[Officium]
Dominica XX Post Pentecosten

[Oratio]
Kérünk, Urunk, adj híveidnek megengesztelődötten bocsánatot és békességet, hogy minden bűntől megtisztulva, nyugodt lélekkel szolgáljanak neked.
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[Lectio7]
Evangélium szent János Apostol kőnyvéből
!John 4:46-53
At that time There was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum. And so on.
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Homily by Pope St Gregory (the Great.)
!Holmily 28 on the Gospels.)
My brethren the passage from the Holy Gospel, which ye have just now heard, standeth in need of no explanation. But lest I should seem to pass the same by in idle silence, I will say somewhat thereon, but that rather by way of exhortation than of explanation. Indeed, there seemeth to me to be but one point which calleth for explanation, and that point is this Wherefore was it that when the nobleman went unto the Lord, and besought Him that He would come down and heal his son, „Jesus said unto him: Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe” The very fact that he had come to beseech Christ to heal his son, putteth it beyond all doubt that this nobleman believed if he had not believed Him to be a Saviour, he would not have asked Him to save his son. Wherefore then „ said Jesus unto him Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe „ since he was one who had not seen, and yet had believed