[Officium]
Feria Quarta Quattuor Temporum Septembris

[Lectio1]
Evangélium szent Márk Evangélista kőnyvéből
!Mark 9:16-28
Azon időben valaki így szól Jézushoz a tömegből: Mester, elhoztam hozzád a fiamat, akit néma lélek szállt meg. And so on.
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Homily by the Venerable Bede, Priest (at Jarrow.)
!Bk. iii. ch. 38, on Mark ix.
Concerning this possessed person whom the Lord healed, after that He was come down from the mount, Mark saith that he was deaf and dumb, and Matthew (xvii. 15) that he was lunatic. He was a figure of them of whom it is said A fool changeth as the moon, (Ecclus. xxvii. 12.) These are they who continue never in one stay, but change now to one sin, and now to another, waxing and waning dumb, in that they confess not the faith deaf, in that they have no ears for the word of truth. They foam at the mouth also, and pine away with folly. For it is the way with idiots, and swooners, and stupified, to foam their spittle out at their mouths. They gnash their teeth when they are inflamed with the heat of passion. They wither up in the paralysis of sloth and live nerveless lives unbraced by any strong exercise.