DAILY GOSPEL Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. John 6:68 Monday, 27 January 2014 Monday of the Third week in Ordinary Time Saint(s) of the day : St. Angela Merici, Virgin (c. 1470-1540) See commentary below or click here Saint Ambrose : His kingdom is indivisible and eternal 2nd book of Samuel 5:1-7.10. All the tribes of Israel came to David in Hebron and said: Here we are, your bone and your flesh. In days past, when Saul was our king, it was you who led the Israelites out and brought them back. And the LORD said to you, You shall shepherd my people Israel and shall be commander of Israel. When all the elders of Israel came to David in Hebron, King David made an agreement with them there before the LORD, and they anointed him king of Israel. David was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned for forty years: seven years and six months in Hebron over Judah, and thirty-three years in Jerusalem over all Israel and Judah. Then the king and his men set out for Jerusalem against the Jebusites who inhabited the region. David was told, You cannot enter here: the blind and the lame will drive you away! which was their way of saying, David cannot enter here. But David did take the stronghold of Zion, which is the City of David. David grew steadily more powerful, for the LORD of hosts was with him. Psalms 89(88):20.21-22.25-26. Once you spoke in vision; to your faithful ones you said: “On a champion I have placed a crown; over the people I have set a youth.” I have chosen David, my servant; with my holy oil I have anointed him. That my hand will be with him; and that my arm will make him strong. My loyalty and love will be with him; through my name his horn will be exalted. I will set his hand upon the sea, his right hand upon the rivers. Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 3:22-30. The scribes who had come from Jerusalem said of Jesus, He is possessed by Beelzebul, and By the prince of demons he drives out demons. Summoning them, he began to speak to them in parables, How can Satan drive out Satan? If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand; that is the end of him. But no one can enter a strong mans house to plunder his property unless he first ties up the strong man. Then he can plunder his house. Amen, I say to you, all sins and all blasphemies that people utter will be forgiven them. But whoever blasphemes against the holy Spirit will never have forgiveness, but is guilty of an everlasting sin. For they had said, He has an unclean spirit. Copyright © Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, USCCB Commentary of the day : Saint Ambrose (c.340-397), Bishop of Milan and Doctor of the Church Commentary on Saint Lukes gospel, 7, 91-92 ; SC 52 His kingdom is indivisible and eternal “Every kingdom divided against itself is heading for ruin”. Because people were saying that he cast out demons by Beelzebul, the prince of demons, Jesus wanted to show by these words that his kingdom is indivisible and eternal. Rightly, too, he answered Pilate: “My kingdom is not of this world” (Jn18,36). So those who do not put their hope in Christ but think that demons are cast out by the prince of demons, Jesus says, do not belong to an eternal kingdom... When faith is rent apart, can the divided kingdom stand?... If the kingdom of the Church is to endure for ever it is because its faith is undivided, its body single: “There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all, through all and in all” (Eph 4,5-6). What sacrilegious stupidity! The Son of God took flesh to crush the evil spirits and snatch the prize from the prince of this world, he also gave power to men to destroy the evil one (cf. Lk 10,19)... yet some people call the power of the devil to their aid. Nevertheless, [as Luke says], it is the “finger of God” (11,20) or, as Matthew says, “the Spirit of God” (12,28) that casts out demons. By this we understand that the Kingdom of God is indivisible as a body is indivisible since Christ is Gods right hand and the Spirit seems like his finger... “For in Christ dwells the whole fullness of the deity bodily” (Col 2,9).
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