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SUMMARY:Skema: 4th Week in Ordinary Time
DESCRIPTION:Biblical Readings for Office and Mass\n4th Week in Ordinary Time\n\n\nMass Readings: Sunday (A)\, Weekdays (I)\nJanuary 29 – February 4\, 2023\n\n\n\nSun\n29\nMon\n30\nTue\n31\nWed\n1\nThu\n2\nFri\n3\nSat\n4\n\n\nOffice\n4th Sunday\nOffice for Vocations\nSt John Bosco\nWeekday\nPresentation of the Lord\nWeekday\nMemorial of the BVM\n\n\nVigils\nJudg 11:12-28\nJudg 11:29-40\nJudg 13:1-25\nJudg 14:1-20\nExod 13:1-16\nJudg 15:1-20\nJudg 16:1-22\n\n\nLauds\nZech 8:18-23\nZech 9: 1-7\nZech 9:8-10\nZech 9:11-17\nIsa 42:1-7\nZech 10:1-5\nZech 10:6-12\n\n\nMass\n70\n323\n324\n325\n524\n327\n328\n\n\n1st\nZeph 2:3; 3:12-13\nHeb 11:32-40\nHeb 12:1-4\nHeb 12:4-7\, 11-15\nHeb 2:14-18\nHeb 13:1-8\nHeb 13:15-17\, 20-21\n\n\n2nd\n1 Cor 1:26-31\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGospel\nMatt 5:1-12a\nMark 5:1-20\nMark 5:21-43\nMark 6:1-6\nLuke 2:22-40\nMark 6:14-29\nMark 6:30-34\n\n\nVespers\nEph 6:18-24\nPhil 1:1-11\nPhil 1:12-18a\nPhil 1:18b-26\n1 Jn 3:1-8\nPhil 1:27-30\nPhil 2:1-11
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SUMMARY:4th Sunday in Ordinary Time
DESCRIPTION:Blessed are the Poor in Spirit 1\nA commentary by Symeon the New Theologian \nWhen holy Scripture is being read we should look at ourselves as though in a\nmirror and consider our state of soul. Let me explain what I mean. We hear the\nLord saying: Blessed are the poor in spirit\, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.\nThis must make us always examine and test ourselves whenever we suffer\nhumiliation\, whenever we are insulted\, dishonored\, and treated with contempt\, to\nsee whether or not we possess the virtue of humility. A person who has it bears\neverything without feeling hurt or taking offense. His heart is not wounded by\nanything that happens to him. If he is slightly wounded he is not completely upset;\non the contrary\, because of that heart wound\, simply for having been slightly pained\ninstead of accepting what happened with joy\, he is distressed and thinks himself\ndespicable\, he grieves and weeps. Withdrawing into the inner chamber of his soul\nor his cell\, he falls down before God and confesses to him as though he had\ncompletely forfeited eternal life. \nThen again we hear: Blessed are those who mourn. Notice that the Lord does\nnot say those who have mourned\, but those who continually mourn. Concerning\nthis too\, then\, we must examine ourselves to see whether we mourn every day\, for if\nwe have been made humble by repentance\, obviously we shall not pass a single day\nor night without tears\, without mourning\, and without compunction. \nAnd again: Blessed are the gentle. Can anyone who mourns every day\ncontinue to live in a state of anger and not become gentle? Just as water\nextinguishes a blazing fire\, so mourning and tears extinguish anger in the soul so\ncompletely that a person who had long been given over to it sees his irascible\ndisposition transformed into perfect serenity. \nAgain we hear: Blessed are the merciful. Who\, then\, are the merciful? Those\nwho give away their possessions or who feed the poor? No. Then who are they?\nThose who have become poor for the sake of him who became poor for our sake\,\nthose who have nothing to give\, but who in a spiritual way are always mindful of the\npoor\, the widows\, the orphans\, and the sick. Seeing them frequently\, they have\ncompassion on them and shed burning tears over them. Such was Job\, who said: I\nwept over every infirmity. When they have anything they cheerfully give alms to\nthem\, as well as ungrudgingly reminding all of how they can save their souls\, thus\nobeying the one who said: What I learned with pure intention I pass on without\ngrudging. These are the ones the Lord calls blessed\, the ones who are truly\nmerciful\, for such mercy is like a step by which they ascend to attain perfect purity\nof heart. \nIn virtue of this God then proclaims the pure of heart blessed\, saying: Blessed\nare the pure of heart\, for they shall see God. The purified soul sees God in\neverything and is reconciled to him. Peace is established between God our creator\nand the soul\, his erstwhile enemy\, and it is then called blessed by God for being a\npeacemaker: Blessed are the peacemakers\, he says\, for they shall be called children\nof God. \n1 Journey with the Fathers: Commentaries on the Sunday Gospels Year A. Ed. Edith Barnecut\, O.S.B. New\nYork: New City Press\, 1992. 84-85.
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