[Officium]
Feria Secunda infra Hebdomadam I in Quadragesima

[Lectio1]
Evangélium szent Máté könyvéből
!Matt 25:31-46
Azon időben mondá Jézus tanítványainak: Amikor eljön dicsőségében az Emberfia és vele minden angyal, helyet foglal fönséges trónján. Elébe gyűlnek mind a nemzetek És így tovább.
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Homily by St Austin, Bishop (of Hippo.)
!On Faith and Works, xv. 4.
If, without keeping the commandments, it be possible to attain unto life by faith only, (and faith, if it hath not works, is dead, James ii. 17,) how can it be true that the Lord will say to such as He shall have set on His left hand Depart from Me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels? He rebuketh them, not because they have not believed in Him, but because they have not wrought good works. Yea, lest any man should promise himself life eternal by faith only, (and faith, if it hath not works, is dead,) the Lord saith that He will gather together all nations, nations who have lived mingled together in the same countries, that we may seem to hear them which have believed indeed in Him, but have not wrought good works, (as though that their dead faith could, being alone, lead them into life eternal,) that we may seem to hear such crying unto Him,  Lord, when saw we thee suffering such and such things, and did not minister unto thee?