Reading I Isaiah 65:17-21 Thus says the LORD: Lo, I am about to create new heavens and a new earth; The things of the past shall not be remembered or come to mind. Instead, there shall always be rejoicing and happiness in what I create; For I create Jerusalem to be a joy and its people to be a delight; I will rejoice in Jerusalem and exult in my people. No longer shall the sound of weeping be heard there, or the sound of crying; No longer shall there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not round out his full lifetime; He dies a mere youth who reaches but a hundred years, and he who fails of a hundred shall be thought accursed. They shall live in the houses they build, and eat the fruit of the vineyards they plant.
Responsorial Psalm Psalm 30:2 and 4, 5-6, 11-12a and 13b R. (2a) I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me. I will extol you, O LORD, for you drew me clear and did not let my enemies rejoice over me. O LORD, you brought me up from the nether world; you preserved me from among those going down into the pit. R. I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me. Sing praise to the LORD, you his faithful ones, and give thanks to his holy name. For his anger lasts but a moment; a lifetime, his good will. At nightfall, weeping enters in, but with the dawn, rejoicing. R. I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me. “Hear, O LORD, and have pity on me; O LORD, be my helper.” You changed my mourning into dancing; O LORD, my God, forever will I give you thanks. R. I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me.
Verse before the Gospel Amos 5:14 Seek good and not evil so that you may live, and the LORD will be with you.
Gospel John 4:43-54 At that time Jesus left [Samaria] for Galilee. For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his native place. When he came into Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, since they had seen all he had done in Jerusalem at the feast; for they themselves had gone to the feast.
Then he returned to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. Now there was a royal official whose son was ill in Capernaum. When he heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, who was near death. Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will not believe.” The royal official said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.” Jesus said to him, “You may go; your son will live.” The man believed what Jesus said to him and left. While the man was on his way back, his slaves met him and told him that his boy would live. He asked them when he began to recover. They told him, “The fever left him yesterday, about one in the afternoon.” The father realized that just at that time Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live,” and he and his whole household came to believe. Now this was the second sign Jesus did when he came to Galilee from Judea.
FAUSTI - From Judea to Samaria, the gift of the Son passes to Galilee, and is offered to every man who faces his own limits, in terms of life and death. No one is extraneous to God. On the contrary, only those who do not claim merits can receive what is a pure gift. For all, to live is to believe in the love with which the Father loves the Son. It is the same with which each one of us loves Him. To know this is eternal life. There was an officer, whose son was sick." He is a subordinate to power, who together suffers and exercises. He is not a son, he is "the" son, the only one. It is the first encounter between the Savior of the world and a man of the world. And it is the first encounter between Jesus and the problem of every man: infirmity and death. "When he heard that Jesus had come, he went to Him and prayed to Him that He would come down and heal His son". Go, your son lives! The man believed the Word!" Jesus does not come down to heal; He just says that his "son lives" Jesus does not give signs, He simply says what He knows: to live is to believe in the Word that gives the possibility of becoming children of God. The following healing will be the sign of the change in the Father. His faith will ensure that the infirmity/death of the child/servant is transformed into the birth of the free child. The official is now called man. Whoever believes in the Word of Life is no longer an official of the king, taken in the moral mechanism of servant/master. He has become a man. The hour" the sign that happened yesterday produces "today" the prodigy of the third day. Faith, which gives life to those who believe in the Son. "At the seventh hour" It is the hour after the sixth, when the glorification begins for Jesus, raised on the cross. The Word of Jesus was effective instantly. Faith in it has made this man pass from the night to the light of the third day, the first fruits of the abundant fruit that will produce the seed laid under the ground. This man now becomes a father, because, through faith in the Word, he is on the way to the living son. We also recognize ourselves as descendants of him.
Monday of the Fourth Week of Lent
RispondiEliminaLectionary: 244
Reading I
Isaiah 65:17-21
Thus says the LORD:
Lo, I am about to create new heavens
and a new earth;
The things of the past shall not be remembered
or come to mind.
Instead, there shall always be rejoicing and happiness
in what I create;
For I create Jerusalem to be a joy
and its people to be a delight;
I will rejoice in Jerusalem
and exult in my people.
No longer shall the sound of weeping be heard there,
or the sound of crying;
No longer shall there be in it
an infant who lives but a few days,
or an old man who does not round out his full lifetime;
He dies a mere youth who reaches but a hundred years,
and he who fails of a hundred shall be thought accursed.
They shall live in the houses they build,
and eat the fruit of the vineyards they plant.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 30:2 and 4, 5-6, 11-12a and 13b
R. (2a) I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me.
I will extol you, O LORD, for you drew me clear
and did not let my enemies rejoice over me.
O LORD, you brought me up from the nether world;
you preserved me from among those going down into the pit.
R. I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me.
Sing praise to the LORD, you his faithful ones,
and give thanks to his holy name.
For his anger lasts but a moment;
a lifetime, his good will.
At nightfall, weeping enters in,
but with the dawn, rejoicing.
R. I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me.
“Hear, O LORD, and have pity on me;
O LORD, be my helper.”
You changed my mourning into dancing;
O LORD, my God, forever will I give you thanks.
R. I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me.
Verse before the Gospel
Amos 5:14
Seek good and not evil so that you may live,
and the LORD will be with you.
Gospel
John 4:43-54
At that time Jesus left [Samaria] for Galilee.
For Jesus himself testified
that a prophet has no honor in his native place.
When he came into Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him,
since they had seen all he had done in Jerusalem at the feast;
for they themselves had gone to the feast.
Then he returned to Cana in Galilee,
where he had made the water wine.
Now there was a royal official whose son was ill in Capernaum.
When he heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea,
he went to him and asked him to come down
and heal his son, who was near death.
Jesus said to him,
“Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will not believe.”
The royal official said to him,
“Sir, come down before my child dies.”
Jesus said to him, “You may go; your son will live.”
The man believed what Jesus said to him and left.
While the man was on his way back,
his slaves met him and told him that his boy would live.
He asked them when he began to recover.
They told him,
“The fever left him yesterday, about one in the afternoon.”
The father realized that just at that time Jesus had said to him,
“Your son will live,”
and he and his whole household came to believe.
Now this was the second sign Jesus did
when he came to Galilee from Judea.
FAUSTI - From Judea to Samaria, the gift of the Son passes to Galilee, and is offered to every man who faces his own limits, in terms of life and death. No one is extraneous to God. On the contrary, only those who do not claim merits can receive what is a pure gift. For all, to live is to believe in the love with which the Father loves the Son. It is the same with which each one of us loves Him. To know this is eternal life.
RispondiEliminaThere was an officer, whose son was sick." He is a subordinate to power, who together suffers and exercises. He is not a son, he is "the" son, the only one. It is the first encounter between the Savior of the world and a man of the world. And it is the first encounter between Jesus and the problem of every man: infirmity and death.
"When he heard that Jesus had come, he went to Him and prayed to Him that He would come down and heal His son".
Go, your son lives! The man believed the Word!" Jesus does not come down to heal; He just says that his "son lives" Jesus does not give signs, He simply says what He knows: to live is to believe in the Word that gives the possibility of becoming children of God. The following healing will be the sign of the change in the Father. His faith will ensure that the infirmity/death of the child/servant is transformed into the birth of the free child.
The official is now called man. Whoever believes in the Word of Life is no longer an official of the king, taken in the moral mechanism of servant/master. He has become a man.
The hour" the sign that happened yesterday produces "today" the prodigy of the third day. Faith, which gives life to those who believe in the Son. "At the seventh hour" It is the hour after the sixth, when the glorification begins for Jesus, raised on the cross. The Word of Jesus was effective instantly. Faith in it has made this man pass from the night to the light of the third day, the first fruits of the abundant fruit that will produce the seed laid under the ground. This man now becomes a father, because, through faith in the Word, he is on the way to the living son. We also recognize ourselves as descendants of him.