February 28 2008 Thursday 3rd Week of Lent
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Jeremiah 7:23-28
Douay-Rheims Challoner Text
23 But this thing I commanded them, saying: Hearken to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people: and walk ye in all the way that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.
24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear: but walked in their own will, and in the perversity of their wicked heart: and went backward and not forward,
25 From the day that their fathers came out of the land of Egypt, even to this day. And I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, from day to day, rising up early and sending.
26 And they have not hearkened to me: nor inclined their ear: but have hardened their neck, and have done worse than their fathers.
27 And thou shalt speak to them all these words, but they will not hearken to thee: and thou shalt call them, but they will not answer thee.
28 And thou shalt say to them: This is a nation which hath not hearkened to the voice of the Lord their God, nor received instruction: faith is lost, and is taken away out of their mouth.
Responsorial Psalm 94:1-2, 6-9 (Ps 95 Hebrew – Most modern Bibles)
DR Challoner Text Only
Come let us praise the Lord with joy:
let us joyfully sing to God our saviour.
Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving;
and make a joyful noise to him with psalms.
Come let us adore and fall down:
and weep before the Lord that made us.
For he is the Lord our God:
and we are the people of his pasture
and the sheep of his hand.
To day if you shall hear his voice,
harden not your hearts:
As in the provocation,
according to the day of temptation in the wilderness:
where your fathers tempted me,
they proved me, and saw my works.
The Gospel According to Saint Luke 11:14-23
Haydock NT
14 And he was casting out a devil, and the same was dumb. And when he had cast out the devil, the dumb spoke, and the multitude wondered. 15 But some of them said:
He casteth out devils, through Beelzebub, the prince of devils.
16 And others tempting, asked of him a sign from heaven. 17 But he seeing their thoughts, said to them:
Every kingdom divided against itself shall be brought to desolation, and house upon house shall fall. 18 And if Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? Because you say, that through Beelzebub I cast out devils. 19 Now if I cast out devils through Beelzebub: through whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they shall be your judges. 20 But if I by the finger of God cast out devils: doubtless the kingdom of God is come upon you.
21 When a strong man, armed, keepeth his court, those things which he possesseth are in peace. 22 But if a stronger than he come upon him and overcome him, he will take away all his armour wherein he trusted, and will distribute his spoils. 23 He that is not with me, is against me: and he that gathereth not with me, scattereth.
Haydock Commentary Jeremiah 7:23-28
- Ver. 27. Thee. Sept. omit this verse, which Grabe replaces. The people will be more inexcusable. H.
Haydock Commentary Luke 11:14-23
- Ver. 14. This possessed person is said in S. Matthew to have been also blind. Upon him, therefore, were wrought three wonders: the blind saw, the dumb spoke, the possessed was delivered; which daily takes place in the persons such as are converted to the number of true believers: the devil is expelled, and they both receive the light of faith beaming upon their eyes, and have the strings of their silent organs loosed to sound forth the praises of God. Ven. Bede.—And the multitude, &c. The multitude, though devoid of learning, were constant admirers of the actions of our Lord, whilst the Scribes and Pharisees either denied them, or by a sinister interpretation, ascribed them to the power of the unclean spirit. Ven. Bede.
- Ver. 17. And house upon house shall fall. He speaks of a house or family divided, which thereby shall fall to ruin. Wi.
- Ver. 19. Your judges. They will condemn you of injustice, envy, and hatred against me, and blasphemy against God; because when they perform any exorcisms, though they appear but little more than human in their actions, yet you ascribe them to the virtues of God; but when I perform any miracle, though there always appear most evident signs of the power and virtue of God, you ascribe all to the hand and machinations of the devil. Tirinus.
