[Officium]
Feria Quinta infra Hebdomadam IV in Quadragesima

[Lectio1]
Evangélium szent Lukács könyvéből
!Luke 7:11-16
Azon időben Jézus Naim városába ment. Vele tartottak tanítványai és mások is igen sokan. És így tovább.
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Homily by St Ambrose, Bishop (of Milan.)
!Bk. v. Conwi. on Luke vii.
The history which we here read in the Holy Gospel hath for us specially two gracious lessons, the one from the literal, the other from the mystic interpretation thereof. According to the letter then, we see how quickly the compassion of God was aroused by the sorrow of this mother, who was a widow, a widow broken down by nursing her only son, or by the bitterness of her grief for his death. She was a widow also whose worshipful conversation is borne witness to by this, that, much people of the city was with her. Mystically however, this widow encompassed by the multitude was something more than a poor woman whose tears won from the Lord the resurrection of her young and only son; for she is a type of our holy Mother the Church, who calleth back her young children to life from the pursuit of deathly vanities, and soul-slaying honours, by bidding them look on those tears which she sheddeth for such as they, and which it is unlawful for her to shed for them of whom she knoweth that they will rise again.