[Officium]
Feria Quarta infra Hebdomadam II in Quadragesima

[Lectio1]
Evangélium szent Máté könyvéből
!Matt 20:17-28
Azon időben Jézus Jeruzsálembe készült fölmenni, maga mellé vette a tizenkettőt, s ezt mondta nekik az úton: Most fölmegyünk Jeruzsálembe. Ott a főpapok és írástudók kezére adják az Emberfiát. Azok halálra ítélik És így tovább.
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Homily by St Ambrose, Bishop (of Milan.)
!Bk. v. to Gratian, on Faith, c. ii.
Consider what it was that the mother of Zebedee's children came to Christ desiring, with, and for her sons. She was a mother, who, longing for the honour of her sons, preferred a request immoderate, and yet pardonable. She was a mother who, albeit stricken in years and comfortless, at an age when she had sore need of the strength of her offspring to help and keep her, was yet so earnest in godliness and motherly love, that she had liefer suffer the loss of her sons, that they might gain the reward of following Christ still, as we read they had already done, when, at the first call of the Lord, they left their nets and their father, (iv. 21, 22.)