November 7, 2014

Lectio

The Letter of Saint Paul to the Philippians 3: 17- 4:1

3:17	Imitatores mei estote, fratres, et observa eos qui similiter ambulant, sicut vidisti per exemplum nostrum.
3:18	Multi homines, de quo saepe dixi vobis (et nunc dicam tibi, fletus,) ambulantes inimici crucis Christi.
3:19	quorum finis interitus; quorum deus est venter; et gloria eorum in confusione ipsorum, qui terrena sapiunt: sunt enim terrenis.
3:20	Sed nostra via vitae est in caelo. Et de caelo, etiam, exspectamus Salvatorem, Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum,
3:21	qui transfigurabit corpus humilitatis nostrae, secundum formam corporis gloriae, per illam potestatem, qua sibi omnia subiicere potest.

Philippians 4

4:1	Itaque, my most beloved and most desired brothers, my joy and my crown: stand firm in this way, in the Lord, dilectissimi.

Evangelium'

Matthaeus 16: 1-8

16:1 And Pharisees and Sadducees approached him to test him, and they asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

16:2 But he responded by saying to them: “When evening arrives, you say, ‘It will be calm, for the sky is red,'

16:3 and in the morning, ‘Today there will be a storm, for the sky is red and gloomy.’ So then, you know how to judge the appearance of the sky, but you are unable to know the signs of the times?

16:4 An evil and adulterous generation seeks a sign. And a sign shall not be given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah.” And leaving them behind, he went away.

16:5 And when his disciples went across the sea, they forgot to bring bread.

16:6 Et dixit eis, “Consider and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.”

16:7 But they were thinking within themselves, dicens, “It is because we have not brought bread.”

16:8 Dixit ergo Jesus, knowing this, dixit: “Why do you consider within yourselves, O pusillus in fide!, that it is because you have no bread?