MAY 4 - THE GOSPEL breski1 Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 15,18-21. Jesus said to his disciples: "If the world hates you, realize that it hated me first. If you belonged to the …More
MAY 4 - THE GOSPEL
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Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 15,18-21.
Jesus said to his disciples: "If the world hates you, realize that it hated me first.
If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world, the world hates you.
Remember the word I spoke to you, 'No slave is greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.
And they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me."
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Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
Dominican tertiary, Doctor of the Church, co-patron of Europe
The gift of discretion and spriritual discerment, Capt. XI, n°12
Rejoice in tribulations for I am with thee!
[Saint Catherine heard God say to her:] Do not look back with your back to the plow, for fear of creatures or of tribulations: it is in tribulations that you must rejoice. The world takes pleasure in doing you a thousand injustices; only be saddened by the injustices of the world because they are offenses that it does to me: for by offending me, they offend you, and by offending you, they offend me, I who have become one with you .
You know well, I have given you my image and likeness, but you have lost grace through sin. To give you this life of grace, I have united my nature to you, covering it with the veil of your humanity. So, from you, my image, I borrowed your likeness by taking human form. I am one with you, as long as the soul is not separated from me by mortal sin; for he who loves me abides in me, and I in him. But this one will be persecuted by the world, because the world is not in conformity with me. This is why he pursued my only Son until the ignominious death of the cross. So the world does to you: he persecutes you, and he will persecute you to the death, because he does not love me. If the world loved me, it would love you also, but rejoice, for your joy will be great in heaven.
Truly I tell you, the more tribulation abounds in the mystical body of the Church, the more it itself will abound in sweetness and consolation. (...) Rejoice therefore in sorrow, (...) with my other servants, since I, the eternal Truth, have promised you to give you joy.
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Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 15,18-21.
Jesus said to his disciples: "If the world hates you, realize that it hated me first.
If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world, the world hates you.
Remember the word I spoke to you, 'No slave is greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.
And they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me."
Copyright © Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, USCCB
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Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
Dominican tertiary, Doctor of the Church, co-patron of Europe
The gift of discretion and spriritual discerment, Capt. XI, n°12
Rejoice in tribulations for I am with thee!
[Saint Catherine heard God say to her:] Do not look back with your back to the plow, for fear of creatures or of tribulations: it is in tribulations that you must rejoice. The world takes pleasure in doing you a thousand injustices; only be saddened by the injustices of the world because they are offenses that it does to me: for by offending me, they offend you, and by offending you, they offend me, I who have become one with you .
You know well, I have given you my image and likeness, but you have lost grace through sin. To give you this life of grace, I have united my nature to you, covering it with the veil of your humanity. So, from you, my image, I borrowed your likeness by taking human form. I am one with you, as long as the soul is not separated from me by mortal sin; for he who loves me abides in me, and I in him. But this one will be persecuted by the world, because the world is not in conformity with me. This is why he pursued my only Son until the ignominious death of the cross. So the world does to you: he persecutes you, and he will persecute you to the death, because he does not love me. If the world loved me, it would love you also, but rejoice, for your joy will be great in heaven.
Truly I tell you, the more tribulation abounds in the mystical body of the Church, the more it itself will abound in sweetness and consolation. (...) Rejoice therefore in sorrow, (...) with my other servants, since I, the eternal Truth, have promised you to give you joy.