Tuesday, February 5, 2008

This week’s Gospel: Advent Sunday

This week’s Gospel as in the Codex Fuldensis Gospel: Advent Sunday
Using data publicly available from:
http://www.catholic-ew.org.uk/liturgy/Calendar/2007/Dec07.html
and The Sunday Missal to cross-check
This Week's Gospel: Matt 24: 37 - 44.
(2nd-December-2007) Advent Sunday, Year A

Stay awake so that you may be ready.
The reading is contained in caput following. The reading is mainly from Matthew with some out-of-sequence verses, but is richly interwoven from Mark and Luke.

CXLVII. Ubi Ihesus diem iudicii adversus tempora Noe et Loth adsimulavit et de fidele et prudente dispensatore.
(Where Jesus compared the day of judgement with the times of Noe and Lot, and of the faithful and wise servant.)

And as in the days of Noe, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For, as in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, even until that day in which Noe entered into the ark, and they knew not until the flood came and took them all away: so also shall the coming of the Son of man be.
Likewise as it came to pass in the days of Lot. They did eat and drink, they bought and sold, they planted and built: and in the day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man shall be revealed.
Then he that is on the housetop, let him not come down to take any thing out of his house, and he that is in the field, let him not go back to take his garment. Remember Lot’s wife.
Then two shall be in the field. One shall be taken and the other shall be left. Two women shall be milling together. One shall be taken and one shall be left, two men in one bed: one shall be taken and the other shall be left.
They answering, say to him: Where, Lord? He said to them: Wheresoever the body shall be, thither will the eagles be gathered together.
Even as a man who, going into a far country, left his house and gave authority to his servants over every work and commanded the porter to watch.
Watch ye therefore, for you know not when the lord of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cock crowing, or in the morning, lest coming on a sudden, he find you sleeping.
But this know ye, that, if the householder knew at what hour the thief might come, he would certainly watch and would not suffer his house to be broken open. And therefore be you also ready, because at what hour you know not the Son of man will come.
And Peter said to him: Lord, dost thou speak this parable to us, or likewise to all?
What indeed I say to you, I say to all: Watch.
And the Lord said: Who, thinkest thou, is a faithful servant and wise, a steward, whom the lord hath appointed over his family, to give them meat in season?
Blessed is that servant, whom when his lord shall come he shall find so doing. Verily I say to you: he shall place him over all his goods.
But if that evil servant shall say in his heart: My lord is long a coming, and shall begin to strike his fellow servants and shall eat and drink with drunkards, the lord of that servant shall come in a day that he hopeth not and at an hour that he knoweth not, and shall separate him and appoint his portion with the hypocrites and unbelievers. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

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