This week’s Gospel: 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time

This week’s Gospel as in the Codex Fuldensis Gospel: 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Using data publicly available from:
http://www.catholic-ew.org.uk/liturgy/Calendar/2008/Feb08.html
and The Sunday Missal to cross-check
This Week's Gospel: Matthew 5: 1 – 12a.
(3rd-February-2008) 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A

How happy are the poor in spirit.
The caput given starts some six paragraphs before the reading appointed, but forms a relevant run-in. The actual section on the Beatitudes, though based mainly upon the Matthean account, is liberally augmented from Luke.
You will see that in the Latin Diatessaron, this reading follows on directly from last week’s reading, wheras in Matthew, a fair section os omitted. However, the omitted section is indeed the calling of the twelve.
XXII. Ubi Ihesus circumibat omnes regiones et sedens in monte elegit XII discipulos et docuit eos de beatitudinem regni cælorum et quæ secuntur.
(Where Jesus went about all the regions and sitting in the mountain, chose twelve disciples, and taught them of the blessedness of the Kingdom of Heaven, and what follows.)

And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom: and healing all manner of sickness and every infirmity, among the people.

And his fame went throughout all Syria, and they presented to him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and such as were possessed by devils, and lunatics, and those that had the palsy, and he cured them:

And much people followed him from Galilee, and Decapolis, from Jerusalem, and Judea, and from beyond the Jordan.

And they stayed him that he should not depart from them. To whom he said: To other cities also I must preach the kingdom of God: for therefore am I sent.

And he, seeing the multitudes, went up into a mountain, and when he was set down, he called unto him whom he would himself: and they came to him, and he made that twelve should be with him, whom he named apostles

Simon, whom he surnamed Peter, and Andrew his brother,
And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; whom he named Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder.
Philip and Bartholomew,
Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alpheus, and Simon who is called Zelotes,
And Jude the brother of James, and Judas Iscariot, who was the traitor.

And his disciples came unto him, and he, lifting up his eyes upon them, opening his mouth he taught them, saying:

Blessed are the poor in spirit:
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are the meek:
for they shall possess the land.

Blessed are they that mourn:
for they shall be comforted.

Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after justice:
for they shall have their fill.

Blessed are the merciful:
for they shall obtain mercy.

Blessed are the clean of heart:
for they shall see God.

Blessed are the peacemakers:
for they shall be called the children of God.

Blessed are they that suffer persecution for justice’s sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are ye when they shall revile you, and shall hate you, and persecute you, and speak all that is evil against you, untruly, and when they shall separate you and shall reproach you and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake.

Be glad in that day and rejoice: for your reward is very great in heaven.

For so did their fathers persecute the prophets that were before them.