"Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life."[John 6:68]Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
Saints of the day:
SAINT IRENÆUS
Bishop and Martyr
(+ 202)
Bishop and Martyr
(+ 202)
This Saint was born about the year 120. He was a Grecian, probably a native of Lesser Asia. His parents, who were Christians, placed him under the care of the great St. Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna. It was in so holy a school that he learned that sacred science which rendered him afterward a great ornament of the Church and the terror of her enemies. St. Polycarp cultivated his rising genius, and formed his mind to piety by precepts and example; and the zealous scholar was careful to reap all the advantages which were offered him by the happiness of such a master.
Such was his veneration for his tutor's sanctity that he observed every action and whatever be saw in that holy man, the better to copy his example and learn his spirit. He listened to his instructions with an insatiable ardor, and so deeply did he engrave them on his heart that the impressions remained most lively even to his old age. In order to confute the heresies of his age, this father made himself acquainted with the most absurd conceits of their philosophers, by which means he was qualified to trace up every error to its sources and set it in its full light.
St. Polycarp sent St. Irenæus into Gaul, in company with some priest; he was himself ordained priest of the Church of Lyons by St. Pothinus. St. Pothinus having glorified God by his happy death, in the year 177, our Saint was chosen the second Bishop of Lyons. By his preaching , he in a short time converted almost that whole country to the Faith.
He wrote several works against heresy, and at last, with many others, suffered martyrdom about the year 202, under the Emperor Severus, at Lyons.
Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
Readings
Book of Wisdom 1:13 God didn’t make death. God takes no delight in the ruin of anything that lives. 14 God created everything so that it might exist. The creative forces at work in the cosmos are life-giving. There is no destructive poison in them. The underworld[Wisdom 1:14 Gk Hades] doesn’t rule on earth. 15 Doing what is right means living forever.
2:23 God created humans to live forever. He made them as a perfect representation of his own unique identity. 24 Death entered the universe only through the devil’s envy. Those who belong to the devil’s party experience death.[Wisdom 2:24 Or continue to test people]
Psalms 30:2 (1) I will exalt you, Adonai, because you drew me up;
you didn’t let my enemies rejoice over me.
4 (3) Adonai, you lifted me up from Sh’ol;
you kept me alive when I was sinking into a pit.
5 (4) Sing praise to Adonai, you faithful of his;
and give thanks on recalling his holiness.
6 (5) For his anger is momentary,
but his favor lasts a lifetime.
Tears may linger for the night,
but with dawn come cries of joy.
11 (10) Hear me, Adonai, and show me your favor!
Adonai, be my helper!”
12 (11) You turned my mourning into dancing!
You removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,
13 (12) so that my well-being can praise you and not be silent;
Adonai my God, I will thank you forever!
Second Letter to the Corinthians 8:7 Just as you excel in everything — in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in diligence of every kind, and in your love for us — see that you excel in this gift too.
9 For you know how generous our Lord Yeshua the Messiah was — for your sakes he impoverished himself, even though he was rich, so that he might make you rich by means of his poverty.
13 It is not that relief for others should cause trouble for you, but that there should be a kind of reciprocity: 14 at present your abundance can help those in need; so that when you are in need, their abundance can help you — thus there is reciprocity. 15 It is as the Tanakh says,
“He who gathered much had nothing extra,
and he who gathered little had nothing lacking.”[2 Corinthians 8:15 Exodus 16:18]
Holy Gospel of Yeshua the Messiah according to Saint Mark 5:21 Yeshua crossed in the boat to the other side of the lake, and a great crowd gathered around him. 22 There came to him a synagogue official, Ya’ir by name, who fell at his feet 23 and pleaded desperately with him, “My little daughter is at the point of death. Please! Come and lay your hands on her, so that she will get well and live!”
24 He went with him; and a large crowd followed, pressing all around him. 25 Among them was a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years 26 and had suffered a great deal under many physicians. She had spent her life savings; yet instead of improving, she had grown worse. 27 She had heard about Yeshua, so she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his robe; 28 for she said, “If I touch even his clothes, I will be healed.” 29 Instantly the hemorrhaging stopped, and she felt in her body that she had been healed from the disease. 30 At the same time, Yeshua, aware that power had gone out from him, turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?” 31 His talmidim responded, “You see the people pressing in on you; and still you ask, ‘Who touched me?’” 32 But he kept looking around to see who had done it. 33 The woman, frightened and trembling, because she knew what had happened to her, came and fell down in front of him and told him the whole truth. 34 “Daughter,” he said to her, “your trust has healed you. Go in peace, and be healed of your disease.”
35 While he was still speaking, people from the synagogue official’s house came, saying, “Your daughter has died. Why bother the rabbi any longer?” 36 Ignoring what they had said, Yeshua told the synagogue official, “Don’t be afraid, just keep trusting.” 37 He let no one follow him except Kefa, Ya‘akov and Yochanan, Ya‘akov’s brother. 38 When they came to the synagogue official’s house, he found a great commotion, with people weeping and wailing loudly. 39 On entering, he said to them, “Why all this commotion and weeping? The child isn’t dead, she’s just asleep!” 40 And they jeered at him. But he put them all outside, took the child’s father and mother and those with him, and went in where the child was. 41 Taking her by the hand, he said to her, “Talita, kumi!” (which means, “Little girl, I say to you, get up!”). 42 At once the girl got up and began walking around; she was twelve years old. Everybody was utterly amazed. 43 He gave them strict orders to say nothing about this to anyone, and told them to give her something to eat.
Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B
Der Gott Jesu Christi
Commentary of the day:
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger [Benedict XVI, pope from 2005 to 2013] Der Gott Jesu Christi
“Little girl, get up”
“You will not abandon my soul to the nether world.” (Ps 16:10) This word of Scripture is fulfilled in Jesus by the fact that he rose on the third day, before decomposition began. Jesus’ new death led to the tomb, but not to corruption. It is the death of death… This triumph over the power of death precisely where death seems irrevocable is a very important point in biblical testimony…: the power of God, who respects his creation, is not tied to the law of creation’s death.
Certainly, death is the fundamental form of the world as it is at present. But today as always, human beings aspire and seek to triumph over death, its real and not just thought suppression. The resurrection ofJesus tells us that this triumph is really possible, that neither in its origin nor in an irreversible way was death part of the structure of what was created, of matter… In addition, it tells us that the triumph over the limitations of death is impossible to attain by means of perfected clinical methods. This triumph exists only because of the creative power of the Word of God and of Love. Only these powers are strong enough to change the structure of matter in such a radical way that the barriers of death become surmountable…Faith in the resurrection is a profession of faith in God’s real existence and a profession of faith in God’s creation, in the unconditional “yes” that characterizes God’s relationship to creation and to matter… This is what allows us to sing the Easter Halleluia in the midst of a world over which hangs the threatening shadow of death.
Certainly, death is the fundamental form of the world as it is at present. But today as always, human beings aspire and seek to triumph over death, its real and not just thought suppression. The resurrection of
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