This week's Gospel: The 20th Sunday of Ordinary Time

This week’s Gospel as in the Codex Fuldensis Gospel: The 20th Sunday of Ordinary Time
Using data publicly available from:
http://www.liturgyoffice.org.uk/Calendar/2008/Aug08.html
and The Sunday Missal to cross-check.
This Week's Gospel: Matt 15: 21 - 28
(17th-Aug-2008) The 20th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year A

Woman, you have great faith.
This reading comprises of the entirety of the caput below. The reading is taken primarily from Matthew, but with some interweaving from Mark.

LXXXV. De muliere Syrophonissa quæ pro filia sua petebat.
(Of the Syrophenecian woman who petitioned for her daughter.)

85: 1
And rising from thence he went into the coast of Tyre and Sidon.
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And behold a woman of Canaan a Gentile, a Syrophenician born, crying out, said: Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David: my daughter is grievously troubled by a devil.
3
Jesus though answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying: Send her away, for she crieth after us. And he answering, said: I was not sent but to the sheep, that are lost of the house of Israel.
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But she came and worshiped him, saying: Lord, help me. But he said: suffer first the children to be filled. Indeed it is not good to take the bread of the children, and to cast it to the dogs. But she said: Yea, Lord; for the whelps also eat of the crumbs that fall from the table of their master*. And then he said to her: O woman, great is thy faith: be it done to thee as thou wilt: and her daughter was cured from that hour.

*Douay has ‘masters’ correctly following the Latin, ‘dominorum’ but the Latin has ‘mensa’ for ‘table’ which is clearly SINGULAR. Therefore it is not grammatically logical for ‘dominorum’ to be plural as given. Ephraem Syrus, reading Tatian, sees ‘domini’, and notes the singular, pointedly. The allegorical reference to one master is tantamount to a confession by a Gentile of the Unity of God, and this qualifies to Jesus as a confession of faith, hence she is now seen as one of the ‘Children’


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