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Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. Jn 6: 68
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Wednesday the 8th week of Ordinary Time Saint
(s) today: St. Angela de la Cruz, religious (1846 -1932) , St Nicolas Owen, Martyr (+ 1606)
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St. Ephrem: "The Son of Man came. to give his life .. "
Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Mark from 10.32 to 45.
The disciples were traveling with Jesus up to Jerusalem, and Jesus before them, they were frightened, and those who followed were also in awe. Taking again the Twelve with him, he began to tell them what would happen to him: "Behold, we go up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, they will condemn him to death, they deliver him to the Gentiles, they will laugh at him, they spit upon him, and flog and kill, and three days after , he will rise. "Jacques and John, the son of Zebedee, came to Jesus and tell him:" Teacher, we want you to hear our request. "He told them:" What would you want me to do for you? "They replied:" Grant us to sit, one at your right and the other at your left in your glory. "Jesus said: "You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup that I drink, receive baptism in which I will be dove? "They told him:" We can. "He replied:" The cup that I drink, you drink, and the baptism in which I'll be dipped, you will receive. But to sit at my right or my left is not mine to grant, there are those for whom these places are prepared. "The other ten had heard, they were indignant and cons and Jean Jacques . But Jesus called them and said: "You know: those that are recognized as rulers over the Gentiles masters, their great ones make their authority felt. Among you there must not be so. Whoever wants to become great will be your servant. Whoever wants to be first must be slave of all: for the Son of man came not to be served but to serve and give His life a ransom for many. "
Extract from the Liturgical Translation of the Bible - © AELF, Paris
Comment of the Day: St. Ephrem
(c. 306-373), deacon in Syria, Doctor of the Church
Commentary on the Diatessaron, 20, 2 -7 (trans. HC 121, p. 344s)
" If possible, let this cup pass from me "(Mt 26 39). Why have you taken Simon Peter said: "What this does not happen to you, Lord! "(Matthew 16:22), which you now say:" If possible, let this cup pass from me "? He knew what he said to his Father, and it was possible that this cup pass, but he came to drink it all in order to pay this debt cut that death of the prophets and martyrs could not pay ... That who had described her killing the prophets and had prefigured the mystery of his death by the righteous, when it is time to eat his death, he did not refuse to drink it. If he had not wanted to drink, but the push, he would not have compared his body to the Temple in these words: "Destroy this temple and the third day I will raise it up" (Jn 2:19); he would not tell the son of Zebedee: "Can you drink the cup that I drink? And again: "For me there is a baptism I am baptized" (Luke 12.50) ...
" If possible, let this cup pass from me. He said that because of the weakness he had covered but not really pretending. Since it had been small and had actually put on our weakness, he should be shaken in fear and weakness. Having made flesh, putting on the weakness, eating when he was hungry, tired by work, overcome by sleep, had to be done everything which is the flesh when the time of his death came ...
To bring his passion for comfort to his disciples, Jesus felt this they feel. It took him fear to show them, by the resemblance of his soul, he should not boast about death before he had suffered. If, indeed, he who fears nothing was scared and asked to be relieved when he knew it was impossible, how is it that most other persevere in prayer before the temptation to order be issued when it presents itself ... To give courage to those who fear death, he did not hide his own fear, so they know that this fear does not lead to sin, as long as they do not live in it. "No, Father, says Jesus, but your will be done ": I die to give life to many.
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