[Officium] 9. Neděle po Svatém Duchu [Ant 1] Když uchvacoval Hospodin * Eliáše ve vichru do nebe, Elizeus volal: Otče můj, vůz Israele a jeho vozataj! [Ant 1] (rubrica cisterciensis) Zapřísahám tě, Pane, * odejmi nepravost svého služebníka, neboť jsem jednal nemoudře. [Oratio] Otevři uši svého milosrdenství, Pane, prosbám pokorně prosících; a abys prosebníkům mohl vyplnit jejich touhy, učiň, ať žádají o to, co se tobě líbí. $Per Dominum [Lectio1] Lesson from the second book of Kings !2 Kgs 1:1-4 1 And Moab rebelled against Israel, after the death of Achab. 2 And Ochozias fell through the lattices of his upper chamber which he had in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, saying to them: Go, consult Beelzebub, the god of Accaron, whether I shall recover of this my illness. 3 And an angel of the Lord spoke to Elias the Thesbite, saying: Arise, and go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say to them: Is there not a God in Israel, that ye go to consult Beelzebub the god of Accaron? 4 Wherefore thus saith the Lord: From the bed, on which thou art gone up, thou shalt not come down, but thou shalt surely die. [Lectio2] !2 Kgs 1:4-6 4 And Elias went away. 5 And the messengers turned back to Ochozias. And he said to them: Why are you come back? 6 But they answered him: A man met us, and said to us: Go, and return to the king, that sent you, and you shall say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Is it because there was no God in Israel that thou sendest to Beelzebub the god of Accaron? Therefore thou shalt not come down from the bed, on which thou art gone up, but then shalt surely die. [Lectio3] !2 Kgs 1:7-10 7 And he said to them: What manner of man was he who met you, and spoke these words? 8 But they said: A hairy man with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said: It is Elias the Thesbite. 9 And he sent to him a captain of fifty, and the fifty men that were under him. And he went up to him, and as he was sitting on the top of a hill, said to him: Man of God, the king hath commanded that thou come down. 10 And Elias answering, said to the captain of fifty: If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee, and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him, and the fifty that were with him. [Lectio4] From the sermons of St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo !201st for the Season. Dearly beloved brethren, in the Lessons which are now being read to us day by day, I have often warned you that we must not follow the deathful letter, to the abandonment of the quickening spirit. For it is thus that the Apostle saith: „The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.“ (2 Cor. iii. 6.) If we will understand only the plain meaning of the letter, we shall get little or no edification from our readings in the Divine Scriptures. All those things whereof we hear were types and images of things. [Lectio5] The Blessed Elias was a type of the Lord our Saviour. Just as Elias was rejected by the Jews, so was the true Elias, even our Lord, rejected and despised by the same Jews. Elias went away out of his own country, and Christ hath left the synagogue Elias went into the desert, and Christ hath come into the world. Elias, when he was in the desert, was fed by ravens, and Christ in the desert of this world is comforted by the faith of the Gentiles. [Lectio6] For the ravens which, at the command of the Lord, ministered unto Elias, were a type of the flock of Gentiles. Wherefore also it is said for the Gentile Church: „I am black, but comely, O daughters of Jerusalem!“ (Cant. i. 4.) Why is the Church black but comely She is black by nature, but comely by grace. Why is she black by nature? Because she must needs own: „Behold, I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.“ (Ps. 1. 7.) Why is she comely by? Sprinkle me with hyssop, and I shall be clean wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. [Lectio7] From the Holy Gospel according to Luke !Luke 19:41-17 At that time: When Jesus was come near to Jerusalem, He beheld the city, and wept over it, saying If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. And so on. _ Homily by Pope St. Gregory the Great. !39 on the Gospels. No man that hath read the history of the destruction of Jerusalem by the Roman Princes Vespasian and Titus, can be ignorant that it was of that destruction that the Lord spoke when He wept over the ruin of the city. It is these Princes that are pointed at where it is said „For the days shall come upon thee that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee.“ The truth of what followeth: „They shall not leave in thee one stone upon another“ is even now fulfilled in the change of site of the city, which hath been re-built round about that place without the gates, where the Lord was crucified, while the ancient city hath been, as I am told, rooted up from the very foundations. [Lectio8] What the sin of Jerusalem was which brought upon her the punishment of this destruction, we find written after: „Because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.“ The Maker of men, through the mystery of His Incarnation, was pleased to visit her, but she remembered not to fear and to love Him. Hence also the Prophet Jeremiah, rebuking the hardness of man's heart, calleth the birds of the air to testify against it, saying „The stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed time and the turtle, and the swallow, and the crane, observe the time of their coming but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.“ (viii. 7.) [Lectio9] The Saviour wept over the ruin of the unfaithful city, while she herself as yet knew not that it was coming. If thou hadst known, said He, even thou and we may understand Him to have meant thou wouldest thyself have wept, in place of making merry as thou now dost, knowing not what hangeth over thee. And hence He saith farther: „at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace.“ While she was giving herself up to fleshly pleasures, and casting no look ahead upon coming sorrows, she had still for a day in her power the things which might have brought unto her peace. &teDeum [Ant 2] Když se Pán přiblížil * k Jerusalému, uviděl město a zaplakal nad ním, a řekl: Kdybys jen ty znalo, že přijdou na tebe dni, kdy tě budou obléhat, a utlačovat ze všech stran, a srazí tě k zemi; protože jsi nepoznalo čas svého navštívení, alleluja. [Ant 3] Je totiž psáno: * Můj dům je dům modlitby pro všechny národy; vy jste z něj však udělali peleš lotrovskou; a byl každý den v chrámě a vyučoval.