Wednesday of the Twenty-first week in Ordinary Time
St. Zephyrinus, Pope and Martyr (+219)
Commentary of the day
Saint Bernard : «A clean heart create for me, O God» (Ps 50,12)
Reading
1 Thess. 2:9-13.
You recall, brothers, our toil and drudgery. Working night and day in order
not to burden any of you, we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
You are witnesses, and so is God, how devoutly and justly and blamelessly
we behaved toward you believers.
As you know, we treated each one of you as a father treats his children,
exhorting and encouraging you and insisting that you conduct yourselves as
worthy of the God who calls you into his kingdom and glory.
And for this reason we too give thanks to God unceasingly, that,in
receiving the word of God from hearing us, you received not a human word
but, as it truly is, the word of God, which is now atwork in you who
believe.
Mt 23:27-32.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You are like whitewashed
tombs, which appear beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead
men's bones and every kind of filth.
Even so, on the outside you appear righteous, but inside you are filled
with hypocrisy and evildoing.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You build the tombs of
the prophets and adorn the memorials of the righteous,
and you say, 'If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not
have joined them in shedding the prophets' blood.'
Thus you bear witness against yourselves that you are the children of those
who murdered the prophets;
now fill up what your ancestors measured out!
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Commentary of the day
Saint Bernard (1091-1153), Cistercian monk and Doctor of the Church
2nd sermon for the 1st. day of Lent, 5 ; PL 183, 172-174
«A clean heart create for me, O God» (Ps 50,12)
«Rend your hearts and not your garments,» the prophet says (Jl 2,14). Who
is there among you whose will is particularly subject to obstinacy? Let him
rend his heart with the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God (Eph
6,17). Let him rend it and reduce it to dust for we can only be converted
to the Lord if we have a contrite heart (Ps 51[50],19)... Listen to someone
whom God has found according to his heart: «My heart is ready, O God, my
heart is ready» (Ps 57[56],8). It is ready for adversity, ready for
prosperity; it is ready for humble things, ready for those that are lifted
high, ready for whatever you command... «My heart is ready, O God, my heart
is ready.» Who, like David, is ready to go out and come back and walk
according to the King's will? (2Sm 5,2).
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JOB. 1: 21
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