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| Oratio V. Dóminus vobíscum. R. Et cum spiritu tuo. Orémus. Præsta, quaesumus, omnípotens Deus: ut, observatiónes sacras ánnua devotióne recoléntes, et córpore tibi placeámus et mente. Per Dominum nostrum Iesum Christum, Filium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitate Spiritus Sancti Deus, per omnia saecula saeculorum. R. Amen. |
V. The Lord be with you. R. And with thy spirit. Let us pray. Grant, we beseech You, almighty God, that we who devoutly keep the sacred observances year by year, may be pleasing to You both in body and soul. Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. R. Amen. |
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Gospel - St. John, 2. 13-25
From
The Liturgical Year
by Dom Guéranger, O.S.B.
We read in the Gospel of the first Tuesday of Lent, that
Jesus drove from the temple them that were making it a place of traffic. He
twice showed this zeal for His Father’s house. The passage we have just read
from St. John refers to the first time. Both occasions are brought before us
during this season of Lent, because this conduct of our Saviour shows us with
what severity He will treat a soul that harbors sin within. Our souls are the
temple of God, created and sanctified by God to the end that He might dwell
there. He would have nothing to be in them, which is unworthy of their
destination. This is the season for self-examination; and if we have found that
any passions are profaning the sanctuary of our souls, let us dismiss them; let
us beseech our Lord to drive them out by the scourge of His justice, for we,
perhaps, might be too lenient with these sacrilegious intruders. The day of
pardon is close at hand; let us make ourselves worthy to receive it. There is an
expression in our Gospel which deserves a special notice. The evangelist is
speaking of those Jews who were more sincere than the rest, and believed in
Jesus, because of the miracle he wrought; he says: “Jesus did not trust Himself
to them, because He knew all men.” So that there may be persons who believe in
and acknowledge Jesus, yet whose hearts are not changed! Oh the hardness of
man’s heart! Oh cruel anxiety for God’s priests! Sinners and worldlings are now
crowding round the confessional; they have faith, and they confess their sins:
and the Church has no confidence in their repentance! She knows that, a very
short time after the feast of Easter, they will have relapsed into the same
state in which they were on the day when she marked their foreheads with ashes.
These souls are divided between God and the world; and she trembles as she
thinks on the danger they are about to incur by receiving Holy Communion without
the preparation of a true conversion. Yet, on the other hand, she remembers how
it is written that the bruised reed is not to be broken, nor the smoking flax to
be extinguished. Let us pray for these souls, whose state is so full of doubt
and danger. Let us, also, pray for the priests of the Church, that they may
receive from God abundant rays of that light, whereby Jesus knew what was in
man.
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