[Officium]
Dominica XVI Post Pentecosten

[Oratio]
Kérünk, Urunk, kegyelmed előzzön meg és kísérjen minket mindenkor, és eszközölje ki, hogy szüntelenül a jócselekedetekben buzgólkodjunk.
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[Lectio7]
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!Luke 14:1-11
At that time: As Jesus went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees, to eat bread on the Sabbath-day, they watched Him. And, behold, there was a certain man before Him, which had the dropsy. And so on.
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Homily by St Ambrose, Bishop (of Milan.)
!Bk. vii. on Luke xiv.
Now is healed this man sick of the dropsy, in whom too much watery matter had well-nigh drowned the functions of life, and quenched the fire of understanding. Anon, a lesson is given in lowly-mindedness, when it is forbidden to the guests at a marriage feast to go and sit down unasked in the highest room, albeit the Lord spake gently, that the teaching of courtesy might forestall a harsh rebuke, reason prevail by dint of persuasion, and the desires be bent to follow the instruction. And upon this, as nextdoor neighbour, cometh courtesy, which is so called by the Lord, when it is shown to the poor and weak, since to show it to them from whom we are to receive aught, is but a movement of self-interest.