[Land of the Irish]

Ping to an interesting analysis.

[ultima ratio]

Thanks for posting this. Interesting how the Church of today mimics the Pharisees of yesterday. They too rejected their own tradition.

[ninenot]

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[Robert Drobot]

More evidence of the false prophets.

[siunevada]

Okay, I'm really confused.

The NO Gospel readings for this very week are from the 3rd chapter of John. The whole 3rd chapter. Every word. (According to the USCCB website and my parish bulletin.)

This article appears to say those readings are not in the lectionary.

What's up with that?

[Piers-the-Ploughman]

#1 Sunday evening prayer 2 Psalm 110 verses 1-5, 7 are said but v.6 " He shall judge among the ruins: he shall crush heads in the land of the many.." (this from Douay and of course Liturgy of Hours uses a new Psalter forget its name) Funny that this verse about the Lord crushing the heads of heathen was omitted.

#2 Monday week 2 Sirach 36: 1-5, 10-13 (these verse listing is given but they do not correspond to Douay text)
what is omitted however is "Raise up indignation and pour out wrath. Take away the adversary and crush the enemy. Hasten the time and remember the end, that they may declare thy wonderful works. Let him that escapeth be consumed by the rage of the fire: and let them perish that oppress thy people. Crush the head of the princes of the enemy that say: There is no other beside us."

Then the Liturgy of the Hours picks up again with "Gather together all the tribes of Jacob..."

maybe that last verse was inspiration for that modern standard gathering hymn "gather us in"

Yet in fairness, one sees Psalm 149 in its entirety and the last verses are a blaze of righteousness "let the praise of God be on their lips and a two edged sword in their hand to deal out vengeance to the nations and punishment on all the peoples; to bind their kings in chains and nobles in fetters of iron..."

Coincidence? what did these texts look like in the old Liturgy of the Hours? I don't know.