Friday, February 26th. Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to St Matthew 21:33-43.45-46.
Friday of the Second week of Lent
26 February 2016
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ
‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and acquire his inheritance.’
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 21:33-43.45-46.
Jesus said to the chief priests and the elders of the people: “Hear another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a tower. Then he leased it to tenants and went on a journey.
When vintage time drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to obtain his produce.
But the tenants seized the servants and one they beat, another they killed, and a third they stoned.
Again he sent other servants, more numerous than the first ones, but they treated them in the same way.
Finally, he sent his son to them, thinking, ‘They will respect my son.’
But when the tenants saw the son, they said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and acquire his inheritance.’
They seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.
What will the owner of the vineyard do to those tenants when he comes?”
They answered him, “He will put those wretched men to a wretched death and lease his vineyard to other tenants who will give him the produce at the proper times.”
Jesus said to them, “Did you never read in the scriptures: ‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; by the Lord has this been done, and it is wonderful in our eyes’?
Therefore, I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that will produce its fruit.
When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they knew that he was speaking about them.
And although they were attempting to arrest him, they feared the crowds, for they regarded him as a prophet.
©Evangelizo.org 2001-2016
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DAILY MASS – Friday 26 February 2016
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Friday of the Second week of Lent
26 February 2016
Commentary of the day
Saint Ambrose (c.340-397),
Saint Ambrose barring Theodosius from Milan Cathedral by Anthony van Dyck
Saint Ambrose (c.340-397),
Bishop of Milan and Doctor of the Church
Commentary on Saint Luke’s Gospel, 9, 29-30 (cf. SC 52, p.150)
The parable of the vine
The vine symbolizes us because the people of God, grafted into the stock of the eternal vine (Jn 15,5), shoots up above the earth. As the flourishing of an unyielding ground, the more the vine buds and flowers and the more greenery it produces, the more it resembles the desirable yoke of the cross when, full-grown, its outstretched branches form the shoots of a fruitful vineyard… With good reason, then, do we call the people of Christ a vine, whether because they mark their foreheads with the sign of the cross (Ez 9,4), or because their fruits are harvested in the last season of the year, or because, just as in the lines of a vineyard, poor and rich, lowly and mighty, servants and masters, all who are in the Church share a perfect equality…
When vines are tied up they stand upright; when they are pruned it is not to reduce them in size but to make them grow. So it is with this holy people: if bound, it is set free; if humbled, it stands tall; if cut down, it is actually given a crown. Better still: just as a sprout taken from an old tree is grafted onto another root, so this holy people…, nourished on the tree of the cross…, grows and spreads. And the Holy Spirit flows into our bodies as though poured out into the furrows of a field, cleansing all that is unclean and straightening our members to guide them heavenwards.
The Vinedresser is accustomed to weed this vine, to stake it and prune it (Jn 15,2)… Sometimes he heats the hidden places of our body with sunshine, sometimes he waters them with the rain. He delights to weed his land lest the weeds injure the buds; he takes care that the leaves don’t make too much shade…, don’t deprive our virtues of light or hinder the maturation of our fruit.
©Evangelizo.org 2001-2016
Image: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Friday of the Second week of Lent
26 February 2016
Saint of the day
St. Porphyry,
Bishop (+ 420)
ST PORPHYRY
Bishop
(+ 420)
At the age of twenty-five, Porphyry, a rich citizen of Thessalonica, left the world for one of the great religious houses in the desert of Sceté. Here he remained five years, and then, finding himself drawn to a more solitary life, passed into Palestine, where he spent a similar period in the severest penance, till ill health obliged him to moderate his austerities. He then made his home in Jerusalem, and in spite of his ailments visited the Holy Places every day; thinking, says his biographer, so little of his sickness that he seemed to be afflicted in another body, and not his own. About this time God put it into his heart to sell all he had and give to the poor, and then in reward of the sacrifice restored him by a miracle to perfect health.
In 393 he was ordained priest and intrusted with the care of the relics of the true cross; three years later, in spite of all the resistance his humility could make, he was consecrated Bishop of Gaza. That city was a hotbed of paganism, and Porphyry found in it an ample scope for his apostolic zeal. His labors and the miracles which attended them effected the conversion of many; and an imperial edict for the destruction of the pagan temples, obtained through the influence of St. John Chrysostom, greatly strengthened his hands.
When St. Porphyry first went to Gaza, he found there one temple more splendid than the rest, in honor of the chief god. When the edict went forth to destroy all traces of heathen worship, St. Porphyry determined to put Satan to special shame where he had received special honor. A Christian church was built upon the site, and its approach was paved with the marbles of the heathen temple. Thus every worshipper of Jesus Christ trod the relics of idolatry and superstition underfoot each time he went to assist at the holy Mass.
He lived to see his diocese for the most part clear of idolatry, and died in 420.
Lives of the Saints, by Alban Butler, Benziger Bros. ed. [1894]
©Evangelizo.org 2001-2016
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“Go into the whole world and proclaim the Gospel to every creature.”
Mark 16:15-20
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“I am with you always, until the end of the age.”
Matthew 28:20.
***********************************************
He guides me in right paths
for his name’s sake.
Even though I walk in the dark valley
I fear no evil; for you are at my side
with your rod and your staff
that give me courage.
Psalms 23(22):1-3a.3b-4.5.6.
***************************************
Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful
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Friday, February 26th. Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to St Matthew 21:33-43.45-46.
Friday of the Second week of Lent
26 February 2016
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ
‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and acquire his inheritance.’
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 21:33-43.45-46.
Jesus said to the chief priests and the elders of the people: “Hear another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a tower. Then he leased it to tenants and went on a journey.
When vintage time drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to obtain his produce.
But the tenants seized the servants and one they beat, another they killed, and a third they stoned.
Again he sent other servants, more numerous than the first ones, but they treated them in the same way.
Finally, he sent his son to them, thinking, ‘They will respect my son.’
But when the tenants saw the son, they said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and acquire his inheritance.’
They seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.
What will the owner of the vineyard do to those tenants when he comes?”
They answered him, “He will put those wretched men to a wretched death and lease his vineyard to other tenants who will give him the produce at the proper times.”
Jesus said to them, “Did you never read in the scriptures: ‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; by the Lord has this been done, and it is wonderful in our eyes’?
Therefore, I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that will produce its fruit.
When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they knew that he was speaking about them.
And although they were attempting to arrest him, they feared the crowds, for they regarded him as a prophet.
©Evangelizo.org 2001-2016
Image:From Biblehub
DAILY MASS – Friday 26 February 2016
___________________________________
Friday of the Second week of Lent
26 February 2016
Commentary of the day
Saint Ambrose (c.340-397),
Saint Ambrose barring Theodosius from Milan Cathedral by Anthony van Dyck
Saint Ambrose (c.340-397),
Bishop of Milan and Doctor of the Church
Commentary on Saint Luke’s Gospel, 9, 29-30 (cf. SC 52, p.150)
The parable of the vine
The vine symbolizes us because the people of God, grafted into the stock of the eternal vine (Jn 15,5), shoots up above the earth. As the flourishing of an unyielding ground, the more the vine buds and flowers and the more greenery it produces, the more it resembles the desirable yoke of the cross when, full-grown, its outstretched branches form the shoots of a fruitful vineyard… With good reason, then, do we call the people of Christ a vine, whether because they mark their foreheads with the sign of the cross (Ez 9,4), or because their fruits are harvested in the last season of the year, or because, just as in the lines of a vineyard, poor and rich, lowly and mighty, servants and masters, all who are in the Church share a perfect equality…
When vines are tied up they stand upright; when they are pruned it is not to reduce them in size but to make them grow. So it is with this holy people: if bound, it is set free; if humbled, it stands tall; if cut down, it is actually given a crown. Better still: just as a sprout taken from an old tree is grafted onto another root, so this holy people…, nourished on the tree of the cross…, grows and spreads. And the Holy Spirit flows into our bodies as though poured out into the furrows of a field, cleansing all that is unclean and straightening our members to guide them heavenwards.
The Vinedresser is accustomed to weed this vine, to stake it and prune it (Jn 15,2)… Sometimes he heats the hidden places of our body with sunshine, sometimes he waters them with the rain. He delights to weed his land lest the weeds injure the buds; he takes care that the leaves don’t make too much shade…, don’t deprive our virtues of light or hinder the maturation of our fruit.
©Evangelizo.org 2001-2016
Image: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
___________________________
Friday of the Second week of Lent
26 February 2016
Saint of the day
St. Porphyry,
Bishop (+ 420)
ST PORPHYRY
Bishop
(+ 420)
At the age of twenty-five, Porphyry, a rich citizen of Thessalonica, left the world for one of the great religious houses in the desert of Sceté. Here he remained five years, and then, finding himself drawn to a more solitary life, passed into Palestine, where he spent a similar period in the severest penance, till ill health obliged him to moderate his austerities. He then made his home in Jerusalem, and in spite of his ailments visited the Holy Places every day; thinking, says his biographer, so little of his sickness that he seemed to be afflicted in another body, and not his own. About this time God put it into his heart to sell all he had and give to the poor, and then in reward of the sacrifice restored him by a miracle to perfect health.
In 393 he was ordained priest and intrusted with the care of the relics of the true cross; three years later, in spite of all the resistance his humility could make, he was consecrated Bishop of Gaza. That city was a hotbed of paganism, and Porphyry found in it an ample scope for his apostolic zeal. His labors and the miracles which attended them effected the conversion of many; and an imperial edict for the destruction of the pagan temples, obtained through the influence of St. John Chrysostom, greatly strengthened his hands.
When St. Porphyry first went to Gaza, he found there one temple more splendid than the rest, in honor of the chief god. When the edict went forth to destroy all traces of heathen worship, St. Porphyry determined to put Satan to special shame where he had received special honor. A Christian church was built upon the site, and its approach was paved with the marbles of the heathen temple. Thus every worshipper of Jesus Christ trod the relics of idolatry and superstition underfoot each time he went to assist at the holy Mass.
He lived to see his diocese for the most part clear of idolatry, and died in 420.
Lives of the Saints, by Alban Butler, Benziger Bros. ed. [1894]
©Evangelizo.org 2001-2016
_________________________________
PLEASE JOIN
DAILY MASS & SUNDAY MASS
READ
DAILY GOSPEL OF THE LORD JESUS
with
DAILY COMMENTARY OF THE DAY
and
SAINTS OF THE DAY
ALSO READ
NEWSLETTER IN THAI
From
SAINT FRANCIS XAVIER NEWSLETTER IN THAI
THANK YOU
___________________________________
“Go into the whole world and proclaim the Gospel to every creature.”
Mark 16:15-20
*********************************************
“I am with you always, until the end of the age.”
Matthew 28:20.
***********************************************
He guides me in right paths
for his name’s sake.
Even though I walk in the dark valley
I fear no evil; for you are at my side
with your rod and your staff
that give me courage.
Psalms 23(22):1-3a.3b-4.5.6.
***************************************
Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful
****************************
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