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Monday, December 12, 2011

I came not to call the just, but sinners to penance.


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Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees




Matthew Chapter 3

The preaching of John: Christ is baptized.
3:1 And in those days cometh John the Baptist preaching in the desert of Judea.
3:2 And saying: Do penance: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Do penance. . .Paenitentiam agite. Which word, according to the use of the scriptures and the holy fathers, does not only signify repentance and amendment of life, but also punishing past sins by fasting, and such like penitential exercises.

3:3 For this is he that was spoken of by Isaias the prophet, saying: A voice of one crying in the desert, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight his paths.
3:4 And the same John had his garment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins: and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
3:5 Then went out to him Jerusalem and all Judea, and all the country about Jordan:
3:6 And were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.
3:7 And seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them: Ye brood of vipers, who hath shewed you to flee from the wrath to come?
Pharisees and Sadducees. . .These were two sects among the Jews: of which the former were for the most part notorious hypocrites; the latter, a kind of freethinkers in matters of religion.
3:8 Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of penance.
3:9 And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham for our father. For I tell you that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.
3:10 For now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doth not yield good fruit, shall be cut down, and cast into the fire.
3:11 I indeed baptize you in water unto penance, but he that shall come after me, is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you in the Holy Ghost and fire.
3:12 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor and gather his wheat into the barn; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.
3:13 Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to the Jordan, unto John, to be baptized by him.
3:14 But John stayed him, saying: I ought to be baptized by thee, and comest thou to me?
3:15 And Jesus answering, said to him: Suffer it to be so now. For so it becometh us to fulfil all justice. Then he suffered him.
3:16 And Jesus being baptized, forthwith came out of the water: and lo, the heavens were opened to him: and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon him.
3:17 And behold a voice from heaven saying: This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.


Judith Chapter 16

The canticle of Judith: her virtuous life and death.

16:1 Then Judith sung this canticle to the Lord, saying:
16:2 Begin ye to the Lord with timbrels, sing ye to the Lord with cymbals, tune unto him a new psalm, extol and call upon his name.
16:3 The Lord putteth an end to wars, the Lord is his name.
16:4 He hath set his camp in the midst of his people, to deliver us from the hand of all our enemies.
16:5 The Assyrian came out of the mountains from the north in the multitude of his strength: his multitude stopped up the torrents, and their horses covered the valleys.
16:6 He bragged that he would set my borders on fire, and kill my young men with the sword, to make my infants a prey, and my virgins captives.
16:7 But the almighty Lord hath struck him, and hath delivered him into the hands of a woman, and hath slain him.
16:8 For their mighty one did not fall by young men, neither did the sons of Titan strike him, nor tall giants oppose themselves to him, but Judith the daughter of Merari weakened him with the eauty of her face.
16:9 For she put off her the garments of widowhood, and put on her the garments of joy, to give joy to the children of Israel.
16:10 She anointed her face with ointment, and bound up her locks with a crown, she took a new robe to deceive him.
16:11 Her sandals ravished his eyes, her beauty made his soul her captive, with a sword she cut off his head.
16:12 The Persians quaked at her constancy, and the Medes at her boldness.
16:13 Then the camp of the Assyrians howled, when my lowly ones appeared, parched with thirst.
16:14 The sons of the damsels have pierced them through, and they have killed them like children fleeing away: they perished in battle before the face of the Lord my God.
16:15 Let us sing a hymn to the Lord, let us sing a new hymn to our God.
16:16 O Adonai, Lord, great art thou, and glorious in thy power, and no one can overcome thee.
16:17 Let all thy creatures serve thee: because thou hast spoken, and they were made: thou didst send forth thy spirit, and they were created, and there is no one that can resist thy voice.
16:18 The mountains shall be moved from the foundations with the waters: the rocks shall melt as wax before thy face.
16:19 But they that fear thee, shall be great with thee in all things.
16:20 Woe be to the nation that riseth up against my people: for the Lord almighty will take revenge on them, in the day of judgment he will visit them.
16:21 For he will give fire, and worms into their flesh, that they may burn, and may feel for ever.
16:22 And it came to pass after these things, that all the people, after the victory, came to Jerusalem to adore the Lord: and as soon as they were purified, they all offered holocausts, and vows, and their promises.
16:23 And Judith offered for an anathema of oblivion all the arms of Holofernes, which the people gave her, and the canopy that she had taken away out of his chamber.

An anathema of oblivion. . .That is, a gift or offering made to God, by way of an everlasting monument, to prevent the oblivion or forgetting so great a benefit.

16:24 And the people were joyful in the sight of the sanctuary, and for three months the joy of this victory was celebrated with Judith.
16:25 And after those days every man returned to his house, and Judith was made great in Bethulia, and she was most renowned in all the land of Israel.
16:26 And chastity was joined to her virtue, so that she knew no man all the days of her life, after the death of Manasses her husband.
16:27 And on festival days she came forth with great glory.
16:28 And she abode in her husband's house a hundred and five years, and made her handmaid free, and she died, and was buried with her husband in Bethulia.
16:29 And all the people mourned for seven days.
16:30 And all the time of her life there was none that troubled Israel, nor many years after her death.
16:31 But the day of the festivity of this victory is received by the Hebrews in the number of holy days, and is religiously observed by the Jews from that time until this day.


Luke Chapter 5

The miraculous draught of fishes. The cure of the leper and of the paralytic. The call of Matthew.

5:1 And it came to pass, that when the multitudes pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Genesareth,
5:2 And saw two ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen were gone out of them and were washing their nets.
5:3 And going into one of the ships that was Simon's, he desired him to draw back a little from the land. And sitting, he taught the multitudes out of the ship.
5:4 Now when he had ceased to speak, he said to Simon: Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a draught.
5:5 And Simon answering said to him: Master, we have laboured all the night and have taken nothing: but at thy word I will let down the net.
5:6 And when they had done this, they enclosed a very great multitude of fishes: and their net broke.
5:7 And they beckoned to their partners that were in the other ship, that they should come and help them. And they came and filled both the ships, so that they were almost sinking.
5:8 Which when Simon Peter saw, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying: Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.
5:9 For he was wholly astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes which they had taken.
5:10 And so were also James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were Simon's partners. And Jesus saith to Simon: Fear not: from henceforth thou shalt catch men.
5:11 And having brought their ships to land, leaving all things, they followed him.
5:12 And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man full of leprosy who, seeing Jesus and falling on his face, besought him saying: Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me lean.
5:13 And stretching forth his hand, he touched him, saying: I will. Be thou cleansed. And immediately the leprosy departed from him.
5:14 And he charged him that he should tell no man, but: Go, shew thyself to the priest and offer for thy cleansing according as Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.
5:15 But the fame of him went abroad the more: and great multitudes came together to hear and to be healed by him of their infirmities.
5:16 And he retired into the desert; and prayed.
5:17 And it came to pass on a certain day, as he sat teaching, that there were also Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, that were come out of every town of Galilee and Judea and erusalem: and the power of the Lord was to heal them.
5:18 And behold, men brought in a bed a man who had the palsy: and they sought means to bring him in and to lay him before him.
5:19 And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in, because of the multitude, they went up upon the roof and let him down through the tiles with his bed into the midst efore Jesus.
5:20 Whose faith when he saw, he said: Man, thy sins are forgiven thee.
5:21 And the scribes and Pharisees began to think, saying: Who is this who speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?
5:22 And when Jesus knew their thoughts, answering he said to them: What is it you think in your hearts?
5:23 Which is easier to say: Thy sins are forgiven thee; or to say: Arise and walk?
5:24 But that you may know that the Son of man hath the power on earth to forgive sins (he saith to the sick of the palsy), I say to thee to: Arise, take up thy bed and go into thy house.
5:25 And immediately rising up before them, he took up the bed on which he lay: and he went away to his own house, glorifying God.
5:26 And all were astonished: and they glorified God. And they were filled with fear, saying: We have seen wonderful things to-day.
5:27 And after these things, he went forth and saw a publican named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said to him: Follow me.
5:28 And leaving all things, he rose up and followed him.
5:29 And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: And there was a great company of publicans and of others that were at table with them.
5:30 But the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying to his disciples: Why do you eat and drink with publicans and sinners?
5:31 And Jesus answering, said to them: They that are whole need not the physician: but they that are sick.
5:32 I came not to call the just, but sinners to penance.
5:33 And they said to him: Why do the disciples of John fast often and make prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees in like manner; but thine eat and drink?
5:34 To whom he said: Can you make the children of the bridegroom fast whilst the bridegroom is with them?
5:35 But the days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them: then shall they fast in those days.
5:36 And he spoke also a similitude to them: That no man putteth a piece from a new garment upon an old garment: otherwise he both rendeth the new, and the piece taken from the new greeth not with the old.
5:37 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: otherwise the new wine will break the bottles; and it will be spilled and the bottles will be lost.
5:38 But new wine must be put into new bottles: and both are preserved.
5:39 And no man drinking old hath presently a mind to new: for he saith: The old is better.

All of this in the below link is the old paganism that Christ redeemed people from. To go back to it is to be damned to hell forevermore.

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The Justice of God: "I Have The Power"


And God seeing that the wickedness of men was great on the earth, and that all the thought of their heart was bent upon evil at all times, it repented Him that He had made man on the earth. And being touched inwardly with sorrow of heart, He said, I will destroy man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth, from man even to beasts, from the creeping thing even to the fowls of the air; for it repenteth Me that I have made them.

And Noe, when he was five hundred years old, begot Sem, Cham, and Japheth. And after that men began to be multiplied upon the earth, and daughters were born to them, the sons of God seeing the daughters of men, that they were fair, took to themselves wives of all which they chose. And God said, My spirit shall not remain in man forever, because he is flesh; and his days shall be a hundred and twenty years. Now giants were upon the earth in those days. For after the sons of God went in to the daughters of men, and they brought forth children, these are the mighty men of old, men of renown. And God seeing that the wickedness of men was great on the earth, and that all the thought of their heart was bent upon evil at all times, it repented Him that He had made man on the earth. And being touched inwardly with sorrow of heart, He said, I will destroy man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth, from man even to beasts, from the creeping thing even to the fowls of the air; for it repenteth Me that I have made them. But Noe found grace before the Lord. These are the generations of Noe; Noe was a just and perfect man in his generations, he walked with God. And he begot three sons, Sem, Cham, and Japheth. And the earth was corrupted before God, and was filled with iniquity. And when God had seen that the earth was corrupted (for all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth), He said to Noe, the end of all flesh is come before Me; the earth is filled with iniquity through them, and I will destroy them with the earth. Make thee an ark of timber planks: thou shalt make little rooms in the ark, and thou shalt pitch it within and without. And thus shalt thou make it: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. Thou shalt make a window in the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish the top of it; and the door of the ark thou shalt set in the side; with lower, middle chambers, and third stories, shalt thou make it. Behold I will bring the waters of a great flood upon the earth, to destroy all flesh wherein is the breath of life under heaven: all things that are in the earth shall be consumed. And I will establish My covenant with thee: and thou shalt enter into the ark; thou and thy sons, and thy wife, and the wives of thy sons, with thee. And of every living creature of all flesh, thou shalt bring two of a sort into the ark, that they may live with thee, of the male sex and the female. Of fowls according to their kind, and of beasts in their kind, and of every thing that creepeth on the earth according to its kind; two of every sort shall go in with thee that they may live. Thou shalt take unto thee of all food that may be eaten, and thou shalt lay it up with thee: and it shall be food for thee and them. And Noe did all things which God had commanded him. And he was six hundred years old when the waters of the flood overflowed the earth. All the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the floodgates of heaven were opened, and the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights. In the selfsame day Noe, and Sem and Chain and Japheth, his sons, his wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, went into the ark; they and every beast according to its kind, and all the cattle in their kind, and every thing that moveth upon the earth according to its kind, and every fowl according to its kind. And the ark was carried upon the waters: and the waters prevailed beyond measure upon the earth, and all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered; the water was fifteen cubits higher than the mountains which it covered. And all flesh was destroyed that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beasts, and of all creeping things that creep upon the earth. And Noe only remained, and they that were with him in the ark. And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days. And God remembered Noe, and all the living creatures, and all the cattle which were with him in the ark, and brought a wind upon the earth, and the waters were abated; the fountains also of the deep and the floodgates of heaven were shut up, and the rain from heaven was restrained. And the waters returned from off the earth, going and coming; and they began to be abated after a hundred and fifty days. And after that forty days were passed, Noe opened the window of the ark, which he had made, sent forth a raven, which went forth, and did not return till the waters were dried up upon the earth. He sent forth also a dove after him, to see if the waters had ceased upon the face of the earth: but she not finding where her foot might rest, returned to him into the ark, for the waters were upon the whole earth; and he put forth his hand, and caught her, and brought her into the ark. And having waited yet seven other days, he again sent forth the dove out of the ark. And she came to him in the evening carrying a bough of an olive tree with green leaves in her mouth. Noe therefore understood that the waters were ceased upon the earth. And he stayed yet another seven days; and he sent forth the dove, which returned not any more unto him. And God spake to Noe, saying, Go out of the ark, thou and thy wife, thy sons, and the wives of thy sons with thee. All living things that are with thee of all flesh, as well in fowls as in beasts, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, bring out with thee, and go ye upon the earth; increase and multiply upon it. So Noe went out, he and his sons, his wife, and the wives of his sons with him. And all living things, and cattle, and creeping things that creep upon the earth, according to their kinds, went out of the ark. And Noe built an altar unto the Lord, and taking of all cattle and fowls that were clean, offered holocausts upon the altar. And the Lord smelled a sweet savor.

But Noe found grace before the Lord. These are the generations of Noe; Noe was a just and perfect man in his generations, he walked with God.


P. Let us pray.

D. Let us kneel.

S. Arise.

O God, unchangeable virtue and light eternal, look mercifully upon the wonderful sacrament of Thy whole Church, and perform in peace the work of human salvation, and let the whole world feel and see the things lifted up that were cast down, the worn out things renewed, and that all things are made whole through Him from Whom they had their origin, Our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who with Thee livest and reignest, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, world without end. S. Amen.









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