Gospel of February 3 2019
Book of Jeremiah 1,4-5.17-19.
The word of the Lord was addressed to me:
“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you, before you came out into the light, I had consecrated you; I have made you a prophet of the nations. "
Then, gird your hips, get up and tell them all I will order you; do not be frightened at their sight, otherwise I will make you fear before them.
And behold, today I make you like a fortress, like a bronze wall against the whole country, against the kings of Judah and his leaders, against his priests and the people of the country.
They will wage war on you but they will not win you, because I am with you to save you ”. Oracle of the Lord.
Salmi 71(70),1-2.3-4a.5-6ab.15ab.17.
I take refuge in you, Lord,
that I do not remain confused forever.
Free me, defend me for your justice,
listen to me and save me.
Be for me a cliff of defense,
inaccessible bulwark;
because you are my refuge and my fortress.
My God, save me from the hands of the wicked.
You are, Lord, my hope,
my trust from my youth.
I leaned on you from the womb,
from my mother's womb you are my support.
My mouth will announce your justice,
will always proclaim your salvation.
You taught me, O God, from my youth
and still today I proclaim your wonders.
First letter of St. Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians 12,31.13,1-13.
Brothers, aspire to greater charisms! And I will show you a best way of all.
Even if I spoke the languages of men and angels, but did not have charity, they are like a bronze that resounds or a cymbal that clinks.
And if I had the gift of prophecy and knew all the mysteries and all science, and possessed the fullness of faith so as to transport the mountains, but I had no charity, they are nothing.
And even if I distributed all my substances and gave my body to be burned, but I didn't have charity, nothing benefits me.
Charity is patient, charity is benign; charity is not envious, does not boast, does not swell,
does not disrespect, does not seek his interest, does not get angry, does not take into account the evil received,
he does not enjoy injustice, but takes pleasure in the truth.
Everything covers, believes everything, hopes everything, endures everything.
Charity will never end. The prophecies will disappear; the gift of tongues will cease and science will vanish.
Our knowledge is imperfect and imperfect our prophecy.
But when what is perfect comes, what is imperfect will disappear.
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned as a child. But, having become a man, what was a child I abandoned.
Now let's see how in a mirror, in a confused way; but then we'll see face to face. Now I know imperfectly, but then I will know perfectly, as I too am known.
So these are the three things that remain: faith, hope and charity; but of all greater is charity!
From the Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Luke 4,21-30.
Then he began to say: "Today this Scripture which you have heard with your ears has been fulfilled."
Everyone testified and was amazed at the words of grace that came out of his mouth and said: "Isn't he the son of Joseph?"
But he replied, "Surely you will quote the proverb to me: Doctor, cure yourself. How much we have heard that happened to Capernaum, do it also here, in your homeland! ».
Then he added: «No prophet is welcome in the homeland.
I also tell you: there were many widows in Israel at the time of Elijah, when the sky was closed for three years and six months and there was a great famine throughout the country;
but none of them was sent to Elijah, if not to a widow in Sidon's Zarephath.
There were many lepers in Israel at the time of the prophet Elisha, but none of them were healed except Naaman, the Syrian. "
Upon hearing these things, everyone in the synagogue was full of indignation;
they got up, chased him out of the city and led him to the edge of the mountain on which their city was located, to throw him off the precipice.
But he, passing among them, went away.