Tuesday, February 12, 2008

This week’s Gospel: 2nd Sunday of Lent

This week’s Gospel as in the Codex Fuldensis Gospel: 2nd Sunday of Lent
Using data publicly available from:
http://www.liturgyoffice.org.uk/Calendar/2008/Feb08.html
This Week's Gospel: Matt 17: 1 – 9.
(17th-February-2008) 2nd Sunday of Lent, Year A

His face shone like the sun.
This reading corresponds with the beginning of the caput given, though it omits the first paragraph, according with Sangallensis more than with Fuldensis, but it ends half-way through the fourth paragraph according to the Sangallensis reckoning. The reading is mainly taken from Matthew, but is augmented from Mark and Luke, and is as given in the excerpt below.
XCI. Ubi Ihesus dicit quibusdam adstantibus non gustare mortem, et in monte transfiguratur.
(Where Jesus says: Some of those standing here will not taste death, and is transfigured on the mountain.)

And after six days* he taketh unto him Peter and James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart, to pray. And whilst he prayed, he was transfigured before them. And his face did shine as the sun: and his garments became white as snow. shining and exceeding white, so as no fuller upon earth can make white.

And behold there appeared to them Moses and Elias talking with him in majesty. And they spoke of his decease that he should accomplish in Jerusalem. Peter answering, said to Jesus: Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.

And as he was yet speaking, behold a bright cloud overshadowed them. And lo a voice out of the cloud, saying: This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased: hear ye him. And the disciples hearing fell upon their face, and were very much afraid. And Jesus came and touched them: and said to them: Arise, and fear not. And they lifting up their eyes, saw no one, but only Jesus.

And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying: Tell the vision to no man, until the Son of man be risen from the dead.

*The Latin here can either be interpreted as meaning literally six days later, or after the Sixth Day, or on the beginning of the Sabbath.

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