Tuesday, March 31, 2009

This week's Gospel: 6th Sunday of Lent, (Palm Sunday, Passion Sunday)

The actual Latin source is Codex Sangallensis 56,
but this is believed to be an ultra-faithful copy of Victor's Codex Fuldensis Gospel.

This week’s Gospel as in the Codex Fuldensis Gospel: 6th Sunday of Lent
Using data publicly available from:
http://www.liturgyoffice.org.uk/Calendar/2009/Apr09.shtml
and The Sunday Missal to cross-check.
This Week's Gospel: John 12: 12 – 16, (Procession)
(5th-Apr-2009) 6th Sunday of Lent, Year B

Blessing on him who comes in the name of the Lord!
The account found here is embodied in the capitulum following. It is a rich interweaving of all four Gospels, so the verse order found in St. John’s Gospel is here seen to be altered to allign better with St. Mattew’s. The capitulum is more detailed, and slightly more extensive. Since the Order of St. John’s account is disturbed, context is better served by giving the whole capitulum, rather than trying to trim it to fit.

CXVI. Ubi Ihesus asinum sedens Hierosolymam ingreditur.
(Where Jesus, sitting on an ass is carried into Jerusalem.)

116: 1
And when they drew nigh to Jerusalem and were come to Bethphage,
unto mount Olivet, then Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them:
Go ye into the village that is before you:
and immediately you shall find an ass tied
and her colt tied with her,
on which no man ever hath sitten:
loose him and bring him to me,
and if any man shall say anything to you, tell him:
Because the Lord hath need of his service,
and forthwith he will let him go.
2
And the disciples going, did as Jesus commanded them.
And as they were loosing the colt, the owners thereof said to them:
Why loose you the colt?
They said:
Because the Lord hath need of him,
and they let him go with them, and they brought the colt to Jesus,
threw their garments upon the colt and made him sit thereon.
3
Now all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying:
Tell ye the daughter of Sion:
Behold thy king cometh to thee,
meek
sitting on the colt of an ass
that is used to the yoke.
These things his disciples did not understand at the first:
but when Jesus was glorified,
then they remembered that these things were written of him
and that they had done these things to him.
4
And as he went, many spread their garments in the way:
and others cut boughs from the trees and strewed them in the way.
And when he was now coming near the descent of Mount Olivet,
the whole multitude of those on the descent began with joy to praise God with a loud voice;
and the multitudes that went before and that followed cried, saying:
Hosanna to the son of David!
Blessed be the king who cometh in the name of the Lord!
Peace in heaven and glory on high!
Blessed be the kingdom of our father David that cometh:
Hosanna in the highest.
5
And on the next day, a great multitude that was come to the festival day,
when they had heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
took branches of palm trees and went forth to meet him and cried Hosanna.
Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord,
the king of Israel!
And some of the Pharisees, from amongst the multitude, said to him:
Master, rebuke thy disciples.
To whom he said:
I say to you that if these shall hold their peace, the stones will cry out.
6
And when he drew near, seeing the city, he wept over it, saying:
If thou also hadst known,
and that in this thy day, the things that are to thy peace:
but now they are hidden from thy eyes.
For the days shall come upon thee:
and compass thee round and straiten thee on every side,
and beat thee flat to the ground,
and thy children who are in thee.
And they shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone:
because thou hast not known the time of thy visitation.

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Thursday, March 26, 2009

This week's Gospel: 5th Sunday of Lent

The actual Latin source is Codex Sangallensis 56,
but this is believed to be an ultra-faithful copy of Victor's Codex Fuldensis Gospel.

This week’s Gospel as in the Codex Fuldensis Gospel: 5th Sunday of Lent
Using data publicly available from:
http://www.liturgyoffice.org.uk/Calendar/2009/Mar09.shtml
and The Sunday Missal to cross-check.
This Week's Gospel: John 12: 20 - 33
(29th-Mar-2009) 5th Sunday of Lent, Year B

If a grain of wheat falls on the ground and dies, it yields a rich harvest.
The account found here is embodied in the capitulum following. It comprises entirely of John but some of the readings are slightly different. This capitulum however continues a further three verses in our modern reckoning, so these extra verses are included for completeness.

CXXXVIIII. Ubi Hierosolymis Græci videre volunt Ihesum.
(Where in Jerusalem Greeks wish to see Jesus.)

139: 1
Now there were certain Gentiles among them, who came up to worship on the festival day.
These therefore came to Philip, who was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying:
Sir, we would see Jesus.
Philip cometh and telleth Andrew.
Again Andrew and Philip told Jesus.

But Jesus answered them, saying: The hour is come that the Son of man should be glorified.

Indeed, indeed, I say to you,
unless the grain of wheat falling into the ground die, itself remaineth alone.
But if it die it bringeth forth much fruit.
He that loveth his life shall lose it
and he that hateth his life in this world
keepeth it unto life eternal.

If any man minister to me, let him follow me:
and where I am, there also shall my minister be.
If any man will minister to me,
him will my Father honour.

Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say?
Father, save me from this hour.
But for this cause I came unto this hour.

Father, glorify thy name.
A voice therefore came from heaven:
I have both glorified it and will glorify it again.

The multitude therefore that stood and were hearing said that it thundered.
Others said:
An angel spoke to him.
Jesus answered and said:
This voice came not because of me,
but for your sakes.

Now is the judgement of the world:
now shall the prince of this world be cast out.
And I, if I be lifted up from the earth,
will draw all things to myself.
Now this he said, signifying what death he should die.

The multitude answered him:
We have heard out of the law that Christ abideth for ever.
And how sayest thou:
The Son of man must be lifted up?
Who is this Son of man?

Jesus therefore said:
Yet a little while, the light is among you.
Walk whilst you have the light,
and the darkness overtake you not.
And he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither be goeth.
Whilst you have the light, believe in the light,
that you may be the children of light.

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Thursday, March 19, 2009

This week's Gospel: 4th Sunday of Lent

The actual Latin source is Codex Sangallensis 56,
but this is believed to be an ultra-faithful copy of Victor's Codex Fuldensis Gospel.

This week’s Gospel as in the Codex Fuldensis Gospel: 4th Sunday of Lent
Using data publicly available from:
http://www.liturgyoffice.org.uk/Calendar/2009/Mar09.shtml
and The Sunday Missal to cross-check.
This Week's Gospel: John 3: 14 - 21
(22nd-Mar-2009) 4th Sunday of Lent, Year B

God sent his Son so that through him the world might be saved.
The account found here is embodied in after part of the capitulum following. It comprises entirely of John but some of the readings are slightly different.

CXVIIII. De Nicodemo qui venit ad Ihesum noctæ.
(Of Nicodemus who comes to Jesus in the night.)

117: 8
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert,
so must the Son of man be lifted up,
that whosoever believeth in him may not perish,
but may have life everlasting.
9
For God so loved the world,
as to give his only acknowledged Son:
that whosoever believeth in him may not perish,
but may have life everlasting.
10
For God sent not his Son into the world, to judge the world:
but that the world may be saved by him.

11
He that believeth in him is not judged.
But he that doth not believe is already judged:
because he believeth not in the name of the only acknowledged Son of God.
12
And this is the judgement:
Because the light is come into the world and men loved darkness rather than the light:
for their works were evil.
For every one that doth evil hateth the light and cometh not to the light,
that his works may not be reproved;
but he that doth truth cometh to the light,
that his works may be made manifest:
because they are done in God.

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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

This week's Gospel: 3rd Sunday of Lent

The actual Latin source is Codex Sangallensis 56,
but this is believed to be an ultra-faithful copy of Victor's Codex Fuldensis Gospel.

This week’s Gospel as in the Codex Fuldensis Gospel: 3rd Sunday of Lent
Using data publicly available from:
http://www.liturgyoffice.org.uk/Calendar/2009/Mar09.shtml
and The Sunday Missal to cross-check.
This Week's Gospel: John 2: 13 - 25
(15th-Mar-2009) 3rd Sunday of Lent, Year B

Destroy this sanctuary, and in three day I will raise it up.
The account found here is embodied in the capitulum following. It comprises a rich interweaving of John and Matthew, on whose accounts the Codex Fuldensis is founded, with a small addition from Mark. This account though, stops with the equivalent to verse 21, pointedly omitting verses 22 – 25. This suggests that these verses might be an incorporated gloss.

CVII. Ubi Ihesus eicit de templo ementes et vendentes et dat responsum Pharisæis.
(Where Jesus throws out of the temple those that bought and sold, and gives answer to the Pharisees.)

117: 1
And when he was come into Jerusalem, the whole city was moved, saying:
Who is this?
And the people said:
This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth of Galilee.
2
And Jesus went into the temple of God,
and when he had made, as it were, a scourge of little cords,
he cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple,
the sheep also and the oxen:
and the tables of the money changers, he poured out,
and overthrew the chairs of them that sold doves.
3
And he saith to them:
Take these things hence, and make not the house of my Father a house of traffic.
It is written,
My house shall be called the house of prayer to all nations,
but you have made it a den of thieves.
And he suffered not that any man should carry a vessel through the temple.
And his disciples remembered, that it was written:
The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up.
And there came to him the blind and the lame in the temple:
and he healed them.
4
And the chief priests and scribes, seeing the wonderful things that he did
and the children crying in the temple and saying:
Hosanna to the son of David,
were moved with indignation, and said to him:
Hearest thou what these say?
And Jesus said to them:
You now, have you never read:
Out of the mouth of infants and of sucklings thou hast perfected praise?
The Judeans, therefore, answered, and said to him:
What sign dost thou shew unto us, seeing thou dost these things?
5
Jesus answered and said to them:
Destroy this temple; and in three days I will raise it up.
The Judeans then said:
Six and forty years was this temple in building;
and wilt thou raise it up in three days?
But he spoke of the temple of his body.

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Thursday, March 5, 2009

This week's Gospel: 2nd Sunday of Lent

The actual Latin source is Codex Sangallensis 56,
but this is believed to be an ultra-faithful copy of Victor's Codex Fuldensis Gospel.

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/2009/Mar09.shtml
and The Sunday Missal to cross-check.
This Week's Gospel: Mark 9: 2 - 10
(8th-Mar-2009) 2nd Sunday of Lent, Year B

This is my Son, the Beloved.
The account found here, though witnessing the same incident, is almost entirely reported according to Matthew, though there are about thirteen words, (11 Latin) from Mark, and sixteen words, (13 Latin) from Luke. The tale is embodied in the first part of the capitulum following.

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.)


91: 1
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.
2
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.
3
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.
4a
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.

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