November 19, 2010
Friday of the Thirty-third Week in Ordinary Time
Friday of the Thirty-third Week in Ordinary Time
Reading 1
Rv 10:8-11
I, John, heard a voice from Heaven speak to me.
Then the voice spoke to me and said:
Go, take the scroll that lies open in the hand of the angel
who is standing on the sea and on the land.
So I went up to the angel and told him to give me the small scroll.
He said to me, Take and swallow it.
It will turn your stomach sour,
but in your mouth it will taste as sweet as honey.
I took the small scroll from the angels hand and swallowed it.
In my mouth it was like sweet honey,
but when I had eaten it, my stomach turned sour.
Then someone said to me, You must prophesy again
about many peoples, nations, tongues, and kings.
Ps 119:14, 24, 72, 103, 111, 131
Responsorial Psalm
R. (103a) How sweet to my taste is your promise!
In the way of your decrees I rejoice,
as much as in all riches.
R. How sweet to my taste is your promise!
Yes, your decrees are my delight;
they are my counselors.
R. How sweet to my taste is your promise!
The law of your mouth is to me more precious
than thousands of gold and silver pieces.
R. How sweet to my taste is your promise!
How sweet to my palate are your promises,
sweeter than honey to my mouth!
R. How sweet to my taste is your promise!
Your decrees are my inheritance forever;
the joy of my heart they are.
R. How sweet to my taste is your promise!
I gasp with open mouth
in my yearning for your commands.
R. How sweet to my taste is your promise!
Lk 19:45-48
Gospel
Jesus entered the temple area and proceeded to drive out
those who were selling things, saying to them,
It is written, My house shall be a house of prayer,
but you have made it a den of thieves.
And every day he was teaching in the temple area.
The chief priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people, meanwhile,
were seeking to put him to death,
but they could find no way to accomplish their purpose
because all the people were hanging on his words.
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i have no idea what the sweet/sour thing really means? Anyone?
But i understand Jesus getting ticked off
about the people using the Church (temple) for profane (or at least this-worldly) purpuses!! Talk about no fear of God... :oThis is one of the few times Jesus gets really angry (that we know of). Of course He also got angry in other passages... but i don't think He was visibly angry like in this one (?)... And maybe I can only presume anger in those other ones based on the fact tht he called ppl "vipers" & "hypocrites" & "liars"... etc
