DAILY GOSPEL Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. John 6:68 Wednesday, 30 October 2013 Wednesday of the Thirtieth week in Ordinary Time Saint(s) of the day : St. Marcellus, Martyr (3rd century) See commentary below or click here Vatican Council II: You will see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 13:22-30. Jesus passed through towns and villages, teaching as he went and making his way to Jerusalem. Someone asked him, Lord, will only a few people be saved? He answered them, Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I tell you, will attempt to enter but will not be strong enough. After the master of the house has arisen and locked the door, then will you stand outside knocking and saying, Lord, open the door for us. He will say to you in reply, I do not know where you are from. And you will say, We ate and drank in your company and you taught in our streets. Then he will say to you, I do not know where (you) are from. Depart from me, all you evildoers! And there will be wailing and grinding of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God and you yourselves cast out. And people will come from the east and the west and from the north and the south and will recline at table in the kingdom of God. For behold, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last. Copyright © Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, USCCB Commentary of the day : Vatican Council II Declaration on the Churchs relations with non-christian religions « Nostra Aetate », 4 You will see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God As the sacred synod searches into the mystery of the Church, it remembers the bond that spiritually ties the people of the New Covenant to Abrahams stock. Thus the Church of Christ acknowledges that, according to Gods saving design, the beginnings of her faith and her election are found already among the Patriarchs, Moses and the prophets. She professes that all who believe in Christ - Abrahams sons according to faith (Gal 3,7) - are included in the same Patriarchs call, and likewise that the salvation of the Church is mysteriously foreshadowed by the chosen peoples exodus from the land of bondage. The Church, therefore, cannot forget that she received the revelation of the Old Testament through the people with whom God in His inexpressible mercy concluded the Ancient Covenant. Nor can she forget that she draws sustenance from the root of that well-cultivated olive tree onto which have been grafted the wild shoots, the Gentiles.(Rm 11,17). Indeed, the Church believes that by His cross Christ, Our Peace, reconciled Jews and Gentiles making both one in Himself.(Eph 2,14f.). The Church keeps ever in mind the words of the Apostle Paul about his kinsmen: theirs is the sonship and the glory and the covenants and the law and the worship and the promises; theirs are the fathers and from them is the Christ according to the flesh (Rm 9,4-5), the Son of the Virgin Mary. She also recalls that the Apostles, the Churchs main-stay and pillars, as well as most of the early disciples who proclaimed Christs Gospel to the world, sprang from the Jewish people.
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