From: Luke 10:13-16
Jesus Condemns Cities For Their Unbelief
[16] “He who hears you hears Me, and he who rejects you rejects Me, and he
who rejects Me rejects Him who sent Me.”
*********************************************************************************************
Commentary:
16. On the evening of the day of His resurrection, our Lord entrusts His Apostles
with the mission received from the Father, endowing them with powers similar to
His own (John 20:21). Some days later He will confer on Peter the primacy He
had already promised him (John 21:15-17). The Pope is the successor of Peter,
and the bishops the successor of the Apostles (cf. “Lumen Gentium”, 20). There-
fore, “Bishops who teach in communion with the Roman Pontiff are to be revered
by all as witnesses of divine and Catholic truth [...]. This loyal submission of the
will and intellect must be given, in a special way, to the authentic teaching autho-
rity of the Roman Pontiff, even when he does not speak “ex cathedra” (Vatican II,
“Lumen Gentium”, 25).
*********************************************************************************************
Source: “The Navarre Bible: Text and Commentaries”. Biblical text from the
Revised Standard Version and New Vulgate. Commentaries by members of
the Faculty of Theology, University of Navarre, Spain.
Published by Four Courts Press, Kill Lane, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, Ireland, and
by Scepter Publishers in the United States.
First reading | Job 38:1,12-21,40:3-5 © |
---|
Psalm | Psalm 138:1-3,7-10,13-14 © |
---|
Gospel Acclamation | Ps144:13 |
---|
Or | Ps94:8 |
---|
Gospel | Luke 10:13-16 © |
---|