 1 will do to my vineyard. I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be wasted: I will break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">6 And I will make it desolate: it shall not be pruned, and it shall not be digged: but briers and thorns shall come up: and I will command the clouds to rain no rain upon it.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">7 For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel: and the man of Juda, his pleasant plant: and I looked that he should do judgment, and behold iniquity: and do justice, and behold a cry.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">8 Woe to you that join house to house and lay field to field, even to the end of the place: shall you alone dwell in the midst of the earth?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">9 These things are in my ears, saith the Lord of hosts: Truly many great and fair houses shall become desolate, without an inhabitant.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></p>SntMartyrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11197760281270769367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2841669273102326159.post-39460650228931904532007-02-03T04:00:00.000-08:002011-08-10T09:24:19.501-07:005th age of the world, the proclamation of the Gospel’s truth unto the Second Coming of Christ<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><a href="http://www.drbo.org/book/48.htm"><span style="text-decoration: none; font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:#cc0000;" >Gospel According to Saint Mark</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:black;">Chapter 12</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"></span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">The parable of the vineyard and husbandmen. Caesar's right to tribute. The Sadducees are confuted. The first commandment. The widow's mite. </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;">1</span></b> And he began to speak to them in parables: A certain man planted a vineyard and made a hedge about it, and dug a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it to husbandmen; and went into a far country. <b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;">2</span></b> And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant to receive of the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard. <b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;">3</span></b> Who having laid hands on him, beat him, and sent him away empty. <b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;">4</span></b> And again he sent to them another servant; and him they wounded in the head, and used him reproachfully. <b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;">5</span></b> And again he sent another, and him they killed: and many others, of whom some they beat, and others they killed. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;">6</span></b>Therefore having yet one son, most dear to him; he also sent him unto them last of all, saying: They will reverence my son. <b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;">7</span></b> But the husbandmen said one to another: This is the heir; come let us kill him; and the inheritance shall be ours. <b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;">8</span></b> And laying hold on him, they killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard. <b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;">9</span></b> What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy those husbandmen; and will give the vineyard to others. <b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;">10</span></b> And have you not read this scripture, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is made the head of the corner: </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;">11</span></b> By the Lord has this been done, and it is wonderful in our eyes. <b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;">12</span></b> And they sought to lay hands on him, but they feared the people. For they knew that he spoke this parable to them. And leaving him, they went their way. <b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;">13</span></b> And they sent to him some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians; that they should catch him in his words. <b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;">14</span></b> Who coming, say to him: Master, we know that thou art a true speaker, and carest not for any man; for thou regardest not the person of men, but teachest the way of God in truth. Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar; or shall we not give it? <b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;">15</span></b> Who knowing their wiliness, saith to them: Why tempt you me? bring me a penny that I may see it. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;">16</span></b> And they brought it him. And he saith to them: Whose is this image and inscription? They say to him, Caesar's. <b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;">17</span></b> And Jesus answering, said to them: Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's. And they marvelled at him. <b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;">18</span></b> And there came to him the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying: <b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;">19</span></b> Master, Moses wrote unto us, that if any man's brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed to his brother. <b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;">20</span></b> Now there were seven brethren; and the first took a wife, and died leaving no issue. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;">21</span></b> And the second took her, and died: and neither did he leave any issue. And the third in like manner. <b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;">22</span></b> And the seven all took her in like manner; and did not leave issue. Last of all the woman also died. <b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;">23</span></b> In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise again, whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife. <b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;">24</span></b> And Jesus answering, saith to them: Do ye not therefore err, because you know not the scriptures, nor the power of God? <b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;">25</span></b> For when they shall rise again from the dead, they shall neither marry, nor be married, but are as the angels in heaven. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;">26</span></b> And as concerning the dead that they rise again, have you not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spoke to him, saying: I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? <b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;">27</span></b> He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You therefore do greatly err. <b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;">28</span></b> And there came one of the scribes that had heard them reasoning together, and seeing that he had answered them well, asked him which was the first commandment of all. <b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;">29</span></b> And Jesus answered him: The first commandment of all is, Hear, O Israel: the Lord thy God is one God. <b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;">30</span></b> And thou shalt love the Lord thy God, with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind, and with thy whole strength. This is the first commandment. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;">31</span></b> And the second is like to it: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is no other commandment greater than these. <b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;">32</span></b> And the scribe said to him: Well, Master, thou hast said in truth, that there is one God, and there is no other besides him. <b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;">33</span></b> And that he should be loved with the whole heart, and with the whole understanding, and with the whole soul, and with the whole strength;and to love one's neighbour as one's self, is a greater thing than all holocausts and sacrifices. <b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;">34</span></b> And Jesus seeing that he had answered wisely, said to him: Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask him any question. <b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;">35</span></b> And Jesus answering, said, teaching in the temple: How do the scribes say, that Christ is the son of David? </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;">36</span></b> For David himself saith by the Holy Ghost: The Lord said to my Lord, Sit on my right hand, until I make thy enemies thy footstool. <b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;">37</span></b> David therefore himself calleth him Lord, and whence is he then his son? And a great multitude heard him gladly. <b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;">38</span></b> And he said to them in his doctrine: Beware of the scribes, who love to walk in long robes, and to be saluted in the marketplace, <b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;">39</span></b> And to sit in the first chairs, in the synagogues, and to have the highest places at suppers: <b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;">40</span></b> Who devour the houses of widows under the pretence of long prayer: these shall receive greater judgment. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;">41</span></b> And Jesus sitting over against the treasury, beheld how the people cast money into the treasury, and many that were rich cast in much. <b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;">42</span></b> And there came a certain poor widow, and she castin two mites, which make a farthing. <b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;">43</span></b> And calling his disciples together, he saith to them: Amen I say to you, this poor widow hath cast in more than all they who have cast into the treasury. <b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;">44</span></b> For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want cast in all she had, even her whole living.</span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></p>SntMartyrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11197760281270769367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2841669273102326159.post-60947483741409250962007-02-03T03:00:00.000-08:002011-08-10T09:23:16.239-07:004 Gospels, neither fewer nor more, all teach the faith<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><a href="http://www.drbo.org/book/47.htm"><span style="text-decoration: none; font-family:Arial;color:#cc0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Gospel According to Saint Matthew</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">
<br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Chapter 16</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"></span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Christ refuses to shew the Pharisees a sign from heaven. Peter's confession is rewarded. He is rebuked for opposing Christ's passion. All his followers must deny themselves. </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">1</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And there came to him the Pharisees and Sadduccees tempting: and they asked him to shew them a sign from heaven. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">2</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> But he answered and said to them: When it is evening, you say, It will be fair weather, for the sky is red. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">3</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And in the morning: Today there will be a storm, for the sky is red and lowering. You know then how to discern the face of the sky: and can you not know the signs of the times? </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">4</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign: and a sign shall not be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet. And he left them, and went away. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">5</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And when his disciples were come over the water, they had forgotten to take bread. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">6</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Who said to them: Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">7</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> But they thought within themselves, saying: Because we have taken no bread. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">8</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And Jesus knowing it, said: Why do you think within yourselves, O ye of little faith, for that you have no bread? </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">9</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Do you not yet understand, neither do you remember the five loaves among five thousand men, and how many baskets you took up? </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">10</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Nor the seven loaves among four thousand men, and how many baskets you took up? </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">11</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Why do you not understand that it was not concerning the bread I said to you: Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees? </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">12</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Then they understood that he said not that they should beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">13</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And Jesus came into the quarters of Cesarea Philippi: and he asked his disciples, saying: Whom do men say that the Son of man is? </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">14</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> But they said: Some John the Baptist, and other some Elias, and others Jeremias, or one of the prophets. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">15</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Jesus saith to them: But whom do you say that I am? </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">16</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Simon Peter answered andsaid: Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">17</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And Jesus answering, said to him: Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jona: because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in heaven. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">18</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And I say to thee: That </span><i><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">thou art Peter</span></u></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">; and </span><i><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">upon this rock</span></u></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> I will build my church, and </span><i><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">the gates of hell</span></u></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> shall not prevail against it. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">19</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt </span><i><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">loose upon earth</span></u></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">, it shall be loosed also in heaven. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">20</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Then he commanded his disciples, that they should tell no one that he was Jesus the Christ. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">21</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> From that time Jesus began to shew to his disciples, that he must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the ancients and scribes and chief priests, and be put to death, and the third day rise again. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">22</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><i><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">And Peter taking him</span></u></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">, began to rebuke him, saying: Lord, be it far from thee, this shall not be unto thee. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">23</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Who turning, said to Peter: Go behind me, Satan, thou art a scandal unto me: because thou savourest not the things that are of God, but the things that are of men. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">24</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Then Jesus said to his disciples: If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">25</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> For he that will save his life, shall lose it: and he that shall lose his life for my sake, shall find it. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">26</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul? </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">27</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels: and then will he render to every man according to his works. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">28</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> AmenI say to you, there are some of them that stand here, that shall not taste death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.</span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></p>SntMartyrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11197760281270769367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2841669273102326159.post-11987139276393769862007-02-03T02:00:00.000-08:002010-07-13T20:39:44.744-07:003 God the Son Christ Jesus gave Moses the prophecy of repentance from blasphemy<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">THE SECOND ODE </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none" align="center"><span style="color:red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Canticle of Moses</span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><span style="color:red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Deut. 32, 1-43</span></span></p><p><span style="color:red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">H</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">EAR, O ye heavens, the things I speak, let the earth give ear to the words of my mouth.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Let my doctrine gather as the rain, let my speech distil as the dew.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">As a shower upon the herb, and as drops upon the grass.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Because I will invoke the name of the Lord:</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Give ye magnificence to our God. The works of God are perfect, and all his ways are judgments:</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">God is faithful and without any iniquity, he is just and right. They have sinned against him, and are none of his children in </span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">their</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> filth:</span></p><p><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">They are</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> a wicked and perverse generation. Is this the return thou makest to the Lord, O foolish and senseless people?</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Is not he thy father, that hath possessed thee, and made thee, and created thee?</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Remember the days of old, think upon every generation:</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Ask thy father, and he will declare to thee: thy elders and they will tell thee.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">When the Most High divided the nations: when he separated the sons of Adam,</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">He appointed the bounds of people according to the number of the children of Israel.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">But the Lord’s portion is his people: Jacob the lot of his inheritance.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">He found him in a desert land, in a place of horror, and of vast wilderness:</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">He led him about, and taught him: and he kept him as the apple of his eye.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">As the eagle enticing her young to fly, and hovering over them,</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">He spread his wings, and hath taken him and carried him on his shoulders.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Lord alone was his leader: and there was no strange god with him.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">He set him upon high land: that he might eat the fruits of the fields,</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">That he might suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the hardest stone,</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Butter of the herd, and milk of the sheep with the fat of lambs, and of the rams of the breed of Basan:</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">And goats with the marrow of wheat, and might drink the purest blood of the grape.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The beloved grew fat, and kicked: he grew fat, and thick and gross,</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">He forsook God who made him, and departed from God his saviour.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">They provoked him by strange gods, and stirred him up to anger, with </span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">their</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> abominations.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">They sacrificed to devils and not to God: to gods whom they knew not:</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">That were newly come up, whom their fathers worshipped not.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Thou hast forsaken the God that begot thee, and hast forgotten the Lord that created thee.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Lord saw, and was moved to wrath: because his own sons and daughters provoked him.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">And he said: I will hide my face from them, and will consider what their last end shall be:</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">For it is a perverse generation, and unfaithful children.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">They have provoked me with that which was no god, and have angered me with their vanities:</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">And I will provoke them with that which is no people, and will vex them with a foolish nation.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">A fire is kindled in my wrath, and shall burn even to the lowest hell:</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">And shall devour the earth with her increase, and shall burn the foundations of the mountains.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I will heap evils upon them, and will spend my arrows among them.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">They shall be consumed with famine, and birds shall devour them with a most bitter bite:</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I will send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the fury of creatures that trail upon the ground, and of serpents.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Without, the sword shall lay them waste, and terror within, both the young man and the virgin, the sucking child with the man in years.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I said: Where are they? I will make the memory of them to cease from among men.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">But for the wrath of the enemies I have deferred it: lest perhaps their enemies might be proud,</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">And should say: Our mighty hand, and not the Lord, hath done all these things.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">They are a nation without counsel, and without wisdom. O that they would be wise and would understand, and would provide for their last end.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">How should one pursue after a thousand, and two chase then thousand?</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Was it not, because their God had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">For our God is not as their gods: our enemies themselves are judges.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Their vines are of the vineyard of Sodom, and of the suburbs of Gomorrha:</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Their grapes are grapes of gall, and their clusters most bitter.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Their wine is the gall of dragons, and the venom of asps, which is incurable.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Are not these things stored up with me, and sealed up in my treasures?</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Revenge is mine, and I will repay them in </span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">due</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> time, that their foot may slide:</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The day of destruction is at hand, and the time makes haste to come.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Lord will judge his people, and will have mercy on his servants:</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">He shall see that </span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">their</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> hand is weakened, and that they who were shut up have also failed, and they that remained are consumed.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">And he shall say: Where are their gods, in whom they trusted?</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Of whose victims they ate the fat, and drank the wine of their drink offerings:</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Let them arise and help you, and protect you in your distress.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">See ye that I alone am, and there is no other God besides me:</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I will kill and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I will lift up my hand to heaven, and I will say: I live for ever.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">If I shall whet my sword as the lightning, and my hand take hold on judgment:</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I will render vengeance to my enemies, and repay them that hate me.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh,</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Of the blood of the slain and of the captivity, of the bare head of the enemies.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Praise his people, ye nations, for he will revenge the blood of his servants:</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">And will render vengeance to their enemies, and he will be merciful to the land of his people.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.</span></p><p><span style="color:red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Ant.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> The Lord will have mercy on his servants: and he will be merciful to the land of his people.</span></p><p><span style="color:red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Ant.</span></span><span style="color:red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> 5 </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Praise ye.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p>SntMartyrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11197760281270769367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2841669273102326159.post-49266369565314075512007-02-03T01:00:00.000-08:002010-07-13T20:27:04.291-07:002nd Principle, Christ is the Stone, The Rock of our faith<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">St. Matthew Chapter 21</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"></span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Christ rides into Jerusalem upon an ass. He casts the buyers and sellers out of the temple, curses the fig tree and puts to silence the priests and scribes. </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">1</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> And when they drew nigh to Jerusalem, and were come to Bethphage, unto mount Olivet, then Jesus sent two disciples, </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">2</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Saying to them: Go ye into the village that is over against you, and immediately you shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them and bring them to me. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">3</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> And if any man shall say anything to you, say ye, that the Lord hath need of them: and forthwith he will let them go. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">4</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Now all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">5</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Tell ye the daughter of Sion: Behold thy king cometh to thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of her that is used to the yoke. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">6</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> And the disciples going, did as Jesus commanded them. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">7</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> And they brought the ass and the colt, and laid their garments upon them, and made him sit thereon. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">8</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way: and others cut boughs from the trees, and strewed them in the way: </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">9</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> And the multitudes that went before and that followed, cried, saying: Hosanna to the son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">10</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> And when he was come into Jerusalem, the whole city was moved, saying: Who is this? </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">11</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> And the people said: This is Jesus the prophet, from Nazareth of Galilee. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">12</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the chairs of them that sold doves: </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">13</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> And he saith to them: It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but you have made it a den of thieves. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">14</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> And there came to him the blind and the lame in the temple; and he healed them. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">15</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> And the chief priests and scribes, seeing the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying: Hosanna to the son of David; were moved with indignation. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">16</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> And said to him: Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus said to them: Yea, have you never read: Out of the mouth of infants and of sucklings thou hast perfected praise? </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">17</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> And leaving them, he went out of the city into Bethania, and remained there. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">18</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> And in the morning, returning into the city, he was hungry. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">19</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> And seeing a certain fig tree by the way side, he came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves only, and he saith to it: May no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And immediately the fig tree withered away. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">20</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> And the disciples seeing it wondered, saying: How is it presently withered away? </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">21</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> And Jesus answering, said to them: Amen, I say to you, if you shall have faith, and stagger not, not only this of the fig tree shall you do, but also if you shall say to this mountain, Take up and cast thyself into the sea, it shall be done. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">22</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> And in all things whatsoever you shall ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">23</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> And when he was come into the temple, there came to him, as he was teaching, the chief priests and ancients of the people, saying: By what authority dost thou these things? and who hath given thee this authority? </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">24</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Jesus answering, said to them: I also will ask you one word, which if you shall tell me, I will also tell you by what authority I do these things. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">25</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> The baptism of John, whence was it? from heaven or from men? But they thought within themselves, saying: <a name="x"></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">26</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> If we shall say, from heaven, he will say to us: Why then did you not believe him? But if we shall say, from men, we are afraid of the multitude: for all held John as a prophet. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">27</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> And answering Jesus, they said: We know not. He also said to them: Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">28</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> But what think you? A certain man had two sons; and coming to the first, he said: Son, go work today in my vineyard. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">29</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> And he answering, said: I will not. But afterwards, being moved with repentance, he went. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">30</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> And coming to the other, he said in like manner. And he answering, said: I go, Sir; and he went not. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">31</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Which of the two did the father's will? They say to him: The first. Jesus saith to them: Amen I say to you, that the publicans and the harlots shall go into the kingdom of God before you. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">32</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> For John came to you in the way of justice, and you did not believe him. But the publicans and the harlots believed him: but you, seeing it, did not even afterwards repent, that you might believe him. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">33</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Hear ye another parable. There was a man an householder, whoplanted a vineyard, and made a hedge round about it, and dug in it a press, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen; and went into a strange country. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">34</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> And when the time of the fruits drew nigh, he sent his servants to the husbandmen that they might receive the fruits thereof. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">35</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> And the husbandmen laying hands on his servants, beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">36</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Again he sent other servants more than the former; and they did to them in like manner. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">37</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> And last of all he sent to them his son, saying: They will reverence my son. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">38</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> But the husbandmen seeing the son, said among themselves: This is the heir: come, let us kill him, and we shall have his inheritance. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">39</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> And taking him, they cast him forth out of the vineyard, and killed him. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">40</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> When therefore the lord of the vineyard shall come, what will he do to those husbandmen? </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">41</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> They say to him: He will bring those evil men to an evil end; and will let out his vineyard to other husbandmen, that shall render him the fruit in due season. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">42</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Jesus saith to them: Have you never read in the Scriptures: The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head ofthe corner? By the Lord this has been done; and it is wonderful in our eyes. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">43</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Therefore I say to you, that the kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and shall be given to a nation yielding the fruits thereof. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">44</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> And whosoever shall fall on this stone, shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it shall grind him to powder. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">45</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they knew that he spoke of them. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">46</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> And seeking to lay hands on him, they feared the multitudes: because they held him as a prophet.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p>SntMartyrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11197760281270769367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2841669273102326159.post-43991130423435982542007-02-03T00:00:00.000-08:002010-07-13T20:26:04.075-07:001st Principle, Christ is the Sovereign Lord<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><a href="http://www.drbo.org/book/47.htm"><span style="text-decoration: none; font-family:Arial;color:#cc0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Gospel According to Saint Matthew</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Chapter 12</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"></span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Christ reproves the blindness of the Pharisees, and confutes their attributing his miracles to Satan. </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">1</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> At that time Jesus went through the corn on the sabbath: and his disciples being hungry, began to pluck the ears, and to eat. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">2</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> And the Pharisees seeing them, said to him: Behold thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">3</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> But he said to them: Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and they that were with him: </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">4</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> How he entered into the house of God, and did eat </span><i><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">the loaves of proposition</span></u></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, which it was not lawful for him to eat, nor for them that were with him, but for the priests only? </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">5</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Or have ye not read in the law, that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple break the sabbath, and are without blame? </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 15pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">4</span></span></b><i><span style="color:#cc0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> "The loaves of proposition"... So were called the twelve loaves which were placed before the sanctuary in the temple of God. </span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">6</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> But I tell you that there is here a greater than the temple. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">7</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> And if you knew what this meaneth: I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: you would never have condemned the innocent. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">8</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">9</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> And when he has passed from thence, he came into their synagogues. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">10</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> And behold there was a man who had a withered hand, and they asked him, saying: Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">11</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> But he said to them: What man shall there be among you, that hath one sheep: and if the same fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not take hold on it and lift it up? </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">12</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> How much better is a man than a sheep? Therefore it is lawful to do a good deed on the sabbath days. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">13</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Then he saith to the man: Stretch forth thy hand; and he stretched it forth, and it was restored to health even as the other. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">14</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> And the Pharisees going out made a consultation against him, how they might destroy him. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">15</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> But Jesus knowing it, retired from thence: and many followed him, and he healed them all. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">16</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> And he charged them that they should not make him known. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">17</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaias the prophet, saying: </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">18</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Behold my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved in whom my soul hath been well pleased. I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">19</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> He shall not contend, nor cry out, neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">20</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> The bruised reed he shall not break: and smoking flax he shall not extinguish: till he send forth judgment unto victory. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">21</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> And in his name the Gentiles shall hope. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">22</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Then was offered to him one possessed with a devil, blind and dumb: and he healed him, so that he spoke and saw. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">23</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> And all the multitudes were amazed, and said: Is not this the son of David? </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">24</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> But the Pharisees hearing it, said: This man casteth not out the devils but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">25</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> And Jesus knowing their thoughts, said to them: Every kingdom divided against itself shall be made desolate: and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">26</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself: how then shall his kingdom stand? </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">27</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they shall be your judges. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">28</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> But if I by the Spirit of God cast out devils, then is the kingdom of God come upon you. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">29</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Or how can any one enter into the house of the strong, and rifle his goods, unless he first bind the strong? and then he will rifle his house. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">30</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> He that is not with me, is against me: and he that gathereth not with me, scattereth. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">31</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Therefore I say to you: Every sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven men, but </span><i><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">the blasphemy of the Spirit</span></u></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> shall not be forgiven. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">32</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but he that shall speak against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, </span><i><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">nor in the world to come</span></u></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">33</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Either make the tree good and its fruit good: or make the tree evil, and its fruit evil. For by the fruit the tree is known. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">34</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> O generation of vipers, how can you speak good things, whereas you are evil? for out of theabundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">35</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> A good man out of a good treasure bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of an evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 15pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">31</span></span></b><i><span style="color:#cc0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> "The blasphemy of the Spirit"... The sin here spoken of is that blasphemy, by which the Pharisees attributed the miracles of Christ, wrought by the Spirit of God, to Beelzebub the prince of devils. Now this kind of sin is usually accompanied with so much obstinacy, and such wilful opposing the Spirit of God, and the known truth, that men who are guilty of it, are seldom or never converted: and therefore are never forgiven, because they will not repent. Otherwise there is no sin, which God cannot or will not forgive to such as sincerely repent, and have recourse to the keys of the church.<br /><br /></span></span></i><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">32</span></span></b><i><span style="color:#cc0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> "Nor in the world to come"... From these words St. Augustine (De Civ. Dei, lib. 21, c. 13) and St. Gregory (Dialog., 4, c. 39) gather, that some sins may be remitted in the world to come; and, consequently, that there is a purgatory or a middle place. </span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">36</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> But I say unto you, that </span><i><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">every idle word</span></u></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> that men shall speak, they shall render an account for it in the day of judgment. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">37</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">38</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying: Master we would see </span><i><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">a sign</span></u></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> from thee. Who answering said to them: An evil and adulterous generation seeketh a sign: and a sign shall not be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">40</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> For as Jonas was in the whale's belly </span><i><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">three days</span></u></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> and three nights: so shall the Son of man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 15pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">36</span></span></b><i><span style="color:#cc0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> "Every idle word"... This shews there must be a place of temporal punishment hereafter where these slighter faults shall be punished.<br /><br /></span></span></i><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">38</span></span></b><i><span style="color:#cc0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> "A sign"... That is, a miracle from heaven. St. Luke 11. 16.<br /><br /></span></span></i><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">40</span></span></b><i><span style="color:#cc0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> "Three days"... Not complete days and nights; but part of three days, and three nights taken according to the way that the Hebrews counted their days and nights, viz., from evening to evening. </span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">41</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> The men of Ninive shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they did penance at the preaching of Jonas. And behold a greater than Jonas here. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">42</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> The queen of the south shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold a greater than Solomon here. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">43</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> And when an unclean spirit is gone out of a man he walketh through dry places seeking rest, and findeth none. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">44</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Then he saith: I will return into my house from whence I came out. And coming he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">45</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Then he goeth, and taketh with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is made worse than the first. So shall it be also to this wicked generation. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 17.25pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 17.25pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">46</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> As he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold his mother and his brethren stood without, seeking to speak to him. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">47</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> And one said unto him: Behold thy mother and thy brethren stand without, seeking thee. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">48</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> But he answering him that told him, said: </span><i><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Who is my mother</span></u></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, and who are my brethren? </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">49</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> And stretching forth his hand towards his disciples, he said: Behold my mother and my brethren. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">50</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> For whosoever shall do the will of my Father, that is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:#cc0001;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">48</span></span></b><i><span style="color:#cc0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> "Who is my mother?"... This was not spoken by way of slighting his mother, but to shew that we are never to suffer ourselves to be taken from the service of God, by any inordinate affection to our earthly parents: and that which our Lord chiefly regarded in his mother, was her doing the will of his Father in heaven. It may also further allude to the reprobation of the Jews, his carnal kindred, and the election of the Gentiles.</span></span></i></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p>SntMartyrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11197760281270769367noreply@blogger.com0