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Daily Gospel Commentary

Wednesday of the Tenth week in Ordinary Time

Commentary of the day
Saint Jerome (347-420), priest, translator of the Bible, Doctor of the Church
Homilies on Saint Mark's Gospel, no.9, 8 ; SC 494

Christ as the fulfillment of the Law and the prophets

When I read the Gospels and there come across testimonies from the Law or the prophets, I think only of Christ. I have only considered Moses, I have only considered the prophets with the intention of understanding what they say about Christ. For, after all, when I come before Christ's splendor and there perceive a  brilliant light of bright sunshine, so to speak, then I cannot look on the light of a lamp. If you light a lamp at noon, can it show things up? When the sun rises then lamplight is invisible. In the same way, when Christ is present then the Law and the prophets vanish utterly away. I'm not criticizing the Law and the prophets; to the contrary, I praise them since they foretell Christ. But when I read the Law and the prophets my aim is not to hold fast to the Law and the prophets but, by means of the Law and the prophets, to come to Christ.

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Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Weekday

First Reading: Psalm: Gospel:

2 Corinthians 3:4-11 Psalm 99:5-9 Mathew 5:17-19 For though languages differ throughout the world, the content of the Tradition is one and the same. The Churches established in Germany have no other faith or Tradition, nor do those of the Iberians, nor those of the Celts, nor those of the East, of Egypt, of Libya, nor those established at the centre of the world. . . -- St. Iranaeus, Adversus haereses