[Officium]
Feria Quinta infra Hebdomadam II in Quadragesima

[Lectio1]
From the holy Gospel according to Luke
!Luke 16:19-31
Azon időben mondá Jézus a farizeusoknak: Volt egy gazdag ember. Bíborban és patyolatban járt, és mindennap nagy lakomát rendezett És így tovább.
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Homily by Pope St Gregory (the Great.)
!40th on the Gospels.
Whom, dearly beloved brethren, whom are we to understand as signified by that rich man which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day, whom, I ask, are we to understand, but the Jewish people, who had all the outward life of religious ordinances, and who turned the treasure of the law they had received to show and not to use? What but the herd of the Gentiles is figured in Lazarus, full of sores? Whosoever turneth himself to God and is not ashamed to confess his sin, hath his sores on the skin, for in a sore on the skin breaketh out the corruption, which is drawn from within.