Latin prayer

Sunday December 23, 2018

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Sunday December 23, 2018 Calendar-:   Fourth Sunday of Advent Year C Colour of Vestment:  Purple Saint of the day-:  "SAINT JOHN OF KANTY, Priest". FIRST READING Taken from-:   “From you shall come forth one who is to be ruler in Israel.” A reading from the Book of the Prophet Micah (Micah 5 :2-5a) Thus says the LORD!  You, O Bethlehem  Ephrathah,  who are little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose origin is from of old, from ancient days. Therefore he shall give them up until the time when she who has labour pains has brought forth; then the rest of his brethren shall return to the sons of Israel. And he shall stand and feed his flock in the strength of the Lord, in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God. And they shall dwell secure, for now he shall be great to the ends of the earth. And this shall be peace. The word of the Lord. RESPONSORIAL PSALM   Gotten from-:   "
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Wednesday of the Third week of Lent

Readings of day Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 5:17-19.

Jesus said to his disciples: "Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or the smallest part of a letter will pass from the law, until all things have taken place.

Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do so will be called least in the kingdom of heaven. But whoever obeys and teaches these commandments will be called greatest in the kingdom of heaven."

Saint Hilary Christ is the fulfilment of Scripture “I have not come to abolish, but to fulfil.” The strength and power of these words of the Son of God enclose a profound mystery. For the Law prescribed works, but it directed all those works towards faith in realities that would be made manifest in Christ: for the Savior's teaching and Passion are the great and mysterious design of the Father's will. Under the veil of its inspired words, the Law made known the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ, his incarnation, Passion and resurrection.

The prophets, no less than the apostles, teach us repeatedly that the mystery of Christ had been prepared from all eternity to be revealed in our own times... Christ did not want us to think that his own works comprised anything other than the Law's demands.

That is why he himself insisted: “I have not come to abolish, but to fulfil.” Heaven and earth... will disappear but not the least commandment of the Law, for all the Law and the prophets find their fulfilment in Christ.

At the time of his Passion... he declared: “It is finished” (Jn 19:30). And at that very moment every word of the prophets was confirmed. For this reason Christ declares that not even the least of God's commandments can be cancelled without offending God... Nothing can be more insignificant than the smallest. And humblest of all was the Lord's Passion and death on the cross.

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