[Rank]
Quarta die infra Octavam Epiphaniae;;Semiduplex;;2;;ex Sancti/01-06

[Rank] (rubrica 196 aut rubrica 1955)
Die Nona Januarii;;Feria;;1.2;;vide Sancti/01-06

[Lectio7]
Evangélium szent Máté Apostol kőnyvéből
!Matt 2:1-12
Amikor a júdeai Betlehemben Heródes király idejében Jézus megszületett, bölcsek jöttek napkeletről Jeruzsálembe és kérdezősködtek: „Hol van a zsidók újszülött királya? És így tovább.
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Homily by Pope St Gregory (the Great.)
!10th on the Gospels.
The wise men teach us a great lesson in that they departed into their own country another way. That which they did, (being warned of God in a dream,) we ought to do. Our country is heaven; and, when we have once known Jesus, we can never get there by returning on the way wherein we walked before we knew Him. We have left our country far, by the way of pride, and disobedience, and worldliness, and forbidden indulgence we must seek that heavenly Fatherland by tears, by subjection, by contempt of the things which are seen, and by curbing the fleshly appetites.