Tuesday, February 5, 2008

This week’s Gospel: The Holy Family

This week’s Gospel as in the Codex Fuldensis Gospel: The Holy Family
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 2: 13 – 15, 19 - 23.
(30th-December-2007) The Holy Family, Year A

Take the child and his mother and escape into Egypt.
The reading is contained in the first and the last of the three capita listed. The reading, is taken entirely from Matthew. Why the second caput is omitted from the reading is beyond my understanding, so I have included it fo familiarity of context.

VIIII. Ubi fugatus Ihesus et parentes eius in Ægyptum transierunt.
(Where Jesus and his parents went into exile in Egypt.)

And after they were departed, behold an angel of the Lord appeared in sleep to Joseph, saying:

Arise, and take the child and his mother, and flee into Egypt: and be there until I shall tell thee. For it will come to pass that Herod will seek the child to destroy him.

So he arose, and took the child and his mother by night, and retired into Egypt: and he was there until the death of Herod:

That it might be fulfilled which the Lord spoke by the prophet, saying:
Out of Egypt have I called my son.

X. Ubi Herodes interfecit pueros.
(Where Herod killed the children.)

Then Herod perceiving that he was deluded by the wise men, was exceeding angry: and sending killed all the menchildren that were in Bethlehem, and in all the borders thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.

Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremias the prophet, saying:

A voice in Rama was heard,
lamentation and great mourning;
Rachel bewailing her children,
and would not be comforted,
because they are not.


XI. Ubi Ihesus revocatur ab Ægypto.
(Where Jesus was recalled from Egypt.)

But when Herod was dead, behold an angel of the Lord appeared in sleep to Joseph in Egypt, saying: Arise, and take the child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel. For they are dead that sought the life of the child.

So he arose, and took the child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel.

But hearing that Archelaus reigned in Judea on behalf of Herod his father, he was afraid to go thither:

And being warned in sleep retired into the quarters of Galilee. And coming he dwelt in a city called Nazareth:

That it might be fulfilled which was said by the prophets:
That he shall be called a Nazarene.

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