[Officium]
Feria Tertia infra Hebdomadam I in Quadragesima

[Lectio1]
Evangélium szent Máté könyvéből
!Matt 21:10-17.
Azon időben amikor Jézus beért Jeruzsálembe, az egész város izgalomba jött.  És így tovább.
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Homily by the Venerable Bede, Priest (at Jarrow.)
!11th for Lent, Tom. vii.
The same thing which the Lord showed in a figure by cursing the barren fig-tree, He afterwards more plainly put before us by casting the desecrators out of the temple. The tree herself had not sinned by bearing no fruit when the Lord was hungry, for the time of figs was not yet come, but those Priests had sinned who were carrying on worldly business in the Lord's house, and who neglected to bring forth that fruit of godliness which they owed, and which the Lord was hungry to find in them. The Lord made the fig-tree to wither away under His curse, that all men who saw it, and all men who hear of it, might know that they will be condemned by the judgment of God, if they content themselves with the talk of godliness, without the solid fruit of good works, even as that barren figtree was clothed only with a rustling garb of green leaves.